Games like Raft
If Raft is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Forest, Satisfactory and Green Hell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building from scratch, dynamic shark encounters and island exploration. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Raft is a 2022 survival-crafting adventure that drops players into a procedurally generated ocean where they must gather debris, build structures, and manage hunger and thirst while exploring islands and battling environmental hazards. Developed by Redbeet Interactive and published by Axolot Games, the game supports online co-operative multiplayer alongside single-player mode. Players can construct elaborate floating bases from scratch using gathered materials, navigate dynamic shark encounters, and discover new biomes across a massive world. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and relaxing despite its survival challenges. The game holds a 94% positive rating from over 127,000 Steam reviews, is marked as playable on Steam Deck, and is priced at $19.99.
About Raft: Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Players who liked Raft also play
Steam players who put hours into Raft also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Top pick for Raft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Raft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Raft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Ranked #4 for Raft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Ranked #5 for Raft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Project Castaway
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Raft.
Ranked #6 for Raft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Raft.
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Stranded Deep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Ranked #7 for Raft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Rust
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Raft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Raft
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Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Reviewers of Raft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Reviewers of Raft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Rust
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Raft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Raft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Raft.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Grounded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Reviewers of Raft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Raft.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Reviewers of Raft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Reviewers of Raft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Raft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Raft.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Raft at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Raft.
Priced ~50% under Raft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Raft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Raft.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Raft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Raft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Raft.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Raft on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Raft.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Raft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Raft.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Raft.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Raft.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Raft.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Raft.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Raft.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Raft.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Frequently asked about Raft
- Does Raft run on Steam Deck?
- Raft is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Raft cost?
- Raft is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Raft have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Raft supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Raft?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Raft are The Forest, Satisfactory, Green Hell.
- Who developed Raft?
- Raft was developed by Redbeet Interactive and published by Axolot Games.
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