History YMMV / DontStarve

* GameBreaker: Wigfrid. She starts with both a powerful spear and a helmet that reduces damage by ''80%'' while worn, and can easily craft them again if they break so long as the player can get a pickaxe due to knowing how to make it without needing any machines. While she's supposed to be balanced by being unable to eat anything but meat, it isn't a problem when the first thing you can do as her upon creating a world is hunt a herd of beefalo for a stack of meat and come out okay.

** Tallbird Eggs are a great food item, as they never expire when they're uncooked and they can be used like regular eggs in a Crock Pot. Unfortunately, any player that wants one will have to go through a Tallbird to get it. While they have fairly average health, they deal quite a wallop when they attack, dealing 50 damage to an unarmored player. The hitbox is [[HitboxDissonance also fairly large]], making it difficult to kite unless they player is using Wheeler. What's more is that they're incredibly fast, and unless the player is fortunate enough to find a path, the Tallbird will outrun them. To top it all off, they respawn at Tallbird nests every 2.5 days, making farming their eggs an incredibly dangerous task. You could burn the nest and prevent them from spawning at all, but you'll lose the ability to harvest Tallbird eggs from it as well.
** The [=Moose/Goose=] differs from the other giants in that you get little warning before it appears. For the other three, your character will warn you several times (unless it's Wes) and there will be an audible growl each time before it spawns; so if fighting them isn't feasable, you can walk somewhere isolated, let it spawn, and then walk away to let it do its thing before it despawns at the end of the season. With the [=Moose/Goose=], your character warns you once, and you get one growl, before it's on your map, meaning it's very easy for it to appear at an inconvinent place and time. It's not particularly harder to fight than the other three (in fact, it can be an AntiClimaxBoss if you're lucky with frog rain), but the lack of prep time definitely changes the odds.

* PortingDisaster: The UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version has several issues not found in other versions of ''DS''. The game suffers heavily from performance issues, as the game begins lagging even when more than one tree is burning. There are glitches in the game that aren't present in other versions, such as resetting the season cycle if the player stays in a cave for too long. There have even been reports of players' save files corrupting when they reach certain points of the game, such as the Volcano in ''Shipwrecked''. Finally, the Switch version has not received any major updates since its initial release, including the ''Hamlet'' DLC and the Quality of Life update. Because of these issues, many fans view the port as not worth bothering with, even with the allure of playing ''Don't Starve'' on the go.

** On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is Wolfgang and WX-78, who are both somewhat resource intensive and have downsides that can be mitigated with proper play (Faster Hunger Drain for Wolfgang, lower base stats and wetness damage for WX_ ,while having massive upsides (A lot of extra damage, the ability to move faster when struck by lighning and upgrade via eating gears) leading to ComplacentGamingSyndrome with those characters players often demanding food/gears. Both don't really slip into proper GameBreaker status however without...
** Wickerbottom is almost unanimously considered the single best character in DST, do to the insane utility her books have, the relative low cost of using them do to the low threat levels nightmare creatures pose to experienced players, and the characters she is able to enable. She can generate food extremely easily, do tons of damage by summoning tentacles or lightning, and overcharge WX for an entire year. All at the cost not not being able to sleep and eating stale foods, which most players try to avoid anyway.

* {{Shipping}}: Wilson and Willow are a popular pairing among fans. Aside some quirks they have in difference, fans see Willow as a DistaffCounterpart to Wilson.

** Hounds. They can come at the most inappropriate time. To kill one isn't very hard; it's the fact that several hounds come ''all at once'', making it hard to concentrate on one at a time. At first it's only packs of 2-3, but they get bigger as the days go by.
** Frogs. These amphibian annoyances live by ponds, which are valuable food sources once the player gets a fishing rod. While they don't have a high damage output and aren't terribly difficult to kill, they spawn in ''huge'' packs and cause you to drop your items when their tongue hits you. Worse, attacking one frog will cause the entire army to ZergRush the player, often leading to their death.

** The character Warbucks in ''Hamlet''. When he was introduced, a few players found aspects of his design (such as his appearance and some of his lines) offensive. The biggest arguments among the fanbase, however, came when he was removed in a character update and replaced with Wormwood. Some say that he shouldn't have be taken out just because a minority complained, while others believe that it was the right choice as Warbucks' design was just plain awkward.

* BrokenBase: Multiplayer. And when Klei announced the addition of Multiplayer in the main game, it wasn't just the crap hitting the fan, it was an entire missile full of crap flying into a wind turbine.

* CriticalDissonance: This game scored 76/100 on Metacritic. To say that fans got upset over this particular consensus is an understatement.

* GoodBadBugs:

** WX-78 is often considered to be the best character for Adventure Mode due to its gear upgrades which are not only carried over to when using the teleportato, the levels provide enough gears to upgrade him to max level before the halfway point. Even after that, it can sustain itself by gears alone, allowing the player to focus on searching for the items they need.

** WX-78 makes Adventure Mode a breeze, as its stats can be upgraded by gears dropped by the commonly occuring clockwork monsters, and once it peaks it can eat more gears for massive stat regain. As such, it can survive almost anything with lots of gears, a decent weapon(s) & armor and a light source.

* MostAnnoyingSound: If you pick a mandrake during dusk or night, it won't die straight away, but will instead follow you. If it's not moving, it will make an annoying "Oh! Oh!" noise as it jumps around. To make matters worse, you can't attack and kill it to end the torment--you have to wait until morning when it replants itself, then pick it so it dies. It's a wonder that the constant noise has no effect on your sanity in-game.
-->'''Maxwell:''' [[LampshadeHanging Oh shut UP, will you?]]

** WX-78 is often considered to be the best character for Adventure Mode due to it's gear upgrades which are not only carried over to when using the teleportato, the levels provide enough gears to upgrade him to max level before the halfway point. Even after that, it can sustain itself by gears alone, allowing the player to focus on searching for the items they need.

** WX-78 makes Adventure Mode a breeze, as his stats can be upgraded by gears dropped by the commonly occuring clockwork monsters, and once he peaks he can eat more gears for massive stat regain. As such, he can survive almost anything with lots of gears, a decent weapon(s) & armor and a light source.

* StopHavingFunGuys: Some people really don't like players using WX-78 for Adventure Mode, and consider him the "easy" way through it.

* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced: From late 2018 the fandom was delighted by a series of good news:
** The release of the ''Hamlet'' DLC for the single play, that brought the addition of explorable dungeons and the possibility to create a ''true home'' for the player.
** Also, it was announced that a new character for vanilla ''Don't Starve'' was set to be implemented on the same day of ''Hamlet'' release: none other than ''[[EnsembleDarkHorse Robert Wagstaff]] himself''.
** As for ''Don't Starve Together'', it was announced a rework to stabilize the competitive balance for [[UpToEleven every single character in the game]], with each rework including an [[OriginsEpisode introductive short]] for the character. Along with the reworks it was announced the introduction of four new characters (which includes the initially scrapped Wortox from ''Don't Starve'') that will get introductive shorts too. Shortly after that, it was announced the beginning of the second big game update labeled ''Return of [[BigBad Them]]'', which includes the gradual introduction of the characters from ''Shipwrecked'' and ''Hamlet'' in the multiplayer and [[TechnologyMarchesOn the possibility to navigate the ocean]]. The fandom almost got pissed that only the four new characters and some new character skins are the only content the player needs to pay to gain access to!

** Both Willow and Woodie in Don't Starve Together. Thanks to her nerfs (See BrokenBase), she is considered a pointless character. Her 50% fire resistance, limited lighter and teddy bear pale in comparison to other characters' powers. Woodie's beaverness is reversed in multiplayer: his log meter also decreases over time and he needs to eat wood to become human again, he keeps his hp and sanity during transformation making it very impractical to use in combat and he'll get insane shortly after. In other words, Woodie becomes a walking time bomb. He did get some buffs (+5 sanity when planting trees, bonus time with befriended creatures, small beard insulation) but they hardly matter because Woodie is still very hard to play efficiently.

** If you save and quit to the main menu immediately after making a trade with Wolly(as in, before he finishes speaking), when you return, both Wolly and the items you got from him will still be there, instead of Wolly having flown away like he's supposed to do after a trade. This allows you to make an indefinite number of trades with him per day instead of once every few days.

** Meatballs tend to be the most commonly produced food item, due to being quick to cook(15 seconds) and restoring a decent amount of hunger(62.5) for a relatively low resource cost(one of any meat and three any fillers that aren't twigs or honey).

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: Meatballs tend to be the most commonly produced food item, due to being quick to cook(15 seconds) and restoring a decent amount of hunger(62.5) for a relatively low resource cost(one of any meat and three any fillers that aren't twigs or honey).