5 games in the series
Raft survival games put you on a platform you built yourself, in a place that will not support you: open ocean, empty desert, or water someone else also wants. Survival Games Ltd publishes five of them. They share one loop — gather what drifts within reach, craft it into something better, extend the platform, then leave it to find more — and they differ in where you drift, whether you survive alone or with a crew, and what happens when you meet someone else out there. All five are free to download; four are on both the App Store and Google Play, and one is Android-only for now.
Five games built on one idea: a few planks of wood between you and everything that wants you gone. They differ in where you drift, whether you survive alone or with a crew, and how far the crafting goes — from a lone raft on the open ocean to a flying platform over the desert.
The ocean is your home, sharks are your neighbours and a few planks of wood are all that keeps you alive. Hook drifting wreckage, expand your raft floor by floor, craft what you need and swim out to the islands — while something circles beneath you.
Left alive in a scorched desert, you escape the sand the only way possible — on a raft that flies. Build it plank by plank, mine and produce resources, forge armour and weapons, and cross the wasteland in search of other survivors.
The multiplayer version of Ocean Nomad. Create a room, invite up to ten players and build the raft of your dreams together — or join someone else's crew and help their build survive the ocean.
Start on a deserted island with an empty backpack and an axe. Expand the land, sail a sturdy raft between unique biomes, brave the dungeons and build your own island kingdom.
The competitive corner of raft survival: gather with a hook, craft weapons and armour, then take the fight to other players. Raft-versus-raft PvP arenas decide who tops the leaderboard.
Side by side
4 of the 5 are on both stores. The table below only lists facts we can verify from the official store listings.
| Game | Platforms | How you play | Setting | Genre | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Nomad | iOS + Android | Single player | Open ocean | Ocean survival | 4.6 on the App Store |
| Desert Nomad | iOS + Android | Single player | Desert wasteland | Desert survival | 4.7 on the App Store |
| Raft Multiplayer | iOS + Android | Online co-op, up to 10 | Open ocean | Co-op survival | 4.5 on the App Store |
| Adventure Quest | iOS + Android | Single player | Islands | Casual survival adventure | — |
| Raft Sandbox | Android | Online PvP | Ocean arenas | PvP raft survival | Not on the App Store |
From the studio
Most survival games start by handing you a world and asking you to find a corner of it. A raft removes the corner. There is nowhere to retreat to and nothing to fortify except the thing you are standing on, so every plank is a choice about what you can afford to carry — storage or defence, a crafting station or a wall.
It also makes scarcity legible. On land, resources are somewhere over there; on the water they float past once and are gone. That single constraint is what the five games in this series pull in different directions: one adds nine other people to the same platform, one lifts it into the air over a desert, one turns the neighbouring raft into an opponent, and one removes the pressure almost entirely so you can build in peace.
Straight answer
Ocean Nomad. It is the one the series is built on, running since 2017, and still the purest version of the loop: one raft, one survivor, an ocean that regenerates every run.
Open Ocean NomadRaft® Survival: Multiplayer. Rooms hold up to ten survivors and everyone works on the same platform, so the jobs — fishing, crafting, defending — get split between real people.
Open Raft MultiplayerDesert Nomad. Same instinct to build, but the platform flies and the world below is a post-apocalyptic wasteland with mining, production and a story about restoring a lost base.
Open Desert NomadAdventure Quest. Mining, building and attacks are automatic, the art is brighter, and the game is about growing an island and exploring biomes rather than staying one bad decision from drowning.
Open Adventure QuestRaft® Survival: Sandbox Game. You still gather and build, but the build is preparation: PvP puts you against other players raft to raft, with a leaderboard at the end. Google Play only at the moment.
Open Raft SandboxQuestions
A survival game where your base floats. Instead of choosing a spot on land and fortifying it, you build the ground under your feet out of whatever the water brings you, and everything — storage, crafting, defence — has to fit on it.
Ocean Nomad if you want the original single-player experience, Multiplayer if you are playing with friends, Adventure Quest if you would rather explore than struggle. The table above compares all five side by side.
Four are on both the App Store and Google Play. Raft® Survival: Sandbox Game is published on Google Play only at the moment.
No. They are separate titles with separate downloads and separate saves — playing one does not carry anything into another.
Survival Games Ltd, a mobile game studio registered in the United Kingdom. We develop and publish every title in the series ourselves on both stores.
All five are free to download. The store listings show in-app purchases, and all but Sandbox also show ads.