Raft

amazing adventure game, 2000% more fun with mods, i recommend installing them

Probably the second best water game of all time its beautiful at its core and i would highly recommend to play this with ur friends

So far, it's a decent game.

It NEEDS a leveling system, a guide to crafting. It leaves you to your elements to figure out how to craft into a tree. Only problem is, I am stuck on finding any animal that gives eggs or wool. Which hinders progression. I have yet to run across an island with bee's. So I lack honey. I have yet to run across an island with titanium. Mind you I have been to a LOT!

My next problem is, (knowing you can craft a steering wheel, but it's not an option for me yet I guess?) there is no steering the boat. You literally have to force it into an island and work it back into a front facing wind. I've tried sails on either end and it doesn't work. A rudder would be nice at least.

I had to switch to a mode that didn't allow enemy damage. I was stuck on my first world, stuck on an island because, ya know, can't steer, can't paddle or sail against current, which seems to be the same as wind direction. While stuck, I was constantly bombarded by a bird that dove into you I think? It has no sound effects, and is not easy to dodge. Spawn Die Spawn Die, repeat. So I was forced to delete a world with about 2.5 hours game play into it.

I like the building aspect except that fact that your need a pillar every two feet to support the next floor. it's a little overkill and takes up a lot of floor space for your stations.

All-in-all, this game has a lot of potential as I have tried many mobile raft game. It's almost the same but not as glitchy which is nice. $20? not worth $10. If it improves, this game could be awesome!

Also, it seems to have some sort of "lore" which is one page of the journal as if you are looking for your lost S/O. It doesn't seem to go anywhere for right now.

The lack of animals in this game and it's requirements for wool and hide are way ridiculous. That is a disaster all in itself.

The shark attacks are unrealistically frequent, especially on normal mode. My boat was practically destroyed before I could even figure out what to eat. (also another reason I switched to relaxing mode).

The wave mechanics are amazing! But not when in your boat/raft. If the swell is high enough, you're going for a swim. Water waves through your boat.

VINE GOO: is smeltered seaweed. Had to be googled. That's not a vine.

A few grammar issues in places where "you" is used in place of "your".

All that said, I've got a lot of hours into this game. Thus, it is entertaining.

Character customization is very weak.

Buy it if you want a game to kill a little boredom. Until it improves, it's not worth the $20.

Absolutely recommend this game. So fun to play with friends and family. I would like to see a bit more diversity in the animals and structures available to the player. But other than that I,d give it a solid 9/10.

explore, build , gather, fight, survive. very good game

cool lore and really appealing for the people who like survival games

Never have i ever found a game that looked so good in gaming videos but sucked so bad until me and my friend played. we played on easy mode yet it was still hard. it got tedious after 30 minutes because all we were doing was cooking food that would take so long just to replenish a small amount of your hunger bar. not only that but there were items in craft recipes that wernt even on the model. would not play again

I do recommend this game but there is a good bit of cons so I will get to that. This game is fun but I suggest playing it with your friends so you aren't alone in it. Of course you can play it alone but it's not as fun. But here are the cons. This game quickly gets repetitive and it never updates so you have to play the same game constantly. There is tons of stuff for you to explore in the game but just not that fun after a while. Then in creative mode I couldn't get my raft to move at all so it was really boring and we just had to be a sitting duck and not do anything. This game is good for a good few plays but if you want a good game to play often this won't be it. Before I played it yesterday I didn't touch it until May 2024. Also sense it updates theirs not new stuff to do in creative.

Raft – Starts Strong, Then Drifts

I’ve been playing Raft with a friend, and at first, it’s actually pretty fun. You start off on this tiny raft in the middle of the ocean, collecting debris and slowly building your little floating home. It’s a cool survival concept, and the co-op element makes it even better at least for a while.

But after some time, it just feels like more of the same. Collect, build, repeat. The progression is slow, and once you get the hang of it, there’s not much that really surprises you. It’s not bad by any means, but it definitely loses its spark the longer you play. Could use a bit more variety or excitement to keep things fresh.

Rating: 6/10 – Fun at first, but gets repetitive. Best enjoyed in short bursts or with friends

its fun and very replayable

Fantastic survival game
food and water drains super fast though
Gather some friends its a good time

ww game super fun. love to play with my friends. lots to do

Ever wanted to experience starting from nothing in the middle of the ocean, with nothing but a small little piece of wood under you to support your journey? Look no further, this game will teach you the harsh reality of the sea, while having a good story to follow you through that experience!

horribly optimised and bad lag constantly, my pc runs bigger games absolutely fine, this game is constant stutter.

The game is good if you have friends. Playing this single player, it is too grindy and deaths are too punishing. I wish there was a way to recover your items instead of 2/3 items just being deleted on death. It's like Minecraft but with more chores and less interesting but more annoying enemies. I figure most of the problems I ran into is not as bad in multiplayer. However, I do like the building aspect of this game with a large array of creativity available to decorate the raft.

I love this game, I love finding all the little treasures on all the different islands. I didn't pay much attention to all the little stories, but I still have a lot of fun with this game. I also like being able to make my own raft, and the adventures we get to take it on!

I've had this game for quite some time and obviously put in some hours into this game. I can't rave about how much I love this game. It's so relaxing to play, but still keeps you entertained for longer than you expect. I've gotten quite a few of my friends hooked on this game, which has led to many nights staying up until 3AM just getting lost in the fun of it all.

I highly recommend this game, but only if you have a friend to play with, can be a tad boring on your own however that's just me. It's a fantastic experience when you work together—it’s a lot of fun!

The concept is a lot more interesting than the game itself. It takes a frustrating amount of time to gather a usable amount of resources, mobs have a disproportionate amount of health and damage compared to what you have against them, food and water drain way too fast. Playing on any difficulty higher than easy can set you back hours if you die

I'd only recommend it with (a bunch of) mods for quality of life and missing features. Definitly doesn't feel like it's worth it's regular price but on sales go for it.
Also better in multiplayer.

Review: Raft

Raft is a captivating survival game that offers a refreshing twist on the genre by placing players on a tiny raft in the middle of an endless ocean. Combining crafting, exploration, and teamwork, it’s a truly unique survival experience.

🎮 Gameplay The gameplay revolves around surviving the open water by crafting tools, building your raft, and gathering resources from the ocean or nearby islands. You’ll need to manage hunger, thirst, and defend against threats, including a menacing shark. The game features both single-player and cooperative multiplayer modes, allowing up to 8 players to join the fun. The crafting and base-building mechanics are intuitive, and navigating the open sea can be both relaxing and challenging as you progress through the game​
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📖 Story & Atmosphere Raft’s story unfolds slowly, offering an intriguing narrative as players explore different islands and uncover the mystery of the world. The atmosphere is immersive, with peaceful ocean views contrasted by the ever-present danger of the shark and other hostile creatures lurking beneath the water. While the game’s main story progresses with puzzles and exploration, it’s the journey itself and the joy of crafting that keeps players hooked​
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✅ Pros: ✔ Unique and engaging survival mechanics
✔ Excellent multiplayer experience (up to 8 players)
✔ Relaxing exploration and crafting
✔ Surprising narrative elements and puzzle-solving
✔ Beautiful art design and dynamic environments

❌ Cons: ✖ Hunger and thirst mechanics can feel repetitive
✖ Limited end-game content after finishing the story
✖ The beginning can feel slow as you gather resources and build up your raft​
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💡 Verdict: Raft is a fun and unique survival game that blends crafting, exploration, and co-op gameplay into a relaxing yet thrilling adventure. While it may have some repetitive elements and limited end-game content, its charming gameplay and vast ocean to explore make it a must-play for fans of the survival genre.

⭐ Rating: 8/10

Its kind of annoying to play. The enemies, mechanics and travelling all feel like an incredible chore. The glitches and bugs are beyond frustrating as some of the time they were incredibly game-breaking. Reminds me A LOT of Hello Neighbor 1 (when it got really convoluted and buggy) I see the game is popular and my opinion will be unappreciated but, I would only buy this game if you have incredible patience and can look past some pretty underwhelming game development.

That being said, It was a much more fun joke-like experience with friends.

Great cozy survival game with a chill atmosphere that lets you escape to a warm, imaginary sea. Once you get on top of basic survival needs and level your crafting a bit, the game introduces a very satisfying and relaxing grind,

This is the ultimate multiplayer game and is worth a playthrough with a few friends. Chill but plenty to do. Once you beat the game there's no real reason to continue, but the journey there is definitely worth it.

to me personally, i love this game a lot and its great with playing it with friends! i could play this a million times and still have fun on it! i recommend this for everyone if you looking for a game to play with friends this is a good one!

It's a good game, i love the story, variety gameplay, cool island map, and other things. Definitely worth of time and money, it's more fun to play multiplayer too!!

Great fun with friends game
- After you get past the initial hurdles of water, food, and that bloody shark - its alot more chill

Still feels early access. Hardly any weapons or equipment & it is beyond ridiculous how most of the good weapons & equipment can only be crafted once you beat the game, when there is nothing left to do and time to uninstall. Feels very basic and off. The first few hours are a blast but after that it gets boring and old fast. Most of the equipment you unlock at the trader is very unexciting and underwhelming.

This game has so much potential that will never be realised. At least have a workshop so that maybe some people could finish this game.

First half an hour or so is fun, but after the first tower this game seems to be undecided on what it wants to be, story driven, survival, crafting, puzzle, parkour... it tried to be all of these things to different extents and sadly it fails to do any of these things well.

Compounded with the frustrating mechanics and poor design choices that make no sense, this game just became tedious to play by the end of our play though and we were glad to see the back of it.

Personally, I cannot recommend this game.

When I first started playing I didn't think I'd last for long. But through trial and error, and camping at islands a lot, I managed to survive and learn how to make things and got much better at it. I didn't bother with the story at first, I was too busy trying to stay alive! Now that I've established the how to's I'm starting to move along nicely. It's a fun game with lots of crafting involved. The graphics are good and the controls are easy enough with some practice. It can be very cozy on your raft when the sea is calm and the moon light is shining. Then there are huge swells and you're getting swallowed by them! The shark is always hovering waiting to make a meal out of you but I muzzled mine in the settings ;) so my game play is easy and relaxed. It's not too difficult gathering materials and its always fun adding onto your raft! And the fishing alone makes it worth playing ;)

what can I say, i just like collecting trash outta the ocean

The game is a piece of shit, the game glitched me into a chest inventory then i fell into the water and died, got unstuck as an option and it teleported me to an island no where near my raft.

There is no story it is a boring resource simulator in which there i no progression

Quite fun when you are no longer dying from thirst because there are no planks around :D Gets better but it is what it is, low budget, micromanagement game

The overall idea of the game can be summarized in two words: stay alive.

The game play is very simple

and it can give a type of cozy feel to it as you're not rushed to, somehow, figure out there's a story element to the game. The great part about the beginning is that you can customize your raft to your heart's desire if you unlock enough by obtaining recipes and researching as you gather resources with your old reliable hook and by taking advantage of neighboring islands of various sizes. My group felt so comfortable obtaining resources and expanding our raft when we realized about a week into this that we didn't even progress in the story. This realization then prompted a "what is this even about?"

Simply, the story is fine,

however, can be very jarring. I had moments of being very invested in the story to being whip lashed into confusion on how situations escalated so suddenly in terms of game play. Side note, I'm still not sure how we ended up with the hazmat suits. Direction isn't laid out at the start and you really have to go around and piece everything together once you get going. I'm grateful I had others with me to piece things together or else I'd go back to customizing the raft. Don't even get me started on the ending. Unsatisfying and disappointing is the only way I can put it.

The voice acting,

while unpleasant for some, was fine for me. I didn't mind the questionable voice acting and I did appreciate the effort done to every single character.

Graphics.

The graphics are decent! I'm not too big on graphics and I did like a lot of the work done to make the islands unique and the world had a great atmosphere. In terms of level design, be careful. If you like exploring a little too much, you might get stuck and, if you're solo, wait to die and re-spawn which makes you lose a significant chunk of your inventory.

Regarding enemies,

exactly what enemies?
The sparseness of the enemies was underwhelming. You start with an annoying shark that bites away your raft and you have to poke at it to let go before it eats away your progress. If you get a garden, you have birds to deal with. Depending on the islands you go to, you might have bees, or maybe a bear...or 3. There's also a chance an annoying bird will drop rocks on you, periodically. Not to mention towards the end, the monsters can make you bug out and be incapacitated randomly, good luck! You go from excited to see what type of monsters you'll face to boredom pretty quickly.

Overall, I wouldn't really recommend buying the game unless its on a spicy discount. Other than that, you're better off watching a streamer play it in the background while you relax.

it's one of the better survival games i've played, with strengths in its sense of adventure and progression, but it does have some rough edges that keep it from being perfectly enjoyable.

the biggest positive is that there's always something new to unlock - fun items are discovered at a steady pace, which keep things feeling fresh and motivating. there's always something for someone to be doing, be it designing/building/redecorating the raft, chopping down trees, diving, fishing, hooking floating debris, organizing inventory, or... so much more! you truly become part of a system with your friends, as if you're serving as the organs in the living organism that is the raft. this is advantageous, as if you get bored of doing any one thing, there's plenty you can switch it up with to keep gameplay interesting.

while it would be fun enough to play solo i would not suggest it, as you'd be missing out on a lot of where the fun comes from. it's fun in the way cooking together is, you work together to share the happiness of the meal and of seeing everyone cooperating and becoming satisfied. i played in a group of three and felt a group of four would be perfect, the fun grows exponentially from seeing people you know running around.

some of the gameplay can feel a little grindy. for example, crafting feels somewhat unbalanced - 1 metal ingot only makes 1 bolt, when it feels like it should make at least 3. the bowl you make will be consumed with the soup it contains. batteries drain very quickly, and you'll have to make a lot before you're able to make a charger to reuse them. tools also don’t last quite as long as i would like, everything can feel just a little too flimsy. between repairing the raft, cooking food and smelting ore, wood can go by a little too quick. plastic as well, since there's no way to obtain it aside from dedicating yourself to fishing it out of the ocean manually. food is bountiful, but you go hungry and thirsty quick. a little too much upkeep, a touch tedious.

the grind extends to combat, where fights are more frustrating than engaging. whether you're swinging a weapon or shooting a bow, attacking enemies doesn't feel great. the weapons are slow and floaty, lending combat a lacked sense of responsiveness. the spear most egregiously should have a much better range.

unfortunately, some of the mechanics and ways you are supposed to progress can be hard to figure out without looking them up on a wiki, which can break immersion and lead to moments of confusion.

the writing isn't particularly enjoyable, whether in terms of the overall narrative or the individual lines of dialogue. however, this isn't necessarily a dealbreaker, as the clunky writing was fun to laugh at with my friends. i think anyone would be either bored or amused, and it at least serves its purpose of getting you to interesting new places to explore with more curated objectives and specific items to unlock just fine.

the art style is pleasant. many games look similar, but playing it safe isn't a bad thing - it's easy on the eyes, and the color palette and style of modeling lend an identity distinct enough to tell it apart from any other game. the sound design is also phenomenal, the world feels alive and coherent. exploring an island is fresh and lush with the sound of wind and insects, and being adrift on your raft hearing the water lapping at its foundation is comforting and serene. as you add beehives or engines to your ship, you can enjoy the sounds of your progress as well.

performance isn't a problem whatsoever, i was able to manage a consistent 120 frames per second while games that look worse than this have struggled to do the same, and there's a good variety of options to adjust if your computer struggles. however, a notable issue arises for those who experience motion sickness. while the game does offer a motion sickness mode, it wasn’t nearly enough for my friend - we had to install a mod to make the game playable for them. there's also no option to resize the UI, which makes it difficult to play in windowed mode (a common trick for reducing motion sickness). still, the attempt is appreciated, as well is the inclusion of an FOV slider and the option to limit your framerate.

despite its flaws, it offers a co-op experience that is smooth and fun overall, more than i expect from this genre. the moment-to-moment gameplay as well as the gameplay loop is engaging and packed with content, but issues like grindy mechanics and lackluster combat do keep it from being a perfect experience. 7.5/10

i would recomend this game quite highly but only if you have a buddy to play with then its a great experince working together its fun

Would be a great game if the devs hadn't stopped caring. There are multiple bugs (boat gets completely stuck and you have to reload your game, you respawn underwater in multiplayer, screecher kills not counting for the achievement in multiplayer if you're not hosting, can't harvest animal corpses sometimes in multiplayer.). These are just the ones I remember and have encountered. It's a pretty decent game to play with friends if you can get it on sale, but there are some extremely unbalanced achievements and frustrating bugs. Sad to see devs stop caring about their game.

This is an amazing game to play by yourself if your a solo type person or just as good with friend. It is fun to work towards the achievments but the fun storyline is good too!

I absolutely recommend playing this game! The ambience is great, just like the survival aspects of the game. The story combines really well with everything overall. 8/10

An overall great game!
Great game to play with friends, a little more annoying playing on your own as you lose 2/3 of your inventory if you die. The building is great. Lots of recipes for food and smoothies, though I found myself only really making vegetable soup most of the time. Bosses are not difficult to beat, which is nice if you are someone that mostly likes to collect and build stuff. This game will keep you busy for a while.

My gripes:
The story is not very engaging, especially towards the end. The puzzles can be quite tedious and the final story island is just all puzzles with no real rewards at the end. The pacing of getting upgraded equipment is to be desired. It is criminal that you get the best equipment at the very end of the game. Don't know that this would be a game I would play again from the beginning but I'll certainly come back to my completed game and build a mega raft!

I had a great time though. Would recommend 8.5/10

Awesome game, i really enjoyed the story and i love the open world/free play aspect of the game.

This game is very different depending on how you play.
It ranges from somewhat boring on singleplayer to absolute peak gameplay with friends.

Should you buy Raft?

Yes but definitely if you have friends.

fun game to play on your spare time. im sure with a crew it'd be more fun.

fun game to play espesally as a kid to play its a fun building game

I wish I could play this game for the first time again. I have had some of the most fun playing this story line with friends and highly recommend for a small group or duo

I recommend but, i'm sure there is another game that is better than raft. if you want something simple like this, than its good. I can't say its one of my favorite survival games.

Its a relaxing fun survival game where you built your raft and complete a story do I need to say something else.

A really fun and cozy game to play. Very recommended if you'r interested in open-world/survival type of games.

Amazing. Absolute CINEMA. The story is truly an experience that you have to see. It feels like its not just the crazy cinematics but also how the story includes a ton of fighting and problem solving to get through, with every stage in the story becoming another advancement to your raft and yourself. VERY MUCH reccomend, this game is so slept on to the point where i cant beleive it. (play with a friend to make it even better).