If your looking for a different type of survival sandbox game, you should give Raft a try. Get a few of your friends together or find some online players to play with and jump in. This game features a unique waterworld style of play, where you begin on a simple raft surrounded by ocean with a hook line used to gather resources. Survive the turbulent ocean waters, find islands, ships, and eventually full settlements while gathering resources to expand your raft. I will be rating the game on 5 criteria, Replay Value, Game Play, Sound Effects, Multiplayer, and Sandbox System.

Replay Value : 4/5 🎩 - Sandbox games are never single run type games, so making sure your game wants you to return is important. If the game is mostly a big grind with very few adventure or discovery features, then it get bland quickly. Raft has a good balance of early discovery and adventure system.

Game Play: 4/5 🎩 Is the game easy to play, smooth, and/or buggy? The game starts you off quickly and for those who have no experience playing sandbox games, it is quite easy to learn what to do. The game is also very smooth, combat is overall okay, but occasionally visual bugs and placement bugs do occur as in most sandbox type games. But they don't break the game in my personal experience.

Sound Effects: 3/5 🎩 The background music and ambient sounds are quite relaxing for the most part. But the animal sounds, water sounds, and event the default volume of most sounds can get annoying. I usually have my background sounds set around 20% and Game sounds around 50% personally.

Multiplayer: 4/5 🎩 Is the game easy to play online? Yes. Is it better to play with others? Yes. Is it necessary to do multiplayer? No. But the game does seem to want players to play together and makes resource gathering and exploring more fun.

Sandbox System: 3/5 🎩 - The unique aspect of building on the water is something interesting. There are land elements to the game, but for the first major part of the game, you live on the high seas. If you don't enjoy it right off the bat, it could be difficult to enjoy the game. But overall the sandbox system works well and the biggest issue I have is the building systems are quite basic and could have done more, but the game is still good.

Overall Score: 3.7/5 🎩 - I give this game a 3.5~4 total, the game is fun, good for a group of friends or for solo adventuring. You will definitely get your money's worth in play time with this game. I have played it for 20 hours or during the early access and will be jumping back into the game for the 1.0 release. If you get this game on any kind of sale it is also worth the value.

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