Subnautica is all nicely and good for some, however I choose to maintain my head above water as a lot as potential. As such, Redbeet Interactive’s Raft is a a lot much less irritating proposition. There could also be horrible sharks attempting to tug you down into the briny depths, however a minimum of you’ve bought your personal little picket island to retreat to, proper? Previously free and unique to Itch.io, the seafaring survival sandbox is ready to re-launch as a business title on Steam Early Access this May 23rd.
Previous variations of the sport didn’t value a penny, and you may nonetheless seize the outdated free version (which John reviewed and loved to bits) now. The upcoming re-release through Steam not solely appears to be like considerably prettier, however guarantees a extra fascinating and diversified world, together with reefs to discover and different gamers to share your inevitably watery grave with. Online multiplayer would be the core defining factor of the brand new version, making that infinite expanse of blue rather less lonely.
Redbeet promise that their time in early entry will give them the chance to correctly broaden on the sport’s potential and tune issues based on what the group feels works greatest. They’ve already bought some intensive plans for the sport, together with treasure hunts, sunken cities, stranded ships and extra horrible sea-creatures itching to take a nibble out of both you or your wobbly houseboat.
They’ve additionally bought plans to open the sport up a bit of to these gamers deathly afraid of an ignoble demise at sea, nibbled on by numerous fish, your cranium inevitably re-purposed as a cellular residence by a passing crab… That was a bit grim, sorry.
Anyhow, for these gamers, they’re additionally going to be engaged on a non-combative, much less resource-strict Creative mode, permitting you to freely discover the oceans alone or with pals in as massive or as cozy a ship as you care to construct. So that’s good.
You can nonetheless seize the outdated, free model of Raft on Itch.io here. The new model will exclusive to Steam as of May 23rd, and also you can wishlist it now. Until then, you can even sustain with the sport through the developer’s blogs on Raft’s official site here.
