Oceaneers Build a colony on floating islands

You lead a small group of stranded survivors, each with their own skills, traits and a face you put together yourself, down to the mustache. Assign jobs, keep the food and water flowing, and deal with the less glamorous side of colony life: spoiled meals, mishaps and waste. Build fertilizer production and crop farms so the colony feeds itself. You control characters directly or set up automated tasks, so you can micromanage a crisis or let the colony chug along while you plan the next move.

Supplies are scarce, so you head out. Harvest and scavenge across a procedurally generated open world of ocean and islands, braving the seas to keep your stockpiles up. The pace is unhurried: there is no timer breathing down your neck, just weather to prepare for and threats on land and sea to fortify against. It suits players who like to take things slow, tinker with their base and unwind with a game that never punishes them hard for a bad day.

The ocean is scattered with floating islands kept afloat by Float-Tech devices. Build contraptions to resurface them, then tug the best ones back to your colony and connect them into a growing archipelago. Which islands you grab matters: one with trees and reeds feeds you, a rocky one might hold something better. You also improve buoyancy so your home islands stay afloat. Building your own custom island chain out of stolen real estate is the game's most distinctive idea, and the tag "colony sim" undersells how much of the game revolves around it.

Design your own rafts, load them with survivors and send them on expeditions across the sea. Once a raft arrives, you take direct control of the crew to explore new biomes, gather resources, find blueprints and track down unique story items. The ocean is not empty: seagulls steal food, crabs pinch feet, and sharks wreck rafts, so you fortify your vessels and set up countermeasures. Weather events add their own pressure. Fending off a shark while your raft carries the colony's future supplies never quite stops being tense.

Deep inside the floating islands lie bunkers holding corporate secrets, strange technology and unique resources. Build access hatches and explore their hidden depths to uncover lost Float-Tech and pieces of a larger story about the old-world corporation that left it all behind. Research runs from primitive contraptions to advanced workstations on a wide, deep tree, so you decide how and when your colony advances. The story unfolds alongside the survival journey rather than rushing you through it.