Developer Redbeet Interactive has announced that its open water survival adventure Raft will be launching in Steam Early Access on May 23rd.

As Raft begins, players awake to find themselves lost on an endless ocean, with nothing to their name but a tiny raft and a plastic hook. Your trusty hook is used to fish and to hoist debris from the water - minding out for sharks, of course. In turn, your scavenged materials can be used to gradually expand your survival tool kit.

Through research, you'll eventually develop the means to farm and cook in order to tend to your basic needs, and to build new items, slowly increasing the footprint of your raft into something resembling a floating fortress - replete with huts, hammocks, bridges, lanterns, and more.

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