Raft® Survival - Ocean Nomad Reviews

by Tyewyler

How is it you’re going to sell subscriptions to your game and additional items, resources, and gold but have an incomplete game where the quests just stop and the additional islands can’t be opened and simply say “available soon”. Waste of time and a waste of my 25$ trying to get ahead in the game. I will be deleting this game and canceling my subscription if there is not going to be any future updates that are in some kind of relative time frame. This is clearly some kind of beta testing but trying to charge people when you’re game is clearly not complete and has no supporting levels, maps or islands is ridiculous!! You’re just playing a game and collecting resources to hit a dead end. After you build everything you can’t do anything in the game anymore but the same mundane tasks of raiding and collecting useless resources because you can’t go anywhere else. Well that’s my two cents thought this was going to be a cool survival game played it for like 2 weeks spent my money and completely dissatisfied. The game advertises that you will be able to fight pirates, sea monsters , survive treacherous storms, explore islands, and collect resources but I’ve yet to see anything this game claims. Don’t waste your time unless there is some kind of update that expands the map for more gameplay because truthfully spending hours just collecting resources to build a giant this app is so boring!

by Txbone66

When the game works, it’s really cool, but it can’t run for more than a few minutes before the bugs come crawling out. There is no clear way to report the bugs other than go to a discord that is riddled with bots etc. I sent an email with what I had found so far, but no reply. The shark gets stuck in random places so you have to find him before you can build anything. Which is good I guess if you need 30 shark steaks in a short amount of time, but that also kills the fun around resource management because food is really easy to get. The queue system for producing items is completely broken with multiple things that can go wrong. You’ll go to start something and it will say 00:00, and if you do start it, the timer doesn’t change and it will stay that way all day unless your force close it and then suddenly everything is finished. The other extreme is it will say 5:00 to make X and once you start it, the timer changed to 25:00. If you go to cancel the production item, it says the resources will be returned, but they don’t go back into your backpack, they just disappear into the ether. There are 9 production slots, but when you go to start the 9th run, it only registers the first of the 4 slots before asking you to watch more videos even though every time you are under 8 you can fill all 4 queue blocks and it counts as 1 use of the machine. I really was having fun until these queue blocks and issues have put me at a standstill.

by Red1295

I enjoyed this game so far I decided to make a purchase and support the game when I did I didn’t get what a payed for it than tried to contact them and it looks like you have to use Facebook or instagram I don’t have accounts so being able to contact them is not likely this is a pay to play but even that doesn’t work stay a way from this game

Update they don’t respond to you

I really enjoyed playing this game even though I did contact the makers about not receiving what I purchased and their service was horrible they are slow to respond and never offered to get me what I purchased but I still liked to play the game I just wouldn’t buy anything the game had challenges to do you just had to grid a lot more to do them after hours and hours of grinding away I finely thought I finished one of the challenges but instead a message pops up that I have to click ok to make it go away so I can do something only to find out that once I clicked ok I lost all the things I made to open the door and the door is still locked so I contact the makers again this time after weeks of waiting for a response nothing I tried one last time and waited another week still no response this is the worst Game company ever don’t send any money with them if I could give negative stars I would

by Vicioushawk

I downloaded this because I had tons of fun playing the beta years ago on pc. The sandbox was great as well as the normal survival. Only difference you’ve made is that the resource catching net randomly picks things up rather than catching debris in the water which was great. Overall the game feels the same except for the fact that it has to be the most expensive and ad aggressive mobile game I’ve ever seen. I open the game and there are 4 ads for “deals” that show up which are overpriced and don’t get you anywhere in the game whatsoever. The premise of the game is the same but this and my next point make it feel is so far away from the beta in a bad way it’s insane. Next point, the fact that you add ridiculous wait times rather than actually keeping someone engaged makes this game not likely to last in someone’s game repertoire. this app beta kept you engaged and constantly building and improving. This makes you wait 10 minutes for a resource where you need 3 or 4 of to make a tool (plus other things that take the same time) not mentioning that you can only have 3 or 4 actions at a time. See where this is going wrong? I’m giving you 2 stars only because I loved the old game so much but it feels like you butchered it. Please fix it I want to see this succeed so bad because I know how well it would do if it didn’t model itself off of clash of clans. :)

by Xiuye

I got this game a while back while it was still in development and didn’t really even have islands you could go explore. Back then the game was amazing and simple, they didn’t bombard you with ads and IAP’s all the time and progress could be made easily without trouble. I recently decided to give this game another try to see what’s new and I am very disappointed. To begin, the game wouldn’t even load the first few time and i had to keep exiting out before i could play. Then it immediately gave me the option to get a subscription for a whopping $8 A WEEK. Although they do have a free trial, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE SANE will be paying $8 a week because they like the game and want to support the developers, netflix is cheaper than that! What will end up happening is they forget to cancel the subscription and the devs make $8 but multiple that by say 1,000 people. The next problem i had is that when i was starting out, the game kept pestering me with loot boxes i could purchase if i didn’t have enough materials for a tool or station. I understand that they can be a very helpful option but it’s really annoying to have them pop up everytime i try to craft an item without enough materials. Everything in Raft seems to be guarded by a paywall but i’m not willing to play further because of the tacky methods the devs used to get me to pay for things.

by Awesome App 554472

I thought this was a cool game (and still do), but unfortunately my character has been stuck at almost max “freezing” level, permanently. I do not know how to make my character stop freezing and couldn’t find anything after looking online. When your character is freezing, hunger consumption happens very rapidly. I literally watch my hunger consumption drop, as it drops 1 of my 100 hunger points around every second. As such, I am constantly on the search for food, and the entire game is just about surviving with food instead of actually completing the goals in the storyline. I eventually got so good at gathering food that I can survive for a little bit without constantly worrying, but my hunger depletes so fast that I go through my entire (large) food supply and I don’t want to visit any other islands. I feel like this is a bug in the game or something because of how bad the problem was. If it wasn’t a bug—please include instructions on how to fix this. I have no idea where I was going wrong. I made all the clothing I could for my level in the game, and made the furnace, torches, and one other fire item, but I don’t think any of it actually did anything. I am so confused, haha. I am deleting the game though; it’s not worth my time to make zero achievement in game.

by I_luv_apmau

I genuinely enjoy the game but there was a lot of things that need to be improved, for one the graphics aren’t very good and there are constant glitches with the this app and stuff floating underneath it. I believe pillars and ladders should be able to be placed anywhere. Also, we should be able to choose our character and design what they look like, and be able to sign in so if we delete the game or leave and come back we still have our progress. The islands also aren’t very well made. On the map they look completely different when you go to them and are very small. Also it tells me that there will be people or animals there and they usually aren’t. Another thing is that the resources don’t usually respawn and the respawn takes way too long. I think we should also be able to see other fish in the water and be able to jump, climb, etc. there should also be a better clear storyline and be able to interact with other people (NPC or IRL) and there should be an option to have pets and etc. we should also instead of having the big torch things for light, have smaller ones able to be placed on the wall, and etc. and a better distinction between day and night (like stars and clouds) as well as a better distinction between running and walking, because they are nearly the same. But other than better graphics and things like that it’s a pretty fun game and I enjoyed it, but could use a lot of work.

by Babyfacekillah135

So I started playing yesterday it was slow and boring at first , but once I got higher in levels it became more exciting. Not a big fan of all the ads during game play but saves time watching them instead of waiting full time to swim to islands. You guys lost 1 star due to the hacks, 1 that is if you kill a zombie on your this app you can continue to hit zombie which gives you xp and you can level up faster I know it will take some patients of beat a zombie over and over but it’s a hack that needs fixed. Another thing is you should be able to pick and choose your resources on the island instead of picking up items you don’t need. It’s annoying you have to go back though inventory and drop items you don’t want.

This game lost 2 stars because after all the work I did all my inventory was lost because I was in a middle of an ad during swimming and some how I was killed by a zombie while I was “SWIMMING TO AN ISLAND” i died and lost all my stuff because of an ad that I couldn’t exit out of . Maybe you should develope a cancel ad button for the ads . And a retrieve button for your little boat to go back to your this app so I don’t have to sit 30-1min to the island and another 30 seconds back to the this app while zombies and a shark is taking out half my this app.

by Fluff_Nuff

I bought this while looking for the original game “this app” and thought it was okay but didn’t share the same charm. It had a bit of a storyline which is not necessarily bad but I didn’t enjoy it and I wanted to change my character’s gender to female but could not. I find that slightly sexist that it would have a male person survive the crash and be all “heroic” but maybe that wasn’t the intention. I also thought that there was too many in app purchases and it didn’t seem nearly as good as the original and it is really a rip off. I also didn’t get passed the task of getting wood because no matter how much I got nothing happened and I found it boring after a bit of playtime. This was a bit long so overall I would say it was decent but not very fun.

edit: the developer responded saying that these were completely different games and that is fair enough but I do think even if it wasn’t the intent that it still seemed like a rip-off and from the other responses they seem to agree but I am at least glad the dev actually acknowledged me because most devs wouldn’t have. I think that some people would have loved this game but it just wasn’t my type of game. I also realize that any of the events that have a name like skeksekse with a good and very short rating and has no dev response is most likely a bot.

by Alex.Black

I have a couple major issues with the game. It is pretty fun other than that. I wish I could just pay a one time fee and then earn gold other than watching commercials. The game tells you once you make a purchase you will no longer have adds. That is if you don’t have to start over. I was pretty far in the game, but it wouldn’t recommend one of my achievements for an item I already built and so it wouldn’t give me any more achievements. I finished building everything that was available, and still had the achievement that I couldn’t get. I tried rebuilding another of the component but it would tell me it was already build.

The game stopped advancing, so I eventually restarted and lost everything I had. All the slots I paid to open up, and the adds started up at random times like checking the setting, now I get an add even though it says any purchase stops adds. It doesn’t say any purchase stops adds only on this round. If you start over too bad.

Now if I got to the end and there was no further to go and it wasn’t because of the achievement then this game has a long way to go. I am disappointed with the constant adds or constant money you have to fork out just to play. I again would rather pay a fee to unlock everything and then earn money based on merit.

by HateJakeAndLoganTheAnimals

So overall the game AWESOME but it isn’t that well made if you guys could make a tutorial/guide thing because at the start they give u tasks and help u in creating things but then that’s gone then u have to do all things by yourself and everything is way too confusing. And you can’t move items once u have placed them which another problem. Next thing is we don’t understand the map at first I thought we could sail to the island but then it shows that u have to pay coins and then a timer starts after its finished you the receive some type reward which isn’t a good thing to be honest. Also when the task thingy finished I saw you could craft a rudder and a boat and sail and other stuff I created them but I couldn’t seem to do anything with them then I did a bit of research and find a site where people were asking what they should do or how should they place the boat and the sail and stuff (the boat I am mentioning is a small boat not the default one that you are spawned with) then someone answered you should use a chemical table when I went to craft it it showed I need a make a thing which looked like a clay bowl with a spoon inside it I open the bonfire the furnace, crafting table etc I didn’t find the clay bowl thingy anywhere how do I make it now? Please there are so many confusing things in this game fix them or give us a full guide please and thank you

by Aaliyah.b.

Been playing this game for a few weeks and im not sure if its my phone (iphone 11) or what but theres a lot of bugs that im personally experiencing that are kinda ruining it for me. First of all with the story mode with the survivor and the plane, i have already searched the island with the plane and the bunker and am working on fixing thr plane but its hard when ur constantly getting the screen that goes over the game and says *start journey* and you have to tap away from it to continue playing or it will bring you to the island with the plane that youve already searched and know what to do to “find a survivor” but theres nothing on that island it just keeps showing up and making it unenjoyable. Another thing is most things are not accessible for me when i see other people can access them like the lighthouse, i can see inside it through a window and theres a man sitting down by the entrance but its not accessible anymore or not for me. Also when traveling between islands when i click on accelerate to island by using energy it drops me in the middle of the ocean in the middle of no where no boat nothing and you cant click main menu because ur in the water with nothing around so i have to close Raft and re open it. I think with these bugs fixed this game could really be a hit because ive gotten really into it but starting to not want to play it cause of the bugs and the fact i cant access things i should be able to.

by Scarr_Carr_

EDIT: Update! I started playing again after reading the newer reviews over the update. Update is GREAT—still can’t get to the radio tower but everything else is making gameplay much better. I like the new opportunities for building as well. Only thing keeping my review at 3 is that there seems to be a glitch in the game where I am not able to get aluminum from any island—a very important resource later in the game. It doesn’t seem to appear after resources have regenerated ever. Making the game really hard to cont to progress through. All in all I see a lot of improvements that price creators are listening but I would really love to be able to find some aluminum anywhere, thanks! ———————————————————-Ok I like this game a lot but this new update has got me really frustrated. I love that I can collect processes without going to individual stations, but the energy mechanic is horrible. The only way to replenish it is by drinking energy drinks which you have to buy. 3 for $5.99 or you can’t do anything. Time doesn’t even help. And normal actions of the game can cost a lot of energy. There is an option to watch a video to increase your energy by 25% but it’s only available once a day. Really disappointed with this. Doesn’t add anything to the game and just seems like a money grab.

by Bracary1998

Like I said, I absolutely love this game. It’s has a great story line, good graphics, and lots of different things to do. However, there’s so much you have to pay for. I hate spending money on games and I hate when I can’t play a lot of a game because it keeps asking me to spend money. I get that game creators need some extra cash from their games but you guys went a little overboard. I mean you can only do two tasks at a time and you’re only given one slot to do them in. You have to buy and extra slot with the in-game currency and there’s barely any chance to get that. I think this game would be amazing if you either made it easier to get doubloons or you didn’t charge for so many things. Another thing that is extremely aggravating is the sandbox mode. Everything that you want to make your this app look good cost doubloons and like I said before it’s extremely difficult to get those. The things aren’t even cheap it’s like 10 doubloons each. I find it hard to get to 4! I personally think that sandbox mode should either be free or you should make it possible to craft everything instead of just paying for it. It would at least give people a break from the actual story line which costs so much anyway. That all I had in mind. Everything else is amazing and the game itself is a lot of fun. Maybe the farther I get into.

by JustEnderSlayin

They had to update it. New look to the water and new features are not what I dislike. What I dislike is that this ever since the update has been glitchy and now since everything is different in the production category now I don’t know where everything is. Now this game is very frustrating to play and annoying to play. I would also like if there were more stuff you could build for the this app. But before this update it was very fun and entertaining. Please take into consideration my review.

Part: 2
After awhile of playing with this new update many more good things, and a few bad things. I’ll start with the good things, how much water that’s in bottles have increased, you can now build weapons and armor instantly, also the shark not attacking the this app is kinda nice because before I would have to rush back and forth. Now the bad things, this game basically just drops you off tells you a few things then your on your own it would be nice if there was a longer tutorial or several small tutorials throughout the game, also there is bug to where it won’t let me go to any island there is so I’m basically stuck on my this app unable to see the new animals or anything. But besides all that it’s been pretty well 😄

by SirenKnight

I love this thing. I don’t subscribe, and I only watch ads when I don’t want to pay for things. A few things can occasionally be glitchy, but usually not anything a reboot won’t clear. (I’ve had some chests cause a complete lock down). If you check in often you’ll have more stuff than you know what to do with. Farming is easy here and entertaining, unlike grinding for ever out better bits to make your monsters or toons better and still can’t compete. I’m level 70, and at about 1200 days. I got the cargo 5 and the journal just disappeared. I don’t mind that the game is unfinished, I just wish I knew that, I’ve been puttering along for a week, thinking I messed something up. I’m waiting on old joe at the lighthouse I guess? LoL I think I did get ahead of changes and have a lot of storage chests. The new ones with the ads are crap, almost as bad as trying to swim around a container and the additional tab ad pops up since it thinks you’re trying to leave the island, when you aren’t. I love the shark, I’m not fond of whatever is invisible that attacks me. I dunno if that’s a stealthy croc or that’s one of those spiders that I’ve never come across. Also wish you could get bananas since I can see them in the trees! Haha.
All horribly amusing. Thank you.

by Bidelmister

Okay, I absolutely love this game. I stay up late playing it, I play at school, basically whenever I get a chance, I’m playing this game. I love it, I love every aspect of it, I just love games like this in general. I have loved this app for years, and it’s always nice every six or 10 months to start playing it again for a little bit.

BUT, I do have one major problem with the game. Basically to do anything to help yourself out, you have to pay money for. I would gladly pay $10 to unlock premium, but not $10 a week, or $100 for a year. PlayStation plus is only $60 for a year. For example, process power. You need process power to do literally anything in the game, and it is extremely irritating and time-consuming when I can only do two things at once. It makes it very hard to keep my hunger and thirst in good condition. I think this game would be much more appealing if I could get more process power. Basically my whole issue is with process power. I can’t afford to spend that much money on a mobile game, nor do I want to, but I love this game so much. If more process power was more accessible to the player, I would love this game that much more, and I’m sure a lot of other people would too.

by Milk--milk

This game is really fun! It’s a good choice who likes mobile more than pc and doesn’t want to go through the work of downloading it on pc. However some parts of this game are just really annoying. For example, copper plates and plywood have the same texture, so when I tried to craft shells I had the wrong resources. And the notifications are horrible! If your resource trap is full, the notification is “Traps for resourcesTraps for resources is filled!!! Hurry to collect before the looters has come”
I just think they need to double check things when they add them to the game. I also don’t get how to use the “Shelter”. I’m not able to go inside it or anything. Overall, pretty fun game!

The second thing I need to talk about is the Sabdbox mode. It’s literally the survival mode! Everything you do beside building affects the survival mode. When you press Sandbox Mode, you spawn on a new this app with everything you had in your inventory when you were playing survival. Like, I spawned in for the first time, and I had all my stuff, including my bow and like 10 arrows. When I shot 2, I only had 8 back in survival. Also, you don’t have unlimited resources you still have to craft. Also, they say you don’t have hunger or thirst, but the notifications still show up that say you do. The sandbox mode definitely needs some fixing up.

by The2021progamer

So it’s 3:05 on a Saturday enjoying my day scrolling for survival games and I found this one. It isn’t what I was looking for but it is amazing! I really love this app survival and the amount of things you can do in this game is just incredibly amazing. I think this game is like one of the best this app games ever on Raft Store. Even though this is like a really good game, you guys should add some things like a drivable this app and multiplayer so you can join friends and more. As well as some sea creatures like jelly fish and fish swimming in the ocean and like octopuses, you guys get the point. This game has so many features like catching your own gear and swimming and going to different islands, exploring them and doing missions. I think you guys did really well on this game but can you make an update where you like get starter coins so you don’t have to struggle? I also like this game because you can go to other peoples this app and have a battle with them. I don’t recommend this game for kids because well, they would be FREAKED out. I already found so many tips and tricks for the game like if your over heating you go in the ocean and cool off. And also I think you guys should add weather features because it would be really cool when raining and lightning ⛈ strikes and your this app breaks. And also making the this app sink. So those are my reasons why the game and good and bad and the things you should add. I made a rhyme so anyways. Byeeee

by Yelibelii

This game is cool and I can see it really really blowing up with the right elements being implemented. It can however be very buggy sometimes. An issue I face a lot is that doors on my island randomly “lock” and I’m not allowed to move throughout my space. And since the roof must be supported, moving a wall out of the way is out of the question, which I think is fine but it gets a bit frustrating. Another issue I also face is when I try to rotate something while editing, but cannot because it’s unmovable (again because it’s supporting something else, but I think you should at least be able to rotate the object freely regardless of it being a support). Small inconveniences like this are part of the overall reason I have ended up dropping games I have otherwise really liked, unfortunately. Furthermore, a cool feature that could be added could be swimming considering that the game takes place in the middle of the ocean. I know you can get into the water and all, but it would be nice to dive even just a little so I could go under my this app. It would also be nice to duck and jump, they’re two basic game elements that in my opinion make a game more enjoyable and feel more interactive. And lastly, multiplayer would be an absolutely sick addition. I would love to play this game with my friends on FaceTime together. Overall I see so much potential and can actually see this gain a lot more popularity. Nice job guys!

by LetsJustSayItsLexie:p

I’ve only played in survival mode so far & finding things in boxes on different islands is rather easy, the storyline is fun too. It’ll probably take a while if you don’t wanna spend any actual money on the game bc you’ll have to craft everything yourself (which is also rather satisfying once all the parts are completed) but finding Aluminum Ore is incredibly difficult. It’s only “potentially” found on one island & I’ve been multiple times but there aren’t any rocks that require the pick axe.
You also can’t enter any of the houses or the light house which I find confusing. If you look in the windows you can tell there are people sometimes but there’s no was to open doors or windows.
Building the this app is my favorite part. And fishing all the wood/thatch/chests/etc. out of the ocean!
I just wish the aluminum ore mining was easier to achieve bc that’s all that’s stopping me from creating the last piece for the Jamming Device to get to a different island! I can’t move on in the story line without it.
Also, reiterating the whole not being able to get into houses/light house. What’s the point of them being there if you can’t explore them.

by Brady Tessier

I personally really enjoy this game and love the concept on it, mobile games like this bring me a sense of relaxation and it’s a game you can constantly improve on, not a game you just play for a week and beat or get boring, but I have one MAJOR issue, and that’s how you can only have one chest, only being able to have a single chest to me as far as I am in the game is not enough storage to store all the materials you gather, you shouldn’t have to pay real money to be able to have more than one storage, and it honestly gets pretty annoying playing the game and having to delete certain items just because there’s no room in my inventory or chest, I understand you guys need money for your game and business but there’s certain things such as a chest limit that games like this you shouldn’t have to pay real money for to play, other than that, this game is an amazing concept especially for a survival type gamee and there’s not a lot of others like it, just please consider changing the chest limit to even 2 or 3 for a limit just to make players have more of a chance to play the game all way through without giving up and never clicking on it again, just consider it that’s all, thank you!

by Rubyw2037

Everything is good except for three things the process thing and the time it took to make somethings and the sandbox and survival mode first the process it made it so hard I was dying for thirst and starvation and I didn’t have any in my chests or on me so I tried to get some but it wasn’t letting me but of the process thing so I wait for it to go down and it took so long and it went up after doing one thing ONE thing I would like it to be given less time for it to go down or for it to allow us to do more than one thing second the time thing wooden boards take so long to make 15 minutes your better of taking your chances with the chests and Islands so if you can shorten the time that would be great third I don’t know if other people will want this but I want a mode where you don’t really have a storyline to follow you just build your this app and explore but you have to collect the Materials to make it and the shark is still there also I saw that you responded to people who had a problem and tried to fix and I just wanted to say thank you on behalf of the people who play this game

by Aab2013

I saw this game and I thought I’d was not going to be a good game but it turned out to be one of the best games I’ve ever played it doesn’t have a lot of ads and those games are always good but sometimes they make you watch ads so you can get water or fish or something also they need to make the furnace time that cooks like iron or coal or something lower I had to wait freakin 20 minutes for one piece of coal! I was mad because I needed 2 of them and that would take hella time outta my day 40 minutes! But overall this is a good game I recommend the premium though I’m not getting it because, who spends 8 dollars for food and water but you can get good deals with it though you can get a good this app easily but that takes water and food but I need to have it to make that but it makes me watch ads to get food and water but it was worth it, we’ll kind of but now I have a 3 story this app and I’m only level 14 but super good game please fix the make you watch ads for stuff thing though thank you. :)