Awesome / Don't Starve

• If you turn up the giant spawn rate mechanic for all the giants, there's a high chance you can bump into multiple giants at once. It's not uncommon for said giants to start attacking EACH OTHER in a four-way battle royale. And yes, it's as epic as it sounds. It's extremely dangerous, but totally worth it to see Dragonfly torching Deerclops or Bearger beating the crap out of Moose.
  • If you want to see something similar in the vanilla game, try getting a Deerclops to aggro a Treeguard. Bonus points if you do it near a Pig Village.
• Killing a giant boss monster. Whether you use tricks and traps or fight them through brute force, killing any of these powerful monsters is an achievement in itself.
• When you start, all you have is whatever starting items your character comes with and the clothes on your back. With skills, dedication, time, and luck, you can eventually tame the wilderness and have an exquisite campground where food and danger are barely an issue.
• Completing Adventure Mode. If you think the default Survival Mode is hard, Adventure Mode will put you in scenarios that test your skills.
  • Completing Adventure Mode... multiple times. The character you played last time you beat Adventure Mode will still be on the throne, and you can trade that character for the character you played THIS time. This basically makes the Nightmare Throne a shared burden between the many Don't Starve characters, hopefully avoiding the Sanity Slippage that Maxwell experienced.
• Surviving a whole 'Year' in Reign of Giants. Not only did you make it to day 71, which is great on it's own, you survived every harshness the seasons threw at you. If you're lucky you start in Autumn, which is the most forgiving season, with no threats at all by itself, except maybe the fact that the nights and dusk slowly become longer. But, when Autumn is over, Winter kicks in, and things start getting hairy; The Temperatures drop far below zero, which means you'll freeze to death without warm clothes and heat sources, plus your fields and bees won't produce any food during that time, reducing you to hunting and already stored food. All in all, due to less food production and short days, you are constantly in danger of freezing, starving and insanity, even if you prepare. After that, you'll crave for Spring, in which the days get longer, and fields work again, usually even faster then normal. On the flip side, it rains almost constantly sometimes even frogs, which means your sanity will drop faster and food rots faster and your gear will keep slipping out of your hands. And of course, drying meat is almost impossible due to the rain. When the days are at their longest and the rain stops, Summer arrives, and temperatures go through the roof. Due to the heat, overheating is a constant danger, and like freezing in winter, fields will stop working due to a drought, all plants (except trees) stop to produce resources until they're fertilized, and everything is in the constant danger of spontaneous combustion. So, if you survive freezing to death, drowning wherever you go, and constant spontaneous combustion, you really are awesome.
• Beating the Forge with anything less than a full team of six.
• The Triumphant skins, also known as the shadow skins. All of them look positively BADASS.
• Winona gets one for her Nerves of Steel and protectiveness for those she cares about in Next of Kin. She's just doing her job when the building suddenly starts shaking and looks to be collapsing. While the other workers panic and try to escape, she first saves her friend and colleague Genny, then runs to investigate what's going on despite the risk to her life. She comes across her boss being sucked into a strange portal, tries and fails to save him, and then successfully repairs the broken-down mechanism after it shuts down despite probably not fully knowing how it works. Her long-lost little sister, missing for years at that point, pops out before starting to be sucked in again, and Winona immediately tries to save her. Yes, it ended with Winona herself being dragged in, but she couldn't have known that Charlie had an evil shadow monster sharing her body.
• Woodie gets one for his short Tree's a Crowd. He was doing his job by cutting down trees in the Constant when he is attacked by a Treeguard and gets separated from Lucy. This is the beginning of an epic fight, with Woodie turning into all of his Werebeast forms voluntarily to exploit all their abilities to survive the Treeguard's attacks. And when Woodie finally reunites with Lucy he uses her to win the fight by beheading the Treeguard.
• According to her Animated Short, Wanda is the only known survivor to date (besides maybe Willow) who managed to escape Their attempt to capture her in the real world... multiple times. At the end of her cinematic she already had her exclusive Ageless Clock, meaning that she somehow managed to create a portable Fountain of Youth while she was running from Them on Earth!
  • Other than that, Old Wanda's proficiency with magic weapons^note not extended to regular weapons, which damage is instead halved because of her lack of physical prowess makes her one of the strongest attackers in the game. Never Mess with Granny indeed!
• The short, “A New Reign” which shows what became of Charlie after They took her. It’s been implied that she was the Night Monster all along and when we she finally steps out of the shadows, she frees Wilson from the Nightmare Throne and, while wrestling her monster side, sends him home. Then both sides decide the Throne Room needs some sprucing up. So she uses her powers to change it from something so barren to a place fitting for the new Queen of the Constant. And in the process her two sides keep clashing until they finally merge! Now Charlie’s in control of herself again, all powerful, and sitting comfy on the Nightmare Throne where everyone else would’ve been a prisoner. All hail the queen!
• If you think about it, surviving pretty much anything that gets thrown at you in any way. The game is called 'Don't Starve' for a reason. It's incredibly difficult and the game tests your skills of survival. Surviving at all is anything but a cakewalk but if you manage, then there's a bit of a prideful feeling of sticking it to the Constant, and those who inhabit it.