Raft

An excuse of a well-crafted survival game. There's so many problems inside this game that just make it annoying or feel like a chore.
1. Pause menu doesn't pause the game
2. Food and water system is in CONSTANT need of attention because it drains so fast
3. Sound system makes thing behind you nearly silent, allowing dangers like the shark biting your raft unnoticed
4. Slow sprint
5. Everything takes a lot of resources while you struggle to collect the bare crumbs off the ocean, making progression slow. This is especially annoying because of the needy food system taking up all your time
6. Enemies have simple and stupid mechanics, making them either boring to fight or annoying
7. All equipment and tools have the durability of a fine china vase, making you take loads of resources just to keep doing the basic functions of progression
8. Everything combined gives you 0 moments to pause and relax even a little bit
9. When below a certain point on the water or food bars, you get extremely slow, making it hard to survive enemies at all or even get to more food or water, a.k.a the game punishing you for not having food or water by making it hard to get food and water
10. Not fully a problem but this game gives the vibe of an early beta game. It doesn't feel polished out at all
11. Sleeping drops your hunger and thirst by a lot

Overall: 4/10

Good game, lots of things to do, even if you play alone it's great, but with someone is even better.

There is no setting, mod, or command that lets you adjust the rate of hunger gain. Me and my friends found the default rate of hunger gain to be far too high. Lose interest in the game and quit kind of high. Which is a bummer because most other things we experienced were fun. You know the setting is off when I literally cant stop to go to the bathroom because I know when I come back I'll be starving and losing hp. Also, you can only have one raft which is a major bummer.

i like killing sven (the shark) and pumba xD fun game lots of things to do in it :) more fun with friends

Game is generally pretty good, but it is definitely not a game that you play solo or else the grind is too much, I fear.

In early and mid game, literally everything requires wood to survive, you name it; purifying water, cooking food, smelting, repairing the raft from Bruce the Forever Respawning Shart, and mostly everything that you make. Sure, you can go cut down the trees from the islands you occasionally visit, but it is not much. Hunger and thirst seem to drain way too quickly, even if you're idle, it would be better if they drained relative to what you were doing. If you take a short break irl with your stats half, you might find your character dead on the ground or close to it, and without a co-op teammate then you have to respawn and lose 2/3 of your inventory, and even if you do have a friend then you still need a bed, so good luck being hauled all the way from a story island to your raft or just eat the penalty.

Making the raft is a cool part of the game, slowly building upon it to make the ultimate boat, and eventually you start to opt out all of the wood burning utilities for better, more efficient ones but takes awhile to get to that point in the game. The story is 'alright', it is extremely basic and not very in-depth, though the story islands are the best part and they get cooler as you progress further in the game.

In our play-through of 3, rarely 4 players, it took us roughly 20 hours from start to finish which is pretty good playtime. But expect a lot of that time spent on waiting for the boat to sail all the way to the story island, catching junk out of the ocean, fishing, fending from Bruce and seagulls. Speaking of those two, the shark is initially quite scary when you fall in the water for the first time, but throughout the game he just becomes an annoyance because he keeps eating at the boat whether you're on the boat or just near it, same goes for the seagull but only on your crops or scarecrows. Bruce will eventually not be a threat at all and will die very quickly when against a bow and arrow + machete, only for his brother to replace him 5 minutes later and do it all over again.

Overall, I reckon it is worth giving a shot if you want a chill game with good exploration and an alright story to keep you engaged, but expect some parts to be quite boring and annoying

TLDR: The Game is designed to be played by more than one player and it shows.

While I did play it a while, I ultimately never finished it on normal, after dealing with some annoying stuff. A peace of advice, if you are playing solo, just stick to easy. It's not worth getting annoyed by this stupid game.

When you start Raft, you're alone just you, the ocean, and your imagination. You begin with nothing, much like in life. But with patience and hard work, you start to build something out of nothing. Every plank you collect, every tool you craft, and every upgrade you make feels like a step closer to your dream.

At first, it’s just survival but soon, it becomes a journey. A journey where your imagination turns into reality, and your dream raft rises from the waves, piece by piece.

This game taught me much: once the oceans rise, it will be the trash in the sea that will enable us to build larger rafts to survive. So, think about the future and keep throwing them, boys!

Jokes aside, in Raft you strive in a postapocalyptic, water-covered Earth with few islands spotting the ocean. You'll collect resources poke Bruce, the shark, food, fresh waterpoke Bruce again, grow your raft poke Bruce AGAIN, discover new technologies and investigate the legend of Utopia, a mythological place where humans still live. Oh, and make your raft pretty, of course. And poke Bruce yet again.

The game is strangely fast paced, as you have to collect resources quickly while they float past you. Fish, build, navigate and defend your raft against Bruce, the immortal prick shark. You get to grow food, prepare dishes and juices, unlock radios, weapon, engines, etc. There was never lack of tasks, even when splitting the chores with my wife in co-op.

The "survival" aspect is horrible, tough. The game is ironmode (overwrites saves upon death). Why making exploration games ironmode, do you want me to be cautious or to explore? Make up your f*** mind? IMO also, with few exceptions, ironmode should not be the standard mode for games.

The "Normal" difficulty should be "Frustrating" e.g. got randomly killed by a bird dropping rocks on my raft while *passing by an island*. You lose 66% (!!!) of your inventory on death on "Normal", but on "Easy" you lose nothing and death is a "teleport back to raft with 75% of hunger and thrist sated" technique. There is no "survival" anymore and there is no middle ground either.

The abysmal game design goes on: world data has some 10 backups, but player data overwrites a single file. Loading a world backup will cause items to disappear or duplicate at your leisure, directly from the "load game" button - seriously?!

Worked fine on Linux via Proton (thanks Valve!<3). Achievements are dreadful:

• "Master Survivor": 365 days (at least 122h), but after 200~240 you'll have nothing to do but idling/decorating.
  
• "Artistic Collection": estimated ~988 treasures (some 5~10min to find/detect/dig each)or savescumming
  
[*]"Expert Gathered": hook 5k times, but you're likely to stop at 300~500

Early game is fun and exciting, getting to survive, build your raft bit by bit, learn recipes and look forward to an easier future.

But it never really gets easier. I play resource management games and this one solo was a little too tedious for me. You are constantly hemorrhaging every resource, and the variety in the islands / explore quality isn't enough to make me excited to grind for materials. Just feels quite bare-bones content wise.

TLDR: Fun early game, drops off hard around 3rd story island and becomes a tedious grind.

This game is an amazing game but know that you will have to grind for at least 2 days because i only beaten the game with cheats know i am doing it hardcore so far i have 96 hours just on hardcore so good luck and have fun;)

One of the best games ever it's so much fun and sometimes you can get set back, but you can do it! One time me and my friend lost 4 of our chests and most of our items but we kept on going, after we started worshipping the lucky cat and things got better. I made a shrine for him, so good luck if your playing, and have fun!

I get why there are people out there who like this game, i imagine it works better if you have someone to play with. Playing solo is just not fun, it feels unpolished.

- Grinding for resources and the durability of tools takes alot of fun away from the experience. Fun at first but quckly turns.
- Having a creative mode where all you can do is build and nothing else is a shame.
- Having a peaceful gamemode is great for singleplayer, but there should be more modifiers. There are other titles out there that do the gameplay options/modifiers much better (Subnautica, Pacific Drive).
- The power system is a pain, you can build a wind turbine but all it can do is charge batteries? Makes no sense..

From a singleplayer POV i just cant recommend this title when there are better options out there.

Raft is a refreshing survival game that strands you at sea with just a hook and your wits. Gather debris, build your floating base, fend off sharks, and uncover a mysterious world one island at a time. Best enjoyed in co-op, where teamwork turns the ocean into your playground. Engaging, creative, and full of surprises.

A great game, will run on a low-mid tier gaming laptop fairly well. Runs great on a mid-high tier PC though.
Story isn't super crazy, and while the gameplay is repetitive, it is like any other survival/sandbox game, just a very nice feel to play.

Perfect survival game for beginners or for those who don't want to go full tryhard like in the forest etc. I prefer it 100% it's worth every penny and the story-line is one of the best.

Pros:
+ good co-op experience
+ interesting puzzles
+ rewarding exploration
+ fun to build and decorate your raft
Cons:
- early game can feel grindy and repetitive
- shark attacks are very annoying and tedious
- no replayability after the story is complete
- good upgrades are accessible too late through the game
- some islands feel copy-pasted or underutilized
- few occasional bugs

Raft is simply one of the most charming survival games I’ve played. Simply standing on my raft as it floats over the waves through an endless body of water is truly relaxing. There’s also a great sense of pride and achievement that comes with seeing what I’ve built every time I load into the game. It’s an easy recommendation for survival fans that may have been holding off on jumping into early access, as well as those just learning about the game for the first time.

i love that you can play it with several people and it has difficulty for every type of playing style

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what id like to know is when your going to make this game controller compatible (360) so i can play the game again without pain in my wrist from using the wsad keys

very good game, up to dome and the raft is looking nice
6 sharks gone and $30 well spent
brokies gonna complain that i bought it at full price
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This game all around is a fun game super explorative and very fun multi player

great clean easy to learn game with puzzles and animals

it is so fun and its not like the stuped moible game that are so eazy its boring

After watching other game plays of raft I'd thought that it would be fun to try and play it. after going through all the islands and the story line i do recommend playing this game either on your own or with friends to make it more fun. 10/10

Raft is a very relaxing but also thrilling adventure game! Immerse yourself into the survival world to take down Bruce, while advancing your tools and raft!

A survival game in which you traverse an endless ocean and collect garbage to upgrade your titular raft.

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Raft allows you to play alone or with up to 3 friends, with its base gameplay consisting of tearing your raft across the ocean and collecting materials both from its water and from islands that you pass by. In classic survival game fashion, you must build out some basic structures and craft clothing as well as tools to ensure your characters’ survival. Most importantly this involves finding sources for food and water, both of which your characters will regularly demand.

To make this a bit harder, you’re constantly followed by a shark which will attack your boat as well as any players in the water, as well as seagulls looking to loot your food when you aren’t looking. Islands contain additional threats in the form of local wildlife which you’ll have to ward off when collecting resources, with a very basic fighting system. Dying without a coop partner available to rescue you results in loosing most of your collected items, which can pose quite a challenge in the early game, when you can get stuck without resources and an unmaneuverable raft. Later, most of these challenges are hardly a problem, with it being mostly an annoyance to stay topped up on materials.

Raft features progression for its core systems, most prominently in the form of new materials you can use certain upgrades to find and refine into more advanced resources, thereby making it possible to craft new stuff. You’ll also be sent to special islands, each of which contains coordinates to the next one, leading to a sort of scavenger hunt across a chain of these islands. Each of these is uniquely themed, making you explore abandoned ships, floating colonies and oil rigs among others, and contains some basic puzzles as well as new crafting recipes.

Each special island also tells some small tales through audio logs strewn around them, forming an overarching narrative about looking for an inhabitable place on the vast empty ocean. Personally, I found these stories not terribly interesting, with the same being true for the game’s overall themes, which feel rather unimaginative. While I did enjoy the shake up in gameplay whenever exploring a new special island, I also found them to become a bit stale later on, with limited stuff to do and few truly interesting unlocks per island.

Turning stale is a general problem with Raft’s gameplay, most prominently visible in the very limited pool of regular islands you’ll encounter along your journey. The game tries to remedy this by introducing a new biome after a while, though I found it to be lacking in unique features, only providing a couple of resources which you’ll quickly have enough of. There are also a couple of new enemy types introduced, though most of these are confined to special islands and, given the very limited combat system, they aren’t all that interesting either.

Much of the initial excitement of discovery quickly wears off and once you’ve discovered all available materials, Raft turns into a noticeable grind, with many crafting receipts demanding ridiculous amounts of resources. This is doubly bad for certain resources which are rare and annoying to collect. On the flip side, some items that are abundant have very limited uses, making them quickly redundant, though Raft at least presents you with a rather elegant solution in the form of the Recycler, which allows you to turn your item piles into currency. Beyond the basic resources, there are also some collectibles as well as rare decoration items, finding which I mostly enjoyed, even after finishing the game’s main content.

On a more positive note, I also very much liked the way you upgrade your Raft throughout the game, adding more and more advancements towards turning it into a proper boat, with a radar, steering, and engines. Aside from that, you can also add automatic resource collection and make your Raft shark-proof, which I felt quite relieved about. There’s also quite a bit of automation which becomes available for aspects like your food and fuel production, though I felt some things were missing, with the final upgrades still requiring you to do quite a bit of manual work.

Raft also allows you to customize your ride by building structures on top of it, letting you create houses and more. I found the base of this system to be a bit underwhelming, with the game providing a rather limited selection of building blocks which snap into place at fixed positions and angles. Sadly, you’re also limited by the fact that there’s no mirror function, leading to the position of some asymmetric items being quite limited. There also seem to be some bugs with the system, with it sometimes not allowing certain placements for no apparent reason, which can often be fixed by placing things in a different order.

These can then be enhanced by freely placeable furniture items, the available selection for which I found to be a bit lacking, especially when it comes to small to medium sized clutter. There’s also a somewhat janky painting system, which lets you recolour many of the items, often even supporting different colours being applied to different parts of the item in question. A problem present throughout these building and decoration systems is janky menu interaction, which seems to have been designed for use with a controller and feels very unnatural with a mouse.

As for its presentation, Raft uses a basic but functional art style that matches the game's feel. Being the most central feature of the game, I found the look of the water to be quite cool, especially with its fluctuating wave size and the mostly accurate way the player characters interact with it. Sadly, large waves also often noticeably clip through your raft, which not only looks off but also leads to players and items being moved around on top of it.

Another place where the game doesn’t fare well is animations, which tend to be rather stiff and lacking impact, which is made worse as visual effects accompanying them are very limited. Interactions in general tend to feel floaty, which funnily enough isn’t the case for your raft of all things. Once you’re able to steer, controlling it feels very responsive, making manoeuvring around islands a genuine blast. The only issue I see is that for some reason, rotating the raft does not rotate players, making your view drift all over the place whenever the helmsman takes a turn.

Similarly, Raft’s sound design is rather basic and a bit janky points, e.g. making the ocean suddenly going nigh-silent as soon as a storm stops and later having its audio pop back into existence at the first sign of waves. In contrast, the Soundtrack has some neat tracks, though it can get a bit repetitive – which can luckily be fixed through various collectible cassette tapes.

As stated in the intro, up to 4 players can join up and play together, which I had a lot of fun with. In my honest opinion, teaming up with friends is probably the main draw of the game. In contrast, with the lack of player interaction, I felt the experience to be very diminished when going in solo.

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All in all, me and my friends had a lot of fun with Raft despite its many shortcomings. Consider giving it a shot, especially if you have a group of people available to play.

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Thats Fkg Good
☑ Good
☐ Normal
☐ Meh
☐ Bad
☐ Get The Money Back

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You Forget What Reality is
☐ Work of Art
☑ Beautiful
☐ Normal
☐ Bad
☐ Pixels

---{ Audio }---
☐ Beethoven
☐ Very Good
☐ Good
☑ Its Ok
☐ Bad
☐ I'm Now Deaf

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Dark Souls
☐ Hard
☐ Significant Brain Usage
☑ Normal
☐ Easy
☐ Just Press 'W'

---{ World }---
☐ You Never Get Tired
☐ Full of Things to do
☑ There Could Be More Things
☐ Repetitive
☐ Empty Like a Desert
☐ Linear Game

---{ Story }---
☐ It'll Replace Your Life
☐ Lovely
☐ Good
☐ Normal
☑ Some Lore
☐ No Story

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long Enough For a Cup of Tea
☐ 5h-10h
☐ 10h-20h
☑ 20h-50h
☐ 50h-100h
☐ To Infinity And Beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's Free
☐ Worth The Price
☑ If It's On Sale
☐ If u Have Some Spare Money Left
☐ Not Recommended
☐ Just Go Play Poker

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never Heard Of
☐ You Won't Even Notice
☐ Minor Bugs
☐ Can Get Annoying
☐ Cyberpunk 2077
☐ These Bugs Have a Game

---{ DLC }---
☐ Its a Second Game
☐ Good
☐ Its Ok
☐ Bad
☐ Skins
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What a lovely game. I picked up Raft years and years ago, when all you could do was float around. I don't even think there were islands at that time. It was fun for a while, but then I decided to put it down until the full game came out. Raft as it is now is a classic survival crafter, but it is also a very relaxing game. You've got a lot of freedom when it comes to building your own floating home, and there are plenty of options if you want to go fully functional, all aesthetics, or a mix of both. Upgrades feel really impactful when you get them. Some of the island puzzles were tricky for me. The story was pretty decent and served a good purpose for giving you a reason to get to the next area. I'd say it's aimed at a young audience, but that certainly didn't stop me from enjoying it. Definitely recommend this game.

The only enjoyable part is rafting and getting materials to build a base. Everything else is total garbage. Game is very janky, if you relog on an island as a client, then good luck getting out of the textures. Story part consists of badly designed islands with endless fetch quests and janky fights with local fauna. Even cooking is annoying, because most of cooking recipes require items that can be only gotten through trading and can't be farmed. Broken and unpolished mess of a game, doesnt even feel nice to play because everything feels as stiff as wood

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☑ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☑ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

greatest game ever i drowned my homies on numerous occasians story is pretty good too

Fun little hard to get going but once you do its cool to see what you can do.

good sandbox survival game and i dont know its just fun after you get good

it is peaceful you can play with ur friends it is an nice relaxed game to play and have fun

Honestly fun game. I refunded it to let the experience simmer and now that it has, I realize my refund was a HUGE mistake, I will be re-buying it ASAP!

Survival Time Waster. Play style like Space engineers vs DAYZ. Build expand, divide and conquer. Time flys when your on a raft and gotta salvage to survive. Progression system for building good and fair, Would recommend this game to all ages.

Buy if you want/can do CO-OP mode. Hard No as a single player.

Bought years ago under early access to support indie game, Honestly, I think this game was balanced to be a multiplayer experience, which I do not play. My complaints are easily countered with even 1 other player with you.

Pacing is agonizingly slow in the beginning, water/food timers are killer because its a pain to refill them until you can get better meals, and the shark "Bruce" is just annoying that you purposely don't loot his body fully to maximize his respawn timer. Ended up just doing a peaceful run to ignore him and AFK while resources gathered in nets. Islands were a nice break in pace, until it became a parkour game and weird uninspired boss fights.

Amazing in creative mode, if you just want to build incredible rafts.

really bad story line, mediocre gameplay, not fun to play

great game. fun with friends. big vibes. chill game. goes deeper than you may expect.

narrative exist, but i didn't really pay attention to any of it. Raft is a game about the journey rather than the destination. Drifting trough the ocean gave a zen like experience alone and a great platform (pun intended) to have conversation with friends while conversing through the ocean

great game, had so much fun playing it with friends

creative is nice to learn how to build and what not with zero pressure. I find Normal mode to be just enough pressure especially when just starting out on your little 3 square raft. Once you begin building momentum, it's super fun....the most fun is playing with friends! Def worth the cost

Game breaking bug on the last island, the observatory is Super bugged and sometimes you are cursed with a safe that will never open. It's an old bug they never bothered to fix.

It's a 20hr gamble. Good luck.

This game was great for the most part. Had all the things I love about this genre. Crafting, survival calm atmosphere and exploration. Then they went and ruined it by putting stupid boss fights at the very end. I tried to get by this part for a few hours then quit and uninstalled the game. I cannot imagine why they decided to add this tiresome and frustrating trope to what was previously a masterpiece of a game. I like this genre of game because they do not contain boss fights that impede the progression of the plot. Planet Crafter - no boss fights, Subnautica - no boss fights (leviathan type encounters but they could be avoided and did not impede your progression in the game), Astrometica - no boss fights, No Man's Sky - no boss fights. Added to the annoyance of the boss fight itself is the constantly respawning hyena enemies and an imprecise control scheme that was clearly not designed for intense combat sequences. Based on this section of the game which ground my enjoyment of Raft to a halt I cannot recommend the game. It feels as though my entire experience and progression in the game was tossed out the window by the devs deciding to make into a genre I hate - platformer with boss fight. Add to this the game's annoying behaviour of autosaving your game state into your sole single save slot when you die (after you die so that you respawn with the consequences of having died even if you reload your save). I could have overlooked the minor annoyances but the progression halting boss crap at the end ruined it all for me. Uninstalled and done.

This isn’t a survival game, it’s an emotional abstinence simulator. You’re floating in a sea of despair, picking up scraps like someone trying to gather enough willpower to not eat a alfajorcito de maicena after midnight. You know you shouldn’t, but you still think about it. The shark is your anxiety, the raft is your self-control, and every new plank is just another excuse to keep going. But just like with alfajorcitos, there’s always that moment when you say “one more won’t hurt”... and suddenly you’ve built a second floor with a grill. True survival is internal.

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QUALIFICATION

7/10 SHARKS

The gameplay, the multiplayer, the story, ... it is a nice game :) the storyline is not super long but other than that: great accessible game for everyone! My husband and i love playing it multiple times, we love it

Watch a couple youtube vids and you'll end up buying it tbh. It's a pretty unique game available for an affordable price that is *super* fun with friends.

Also, takes a very small amount of storage space compared to most games today. I'd say go for it, It's fun in a similar casual way that sea of thieves is, but with "base" building elements and crafting

Unless you play on easy, be prepared to be constantly gathering, crafting, fishing, finding food, repairing, and stabbing shark. Way too few survival resources (esp starting out). Poor explanation of game mechanics, and being locked to a raft is an interesting concept but makes for boring "wait on materials to come to you" loop.

i find this game quite challenging, although it is quite hard to progress throughout the game. i would recommend this game to people with friends who have steam else it is quite boring with no public lobbies