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Yes, the game is too difficult, especially Adventure Mode.

The idea of permadeath is good, except that it ruins the game due to the difficulty of adventure mode. It's so easy to die for the dumbest of reasons, and it is NOT fun to lose an entire days (8+ hours) of work over a silly mistake.

I quit playing because it was just too difficult. That that I couldn't do it, but that it is just not very fun when you only get 1 life for the entire 5 adventure modes. You can literally be at the last level, and die from something as silly as not being able to place your fireplace in time, due to their crappy placement system. Or die in one hit from a huge monster, because you got bored doing the back-and-forth you have to do due to the poorly implemented and quite boring/predictable combat system.

Sandbox mode is too easy. Adventure mode is too hard. Permadeath is just dumb after the 500th time you die. (Literally, 500th, I have over a hundred hours in Don't Starve). And to those religious fanatics who think permadeath is the be-all-end-all no-matter-what, please wake up to the fact that just like ANY feature, it has its positives and its negatives, and can be poorly implemented in games.

I support permadeath, and as a developer I include it in some of my games. However, I don't force it down the throat of others, or waste development time patching the game to make it harder to scum-save. Klei Entertainment is a little too religious and fanatical about their permadeath, and their "Our way to play, is the ONLY way to play." If it wasn't for the outrage that would result from restricting moddability, I wouldn't be surprised if they made it to where you could mod anything EXCEPT permadeath.

Religious fanatics are insane and too aggressive, and permadeath followers tend to be religious about the feature. Meanwhile, those of us who haven't lost all our Sanity rating IRL realize there are times to use permadeath for fun, but to not force it down everyone's throat like a zealot.