What's the main goal of the game?

[algae]

Just float and build? Like just keep building?

[Weaver]

There is a basic starting story, you're seeking out other people. Look in your journal.
As you progress new locations will open up. The start is very much just a constant scramble to survive but the game does move away from that into exploring locations as well as expanding your raft to make life easier. It becomes very easy after a point to become self sustaining and have a secure raft to meet all your essential needs.
What you see at the start with tiny Islands is basically like a tutorial and things expand significantly from there to larger more varied locations to better tech each chapter.
(Note you can't just stumble story locations, larger islands, and so forth until you progress in the story far enough, they don't exist in the world until they are unlocked, regardless of how much you travel.)

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the story content is being released in chapters as other content comes out in between but the point of it all is a journey to discover what happened to the world through remnants of civilization and a breadcrumb trail left by...someone? you build to keep yourself surviving but you also do it to discover and research better technology like engines/rudders so you can control the raft and track beacons of society with a radio locator, get to them, and follow the remnants until eventually you discover whatever lies ahead or....whatever destroyed us. its up to like what chapter 2? so the lore is still pretty early in i would say, but civilization or whatevers left of it is growing closer with each update, who knows what lies ahead.

[Anonymous Helper]

Finding the so called Utopia I suppose. It's implied that you're sort of forward scout for your people searching for land for your people to settle in a flooded world. It's also journey to discover what happened to the world, which you do by exploring story locations and collecting notes in them.

Game and story are still incomplete and things can still change during development.

[cool skill]

Originally posted by Weaver:

There is a basic starting story, you're seeking out other people... they don't exist in the world until they are unlocked, regardless of how much you travel.)

This does not explain the main goal of the game. Like OK you work on your raft. Survive. Build it up. But what is the destination and overall goal? Like in Subnautica and other games to escape the planet, you have to build and survive. But the objective is to get communications for rescue to escape the planet. And another mystery on the planet to uncover.

[Lord Sluggo]

Originally posted by cool skill:

Originally posted by Weaver:

There is a basic starting story, you're seeking out other people... they don't exist in the world until they are unlocked, regardless of how much you travel.)

This does not explain the main goal of the game. Like OK you work on your raft. Survive. Build it up. But what is the destination and overall goal? Like in Subnautica and other games to escape the planet, you have to build and survive. But the objective is to get communications for rescue to escape the planet. And another mystery on the planet to uncover.

As spoiler-free as possible: Your end goal is to get to Utopia

Spoilery: It's actually a bit complicated because between Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, they dumbed-down..........ahem, streamlined............a lot of the original story so they could wrap it up in Chapter 3. Reference the note from your sister in the first page of your journal; this is unresolved in the end. Also you're a "Forward Scout" but who exactly you are, who sent you, and what you were originally sent out to do is never resolved. They also took out a lot of the darker story threads and used Olaf as a really unsatisfying cartoon villian whose goals make absolutely no sense in world where few people are left alive. It's not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a real shame the developers either ran out of money or got bored and wrapped up so quickly

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Originally posted by cool skill:

Originally posted by Weaver:

There is a basic starting story, you're seeking out other people... they don't exist in the world until they are unlocked, regardless of how much you travel.)

This does not explain the main goal of the game. Like OK you work on your raft. Survive. Build it up. But what is the destination and overall goal? Like in Subnautica and other games to escape the planet, you have to build and survive. But the objective is to get communications for rescue to escape the planet. And another mystery on the planet to uncover.

the utopia stuff is like...cool yeah there was a narrative, but no. thats it, thats the goal, build a raft and sail