In the popular indie title, Don’t Starve Together, each character has their positive and negative qualities. Well, some do. Others have zero redeeming qualities at all, giving the player a healthy challenge when attempting to survive. Those survivors are mostly disliked for their difficulty, but once you become a pro at Don’t Starve Together, they may become your favorite characters to play.
Whether you know how to work the game to your favor enough to play difficult characters or not, some just rise above the others with shining colors. Here’s a ranking of every playable character in Don’t Starve Together.
17 Wes
Wes is one of those guys with no redeeming qualities. No, he has many positive characteristics like his pretty makeup and fun balloons. Those just won’t help him survive. Wes is made to be weak to almost everything with his stats draining faster than others and his damage being very low. The only thing he can do is cause damage by his balloons popping or distract mobs with them, but creating a balloon costs sanity.
16 Wigfrid
Wigfrid is a born warrior and champion, spawning with a helmet and battle spear on deck. This leaves you not to worry about any mobs or first night terrors. She also gains sanity and health whenever friends and foe alike die. She spawns with nice chunks of meat to consume as well. This all sounds dandy but where she gets hard is in the fact that she only eats meat. When you first spawn in it can be hard to get good amounts of meat quickly depending on what you’re priorities are. The easiest food items to acquire are berries and seeds, so this is where a lot of people fail with her.
15 Wormwood DLC
Wormwood is a very cute plant creature. Whose pros and cons revolve around plants. He is friendly with plant-based mobs and will lose sanity if plants are killed around him, like teammates harvesting and eating crops. Food will only fill his stomach and not his health but that can be made up for in the fact that he can craft special things for healing.
14 Wolfgang
Wolfgang is an intricate player character. You have to manage his strength and if you don’t it’s game over. If his stomach is full he becomes stronger and faster, doing more damage to enemies. If it’s low, all his states lower significantly and he can’t do as much damage. He’s also deathly afraid of monsters and the dark, making him lose way more sanity to them than others. If you can manage his hunger, he can be a very OP character to play.
13 Warly
This is a culinary artist on the hunt for some extraordinary ingredients. Warly is a chef who will only eat the most exquisite meals which can become a challenge if you don’t know how to find and craft better food than toasted seeds and rabbit meat.
His hunger drops constantly as a chef’s appetite can never be quenched. Because of this whole hunger and food ordeal, he spawns with access to cookware and crafting dedicated to making the best food possible. He’s also able to upgrade bland food.
12 Soul Starved Wortox DLC
It’s demon time. Wortox’s life revolves around consuming souls. Souls will heal his hunger and health at the cost of some sanity. Souls are dropped by every mob and character except Wx78, what with being a robot and all. Wortox can also expel souls on his own to heal himself or his friends. This is a management character where you’ll have to watch your sanity that goes down every time you consume souls, even though you have to consume them.
11 Wurt DLC
Wurt is one with the merm-people. There are merm creatures in the game that most people take advantage of by playing nice with them and having them help take down bosses by bringing the bosses to them, much like with the pigs. Speaking of pigs, they will automatically attack Wurt. Wurt can summon a King Merm that will boost all the stats of any surrounding and newly spawned merm people. This is helpful for boss fights and general protection. She is the queen of all things marsh and swamp. She’s also vegetarian, so meat will not heal her.
10 Willow
Willow is one of the main and first characters of the Don’t Starve franchise. She comes with a handy lighter so there is no fear of immediately dying to darkness on your first few days. She spawns with a teddy bear that when idle, she starts to hug which will heal her sanity. The teddy bear can also protect willow and turn large and ward off beasts if placed next to her while she is insane. Willow has a fondness for fire so being near campfires and the like will heal sanity but because of this, can be damaged by cold and freezing more easily.
9 Woodie
This handsome woodsman spawns in with an axe already in hand. This axe is different from the regular one you can craft as it’s stronger and way faster. This is a hefty bonus for playing as Woodie. His only issue is the forest hates him and he constantly turns into multiple creatures. Because the wood hates him for being such a good tree cutter, the Treeguard has a very high chance to spawn with Woodie. When he turns into were-creatures due to eating too much or a full moon, most things become inaccessible until the rage is over. But he has a mighty beard that keeps him warm!
8 Wilson
Wilson is the original Don’t Starve character that you’d recognize most. He’s just a regular dude with a regular chance of survival. He doesn’t spawn with any neat tools but will grow a beard for warmth! He’s best to use when figuring things out for the first time or to just have a casual experience without worrying about managing strange attributes.
7 WX78
This little robot is pretty cool. He can eat just about anything which is a positive because finding good food can be hard, especially if the character only favors a certain type. You’re able to upgrade your parts and enhance yourself overtime. These enhancements raise his stats and make him faster. You can also emit light playing as him by charging with lightening. The only downside is rain will damage him a lot if he’s not protected.
6 Wickerbottom
Wickerbottom is a snooty librarian with a big ole brain. Her knowledge is infinite, making her sanity base level high and allowing her to have special crafting early on. She’s able to craft various different books that will give special abilities and aid the team when necessary. Spoiled food will do much more damage to her if eaten as she can only have fresh goods. Wickerbottom also suffers from insomnia so tents are useless. Overall she’s very smart and capable, she just can’t sleep.
5 Wendy
If you’re too afraid to fight the good fight then maybe you’ll want to try out Wendy. She is very weak in damage but makes up for it with her twin sister. She can summon her ghost sister who will attack and protect her.
Wendy also has specialties in crafting with ghostly items. She’s not afraid of the dark and ghastly creatures are neutral and do not make her lose sanity. Her dead sister, Abigail will give her more sanity upon being summoned but if she dies, Wendy will lose a hefty amount of sanity. Overall, Wendy is good for sanity and having someone else pick your battles for you but at the cost of being very weak at the beginning.
4 Webber
This spider boy spawns in with spider eggs and monster meat. He’s very hairy which aids him in winter months and said hair is made out of silk which can be harvested or shaved for materials. Because he’s very much a creature he has the ability to befriend mobs, especially other spiders. Being able to create silk from his beard and spawn spiders is highly useful for team players because spider glands can be used to heal players and Telltale Hearts can be used to revive players, which needs spider glands to craft. The whole spider and creatures business just might be inconvenient to human player characters.
3 Maxwell
Maxwell is a strong character so long as you watch his extremely low health. He comes equipped with a Codex Umbra which summons shadow-creatures to fight for him at the cost of sanity and Nightmare Fuel. He has high sanity for this reason, being able to split it off and use it where necessary for an efficient time spent.
2 Winona
Winona lives to build. She’s handy and off the bat can craft special items to aid in creating a base and some protection. Winona spawns in with tape which can repair broken things. Her only downside is that crafting costs her her hunger.
1 Walter
This little boy scout was made for the wilderness. Who could be more equipped? Walter spawns in with a trusty little hat and a pet pal named Woby. Woby is a chest so you can automatically store goods before you’re able to craft storage items. Woby also turns into a huge mountable ride once you feed him up to five pieces of monster meat. Walter comes equipped with a slingshot which at first does barely any damage, having only pebbles to use, but once you craft stronger ammo he’s unstoppable. Because he as a slingshot you don’t have to get in melee range of most enemies. His only downside is he’s allergic to bees and this triples with the Queen Bee boss.
