Flotsam on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

The floating garbage town strategy game! Scavenge what precious garbage you can from the ocean's surface and grow your city while doing your best to survive in this colorful post-apocalyptic world.

Flotsam is a early access, singleplayer and colony sim game developed by Pajama Llama Games and published by Stray Fawn Publishing.
Released on September 26th 2019 is available only on Windows in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 2,726 reviews of which 2,094 were positive and 632 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or equivalent
  • Storage: 600 MB available space

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March 2025
A word of caution is also why I like Flotsam: It's in development, so it's changing. Things work, then change, and sometimes break before they work again. It's like playing a new game every few months. The play is casual, which I like. But interesting enough to keep me playing one more game day. They've added "architect" which allows fixing city layout. Floating things can be rearranged. So unlike other city games, when something doesn't work, you don't have to destroy, crash your population, and then rebuild. I like the discord community too.
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Dec. 2024
Cute game, maybe a little expensive ... for what it currently is but still worth the collection. I recommend it but only when its on special. ♥
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Sept. 2024
Thanks for playing. I enjoyed playing it twice, opened all kinds of buildings and built a big floating city) It's a pleasure to pass time with it, and it's quite easy and fast. For a couple of weekends you can easily try all the features of the game. Also the game has nice graphics and gameplay. Thank you for continuing to refine it. It would be cool to add some dangers to the game. The game description states that there are predatory sea creatures in the game, but I didn't encounter any. There is a whale swimming around, but it's safe. For example, you could add different predators on land, in the air and in the water and the ability to create and pump different tools and weapons to counter them. Also, I would love to play through the story campaign in this game if there was one. I'm waiting for the full version to come out already. Thanks for an enjoyable game!)
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Sept. 2024
Great game. Getting improved constantly. If you like city-builders management like Frostpunk, but less punishing and more wholesome, it's for you. It also has a Rimworld-like feel to it, because of the inhabitants having traits that makes them better at some tasks and worst at others, so you have to "know" them to use them appropriately.
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Sept. 2024
I love the game! HOWEVER, I built a good size town, then it wouldn't let me build anything else. Apparently there is a maximum size for town, at least for now. Unfortunately, I was nowhere near completing the technology tree, so the game is definitely incomplete.
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Flotsam
7.4
2,094
632
Online players
91
Developer
Pajama Llama Games
Publisher
Stray Fawn Publishing
Release 26 Sep 2019
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