Raft (v1.1.01)

A tiny floating platform becomes both your lifeline and your home in Raft, an ocean-survival adventure built around scavenging, crafting, and gradually pushing beyond the horizon. You begin alone with a plastic hook, drifting through an endless blue expanse where every plank, leaf, and scrap of metal matters. Hunger, thirst, storms, and a persistent shark turn even routine resource gathering into a tense balancing act. The mood mixes relaxing sunset sailing and cozy base-building with the constant pressure of knowing one mistake can leave your supplies, or your raft, in ruins.

Most of the action revolves around casting your hook at passing debris, collecting materials, and converting those scraps into tools, water purifiers, grills, storage, defenses, and new raft sections. Your humble platform can grow into a multi-level floating base with crop plots, animal pens, engines, batteries, and automated collection nets, while research unlocks better equipment and more efficient survival options. Islands and underwater reefs provide rarer resources, though diving for them means managing oxygen and avoiding hostile wildlife. Story-driven destinations eventually give the voyage direction, introducing abandoned facilities, puzzles, environmental clues, and dangerous enemies beyond the familiar shark attacks. Online co-op lets friends divide jobs between fishing, building, cooking, farming, and exploring, making long expeditions considerably smoother.

Raft stands out because its base is never stationary: your construction project is also your vehicle, inventory, shelter, and defense against the sea. The steady transformation from a few loose boards into an elaborate ocean-going compound is satisfying in the same way as Subnautica’s survival progression, but with a stronger focus on collaborative building and visible expansion. Its stylized visuals keep the world inviting even when resources run low, while the late-game journey adds more structure than a pure sandbox survival game. Players who enjoy crafting loops, co-op survival, and making efficient homes from limited materials find plenty to enjoy, while newcomers benefit from its clear early goals and straightforward controls.