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Ryvaken Tadrya has Raft

Jul 3, 2022 @ 8:44pm

Similar Games?

Thanks to the troll for inspiring this question.

Raft is an intriguing game. I love base builders, but I've never had a base builder where the base moved. Oh vehicles, certainly, but never a real command center, a place where storage and crafting was done, power was generated, and in every way functioning independently, only coming to pause at places for resource collection before moving on. It's a fascinating idea.

Anyone know of similar games? Games that focus on that one massive vehicle-building?

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lpnlizard27 has Raft

Jul 3, 2022 @ 8:48pm

Not sure there is a game exactly like that. It's a very intriguing concept. Would work well for space or terrestrial setting.

The only thing similar i remember was a floating house that moved in a skyrim mod. But you could not customize it much.

🦊 Hermit

Jul 3, 2022 @ 8:57pm

It's a concept that's only really come to the fore recently. For a long while it was 'sit in place and build up/defend', but just of late we've had a swathe of moving base/city games being announced.

'The Wandering Village' is one of the first, although I don't know if it was the one which set off the trend. But I've seen a few others on Youtube too...can't recall the name of them offhand, but one was building a city on an airship which flew around, and another was based in some kind of sci-fi dreamworld where you dropped your base down in an area and built conveyor belts and robots to go out and collect resources from the area. I think that 'Void Train' game might have some elements of it too, although I haven't seen any gameplay of that one so I could be mistaken.

Ark Survival Evolved had elements of it in that some large creatures had platform saddles you could build bases on and travel around the map, but that was more limited as it wasn't the main focus of the game.

Last edited by 🦊 Hermit; Jul 3, 2022 @ 8:58pm

westrud

Jul 3, 2022 @ 9:07pm

I have been watching a couple games that have similar concepts. A game called Remains that takes place orbiting a planet seems like it could become a Raft in space game, although it appears to still be pretty early in development. Another game called Zompiercer is similar to Raft except with a train and zombies. I am waiting for both games to develop more before I decide if they are interesting enough to buy, but they both have potential.

Ryvaken Tadrya has Raft

Jul 3, 2022 @ 9:47pm

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:
The only thing similar i remember was a floating house that moved in a skyrim mod. But you could not customize it much.

There was a caravan mod that worked fairly well. You couldn't customize it worth anything, but it was the only time that actually riding a horse along the roads was fun.

Also the first time I used it a dragon landed on my, the physics glitched out, and the wagon bludgeoned the dragon to death in under five seconds. Some things are more important than a smooth and bug free experience.

AlyssaThalon has Raft

Jul 3, 2022 @ 10:16pm

Scrap Mechanic just released an update that allowed for custom game modes, and team has put together a Raft based custom game that blends together Raft's mobile base and Scrap mechanics ability to support multiple vehicles.

Scrap mechanic does have it's own problems and limits such as less divers resources and limits to the map layout event in custom games.

Raft wins in having the resource collecting and management feel more involved, and gaining the automation feels more rewarding because of it. Scrap Mechanic wins in terms of what you can create.

On the other hand, there is Desert Skies in which your main base and vehicle is an airship that you build up as you explore the seemingly endless sand dunes.

Tenoshii

Jul 3, 2022 @ 11:35pm

Voidtrain and Volcanoids are the two titles that come to mind as the closest you can get to Raft.

However, both of those lack the relative structural freedom of construction you can get from Raft.

aRPeaR

Jul 4, 2022 @ 12:09am

Space engineers has a scenario where you start with a small ship in space, other scenarios you will have to start with a small fixed base before you can build your mobile base.

Planet nomads you have to build a fixed base before you can build a mobile base.

Astroneer you need to build a fixed base at the start, before you can build a mobile base with 4 interconected large rovers. It's a fun planning puzzle to get everything on there and be transporteable on a shuttle. But the game is more designed to be a fixed base game.

galadon3

Jul 4, 2022 @ 12:34am

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:
But I've seen a few others on Youtube too...can't recall the name of them offhand, but one was building a city on an airship which flew around,

Airborne Kingdom, actually a nice game, but with a VERY short playtime for the price, went through its campaign in 8 hours, don't get me wrong I don't begrudge the money I had a very nice free day with it and only realizing that well... said free day was mostly gone by the end of it.^^
But the game-hours / price -ratio is VERY low compared to most games and at least for me it doesn't have much replayability.
Also its more like a simple city-builder not so much a survival game.

thebigdaddyking4536 has Raft

Jul 4, 2022 @ 12:41am

Originally posted by AlyssaThalon:
Scrap Mechanic just released an update that allowed for custom game modes, and team has put together a Raft based custom game that blends together Raft's mobile base and Scrap mechanics ability to support multiple vehicles.

Scrap mechanic does have it's own problems and limits such as less divers resources and limits to the map layout event in custom games.

Raft wins in having the resource collecting and management feel more involved, and gaining the automation feels more rewarding because of it. Scrap Mechanic wins in terms of what you can create.

On the other hand, there is Desert Skies in which your main base and vehicle is an airship that you build up as you explore the seemingly endless sand dunes.

Though Desert Skies is abandoned which is a shame

XistenZ

Jul 4, 2022 @ 1:58am

Originally posted by aRPeaR:
Space engineers has a scenario where you start with a small ship in space, other scenarios you will have to start with a small fixed base before you can build your mobile base.

Planet nomads you have to build a fixed base before you can build a mobile base.

Astroneer you need to build a fixed base at the start, before you can build a mobile base with 4 interconected large rovers. It's a fun planning puzzle to get everything on there and be transporteable on a shuttle. But the game is more designed to be a fixed base game.

Was also going to mention Space Engineers. That's a really interesting game that has everything (except story or external motivation). But, managing to create your own self-sufficient space station and then zoom about gathering resources from asteroids instead of stripping a planet is for some reason super fun.

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offwing Apr 15, 2024 @ 12:13am

Have you heard of Empyrion - Galactic Survival? It's similar to Space Engineers but has more of a survival aspect to it. NPCs and populated space stations too. You can have multiple bases - whether it be on a planet or a mobile mothership. There are lots of mobile base options there.

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