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Don't Starve Together brings multiplayer survival to Switch afterward this month

Arriving alongside new Shared Unlocks feature.

Don't Starve Together, developer Klei Entertainment's co-operative multiplayer twist on its acclaimed survival risk, will be making its fashion to Switch on 12th April.

If you've already played Don't Starve, you'll be correct at home with Together; it takes the original's deliciously dark survival conceit - in which you lot awake in an expansive, wonderfully twisted world and must forage, maim, eat, and build in gild to survive long enough to orchestrate an escape - just enables yous to practice it all with friends in tow.

There are 3 different modes available - Survival (in which players become revivable ghosts on death), the resurrection-free Wilderness, and a more leisurely Endless mode - all incorporating features from the original Don't Stare, its Reign of Giants expansion, plus elements from the Hamlet and Shipwrecked DLCs.

Don't Starve Together - Switch Declaration Trailer.

Switch players will be able to slip into the murky co-operative world of Don't Starve Together on 12th April, and, equally detailed by Klei in a post on its forum, it'll be accompanied by a new Shared Unlocks feature - which, just as it sounds, will enable players to unlock the likes of skins, drops, characters, plant registry, and crockpot recipes on either Xbox, Switch, or PC. These can then be accessed on whatever other platform if they so choose.

Unfortunately, Shared Unlocks won't initially be available for PlayStation users, with Klei saying that while it's "trying" to implement the feature, "the requirements to get this on to Playstation are more than a studio our size can handle for such a service".

Klei also stresses Shared Unlocks is an items-just characteristic and not cross-play. While it says it would "would love to do" cross-play, it'due south "a lot of work to implement" and "not necessarily accessible to smaller teams like ours". Ending on an optimistic note, though, information technology adds: "Times are changing and hopefully in the time to come things like this will be made easier for all developers."