To start, this is one of the most SOLID survival games imo, with all of the updates it has accumulated there is a bit of gameplay to offer in a single world.
I am writing this review as how I see all characters in the game post rework, since I feel this has drastically changed how you play the game aswell.

This will also be based on how I see each character's accessibility to a player in my own opinion.


Wilson: The teacher's pet (Beginner Friendly)

Wilson originally was and still mostly is the basic no downsides and upsides character, the survivalist character, since no stats or quirks apply to you at all! (sweet!)

With his rework though he is so damn cool with his ingame skilltree that he now has exclusive to him, being able to survive more efficiently and easier just by playing the game and surviving is pretty neat! If you are new to this game and want the genuine DST experience, go with Wilson.


Wendy: The Self Loathing Discord about me (Beginner friendly)

Wendy with her rework has made her insanely good for early game, and especially late game. Her ghost sister abigail basically will carry you throughout small mob encounters but also helps with tanking bosses! I find her ghost to be a bit overpowered at times, and wendy herself suffers a 25% damage reduction in damage given with weapons, but the ghost helps with not being overwhelmed early game by random mob attacks, playing her does not really handhold newer players but just makes life a bit easier on them! Without the entire game being brought down in difficultly.


Wigfrid: The crutch (Just please read)

I have so many mixed feelings with this character, one she is likely the most broken character in the game when it comes to maintaining yourself its not even funny. I think anyone should be allowed to play this character but its one thing if you spawn with passive damage reduction, a helmet, AND a spear to begin with, the helmet and spear being incredibly cheap to create btw, being stronger then the BASE spear. But its also another thing when combating mobs you gain health and sanity back. It infuriates me that a character like this exists and has these abilities within starting the game right off the bat, for new players this RUINS any sort of learning in the game, when it comes to managing sanity, health, or hell even hunger because she can LITERALLY SURVIVE THROUGH STARVING IF SHE JUST ATTACKS ENEMIES LIKE WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA. Dont even get me started with her songs that just buff her team and herself even more like dude, if you are new, DON'T play this character, you will not learn essential skills and this character will twist your mind into thinking it is something that it is not. And even for intermediate people still learning, this character will put a halt to all learning through experience since she is an entirely different beast herself. You genuinely don't even need to kite enemies as this character either, if you have enough armor you can regain all the health you lost by just spamming M1 on bosses its not even funny. But I wont rant anymore, leave her to experienced people. Insanely good character, but awful if you are learning the game.


Willow: The cigarette addict

I dont really have much to say about willow tbh, I mean she has a lighter that she can craft and spawns in with, has a stuffed bear called bernie that defends her if she is insane, she gains sanity around fire and suffers in the winter. She does not posses the most crazy of abilities but I think that also is apart of why people enjoy playing her, though I hate winter so im never playing her in my life lol.


Woody: the drywall devourer

Woody has always been a pretty meh character in my eyes, his resource gathering potential is off the charts when it comes to his trusty axe lucy and the transformations, but that is all he really does! His goose form, which is likely the best one allows him to traverse water and run fast, the moose form turning him into a tank with an okay amount of damage (pretty decent charge attack though). and his beaver form turns him into the swiss knife of harvesting and destruction, being able to gnaw down rocks, trees, and even entire structures without the need of a hammer. These all seem amazing! Other than the fact it requires you to eat monster meat or let it be a full moon to experience these forms naturally without the use of totems, aaaand that you don't have access to your inventory while in these forms... and when you get out of the form you are put at 0 hunger....... Its just not worth it imo for early game, late game he could shine with all the resources you may have but there is no way to cancel the forms so you are pretty much screwed if you get out of the form away from all of your stuff.


Webber: The Australian pet

Webber is pretty good with putting monster meat to good use by just straight up eating it with no downsides, though being hostile to the pig people so uh, yeah guess you wont be recruiting them anytime soon!
He has the ability to tame spiders and grow a literal popup army which I find pretty funny, he excels in teams, since he can create spider farms for some pretty easily silk. Nothing bad to really say about him other than he is considered a monster so passive mobs will attack him on SIGHT.


Wolfgang: The senator of colorado

This guy is so freaking funny, first if you want to excel as him you need to get GAINS, and I mean get freaking BUFF. Chug down that protein powder and squash those beta mindsets because when you play this character, Deerclops does not squash you, you SQUASH Deerclops.

His entire gimmick is getting buff and taking names, he spawns with a dumbbell you use to get BUILT, which also serves as a pretty good ranged weapon early game, dont listen to people telling you to not throw it and use it as a weapon against birds or rabbits, its literally easy morsels for days mon, since it does not alert them and does just enough damage to instantly kill them in just one throw! (sweet!)

But if you stay away from the gym for long enough, you will get wimpy and realize your life means nothing, you suffer damage reduction with weapons and you kinda just suck as a person and nobody likes you. So the only thing you can do when this happens is either kill yourself and accept the fact you are a failure or GET BACK ON THAT GRINDSET BABY AND GET MIGHTY.

In mighty form wolfgang easily is able to get the highest base damage output in the game with a 2.5x multiplier to his normal damage with any weapon. Like man this is the closest you will get to becoming a boss fight in dont starve.


Wes: The indescribable

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WX-78: The CS player (Beginner friendly)

WX offers alot to the table in dont starve, I would definitely suggest him to new players since his attributes with upgrades and eating gears for hunger and health is pretty dang useful. Rain is his biggest enemy but just wear a hat and you are good to go. Pretty versatile character with tools at their disposal for almost every single situation, for the heat, the cold, and circuts that improve all stats! You can always switch between these boosts, allowing for a pretty good amount of freedom for what you want to do and what NEEDS to happen, I give him a thumbs up.


Maxwell: The 4chan user (experienced difficulty)

This guy spawns in with 75 health bro dont choose him if you are new 😂😂😂, but if you can use the tools he has wisely... He is an S tier summoner. His whole gist is that he summons shadow paralysis demons to do his work for him and fight for him. He is the BEST harvester in the game due to this quirk of his, and his experience with shadow weaponry shines in teams when dark swords would be pretty useful.


Wickerbottom: The manga weeb

lowkey running out of space to type, but to summarize her, Best farmer in the game, has access to level one science machine crafts on demand, cant sleep cause she does not want to miss the latest episode of black clover (mid).


no dlc sorry