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About This Game

Barely Civilized is an open-world survival sandbox where you can build a home, explore the islands, and find your own way to survive. Settle in a cabin in the woods, make a home on the water, or bring some friends and see how far you can get together.

The world keeps moving whether you’re ready or not. Animals hunt, breed, and compete for food as the seasons change. The infected wander the islands, and once the sun goes down, heading out gets a lot more dangerous.

Gather what you need, build what you can, and decide where you want to go next.




You start with nothing. Gather wood and stone, make a few basic tools, and find somewhere to set up camp. From there, you can work toward better equipment, more crafting options, and a place to call home.

Build a cabin in the forest, settle along the coast, or find a quiet spot away from everything. Add workbenches, storage, cooking equipment, and a garden as you go. Put down a bed or sleeping bag so you have somewhere to respawn when things don’t go quite as planned.

Your base doesn’t have to be huge. A small cabin with a fishing spot nearby might be all you need. But if you want to build something bigger, go for it.

• Gather resources and craft tools, weapons, equipment, and building materials.
  
• Build a home with storage, crafting stations, and room to grow food.
  
• Progress through crafting tiers to unlock better equipment and new ways to explore.

Who says your home has to stay in one place?

Build a simple raft and expand it into a home you can take with you. Add workbenches, storage, supplies, and even a garden, then head out to see what’s beyond the shore.

Spend your days fishing, exploring the coastline, and stopping at islands along the way. When it’s time to move on, you can even use a seaplane to tow your raft somewhere new.

As you progress, you’ll have more ways to get around, including powered boats and other craftable vehicles. Settle on land when you find the right spot, or make the water your permanent home.

Just remember to bring enough fuel and supplies. You can get stranded between islands, and a storm can make the trip back a lot more interesting.

• Build and expand a raft into a floating home.
  
• Bring your workbenches, storage, supplies, and garden along as you explore.
  
• Craft boats and other vehicles, or use a seaplane to tow your raft to a new coast.

There’s more than one way to keep yourself fed. Plant a garden, head into the woods to hunt, or spend an afternoon fishing from shore or a boat. You can also tame animals and raise livestock of your own.

Every island has its own biome and wildlife. Animals look for food, compete with other wildlife, breed, and respond to the weather. Leave an island alone for a while, and things might have changed by the time you come back.

You can change things yourself, too. Bring an animal to an island where it doesn’t belong, and it can change the balance of the biome. What happens after that is something you’ll have to find out.

The seasons matter as well. Winter brings colder weather, higher food needs, and the loss of exposed crops and much of the wild vegetation. Animals react to the changes, with some looking for shelter or places to hibernate.

• Fish, hunt, grow crops, and raise livestock to keep your food supplies stocked.
  
• Tame animals and introduce them to other islands, changing the balance of the local wildlife.
  
• Plan around the seasons, especially if you’re relying on your garden to keep everyone fed.

Boats are great, but sometimes you want to see what’s over the next island without spending half the day getting there.

Once you’ve gathered the materials, you can build a seaplane and take your exploring into the air. Take off from the water, scout the islands from above, and land along the coast when you find somewhere worth checking out.

The flight controls are simple, so you don’t need to know how to fly a real aircraft to get around. There’s seating for passengers and a small platform at the back for supplies, equipment, and furniture. With a little planning, you can turn your seaplane into a small flying base.

It’s a handy way to travel when you’ve got a long trip ahead. Just make sure you have enough fuel and somewhere suitable to land.

• Build a seaplane and explore the islands from the air.
  
• Bring passengers, supplies, and equipment along for the trip.
  
• Place furniture on the rear platform and make the plane your own flying base.

You can survive on your own or bring friends along. Build a shared home, split up to gather resources, head out on a supply run, or spend an evening working on your raft.

There’s plenty that can go wrong once you leave home. The infected are especially dangerous at night, and the wildlife isn’t always friendly. A quick trip for supplies can turn into a fight, followed by the question of how to get everyone home.

If you’re playing with PvP enabled, other players can be a threat too. Bases can be raided, supplies can be stolen, and explosives have a way of making disagreements a little more serious.

• Explore, build, craft, and survive alone or with friends.
  
• Work together on bases, boats, and expeditions.
  
• Face infected, dangerous wildlife, and other players when PvP is enabled.

The wildlife in Barely Civilized has its own needs, and the animals aren’t waiting around for you to show up. They search for food, compete for resources, breed, and hunt other animals. That patch of wild food you were counting on might already be gone, and your garden can look just as tempting to a hungry animal as it does to you.

Animal populations change over time as they’re hunted by predators, infected, and players. Each island has its own wildlife, but what lives there can change, especially if you bring an animal somewhere it was never meant to be.

You can tame animals and raise livestock, too. Animals can also be ridden as mounts. And yes, that includes other players.

• Watch wildlife compete for food and resources, including your crops.
  
• Tame animals, raise livestock, and ride mounts, including other players.
  
• See animal populations change as they breed, hunt, and are hunted.

P.S. DON’T TRUST THE SHEEP!

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Contains stylized combat against infected humans, wildlife and other players, with blood effects, deaths, and animal hunting and butchering.