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Stranded Deep
Developer Beam Team Games
Stranded Deep is a survival video game developed and published by Australian studio Beam Team Games for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Linux. A sequel, Stranded Deep 2, was announced in August 2024. It will be developed by North Beach Games Prague. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
699 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
41
Mixed
240 positive · 344 negative
95% range 37–45%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 240 | 344 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 54 |
| Bluesky * | 10 | 5 | 35 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 1 | 7 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
18,799 of 25,796 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
55% recommend · 128 yes, 105 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 233 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (35,548 of 47,937 positive).
The co-op mode is particularly criticized for crashes and long load times. [1][2][3] Some players find the gameplay loop becomes tedious after a few hours. [4][5]
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Representative posts
- [13]
This game is one of my favorite games of all time but I don't know what happened to it recently. Stuff has been disappearing. First it was my crude axe, then it was my refined knife, and then my entire f$%#ing pile of rocks disappeared. All my rocks, evaporated from this mortal plane. That was the final straw because I'm not going to travel to another island for more rocks just for more of my stuff to disappear …
- [2]
Incredible concept, but a frustrating mess in practice I just finished Stranded Deep and, honestly, it’s hard to recommend. It starts off as a beautiful survival game, but the more you play, the more you realize how shallow and technically broken it is. The Multiplayer is a disaster. The "Syncing World" screen is a total joke, taking anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes just to load a session. Even if you get in, the …
- [6]
I 100%-ed this game, so I feel like I can give an Apt review. TLDR: Game has some flaws, if the game is on sale id buy it, otherwise id wait. This game NAILS its atmosphere, you truly feel like you are alone on an island and you have to find your way back to land. However this game has many problems: if you try to build roofs the game can soft lock forcing a reset with no way to save; the gameplay is impossible …
- [7]
6/10 A Flawed but Fun Survival Adventure The world is very pretty: the perfect tropical escape for the upcoming winter days. The basic survival mechanics are well-made. Once you build a campfire and a shelter, you can spend your days spear fishing or wreck diving. There's a "story" of sorts, but it's entirely unobtrusive: no quest objectives beyond simply finding and killing three bosses and escaping paradise, …
- [1]
Stranded Deep is a genre pioneer with a great foundation, but its co-op mode is unacceptably buggy. Crashes are a constant companion, ranging from disruptive to game-breakingly frequent. I spent several hours playing this game with a friend. We shared hours of relaxed chat and at times, my friend and I were literally crying with laughter. Once, we figured out that if you build both a sail and a motor on your raft, …
Summarised from 34 of the 339 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Stranded Deep sits at 41% positive across 584 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Stranded Deep received "mixed or average" reviews, according to the review aggregator platform Metacritic.
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Reactions
60 of 699 · most liked firstThis game is one of my favorite games of all time but I don't know what happened to it recently. Stuff has been disappearing. First it was my crude axe, then it was my refined knife, and then my entire f$%#ing pile of rocks disappeared. All my rocks, evaporated from this mortal plane. That was the final straw because I'm not going to travel to another island for more rocks just for more of my stuff to disappear eventually. This really is a fantastic game but unfortunately it's bugged and the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was my father's gateway game into the world of gaming. This was his first ever steam purchase. We played this game for hours and hours. Over 150+ hours before he found his true love of games, DayZ. Besides the point, this was the game that started it all. Allowed us to become so much closer than we ever could have before. Living extremely far from one another, this was one of the only ways we communicated and were able to - enjoy - each others company. Thank you to Beam for igniting my…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →👑 OVERALL 7.5/10 📺 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 ☐ My eyes are actually bleeding ☐ Generic modern slop ☑ Okay, I guess ☐ The vibe is immaculate ☐ You don't want to go back to reality 🕹️ 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 ☐ Watching paint dry is better ☐ Mehh ☐ It's just gameplay ☑ Innovative ☐ Peak 🎭 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 ☐ What story? ☑ It's there, I guess ☐ Actually pretty good ☐ Immersive ☐ Absolute Cinema 🎵 𝘼𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 ☐ It’s there.. somewhere ☐ Forgettable ☑ Not great, not terrible ☐ Personal playlist material ☐ My ears…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredible concept, but a frustrating mess in practice I just finished Stranded Deep and, honestly, it’s hard to recommend. It starts off as a beautiful survival game, but the more you play, the more you realize how shallow and technically broken it is. The Multiplayer is a disaster. The "Syncing World" screen is a total joke, taking anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes just to load a session. Even if you get in, the stability is terrible. If you're not getting randomly disconnected, something as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literally unplayable game breaking bugs every 5 minutes, constant crashing on multiplayer, don't waste your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dont know where to start with this review. My wife follows some social media person who plays this game and wanted to try it out so i bought copies for both of us..... as someone who plays a lot of survivval games i would have to say this is on the low end of this genre for quality. PROS: The game looks decent Music is great Early game is fun CONS: All kinds of janky Items will disappear for no reason No consistency where inventory will go when you craft something No animations when…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has a lot of potential but there's broken functions within the game. Certain tasks don't get marked completed and then you're stuck in limbo. Either restart the game and lose all progress or lose all progress...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like the idea of this game, then go play Raft. If you've played Raft, then you won't be impressed by anything here in the slightest. If you don't like the ocean then go play Green Hell. Tedious, buggy, poor UI, abandoned, and unoriginal. One of the extremely few games that I've refunded. Amateur work that will not be improved upon.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So they announced their second Stranded Deep game, yet they haven't finished the first one. Great...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is still buggy even after 10+ years. give me my friend's money back
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I came back to Stranded Deep after more than a decade to see how it changed, having originally played Early Access all the way back in 2015. Firstly, the launchers refused to tab in so it was stuck in a minimized window. Then the game launches and I spent 5+ minutes with it not responding until it finally loaded. Then I play the game, and somehow the gameplay has devolved from the old 2015 early access version. Then a shark clipped under the island I was on and attacked me, and my cooked crab…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has so much potential. The vibes are amazing; I am excited for the sequel, but this game feels unfinished. It feels half-baked. There are so many game design decisions I see they made, and I wonder how they decided on them. You get "endgame" gear minutes into the game. It feels like there should be another tier of items later in the game. Why is navigation so terrible? And the most damning decision: why in the world would you make a game that wants you to migrate around a huge map…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this game.. Me and my friend have been making excellent progress, then inventory disappears, the raft we spent 2 hours creating launched into the air and spiraled in circles until it reached outer space. It was funny! But what wasn't funny that we couldn't get it back and we were stranded on an island with nothing left gg's.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I see what the developers tried to do with this game, and I really appreciate that a purely survival survival crafter like this exists. I just don't think I can recommend it. I wanted to like it for what it is, I really did... but something about the gameplay loop just feels so tedious and grindy that it gets stale after maybe 5-8 hours or so. All in all it's just difficult to keep enjoying the game and finding something to strive for once you have the basic survival necessities figured out.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not sure why so many positive comments here.. This game lacks so much content I cant even begin to enjoy it. This game only has about 5 hours of fun content. After that, I find myself getting bored since I have almost everything built.. If you could place crafting items onto the raft (if the raft had decent physics...) so you aren't locked down to the starter island, I would have more fun. Not worth more than the $10 or so I got it for. Edit: just watched a youtube video of the "ending" of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easily one of the best survival and couch co-op games you can play. BTW its only 2 Gb! 100% worth buying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Four year old game still filled with game breaking bugs. You can cram a ton of hours into it, but none of it feels satisfying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is very bugged and pretty bad overall, totally not worth the price. Graphics are pretty much awful, game physics is not on point at all. I'd recommend playing Raft or The Forest rather than this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do I recommend this? Hell no. I want the last 4 hours of my life back. Friend of mine and I struggled to survive with items disappearing, texture loading issues, and finally my friend literally was invisible. 1/10 never again
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stranded Deep: Is an okay survival game, but I would mostly recommend it on sale because it has not aged that well. The idea is still very cool. You survive after a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean, explore islands, scavenge shipwrecks, craft tools, build shelter, make rafts, and try to live off the sea. I liked the survival feeling and the idea of slowly building a life across different islands. Being able to live on the ocean in that way is probably the best part of the game. The gameplay…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unless you are playing single player and do not have friends to play with for this game, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! Seriously worse multiplayer optimization I have ever seen in a multiplayer game in my life, including bloody Muck and various cheap MMO mobile game slop I played as a kid. So to start off, the world sync everytime you start a multiplayer game takes FOREVER to sync up. I have: - Gone to the toilet to piss - Refill myy water bottle in the kitchen - Eaten a plate of fruits - Return said…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a kid i used to watch markaplier and jacksepticeye play this game 11 years ago, i always wanted to play this game but couldnt. Back then it had a couple of bugs like sharks going through land, being able to push the raft with an item thus going faster than the gas engine, endless reach bug where you could hit something from anywhere if you got one hit on it, being able to fly with items (easiest done with sharks) and a couple more, but those are minor bugs which couldve been fixed in the 11…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is full of trash systems and nothing is cohesive. The movement is unresponsive, the game wants you to build a base, but there are only limited resources on each island making you move to new ones after you exhaust the resources on the one you have. The inventory system is abusive and only allows you to carry 6 things at a time. At the start you basically have to make piles of things on the ground you found then try to craft something that takes 5 inventory slots of your 6 total.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I 100%-ed this game, so I feel like I can give an Apt review. TLDR: Game has some flaws, if the game is on sale id buy it, otherwise id wait. This game NAILS its atmosphere, you truly feel like you are alone on an island and you have to find your way back to land. However this game has many problems: if you try to build roofs the game can soft lock forcing a reset with no way to save; the gameplay is impossible without using the cartographer option in the title menu, there is no clue in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i've been playing this game for almost 10 hours now the more i play the more buggy it's become, textures flying across my screen glitching across the map when i get damaged. super buggy game wouldn't recommend till updates fix these issues. fully unplayable at this point.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game that couldn't decide what it is, and ended up being nothing at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a lot of fun playing this game couch co-op with my dad. If you are frustrated by the lack of good local co-op games then this could be for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a buggy piece of crap. What ever update they did to break the rudder placement has completely ruined the game. No there is nothing in the way, yes I have a floor built, yes it's in the middle of the GD ocean so nothing is blocking it. Can place on the wrong side no problem but the rear of the raft? Nope casue FU that's way. Full realease my butt. Thanks for wasing my time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would be a realy fun game but there are to many bugs and multiplayer barely works
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is probably the best Island survival game out there (except for Don't starve:Shipwrecked and Raft, if you count it). And it sucks big time. But, unfortunately there is a big lack of competition for island survival games so this is the best your going to get. Lets start off with the very little good this game has. #The first few hours are fun and it can be exciting to move forward in progression. This can be building your first raft to explore other islands or exploring the various…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought 2 copies of this game for me and my little brother we kept getting errors and kept disconnecting
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are far too many issues—ranging from visuals and effects to interactions—that plague the entire gameplay experience. Is this a game where a shark can ram me and send me flying halfway across the map?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stranded Deep is a genre pioneer with a great foundation, but its co-op mode is unacceptably buggy. Crashes are a constant companion, ranging from disruptive to game-breakingly frequent. I spent several hours playing this game with a friend. We shared hours of relaxed chat and at times, my friend and I were literally crying with laughter. Once, we figured out that if you build both a sail and a motor on your raft, it stops being a raft and transforms into something — dare I say — DIVINE. A…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6/10 A Flawed but Fun Survival Adventure The world is very pretty: the perfect tropical escape for the upcoming winter days. The basic survival mechanics are well-made. Once you build a campfire and a shelter, you can spend your days spear fishing or wreck diving. There's a "story" of sorts, but it's entirely unobtrusive: no quest objectives beyond simply finding and killing three bosses and escaping paradise, assuming you want to. Unfortunately, there are many blatantly obvious issues in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The egregious amount of times this game kicks me out of coop or just crashes on me and my friend made it impossible to enjoy. As long time Raft players, we were hoping this game would replace it for us and at first it did but the amount of bugs and crashing made it impossible. If you're making a sequel, I'd suggest fixing the first game. It makes it hard to believe that the next game will be any better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Y’all remember that game Stranded Deep? I gotta be honest this game probably has one the strangest endings I have ever seen in any video game and I find it crazy No one talks about it.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game had the potential to be my favorite game. Unfortunately this game is not a finished product. There are tons of issues around getting stuck, jump not responding to pressing the jump key, climbing onto the raft animation then pushing you right back off, etc. These issues are usually ironed out before the game is considered "finished." This game got 90% of the way and then the devs called it good enough and published this frustrating mess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can not recommend this game especially at this stage. Controls are bad Crafting menius very bad and hard to quickly navigate Character is glithing and jittering when moving some of the basic crafting materials is very hard to find and you need a lot of it Islands are way to small traveling between then especially in early game takes way to long. overall good idea bad very bad execution. 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stranded Deep is genuinely a great survival game. It's quiet, it's beautiful and somehow still extremely tense at times. Go browse the screenshots, the views are lovely. The building is ok, it's more restrictive than I'd like, but I've built some epic bases. Find them on YT The crafting is simple.. Don't follow the tutorial! It'll make you thirsty and hungry.... The inventory could be better. It definitely earns its reputation as a survival game, but co-op is a mess, and the game itself is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game runs like ♥♥♥♥. Crashes every 5 minutes in multiplayer, and lags even with the lowest graphic settings. And my computer is pretty decent!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Raft just vanished. One moment it was there on the beach and I turn around and it is gone.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →inverntory management killed it for me... when my inverntory is full, i have to grab an item to your hand , then drop it... but if you can grab it, because sometimes you cant... so first you should grab a different item and drop it, then you can grab the other item, so you can drop it! JUST ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DROP IT...(both ways)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont waste your time with the free weekend, the game has been a buggy mess all through development. Its been 11 years of development, and the game still sucks
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am so frustrated I bought this game. I want a refund, and this is a game I had wanted for years. Thought it would be good based on the games. I LOVE survival games, I have 770 hours in green hell for example... This though, 4 hours in and I'm so bored. And half of that time I was alt tabbed out and forgot I had it running. It needs far more content added.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, a little grindy, but great atmosphere. Clean game, could use a little more realistic sharks that aren't as hostile.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. Needs VR support. Hopefully SD2 will have official VR support.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great survival game and awesome graphics. End is a meh but still a fun game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly this game is just awesome. It's hard and doesn't help you at all but if you just pretend you're on an island it's gucci.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stranded Deep is a magnificent and deep tropical survival game that flawlessly captures the authentic castaway experience! From the immediate life or death resource scramble to the eventual escape, the sense of progression is incredibly rewarding. Finding the iconic volleyball, 'Wollie', is a fun nod to Cast Away. The beautiful open ocean and thrilling sea creature boss fights make this a truly fantastic adventure. Highly Recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trying out Stranded Deep with my babes. Definitely an interesting game so far.
positive · AI labelView post →I honestly don't understand how there isn't some kind of Waterworld... either action/fps mmo, ala destiny or warframe... or just some kind of mount and blade type single player game, or even Conan Exiles. The closest thing I can even think of is Raft - Stranded Deep. ... Its mad max... on the ocean, and is basically postapoc/dieselpunk. Bang wow zoom, fairly novel game (by modern standards) for a AAA or even AA studio to try.
neutral · AI labelView post →Stranded Deep - one of the only survival/crafting/procedural open world games that has a defined objective and an actual ending. 10/10 don't need to play it again but I might anyway because it was so great
positive · AI labelView post →Interesting decision to do a Free Weekend before making it playable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⭐☆☆☆☆ Playing Stranded Deep especially in co-op feels like the game is actively trying to punish the players. There is basically no proper tutorial, so you're thrown onto an island with no idea what you're supposed to do. You get poisoned five minutes into the game, but the antidote requires a crafting level you obviously don't have yet. Good luck figuring that out. The crafting system is unnecessarily confusing, resources are limited at the beginning, and the game explains almost…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Multiplayer takes FOREVER to load. Reviving other Players in Multiplayer is rather costly in the first few days at least. If both people die in Multiplayer, 2 seems to be the max, the game exits, no "click here to use last save point" or whatever, no, it exits the session, you got to make a new one, load from last save, takes forever to load again, like 10 minutes to open a multiplayer session ffs. I got 32 cores and all this shouldn't take that long. Lots of Bugs with railing not climbeable,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple, intuitive, with a clear goal – survive, build, upgrade, and progress through your levels. Each level unlocks new items to craft, until the player eventually reaches a point where they realize that even this game, which at first seems like it could go on forever, actually has an ending. Exploring islands, wrecks of both smaller and larger ships, and mapping unknown waters – that’s the main quest of this game. An open world where you can build anything from a castle on every island to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the game, needs updates to fix some bugs. BUT they need to fix multiplayer, if you are planning on buying this game and playing it with a friend, just dont.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Streamers, what’s the first game that you ever streamed? 🎮 I had 3 streams of Stranded Deep before a year break and returned to Twitch for my first Fallout 4 playthrough. So both of those games are special to me. Today, I get to go back to Stranded Deep with my friend @unstablesparkey.bsky.social 🥹🦈
positive · AI labelView post →terrible and unfinished survival game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Clunky as hell, bad graphics. Tutorial is so dumb, it's like "pick up the item and then use your knife on it". But doesn't tell you how to do that. I had to search online to find out you have to DROP the item onto the ground to use your knife on it, but it doesn't tell you how to drop stuff. Another search and even with instructions it took a few tries to understand. (On mouse and keyboard, use your wheel to select the item, then hold in right-click for a second and it'll drop without…
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