$19.99Raft Build a home on the open sea
You wake on four planks with a plastic hook and an empty stomach. Raft is an ocean survival game about fishing trash from the water, growing that wreck into a floating home, and sailing it toward islands with a story to untangle, alone or with friends and one very persistent shark.
Is Raft worth it?
Raft is worth it if…
- you like survival crafting with a clear sense of progress
- you want a sandbox to build and decorate with friends
- you like sailing between islands and piecing together a story
- you enjoy farming, cooking and tuning a small floating base
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Trash fishing to floating home
You start with almost nothing: a tiny raft, a hook, thirst and hunger. You toss the hook at passing planks, plastic and barrels, then turn that flotsam into purifiers, grills, crop plots and walls. Bit by bit the wreck grows into decks, rooms, farms and machines of your own layout. That slow climb from scrounging to self-sufficient, with sprinklers watering crops and engines pushing you forward, is a highlight.
Sailing toward what is left
Your receiver and sail give the drift a direction. You plot courses to reefs, forgotten outposts and large islands, drop anchor and go ashore for supplies, blueprints and notes about who lived there before. Each destination has its own tasks to work through and items that open up new crafting back on board. It gives the open water a reason to keep moving, with the next skyline always worth checking.
The shark and other interruptions
The ocean is not empty. A man-eating shark circles your raft, gnaws off foundation pieces and follows you into the water when you scavenge reefs for clay, ore and scrap. You patch holes, craft spears and later stronger weapons, and reinforce the hull so bites cost you less. Islands add their own trouble in the form of hostile animals and rough locals to fight through. Death costs you, so keeping fed, watered and armed matters.
Cooking, farming and keeping company
Once the basics hold, you can run a proper household at sea. You plant potatoes and flowers, keep animals, catch fish, cook recipes and blend smoothies that keep hunger down longer than raw catch. The research table turns salvaged odds and ends into new gear, tools and decorations. Shared with friends in online co-op, the chores split neatly into hooking, cooking, building and exploring, which suits an easy evening shift pattern.
What else should you know?
How does co-op work?
You can survive alone or in online co-op with friends, all on the same raft. Roles form naturally: one person fishes debris with the hook, another cooks and waters crops, someone else dives reefs or explores islands. Progress, resources and the raft itself are shared.
What do you actually do minute to minute?
Early on you hook floating debris, empty the nets, drink purified water and grill what you catch. Later you manage farms and animals, research new recipes and equipment, steer toward destinations, anchor offshore and carry back what the reefs and islands hold.
Is the shark really that much trouble?
Yes, in the practical sense. It bites chunks off unprotected foundations, taking whatever stood on them with the piece, and it will come at you while you gather underwater. Spears drive it off for a while, reinforced pieces slow it down, and killing it buys quiet time to repair and restock.
Is there a story or is it pure sandbox?
Both. You can drift, build and farm at your own pace, and you can also follow coordinates to inhabited ruins and large islands. There you work through each place, find notes and parts of civilization still above water, and learn what happened before moving on. The story divides players, so come for the raft and the voyage first.
