Raft
Raft throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
What it feels like
Shark threats and resource scarcity create sustained pressure and the sense of imminent danger. Building a home and exploring new islands provides an earned optimism amid the harsh survival setting. Building and personalizing a floating home creates moments of comfort and safe refuge amid the survival challenge.
What it's about
Enduring a hostile oceanic environment while adrift is the central narrative and mechanical driver of the game. Life upon the sea and oceanic navigation form the entirety of the game's setting and atmosphere. A long voyage across a vast sea structures the experience as an extended transformative passage.
How it plays
Gathering debris and assembling materials into structures and items is a core loop of the survival experience. Constructing and expanding a floating home raft is a central mechanic and primary use of gathered resources. Scavenging, collecting, and budgeting scarce ocean debris under survival pressure is essential to progression.
How it looks and sounds
The game is played from a first-person perspective, seeing directly through the player character's eyes.
How it's structured
Players navigate a vast continuous sea exploring reefs and gathering resources across a large explorable ocean space. Online cooperative play is a featured mode where players work together toward shared survival and building objectives. Single-player mode is explicitly supported as a core option alongside multiplayer, with a complete experience for solo players.
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