Raft

Item: Raft
Rating: 85
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-08-13

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Summary

Excellent cooperative multiplayer experience
Unique survival and raft building
Repetitive gameplay and lacks end-game
Flawed core mechanics reported
Constant shark threat adds challenge
Highly recommended for co-op and building fans

Emotions

Satisfaction29%Frustration13%Joy10%Excitement9%Enjoyment8%

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 60%
Unhelpful reviews: 40%
Protest reviews: 0%

85%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
15%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 3573
Negative points: 1916
Gameplay points: 1867
Perf. points: 98
Rec. points: 637
Misc points: 293

Point	Description	Importance
Excellent Cooperative Multiplayer Description The game is highly praised for its cooperative multiplayer experience, with players consistently reporting that playing with friends significantly enhances the fun, engagement, and overall enjoyment. The social dimension, teamwork, and shared achievements are highlighted as key strengths. Importance 92%	The game is highly praised for its cooperative multiplayer experience, with players consistently reporting that playing with friends significantly enhances the fun, engagement, and overall enjoyment. The social dimension, teamwork, and shared achievements are highlighted as key strengths.	92%
Unique Survival Experience Description Players appreciate the game's unique take on the survival genre, particularly its open-ocean setting and blend of relaxing and tense moments. The balance between resource gathering, exploration, and managing threats creates an engaging and immersive survival experience. Importance 79%	Players appreciate the game's unique take on the survival genre, particularly its open-ocean setting and blend of relaxing and tense moments. The balance between resource gathering, exploration, and managing threats creates an engaging and immersive survival experience.	79%
Accessible & Intuitive Gameplay Description The game is praised for its accessibility, featuring simple and intuitive controls, easy-to-understand mechanics, and low system requirements. This makes it approachable for a wide range of players, while still offering enough depth. Importance 35%	The game is praised for its accessibility, featuring simple and intuitive controls, easy-to-understand mechanics, and low system requirements. This makes it approachable for a wide range of players, while still offering enough depth.	35%
Engaging Storyline & Progression Description The game features a surprisingly engaging and well-implemented storyline that provides purpose and motivation for exploration and progression. While optional, the narrative adds depth and context to the survival and building mechanics. Importance 30%	The game features a surprisingly engaging and well-implemented storyline that provides purpose and motivation for exploration and progression. While optional, the narrative adds depth and context to the survival and building mechanics.	30%
Immersive Atmosphere & Graphics Description The game's atmospheric design, including its pleasant graphics, lighting, and immersive sound effects (especially ocean sounds), contributes significantly to a relaxing yet engaging experience. The visual style is often described as charming and fitting. Importance 26%	The game's atmospheric design, including its pleasant graphics, lighting, and immersive sound effects (especially ocean sounds), contributes significantly to a relaxing yet engaging experience. The visual style is often described as charming and fitting.	26%
Rewarding Island Exploration Description Exploration of diverse islands and underwater areas is a significant and rewarding aspect of the game. Players enjoy discovering new resources, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets, which adds variety and adventure to the gameplay loop. Importance 24%	Exploration of diverse islands and underwater areas is a significant and rewarding aspect of the game. Players enjoy discovering new resources, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets, which adds variety and adventure to the gameplay loop.	24%
Satisfying Raft Building & Crafting Description The building and crafting systems are highly satisfying, allowing players immense creative freedom to design and expand their rafts from simple platforms to elaborate floating fortresses. The sense of accomplishment from this progression is a major draw. Importance 22%	The building and crafting systems are highly satisfying, allowing players immense creative freedom to design and expand their rafts from simple platforms to elaborate floating fortresses. The sense of accomplishment from this progression is a major draw.	22%
Consistent Updates & Replayability Description Players appreciate the consistent developer support, regular updates, and new content additions, which keep the game fresh and enhance replayability. The game's progression system is also well-regarded for keeping players engaged over long periods. Importance 13%	Players appreciate the consistent developer support, regular updates, and new content additions, which keep the game fresh and enhance replayability. The game's progression system is also well-regarded for keeping players engaged over long periods.	13%
Overall Positive Reception Description The game is generally highly regarded by players, with many expressing strong affection and considering it a favorite. Its overall design, concept, and continuous development have left a very positive and lasting impression. Importance 13%	The game is generally highly regarded by players, with many expressing strong affection and considering it a favorite. Its overall design, concept, and continuous development have left a very positive and lasting impression.	13%
Highly Addictive Gameplay Description The game is highly addictive, with many players reporting losing track of time due to its engaging gameplay loop. The initial hours are particularly captivating, leading to a strong desire for continued play. Importance 8%	The game is highly addictive, with many players reporting losing track of time due to its engaging gameplay loop. The initial hours are particularly captivating, leading to a strong desire for continued play.	8%
Engaging Shark Encounters Description The shark, a constant threat, adds a unique layer of tension and excitement to the game. Players find encounters with the shark, and the ability to fight it, to be an enjoyable and immersive aspect of survival. Importance 7%	The shark, a constant threat, adds a unique layer of tension and excitement to the game. Players find encounters with the shark, and the ability to fight it, to be an enjoyable and immersive aspect of survival.	7%
Enjoyable Solo Play Description The game is well-suited for solo play, offering a tranquil and engaging experience for those who prefer to build and explore in solitude. It has also been noted for its positive emotional impact on some players. Importance 6%	The game is well-suited for solo play, offering a tranquil and engaging experience for those who prefer to build and explore in solitude. It has also been noted for its positive emotional impact on some players.	6%

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