About This Game
Quick Overview
Raft is an ocean survival crafting game where you start on a tiny wooden raft in the middle of the sea. You use a hook to collect floating debris, craft tools, expand your raft, gather food and water, explore islands, and defend yourself from a shark that keeps attacking your base.
The game slowly grows from simple survival into a proper adventure. You build engines, sails, storage, farms, smelters, weapons, and navigation tools while following story locations across the ocean. It can be played solo, but it is much more fun in online co-op, where friends can split jobs like fishing, building, cooking, steering, and gathering resources.
Who Should Play This Game?
Play Raft if you like survival games with crafting, base-building, exploration, and relaxing co-op progression. It is a great pick for players who enjoy Subnautica, The Forest, Valheim, or Minecraft, but want something more focused on ocean survival.
It is also perfect if you enjoy starting with almost nothing and slowly turning your raft into a floating home. The fun comes from upgrading your raft, exploring new islands, researching new items, and surviving longer trips across the sea.
Skip it if you want heavy combat, realistic survival, or a huge open-world map on land. Raft is more about building, gathering, sailing, and teamwork than action.
Performance on PC
Raft is very light by modern PC standards. The Steam minimum specs list 6 GB RAM, an Intel Core i5 2.6 GHz or similar, a GeForce GTX 700 series or similar, and around 10 GB storage. Recommended specs ask for 8 GB RAM, an Intel Core i5-6600, and a GTX 1050 series GPU.
On most modern PCs and laptops with a dedicated GPU, it should run smoothly. Performance can dip if your raft becomes very large or if you play with several friends, but overall it is easy to run compared to newer survival games.
Overall, Raft is best for players who want a relaxing but addictive survival crafting game with ocean exploration, co-op teamwork, and satisfying long-term raft building.