Project Castaway

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Project Castaway is a exploration, open world survival craft and sandbox game developed and published by Mardonpol Inc..
Released on September 23rd 2024 is available on Windows and Linux in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 931 reviews of which 652 were positive and 279 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 8.77€ on Steam and has a 55% discount.

The Steam community has classified Project Castaway into these genres:

Exploration Open World Survival Craft Sandbox Survival RPG First-Person Open World Underwater Base-Building Action Multiplayer Realistic Casual Building Crafting Co-op Adventure Resource Management Singleplayer Early Access

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 or equivalent CPU
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD equivalent
Storage: 4 GB available space
Additional Notes: Does not work well with integrated GPUs

Linux

Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 4 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

So the game is fun, but is very obviously in early access. Still lots of tweaks and polishes that need done. The hit boxes are clunky, as is carrying objects in general. Another thing... the grind... It's BAD. Want a simple 5x5 house? Be prepared to chop down every tree on your island. Want anything inside said house? Go to another island and chop all those trees down too. Rough, man. And one huge gripe (sorry, very very minor spoilers) but the intro? Seems VERY calm for an imminent plane crash and then doesn't grab the yoke to actually fly the plane, but rather puts both hands on the dash and just watches it go headfirst into the ocean? I get that game developers aren't pilots, but come on guys. At least have him struggle with the plane a little bit, yeah?

Oct. 2024

Great graphics and many things to think about as you try to survive...it's like 'spinning plates'...if you can't multi-task....you won't last long. Intriguing and dangerous....very additive. Loving it and I'm a 72 year old pensioner!!! lol

Sept. 2024

Will recommend to someone who has never played similar island type survival games because it’s a good game overall. Would throw caution to those who have seen the evolution of similar games (aka stranded deep). I’ll be honest I’m getting bored when I play. that doesn’t mean to sound hateful but it all feels a bit ‘been here done that’. It’s like we’re starting over the evolution of this type of survival beach based game again. I welcome similar games but there’s nothing new, even the inventory is borrowed. Then there’s the recent debacle with hunger depleting too quick, kudos to the dev they patched it but now it’s filling up too quick so is it even a survival element anymore. I want the game and devs to succeed and am sure they will balance it again just weary this is tried and tested stuff shouldn’t be that hard and makes me question competence.

Sept. 2024

It's a pretty decent survival game with a little exploration. It's easy to sink a ton of hours into it, kind of green hellish, graphics are pretty good. I can't lie some of the animals are jank but I'm not too worried about it. It's still in early access development and the dev team on the discord is actively trying to repair any bugs reported by players which is a really nice thing to see.

Sept. 2024

I normally turn up for survival games, but ive burned alot in the last few years with games that over promise and under deliver. Thankfully i cant say that about Project castaway as i'm having a blast with it. It reminds me Stranded Deep. The game is very well optimised and the graphics really good. It makes you feel like everything you craft you really need and not many games capture that really well. If you love a survival game then this is for you

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-55% 19.50€ 8.77€

6.8

652

279

Online players

148

Developer

Mardonpol Inc.

Publisher

Mardonpol Inc.

Release 23 Sep 2024

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