Raft
BANGER · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99. Typically $13.39 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.73/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 380,636
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 27.3h
- To 100%
- 78.6h 2.9x the story
- Achievements
- 104
Price and sales
- Sales
- 42 on record
- Typical cut
- 33% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 May 2024
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 15,663 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 42 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 33 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Satisfactory ($39.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60).
The math says it holds its tier up to $25.94.
More about Raft
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 22 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 12,931 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 27.3 hours. Doing everything runs 79, 2.9 times as long.
380,636 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $13.39 (33% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Bought Raft because I wanted a relaxing survival game where I could gather resources, explore, craft and slowly turn absolutely nothing into something. Think Stranded Deep, except your home comes along for the ride. Six hours into my first evening, I was completely hooked. I even dreamt about the game that night. My first run ended because I didn't notice the thirst bar. Surrounded by an entire ocean, I naturally...
2 more reviews
Love this game; I've been playing it for years and it's one of my absolute favorites! I feel like it's a game for everyone, whether the player is story-hungry or a survival fanatic or a chill builder (as chill as you can be with a shark constantly chewing away at your raft...); there is truly a place for many, if not every, type of gamer. A note worth adding: I'd recommend starting with a friend, whether the friend...
If you are here purely for a great gameplay experience with your friends, you may find yourself a little disappointed. Realistically, I'd say that Raft is a 5/10 game that I am a little hard-pressed to recommend to anyone. It feels cheaply cobbled together, with insane levels of jankiness and clipping, cut corners, lack of quality testing, and the most rudimentary gameplay loop under the sun. And yet, this game has...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 700 series or similar, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Raft scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/648800/raftReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.