It was one year ago yesterday that we first posted about Don’t Starve: Newhome, a brand new entry in Klei Entertainment’s popular Don’t Starve survival series that is built from the ground up and exclusive to mobile devices. This new game isn’t being developed Klei Entertainment directly, and instead is being headed up by Shengqu Games with the intention of creating a game-as-a-service model that will receive continuous support and new features. This is Don’t Starve: Mobile Live Ops, in other words. It will still focus on the survival, exploration, and crafting aspects that have made the series a hit over the years, but will also introduce new social and multiplayer elements that will provide an entirely new kind of Don’t Starve experience. In addition to all that though there will be a brand new story mode too, and today the developers have unveiled a brand new cinematic trailer hinting at what you can expect from the story in Don’t Starve: Newhome.
So yeah, in this reality, which appears to be an alternate reality separate from the main Don’t Starve canon, our good pal Wilson is still chained up to the Nightmare Throne and somehow uses its accompanying Gramaphone to snatch up a bunch of folks and whisk them to The Constant. This explains how the new adventure begins, and also makes sense if there are going to be players existing in a connected world together all maintaining their own little persistent homes and progress. It’s kind of like an MMO, but Don’t Starve-ified. While no release date has been set, various forms of beta testing have been taking place since the game’s initial announcement last year, and I’d be really stoked to see Don’t Starve: Newhome launch in 2021.
