Stranded Deep

I found this game way back, somewhere in its early access phase around the end of 2015 / Start of 2016, through a small let's player on YouTube I watched at the time. And over the years I really enjoyed getting back to it, see the big progressions the whole development made and slowly grinding my way up to the 100% finish.

I think stranded deep is a perfect example of a good / quality "early access" game - which kept its promises and accelerated over the years.

The Gameplay is somewhat typical for a survival game - farming resources, hunting animals, defending of predators, building a base & finally make it out alive. But due to the fact that Stranded deep also already came out back in the days with some of the bigger household names in the "survival" genre, it definitely kept steadily improving on Gameplay, in game content and overall look & feel and for me always struck a very nice niche in this column.

Sure, here and there some bugs can still appear - bugging items, Glitching Object & Texture Collisions etc. but none of them was Game breaking or heavily disruptive & definitely got a lot of polishing and attention over the past years.

To sum it up quickly:
+ Nice & Fun, not to story driven / more exploration focused gameplay loop.
+ Very immersive & beautiful visuals
+ Unique Castaway / lord of flies’ type setting
+ ca. 20 bucks for about 150h of playtime to 100%
- The small (but for me often funny) bugs

I think this game is definitely worth every buck and I can recommend it to everyone enjoying a good & immersive survival experience.

One of the steam games that gives reliable enjoyable play even on linux with a little older graphics, Greatly looking forward to SD2 :D

Similar to Rust, more peaceful ofc but you better watch for poisonous animals and plants.

Good day.
Stranded Deep is a game with an exciting survival. Chapter 1. At the beginning you are flying in a private plane, suddenly you start to fall and the plane crashes, you managed to survive and got out to the open sea, your 1 task is to find supplies, make the first knife, make a fire and survive 1 night.
Chapter 2. You explore the world, the map itself is large, diverse and randomly generated, each location is not like the other, it is interesting to explore, if you play with a friend it will be even more fun
Chapter 3. You can build your own house, fight and of course go through the plot itself, there are many endings, recipes (things) are also not few.
Ending. Of course, there are not few endings themselves +- about 5, I myself did not play much, but 3 hours of the game was enough for me to enjoy it, the graphics are good, the optimization is average.
If it is not difficult for you, please send the reward, thank you!

READ THIS DEVELOPERS!!! If we are actually getting a Stranded Deep 2 then we need smooth multiplayer so nobody gets kicked and can play as long as you are on instead of loading in multiple times, for the next create a island and also things like the cartographer need to either ask "are you sure?" before making you load in or the load times need to be improved which they do, an in game map, customization to the player you choose (male or female) so things like (hairstyle, hair color, eye color) things like that, more types of islands instead of the 2 types from this game, the boring flat with trees or the big rocks in the middle with massive beaches surrounding. no weird stuff like one wheels, hoverboards or things that dont make sense, personally i say no helicopter cause if i was stranded and could build one im risking it and leaving which means you arent really "stranded deep" now does it? becomes an optional stay and suffer

Even if it's technically released, it's definitely not finished and they're already making a sequel after years of practically nothing really meaningful. lol.

Game is a broken, buggy mess. Very awful coop experience. had to keep starting over till we got sick of it.

I came back to this game after a couple years, and although it's not as buggy as it was, it's been out long enough for them to fix most of them. The initial raft is still a piece of trash, and if your paddle goes MIA, which mine did, and I'm still trying to figure that one out, you're screwed. Crafting a paddle should be easy enough for a guy that can build a house out of sticks and palm leaves, yet apparently not. Other items still haven't made the crafting menu either. Like the damn flash, you have to look it up, or be lucky enough to have just those items in your pack. It's been years, so it's not like I'd remember, and a noob wouldn't know.

The switch between pack items is a pain, if you have an item in your pack you shouldn't have to physically switch to it just to add it to an object, like a palm leaf to the water still. That or at the very least use the mouse wheel. There's the new belt item thing, that is useless since it doesn't add slots, just rotation of items you add to it. Then there's the dumbest upgrade of all, the "Pile" of something. Creating a pile of objects just to open it like a chest makes zero sense, when you can just drag objects onto a pile. Better to do like every other game, and make boxes or shelves to store stuff, should you be so inclined.

I'll give them this, the underwater scenes are better, with more fish, but I can't see much more than that over the course of several years.

Stranded deep is a good game, could use a lot more fix's and update's, after playing for 100hr it does need to be fixed before stranded deep 2 is released.

Do not buy this game even if it's on sale. This game has to be the most empty world with copy and paste islands, no explorations of any kind besides the same five island models. Now you want to make a lame squeal thinking it will be different this time? Yeah, no.

To proceed with making a Stranded Deep 2 when this original Stranded Deep is still so buggy and feels incomplete is a slap in the face. While I had some fun times with SD, it was overshadowed by frequent game-breaking bugs (building assets broken, items despawning, getting disconnected in multiplayer and going through long load screens endlessly). To shift attention to SD2 without fixing SD1 is insulting to the people who paid for this and now it seems has been abandoned.

One of my favorite Early Access titles. The game has been fun every step of the way.

I like this game. It's rough around the edges, but there's a fun survival game in there.

Chase the crab.
Eat the fish.
Make equipment out of nothing.
And get the hell out of the island you're stranded on.
8/10

game gets a 6/10... would recommend more if it was updated more, cross-platform & had larger 4 person groups for multiplayer.

Perfect game, 100% no issues with this game at all

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Don't buy this game, it is horrendously made, and I've played 7D2D since launch

In general its a cool game, but o boy. Not playable in Multiplayer.
Wanted to play with my wife in the same network, but syncinc takes 5 minutes and in game it crashes every ~10 minutes and we have to sync again. That is not fun

Good game. A lot of bugs in online multiplayer but hopefully the devs will decide to come back to this game with some updates.

I think this game gets a solid 9/10. The gameplay is very good, the performance is amazing, there's little to no bugs, visuals are not the best but I think they're alright, and overall i think it's a very good game, story could use some improvement though.

This game is so nostalgic to me, don’t go in expecting a masterpiece cause it’s made by 2 people but it’s an awesome survival game

Final Verdict: 63/100

Player Opinion Steam Review

How can a little crab make me bleed out and die? Another thing this game barely runs lol it crashes like no tomorrow

Seems like it could be good but the inventory managment has no explination and is overall very poor

So, I came back to this game after YEARS of not playing it, but I saw that they had released it into 1.0. Which I thought would be a good thing, IT WAS NOT. The game was 100% better a couple years ago. Since then they've managed too break the enemy physics where I had a flying boar attacking me from the sky and the occasional giant crab hovering towards me menacingly, both problems occur at just the slightest of hills. plus when you kill a shark they either INSTANTLY re-spawn OR you can now have two sharks per Isle. Which completely negates the "grace period" you used to get after killing a shark that you could then use to explore local shipwrecks. The sharks are OVERLY aggressive now to the point that attempting to dive when one is around is impossible without getting hit, or just bitten and carried off. Unlike before where you could kind of sneak around them and still dive with relative safety. The worst part of all that is that, if i throw a spear at one of them, half the time it bounces off and then just vanishes through the ground and the same thing happens with my arrows which aren't cheap. I don't know what happened to the spears and arrows just sticking into an enemy but that needs to come back. There are limited resources and having to waste TONS on just defending myself is making the game FAR more grindy and risky than it already is. Lastly I just want to note, I put these 170 hours into it about two years ago and earlier. I've been playing since you could use palm trees as an areoplane, so i know that the game has had some rough physics. But having enemies that are essentially the terminator with fins or legs that can also fly, makes me just surprised the sharks aren't flying again like they used to too. Plus the items that just disappeared on me wasting time and precious materials, makes it so I can't recommend the game because every fight you have will be at a loss. Overall after coming back to the game for the first time in years, I ended up just turning it off out of frustration after only getting to my second island. I wouldn't recommend this game any more thanks to this release, I might come back in a year or two and try it again. But being roughed up as I have been and having this game essentially waste my night, I don't think I'd want too without the devs releasing a statement that they've cleared this jank up. The games hard enough, it didn't need flying boars and crabs, while your weapons vanish out of thin air too.

So, I came back to this game after YEARS of not playing it, but I saw that they had released it into 1.0. Which I thought would be a good thing, IT WAS NOT. The game was 100% better a couple years ago. Since then they've managed too break the enemy physics where I had a flying boar attacking me from the sky and the occasional giant crab hovering towards me menacingly, both problems occur at just the slightest of hills. plus when you kill a shark they either INSTANTLY re-spawn OR you can now have two sharks per Isle. Which completely negates the "grace period" you used to get after killing a shark that you could then use to explore local shipwrecks. The sharks are OVERLY aggressive now to the point that attempting to dive when one is around is impossible without getting hit, or just bitten and carried off. Unlike before where you could kind of sneak around them and still dive with relative safety. The worst part of all that is that, if i throw a spear at one of them, half the time it bounces off and then just vanishes through the ground and the same thing happens with my arrows which aren't cheap. I don't know what happened to the spears and arrows just sticking into an enemy but that needs to come back. There are limited resources and having to waste TONS on just defending myself is making the game FAR more grindy and risky than it already is. Lastly I just want to note, I put these 170 hours into it about two years ago and earlier. I've been playing since you could use palm trees as an areoplane, so i know that the game has had some rough physics. But having enemies that are essentially the terminator with fins or legs that can also fly, makes me just surprised the sharks aren't flying again like they used to too. Plus the items that just disappeared on me wasting time and precious materials, makes it so I can't recommend the game because every fight you have will be at a loss. Overall after coming back to the game for the first time in years, I ended up just turning it off out of frustration after only getting to my second island. I wouldn't recommend this game any more thanks to this release, I might come back in a year or two and try it again. But being roughed up as I have been and having this game essentially waste my night, I don't think I'd want too without the devs releasing a statement that they've cleared this jank up. The games hard enough, it didn't need flying boars and crabs, while your weapons vanish out of thin air too.

There are lots of bugs and bad graphics. not great.

I've had this game for 4 years, decided to play it again recently.
I saw no changes, same janky old thing as before.
It's pretty average and kind of stagnant.

This game could have been great.

I first found this game years ago, when it was still in early access. It seemed cool to me back then. But now? It's mediocre at best. The most used material is decently rare, causing you to constant go through motion sickness-inducing seas. Trying to control the raft is awful, and trying to move it onto land glitches out like crazy. The tutorial focuses more on the basics, and completely ignores anything more complex like SPF. I still don't know what SPF means, because the game never explains it as far as I could get up to. On top of that, being forced to go on a fetch quest just to save the game once is annoying. If you're a casual gamer, don't get this game.

Haven't played since 2021. It's in "full release." Bored so decide to try it again.

Cannot even craft a crude spear even though I have wood sticks in my inventory and the game makes no indication anything else is needed. I can craft a refined knife just fine, and I don't have a controller plugged in.

I had to look up that you need at least 1 level in craftsmanship to make a sharpened stick. And the game does not tell you this from what I saw (or rather didn't see). You can make a knife, you can make an axe, before you can make a sharpened stick. If I can't make it yet, why is it even an option in my menu to begin with? Especially when the very next objective after making the knife is to kill a crab; you know what would be great for that? A sharpened stick. That I have to make a bunch of other stuff first to have the ability to craft.

Yeah, no, fuck this. You've already lost me right from the beginning because if you're this boneheaded in your design choices right from the start, I can't see it getting better from here.

Has a little trouble saving but all in all a great game with a very nice story, graphics, and mechanics

The user interface is terrible and completely unoptimized. The game feels slow for a survival and very underwhelming with little to no guidance on any order in how to do anything.

one of my favourite survival games to play with my family, 10/10 would recommend.

Fun,
if you like to challenge yourself to a small island, this would be your game!

Games far from finished and abandoned, last update was in 2023. I would look to other survival/crafting games that are still being supported and improved on by the devs. Wish I knew this after purchasing and sinking 8+ hours into it only to find out that yes, this is all the game has to offer and no, it will never get anything more.

Dissapointing game really, a huge waste of time with bloated crafting recipes calling constantly for materials that are a pain to gather as well as several bugs and blatant oversights that plague the base gameplay, such as nonsensical controls, lack of clear tutorial or hud prompts on how to even drop items or bind them to the toolbelt. Even worse, animals disappearing into the ether upon death leaving you half dead, bleeding and still starving with no more tools to hunt for food, good times. The distinction between crafting and quick crafting and having recipes available via both systems or condensed into one would vastly improve the experience, but I guess that's too much to expect from a turd that's been in EA since 2015 and gotten a full console release before the PC.

No info on status effects or how to remedy them in game causing you to die. Saves can be over an hour apart because your home base may be far and then you get reset. There were other things that lacked info making the game annoying to play because you have to google everything.

its honestly a more hardcore raft..... its sooooo fun. also different difficulty modes..

The game creates a real sense of isolation and desperation to stay alive. It's challenging, the map feels so gigantic and mysterious which encourages exploration. When diving into the water you get that feeling of thalassophobia. Very immersive.

So far so good! The graphics look great even on a Mac (which I mainly play this on, M1 MBP) and the game runs pretty smooth at 60fps after some tweaking. It can be pretty chill with the calm music and scenery, but like most survival games the higher the difficulty the more gnarly things can get. Combat isn't the best, but otherwise I've enjoyed everything else!

If the game is on sale I would definitely recommend giving it a try! Though at full price I would look for other survival games. If you play on Mac however, this is one of very few survival games that runs good on mac so on that alone I would recommend the game regardless of whether it's on sale or not!

*TLDR* It's pretty good, runs great on Mac, combat is eh

I was excited to try this! I'm a big fan of the genre and had never tried this entry. It's reasonably fun but I wouldn't recommend it because of the bugs alone. If you really enjoy survival games like I do, maybe give it a try if you're feeling like you've exhausted the genre. Otherwise, I'd recommend playing other options.

Too be honest this game is way too glitchy and fucked up. developers stopped giving a shit when it launched

Makes me wonder if being on an stranded island would be better than being in the USA. i think yes.

game continuously disconnects when playing multiplayer

i like survival game and this is first pc survival game that i played and oh my god its so great

Great game.. wish a better main quest but fun game in all!

Fire ahh game. I would recommend waiting for a sale as 20 dollars is steep for a very vanilla survival game but nonetheless very solid game, occasionally a bug or two but never game breaking.

i liked so much that game, first seriuosly prapare map on a paper ,actually every three island i organised water and meat crafts :) If game producers make different levels animal around island it would be better.

Save your money and don't buy this. Servers are awful and non-host players disconnect regularly (3 times within 2 hours) ALSO, loading back into a game takes at least 5 minutes. If you are in a game and a friend joins later, it pulls you both out and you wait another five minutes while the game syncs. The game offers 0 guidance on how to craft or the mechanics. Small enemies are OP. Inventory space never increases and is a literal chore to cart around items. Besides all of this, the game looks like dogshit.

what a pile of shit nothing works right been out for over 2 years and is a steaming pile of crap save ur money dont give it to these crooks. sharks clip through solid objects and spawn from nowhere crabs hit u through walls items constantly glitch out building stuff is a half and half if it will work right oh not to mention the snakes that can bite you ass from 30 feet away much farther then u can hit them with a spear even know if u drop a spear its twice as long as the snakes. pile of trash that the devs can be asked to make a fully functional game the fact that it is in full release is a crime and id call false advertising.

The game isn't bad at all, in fact, I would consider this game to have some very strong potential- very fun, easy to progress, and enjoyable to do a survival run with a friend or two. but the biggest problem is the bugs you will encounter...and the complete lack of patches/updates to directly address said bugs and issues. holy shit the number of bugs I have encountered (as has my friend, since we found this game to try playing a survival type-game together) is absurd. But aside from the bugs, sadly the game also constantly desyncs on one or both of us. In the time we played this game, the bugs, while not THAT numerous, were definitely what I would consider to be game-breaking- such as cant eat or drink, cant walk/move/interact, cant use/drop/pick up objects, or youre stuck in the laying down position. in the 3 hour window once a week that we had marked down to play stranded deep, we very quickly realized that at least an hour of that would be spent trying to join the others game/server or waiting for things to sync up properly. Again, the game is a good game, it was fun, it was entertaining, and it was worth the money. I think there has been 1 update for the game in the last 1-1.5 years, which is unacceptable to me, the devs have to be aware that theres STILL issues with the game especially in multiplayer. I wish this game had been properly updated and fixed because we would still be playing it, but because the bugs were so rough and wasted so much of our time, we ended up deciding to stop playing this game and we purchased Green Hell. and Green Hell also has its fair share of bugs and syncing issues, but Stranded Deep's bugs and syncing issues are still way worse the Green Hell.