Raft similar games & best alternatives

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Raft

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2022

Should you play it?

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!

What works

  • Engaging co-op multiplayer
  • Creative building and customization
  • Relaxing ocean exploration
  • Meaningful progression and story
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Early game grind can be tedious
  • Shark attacks can be frustrating
  • Limited post-story content
  • Some bugs and optimization issues
  • Lack of deep character customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Drake Hollow

  • Valheim

  • Pathless Woods

  • Smalland: Survive the Wilds

  • Windrose

  • Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure

Less intimate

Games that feels like Raft but with less focus on close relationships

  • Havendock

  • Under A New Sun

  • Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey

  • Stranded Deep

  • Everwind

  • Salt

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Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Raft. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Raft. These titles are not in What to play next.

Raft: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Competition.

Last update: 21/08/2026