Raft Review

Our oceans are clogged with plastic trash, but here’s a small silver lining: All that garbage is keeping me alive. In open world survival game Raft.  I turned a collection of floating trash into a floating base—a big, semi-cluttered floating base, but it’s packed with life-saving amenities. The first few hours were so rough I probably would have just quit if I weren’t playing with a group of friends.

But after a few hours of surviving, I was beginning to realize how to play it and without having to worry about death quite so constantly I eventually discovered an engrossing survival experience. I went from wanting to quit Raft to finding it enjoyable. Raft isn’t just a matter of crafting and survival; it’s a curious mystery to solve with a story that slowly reveals itself. Drifting from island to island, chopping down spare trees for wood and digging up ore. It’s definitely better with friends.

These locations came with puzzles, small quests, new creatures to tame or fight, and loads of useful loot. Audio diaries explained what had happened there (usually something terrible) and told me where everyone had gone, giving me interesting details about the wet apocalypse. In fact, I had so much spare garbage I even found myself occasionally chucking stuff I didn’t need over the side. I’m trying not to think of it as polluting. More like giving back to an ocean that generously gave me so much.

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