Raft
BANGER · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 27.3h
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 700 series or similar, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was May 2024. It has been discounted 40 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 33 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 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 $26.03, and you are being asked for $19.99.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 22 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 790 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 12,903 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.
Still 4.7K concurrent players, 4 years in.
The drop-off
93% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4,701 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
game seems cool but has no controller support and is a pita with overlay. why haven't the devs learned yet? why not make controller support for all games to make them playeble by all users? other then that this game seems fun, the little i was able to play
Nothing tests friendship like watching your friend get eaten by a shark... while you're safely standing on the raft. I could've helped.
playing with friends makes gathering resources and exploring story islands much more fun.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Raft scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/648800/raftThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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