As we have told you on other occasions, there are times when one does not understand exactly why some games are successful when you think they are not prepared to even win it, and why others go unnoticed when, apparently, they have all the ingredients to score A time. And Raft belongs to the first group… and if you haven’t heard of him, he’s been fighting for almost five years on the Steam store.
Do you fancy being a castaway?
Raft is a game that came to Steam for the first time in May 2018 with an early access version that you already know what it means: it is a playable release but it is missing practically all the content that, with the passage of time, months (and years in this case), will make up the final title. Well, that definitive launch took place last June with the final chapter, but even then, without knowing how, it was able to attract more than 100,000 concurrent players around it. So we are going to look for the reason for a game that, if you see it, does not seem to have too many ingredients to survive in that jungle that is the Valve store.
And the first of those reasons is that it is focused on an audience that has grown a lot in recent years, such as those who love the survival genre. Do it under any circumstance: on an island with dinosaurs, in an underwater wasteland without tools or with a loincloth and a stick walking through a dense jungle. What Raft does is change those scenarios for the sea, where it allows us to survive with a kind of raft that we must later grow and evolve.
This game not only mixes the resource management part, which we must collect, take to our floating platform and create almost a mobile city that sails the seas, but we will also have to face the dangers that come from the depths and, of course, , the ones with the most teeth and the worst reputation they drag are, without a doubt, sharks. Those animals that actually barely kill four people a year (less than dolphins) but that have earned themselves being the incarnation of evil in the oceans.
The multiplayer, key
It is obvious that with the previous Raft wickers they do not serve by themselves to make their way so solidly within Steam. There has to be something else. And that plus comes from the multiplayer , which has been the multiplier of its success. Because we won’t be the ones alone who have to maintain or make our platform bigger, but we will be able to achieve it together with our colleagues, in game sessions that can last for hours and hours. It is this function that has brought Raft all the relevance it has acquired since 2018 on Steam, and the one that has magnified its influence within the survival genre.
Raft is already a complete release, without early access or anything bagpipes so you can enjoy it with its latest chapter on Steam at a price that, on top of that, you have reduced for these dates. Try it (with friends, yes) and tell us, but if survival games attract you enough, you are going to enjoy it like few others. Word.