Hours played
How long do people play Raft?
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 17 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 7 hours and 38 hours.
First 2 h
67% recommend
2–5 h
91% recommend
5–10 h
93% recommend
10–20 h
94% recommend
20–50 h
95% recommend
50–100 h
96% recommend
100–200 h
97% recommend
200–500 h
97% recommend
500 h and up
94% recommend
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Amber recommends it, red does not. Counted from about 381,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
Does Raft hold up?
It holds steady: between 91% and 97% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
The refund window
Do the first two hours of Raft tell you?
4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 67% of those recommend it. After the window, 94% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 80% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 8.5 hours in.
Out of every 20 thumbs-down, 4 came while a refund was still possible and 16 after the window had closed.
Seal
Raft holds up
Holds up
At least 91% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/raft#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/raft/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="Raft: Holds up. At least 91% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played."></a>Where players stop
How far do players get in Raft?
46% of the players who launched Raft hold Is There A Utopia?, its first story achievement on Steam, and 15% hold There Is A Utopia!, its last. The steepest drop comes between Bootleg Fireworks! (40%) and Launch Initiated! (24%).
Launched it
100%
Is There A Utopia?
Find the white board in the radio station.
46% hold it
Bootleg Fireworks!
Breach the cockpit of Vasagatan!
40% hold it
The wall · 15 of every 100 get no further
Launch Initiated!
A backup emergency system?
24% hold it
Explosive Force!
Slay the boss at Varuna Point.
21% hold it
O Captain! My Captain!?
Reach Captains Island.
18% hold it
There Is A Utopia!
Finish the story.
15% hold it
One token is 1 of every 100 players who launched it, standing at the last story achievement they hold. Red stopped at the wall, amber hold the last one. Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate.
Everyone's copy
13 of 70 copies here were never launched
In 70 libraries here. 13 never launched it; the typical player who did put in 13 h. 1 finished it.
Name 100
How well it's remembered
Named in 6.2% of Name 100 runs, about 1 in 16: people remember it when asked to name 100 games from memory.