Raft — Steam Gift

Raft Steam Gift — build a raft, survive the ocean, own the game forever

Raft is the story of one small wooden raft adrift on an endless ocean, a hook on a rope, and a stubborn refusal to drown. You start with a single plank under your feet and a hungry shark beneath it, and dozens of hours later you're cruising the waves on a floating base with gardens, smelters and sails. Here we sell Raft as a Steam Gift: you get the full game added to your own Steam account, no subscriptions, no rental — owned forever, exactly like buying it in the Steam store.

What Raft is and why people sink hours into it

Raft was made by Swedish studio Redbeet Interactive and published by Axolot Games. After four years in Early Access it hit its full 1.0 release on June 20, 2022, growing from a tiny indie experiment into one of the coziest survival games on Steam. The loop is simple and addictive: debris constantly floats past you — planks, leaves, barrels, plastic. You catch it with your hook, drag it in, break it down into resources and build. First a wooden floor so you don't fall in. Then walls, a water purifier, a grill, crop plots. Eventually your raft becomes a real home that you steer across the map toward new islands.

And the whole time a shark circles below, taking bites out of your floor. So Raft isn't a meditation — it's a constant balance of gather, build, fend off, sail on. Hunger, thirst, repairs and defense keep you on your toes.

Solo or with friends — "Better with Friends"

You can play Raft alone, but the real magic is co-op. The game won the Steam Awards "Better with Friends" prize precisely for shared play: one person steers and hooks debris, another builds, someone cooks and waters the crops, while another fends off the shark with a spear. Chaos, laughter and one shared floating base — that's what people recommend Raft for. Co-op is online: the host opens a session and everyone else joins their raft.

There's an actual story here

Plenty of people assume Raft is just "build a raft and drift." In reality it has a full story campaign with a chain of locations: the abandoned ship Vasagatan, a radio tower, the tropical Balboa Island, the giant sunken city of Tangaroa, the icy Temperance and the final Utopia. You follow radio signals, read survivors' notes and slowly piece together what happened to a world that went underwater. Between story beats there's free-form survival, reef diving with an oxygen tank and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down on the seabed.

What exactly you're buying

You're buying the full version of Raft as a Steam Gift — the complete base game, uncut, with the whole story and co-op. There are no battle passes or paid DLC to chase: all the content is already inside. After delivery the game lands in your Steam library and stays yours forever, with updates arriving as usual.

How we deliver the gift

Delivery runs through a Steam bot. We need two things from you: your Steam profile's friend invite link and your account region (country). The bot then adds you on its own, sends the gift, and leaves your friend list after delivery — you don't have to accept anything manually. Steam Guard is not required. The whole thing usually takes a couple of minutes from checkout, though it's not a hard deadline — occasionally it runs a little longer.

Two conditions — read before you pay

• Your account region must match the gift region. Steam won't let you accept a gift if your account country doesn't fit the gift's region, so enter your real region at checkout.
• You must NOT already own the game. Steam won't allow a gift for a title you already have. If Raft is already on this account, the gift can't be accepted.

One more small thing: your profile privacy settings must allow friend requests, otherwise the bot can't reach you.

Will my PC run it

Raft is light on hardware and runs comfortably on mid-range and even modest machines, so you don't need a top-tier rig for a co-op session with friends. Officially it's a Windows game; the community plays it plenty on Steam Deck and on Linux via Proton, though it doesn't carry a "Verified" badge — keep that in mind if you're not on a regular PC.

Similar games in our catalog

If the "build a base and survive together" vibe clicked, check these out too: Valheim — Viking co-op survival, Subnautica — solo underwater survival with the same ocean atmosphere, and Stranded Deep — castaway life across tropical islands. All three are about crafting, exploring and "just five more minutes."

The short version

Raft is a warm, addictive survival game about a raft, the ocean and building together, and it shines in co-op. You get the full game forever as a Steam Gift, delivered by a bot in a couple of minutes, no Steam Guard needed. Just enter your region and make sure the game isn't already on your account. Then grab the hook and hit the water. 🌊