Junk Raft

A cozy idle raft game on a wide, quiet pixel sea. Build your raft board by board, fish, salvage wrecks and go ashore on islands. It keeps drifting while you're away. No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. Plays offline. You start with a crate, a coconut and a few boards. The sea brings the rest. Junk drifts past: planks, plastic, barrels, the odd bottle. Tap a piece and one of the crew casts a line for it. Nets gather more while you watch, and while you don't. WHAT'S IN THE BOX - A raft you build board by board, and stations found as plans - A crew with their own needs, and a Ledger of whose hands did what - A living sea floor of reefs, kelp and shoals, with birds overhead - Floating chests in five tiers, and fair spells from the rarest - Fishing by hand, derelicts to salvage, islands to go ashore on - Postcards, records and letters in bottles to collect - A line from the crew's diary on your Lock Screen BUILD IT BOARD BY BOARD Lay the deck where you like, one board at a time. New stations start as plans. Plans turn up in crates, bottles, wrecks and chests, and each one opens something new to build. The stations feed each other in small chains. Plant a Tree Bed with a seed, soil and water, and a palm, pine, birch or rare ironwood grows while you are away, until a hand fells it for timber. At the Research Table, study what the sea brings, rank by rank. Furnish the deck with rails, garden beds, mats and benches. Everything stays where you put it. A CREW, AND A FEW PASSENGERS Deckhands potter about, work the stations, nap in the hammock and cast for what floats by. Each has a card of their own: fed or peckish, rested or weary, and what they would like next, a proper meal, a berth, a seat at meals. The Ledger notes what came aboard and what went out, and whose hands did the work. A gull, a ship's cat, a crab or a duck may come aboard and stay. WHAT THE SEA BRINGS Floating chests come in five tiers, the rarer ones glowing after dark. An epic or legendary chest can bring a fair spell, a calm, lucky stretch of sea. Now and then an abandoned raft drifts by: tie her alongside with a mooring rope and send a hand across to salvage her. Cast a line by hand, strike when the float dips, or let a big one run and land a whopper. THE LIVING SEA The sea floor drifts by beneath the raft: coral reefs, kelp beds, sandbars and deep drop-offs, with shoals of fish, rays and turtles. Terns dive, pelicans glide low in a line, and a seal looks up to watch you pass. Nine waters, from the Shallows to the Long Calm, each with its own colors, weather and life. And far out, they say, there are legends: a kraken, a sea serpent, a ghost ship and more. ISLANDS AND THEIR FOLK Every so often the raft comes alongside an island, palms, rocks and all. Trade with whoever keeps a stall there, drop anchor, go ashore before the tide turns, and help the island folk build something of their own. Treasure maps wash up in bottles; follow the riddle ashore and dig. POSTCARDS, RECORDS AND LETTERS Send a postcard of the raft, written on the back in the skipper's own pixel hand, and the island folk send you theirs by gull. Find records in crates and chests and play them on the deck's record player. The keeper of a lighthouse further on writes to whoever finds her bottle, and in time she answers. IT KEEPS DRIFTING WHILE YOU'RE AWAY Close the app and the raft carries on for up to a day: stations work, nets fill, trees grow, the kilometers add up. When you come back, the book tells you what happened. A visit can be two minutes. TWO SEAS Peaceful: nobody goes hungry and nothing is lost. Open Sea: the crew must be fed, so build a raft that feeds itself. Nobody is ever harmed: at worst a hungry hand goes to stay with the island folk until the galley can feed them again. ALSO - Steer by your phone's real compass, if you like - Home Screen widgets and a Live Activity - A soft soundtrack and the sound of the water, both optional - No tracking. No data is collected.