Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Game Journal 1: Raft


This is a game I never even heard of until yesterday.


Apparently it's another one of those games in the "Like Minecraft, but Realistic" genre, much like ARK, where, if you die, you lose EVERYTHING. You gather resources by right-clicking, and using those resources to re-build your dinky little raft into something worth living in as it repeatedly gets chomped apart by hungry sharks.

Resources come in FOUR flavors, for some reason they drift the ocean with no apparent source to their existence, the most common being wood and palm tree leaves, which are used to expand your raft and to build a water purifier which makes clean drinking water that you... somehow can't even collect despite having a cup made from the THIRD material, plastic.

You can harvest the stuff from detergent containers and the sad remains of rafts lost to the big storm that somehow brought you here.
You will also find wooden barrels floating about carrying rope, food, scraps, and blueprints for making radio transmitters so you can be rescued from this watery hell.

The only enemy you really have to face are the sharks, who lurk in the deep waters, hoping to take a bite out of you or your raft. You can eventually create tools to combat these Child Music Video stars, but it takes lots of wood to do so.




Wooden plank, wooden plank, come home


If you're extra lucky, you can score a BARREL! Contains nutritious tubers and weird blueprints for building radio towers...

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS- oh wrong franchise


Overall, the game is just another survival game held afloat by a unique premise and a decent multiplayer community. Otherwise, it's generally decent and easy to get the hang of unlike the other game I was forced to play.

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