History VideoGame / Raft

** Once the advanced water purifier has been built, a player ''could'' just float forever without ever touching ground again... if the game wouldn't let food run out by having plants such as ''watermelons'' not always having seeds.

** Infection and disease is not a concern, nor is poor diet like all meat and no fruit (bane of most seafarers of the past).

** Planks to be used as fuel do not require being dried up; any and all wood is suitable for crafting, construction and burning.

* ActionBomb: The Poison Puffers' only form of attack is to swim up to players and immediately blow itself up into a huge cloud of poison gas.

** Gathering titanium ores to make titanium ingots is without a doubt the hardest task to do in the game as titanium ores only spawn in certain islands and the trader shop but only if the player achieves the highest reputation. Otherwise, players would have to dig them out of the ground with the help of a metal detector and RandomNumberGod may not be so kind to the player as there is a one in four chance that it won't contain titanium. But once enough titanium ingots are made, then players can make advanced stuff like battery chargers, an engine control, advanced purifiers, grills, and much more.

* DuctTapeForEverything: At Tangaroa, players can collect tapes to fix the wires at the plantation area which is flooded with water that also has electricity running periodically.

* TheElitesJumpShip: Tangaroa appears to be an example of this, where the ship in question is all of the land that got swallowed by the rising oceans. Notes and features around the city indicate it was built specifically to cater only to wealthy residents, and that it was intended to be completely isolated and self-sustaining. Unfortunately the owner and his engineers didn't build enough farming capacity to feed the population for very long, which lead to people either being killed in riots or straight-up abandoning the place.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Eventually, the player can make their way to the final island, Utopia, where both Rafters and old world survivors have learned to live together in peace. It proves to be the first stable and populated island the player finds. Even some of the characters the player found traces of in the previous chapters had managed to find their way there.]]
* EndlessGame: While there is story, the gameplay itself has no end, and players can survive and build for as long as they want.

* GuideDangIt: Players can use the heads of the slain animals (i.e. a shark head) as substitute for raw food to feed the biofuel and actually fills it up faster than using raw food. Without looking up any guides whatsoever, players will probably think that the heads are just for decoration.

* NotTheIntendedUse: The Detail Plank is a decorative item that consists of a plank whose length and direction can be adjusted by the player. Notably, the plank can not only be stood on top on, but while you need to attach one end to something in order to begin placing one, you can attach the other end into thin air, which also gives you a space to start placing another Detail Plank. Through this, one can easily use this item meant for decorative purposes into an item that allows you to skip puzzles and SequenceBreak everything the game has to offer (up to and including the final boss) by building insanely-long one-plank-wide bridges with it, provided that you have the resources needed to build these bridges in the first place.
* OrganDrops: You can get and cook meat from enemies you kill. Since they all happen to be animals, it's all good. Some of the meats are interchangeable (like no difference between rat, llama, goat or bear), and some animals drop unique loot like shark meat. Notably, pigs in Caravan Town drop no edible meat due to infection.

* StoryBreadcrumbs: The player can find a few notes, read some newspapers on the windows of a shack and listen to a few of the radio announcements to find out what happened/is happening. Eventually this builds up to important coordinates that the player has to visit -- first is what looks like an abandoned science platform, which then leads you to an abandoned pleasure yacht, then to a bear reserve, then to what looked like to be a whole town founded (fairly recently) by survivors like you, which ''then'' leads you to an ''actual'' floating domed city, Tangaroa.

Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea on their titular raft, by gathering debris, scavenging reefs, and building a floating home, while dodging thieving seagulls and man-eating sharks.

* UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective: Averted as players can either play in first person or third person just by pressing the comma key.

* SandboxMode: At world creation, the player can get unlimited resources to build whatever raft is desired.

* BladeOnAStick: Players can craft a metal spear that is stronger than a wooden spear but is more expensive in terms of resources.

* CompanionCube: Bruno from Balboa Island]] built 4 dolls and - according to notes - had [[ConsultingMisterPuppet a lot of fights with them.]]

* DropInDropOutMultiplayer: Players can allow friends to join them on their raft.

* EndlessGame: While there is story, the gameplay itself is this.
* FallDamage: Players can fall from a really high place but it only takes a third of their life at most.

* GrimyWater: The toxic lake on Balboa Island.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Due to the length of the development of the game and the releases of each chapter, contents up to the Second Chapter are no longer in spoilers on this page.

* MamaBear: A literal example with the mama bear boss.

* HeroesGoneFishing: With a fishing rod, the player can just fish in the ocean and obtain different kinds of fish.

* AnAxeToGrind: Players can craft an axe to chop down trees or remove foundations on the raft. Unfortunately, the tool cannot be used to attack any environmental threats.

''Raft'' is an indie SurvivalSandbox game developed by ''Redbeet Interactive'' and published by ''Axolot Games''. It was fully released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in May, 2018.

* BearsAreBadNews: Large islands may be populated by bears, which will attack aggressively until you get off their island. And one of the landmarks you encounter in the story-line is a ''bear'' sanctuary.

* BladeOnAStick: Players can craft a metal spear which is stronger than a wooden spear but is more expensive in terms of resources.

* BreakableWeapons: Almost every weapon, tool and clothing piece will wear down with use and need to be replaced regularly. Higher-quality items wear down slower, but are also costlier to make.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Averted. You will slow down and your sight will begin to blur or black out if you're starving, dehydrated or seriously wounded.

** Obtaining bee jars is one of the most tedious tasks in the game as bees only spawn in specific large islands, and don't respawn until the player leaves the island and has at least traveled to where the island is no longer a blip on the navigation system. But once players collect bee jars, they can then create their own beehives which, combined with a few small crop plots to plant flowers, they can easily get a healthy source of honeycomb. Which then can be combined with glass to create two honey jars. This allows players to pump as much biofuel as possible to put inside a biofuel tank to power the engines and later on, charge batteries with the battery charger, saving planks for other uses.

* TheElitesJumpShip: Tangaroa appears to be an example of this, where the ship in question is all of the land that got swallowed by the rising oceans. Notes and features around the city indicate it was built specifically to cater only to wealthy residents, and that it was intended to be completely isolated and self-sustaining. Unfortunately the owner and his engineers didn't build in enough farming capacity to feed the population for very long, which lead to people either being killed in riots or straight-up abandoning the place.

* FullBoarAction: On some large islands, warthogs attack players by charging right at them. They do drop meat and leather when they're killed. Mudhogs in desert biomes and Caravan Island also do charge at players but they do not drop any meat. It's explained in the notes found that the mudhogs ended up causing salmonella in the island, forcing its residents to abandon it.

** The second chapter hammers in the importance of environmental sustainment programs, as the reforestation projects were cancelled because the government thought they cost too much money, and spent their funding on floating cities and yachts instead.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Due to the length of the development of the game and the releases of each chapters, contents up to the Second Chapter are no longer in spoilers on this page.
* LateToTheTragedy: Everywhere you go that shows signs of civilization, you always seem to have arrived not long after every other person has either died or fled due to some disaster (like an outbreak of salmonella in Caravan Town) or people straight-up going stir crazy (like the ranger on Balboa Island.)

* MacGyvering: Everything you craft is entirely or mainly made of cobbled together scraps.

* NemeanSkinning: The Shark and some other wild animals will drop their heads upon being slain, which you can wear as hats or masks. Or for an even more practical use, as food for the biofuel refiner.

* PlayerVersusEnvironment: Peaceful mode only has players deal with hunger, thirst and oxygen. Mooks don't attack (some like bears and lurkers only when provoked), inventory is kept and players can swim out to things without risk of life.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler:The rhino shark found at Varuna Point attacks by ramming head on towards the player. Players have to lure the rhino shark to the pillars nearby to nearly destroy the pillar, plant an explosive barrel that's found nearby towards the nearly destroyed pillar, and have the rhino ram it one more time to destroy it, opening the pathway for players to go up.]]

* WhamShot: Once you reach the radio tower, the game is over, right? Nope, and you find out from a billboard and newspaper clippings that the ''entire world'' has been flooded, and there might ''maybe'' be an utopia that still has enough dry land to survive out there.
* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: You need to reel in resources like wood and plastic using your hook to build things to keep yourself alive, like water purifiers and fishing rods.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Olof believes that he should be the ruler of Utopia and even tells the player to leave the place as it's his.]]

* LateArrivalSpoilers: Due to the length of the development of the game and the releases of each chapters, contents up to the Second Chapter are no longer in spoilers on this page.

* CompanionCube: Bruno from Balboa Island]] built 4 dolls and - according to notes - had [[ConsultingMisterPuppet a lot of fights with them.

* AbilityRequiredToProceed: A player can not reach [[spoiler: Balboa Island]] without finding the blueprints for and building the [[spoiler: engine]] from the previous location.

* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler:In the full Steam version, you can discover a secret, flooded platform that reveals that the game is in the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture not-so-distant future]] where the world has [[RegionalRedecoration gone the way]] of Film/{{Waterworld}} and most of the planet has been drowned beneath an endless sea because of the ice caps melting.]]

* CompanionCube: [[spoiler: Bruno from Balboa Island]] built 4 dolls and - according to notes - had [[ConsultingMisterPuppet a lot of fights with them]].

* DuctTapeForEverything: [[spoiler:At Tangaroa, players can collect tapes to fix the wires at the plantation area which is flooded with water that also has electricity running periodically.]]
* TheElitesJumpShip: [[spoiler:Tangaroa appears to be an example of this, where the ship in question is all of the land that got swallowed by the rising oceans. Notes and features around the city indicate it was built specifically to cater only to wealthy residents, and that it was intended to be completely isolated and self-sustaining. Unfortunately the owner and his engineers didn't build in enough farming capacity to feed the population for very long, which lead to people either being killed in riots or straight-up abandoning the place.]]

** Under the water around islands, [[spoiler:you can sometimes find submerged little huts. Turns out the islands didn't sink -- the sea rose.]]
** A few note entries at the Radio Tower end up playing important later down the line. Like [[spoiler:what happened at Tangaroa and why the staff there heard gunshots, the nuclear reactor at Temperance, and Utopia, the final island.]]

* FullBoarAction: On some large islands, warthogs attack players by charging right at them. They do drop meat and leather when they're killed. [[spoiler:Mudhogs in desert biomes and Caravan Island also do charge at players but they do not drop any meat. It's explained in the notes found that the mudhogs ended up causing salmonella in the island, forcing its residents to abandon it.]]
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: [[spoiler:At Balboa Island, players can find notes from Bruno where he ended up making a lot of dolls made out of different parts due to being alone on the island.]]

* GrimyWater: [[spoiler: The toxic lake on Balboa Island.]]

* KillerRobot: [[spoiler:When the player gets to the surface of Tangaroa, they'll end up encountering robots who shoot out [[ShockAndAwe electricity]]. Defeating these robots allows players to obtain Tangaroa keycards that allow players to access the locked buildings.]]

* LateToTheTragedy: Everywhere you go that shows signs of civilization, you always seem to have arrived not long after every other person has either died or fled due to some disaster (like [[spoiler: an outbreak of salmonella]] in Caravan Town) or people straight-up going stir crazy (like [[spoiler: the ranger]] on Balboa Island.)

* MoodWhiplash: While generally in a desperate situation, the music and views make the game feel at least somewhat pleasant. Then you find [[spoiler: the abandoned radio tower that creepily creaks every now and then]]. Gets topped later by entering [[spoiler: Vasagatan]] which also is pitch dark ''and'' filled with enemies.

* NoAntagonist: There is no real villain and the only threats to you are natural.

* ThePianoPlayer: One of the props that players can buy [[spoiler:inside the vending machines at Tangaroa]] is a piano that players can play on the raft.

* ProtagonistWithoutAPast: Played with. The notebook has a bunch of advice from an older sister, together with a family picture. It is unclear what happened to her and impossible to find the original home location (if it even still exists).

* RisingWaterRisingTension: [[spoiler:At Tangaroa, the ceiling door that the player opens floods the entire area, requiring players to backtrack to find pockets of air. This also allows access to the plantation area as the ladder leading to said area is broken.]]
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Lurkers are dog-sized mutant rats you first encounter on the wreck of the ''Vasagatan''. While fast, they're fairly weak and will go down in a few hits. The Lurkers you encounter later in the game in [[spoiler: the domed city of Tangaroa]] are a bit tougher.

* SkippableBoss: If you don't feel up to fighting [[spoiler: Mama Bear on Balboa Island]], you can gather berries to distract her while you explore her lair for the items you need to progress.
* StoryBreadcrumbs: The player can find a few notes, read some newspapers on the windows of a shack and listen to a few of the radio announcements to find out what happened/is happening. Eventually this builds up to important coordinates that the player has to visit -- first is what looks like an abandoned science platform, which then leads you to an abandoned pleasure yacht, then to a bear reserve, then to what looked like to be a whole town founded (fairly recently) by survivors like you, which ''then'' leads you [[spoiler:to an ''actual'' floating domed city, Tangaroa.]]

* TheSwarm: [[spoiler:One of the notes found at Tangaroa has the writer complaining about the beetle infestation happening at the banana plantation. Players do see some when they enter the dome on the ground for the first time.]]

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Once you reach the radio tower, the game is over, right? Nope, and you find out from a billboard and newspaper clippings that the ''entire world'' has been flooded, and there might ''maybe'' be an utopia that still has enough dry land to survive out there]].

* CrateExpectations: Crates and barrels are this game's equivalent of a treasure chest, giving a ton of resources and sometimes even recipes or blueprints.

** Gathering titanium ores to make titanium ingots is without a doubt the hardest task to do in the game as titanium ores only spawn in certain islands and the trader shop but only if the player achieves the highest reputation. Otherwise, players would have to dig them out of the ground with the help of a metal detector and if RandomNumberGod isn't kind to the player as there is one in four chances that it won't contain titanium, then they'll just dig out stuff that isn't titanium. But once enough titanium ingots are made, then players can make advanced stuff like battery chargers, an engine control, advanced purifiers, grills, and much more.

Redbeet has announced that the final chapter of the game was released on June 20. Trailer for the final chapter can be seen [[https://youtu.be/1BEvg35Ivuc here.]]

** Catching bees with the net has the bees collected inside a jar and players collect at least 4 guaranteed with a 60% chance of a 5th jar. Given how expensive bee hives are, it's a blessing to have.

** The infections and diseases are not a concern, nor is poor diet like all meat or no fruit (bane of most seafarers of the past).

** Smelter allows to melt down copper, iron, titanium and some other substances; no differences in the process.