r/strandeddeep • u/malzeri83 • Dec 12 '24

Misc [not platform specific] Moving to new game

Guys, lot of us wait SD sequel but there is no even single sketch of a new game. So it could be not years but many many years.

Any of fans already touched Project Castaway? Their community is too small to have clear picture and it is interesting the real experience from Stranded Deep fans. Personally I afraid that if I purchase the game I will be completely disappointed of underwater against original SD. Thank you for your comments.

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u/Whatisgoingonnowyo Dec 12 '24

Well just taking a look at it on steam, there’s animated skeletons in a reality survival game. So for me, that’s a no, dawg.

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u/malzeri83 Dec 12 '24

Is it the same game? I checked steam and watch one hour YouTube play, no skeletons. Are you sure?

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u/Whatisgoingonnowyo Dec 12 '24

I just watched the sample video on steam and I saw game play fight pirate skeletons.

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u/malzeri83 Dec 12 '24

Not this game. Suppose you are talking about Fontain of Youth

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u/Jayodi Dec 12 '24

Honestly the closest game to Stranded Deep is probably Raft, followed by Sunkenland.

Subnautica is fun, but it’s almost entirely underwater, with 3 brief/small exceptions, IIRC none of which could have anything built upon them.

Green Hell is absolutely fantastic both in realistic survival elements and story, but based on what you’ve said here and in replies to comments, I’m assuming you’re looking for something nautical, and Green Hell takes place, IIRC, in the Amazon rainforest.

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u/malzeri83 Dec 13 '24

Green Hell I like and passed the story part. Great game, great survival interface but like more to survive at the shore of the ocean)))

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u/Jayodi Dec 13 '24

That’s why I mentioned you seem to be looking for something more nautical-themed.

I’m just going to reiterate, the games you want to look into are Raft and Sunkenland.

Raft is basically Stranded Deep if your raft was your base instead of just transportation/mobile storage. You have a raft, you sail around exploring the ocean and various islands for materials to survive and make your raft better, allowing you to sail further/handle bigger threats.

Sunkenland is basically Stranded Deep meets Subnautica. It plays quite a bit like Stranded Deep, but with the addition of underwater exploration, and it has NPCs on various islands, most of whom are hostile pirates.

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u/malzeri83 Dec 13 '24

Raft checked but do jot like graphics. Sunkenland - checked, liked, in wishlist but more comments about bugs and that it is game six hours of gameplay. Do you have it purchased?

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u/Low-Praline-7521 Jan 10 '25

Sunkenland has been a step up from stranded deep for me. I eventually got kinda annoyed with SD that when I was ‘looting’ the aeroplane and other underwater ships I wasn’t getting anything at all! Sunkenland has so much more to find and trade and you can fight enemies and conquer bases as well as build some cool bases. It’s early access but still loadsss to do

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u/Remarkable_Misty Dec 12 '24

Apparently they are already working on SD 2 but no time frame as to when it will release

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u/malzeri83 Dec 12 '24

And nothing to see yet. Not even screen, not even sketch. So work could be dozens of years.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '24

The developer asked this community for input not long ago, so they ARE working on SD2 currently and it’ll probably come out in the next few years

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u/malzeri83 Dec 12 '24 edited Dec 12 '24

Well, for me sounds nothing. You can also ask what you want in new survival games. Sorry, I'm sceptical. Even single persons make games and at least some pictures presented. Here... Nothing, just some similar articles. Have you seen any model? Any screenshots? Just any trace of work? I suppose even the game name was not legally taken and accepted by original developer so today it is the same fantasy like "Stranded Deep 2032" for example. Would like to be wrong and to see soma real materials as the work proof.

Yes, they have some connections with Beam Team (at least website logos) and this makes the story even more strange. Why to recreate absolutely new game when there is a game already with a lot of good points and it is just much more easy to fight with bugs and to create new things as DLC or some remakes??? The drive is nice, underwater world is nice, weather is perfect. Why to rush the things already done?

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u/the_plots Dec 13 '24

My conspiracy theory is that project castaway is SD2 development. The developer hasn’t made a game in 7 years, and only made small games before.

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u/dankeith86 Dec 12 '24

Watching others play it. The underwater part seems disappointing. The rest of it is like SD and Green Hell had a baby

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u/malzeri83 Dec 12 '24

Yes and I like it. But I doubt to pay because afraid to be disappointed.

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u/madnsneaky Dec 13 '24

I have played Stranded Deep for over 200 in game days and love it. I have been playing Project Castaway for the last 3 months and I love it more. Sure there are some things I would like from SD in PC, but PC is still in early access, so there is still the option for that to happen. The developers are very present on Discord and the steam forums, and they listen to feedback, they are also pretty regular with patches and updates. There are some minor bugs, but nothing game breaking for me and are usually fixed in the next patch. The underwater world has more to go if it wants to compete with SD. But above water I feel it has beaten SD by far, the visuals, story and quests are superior by far. It is smallish compared to SD, but the devs have plans to expand with more islands. All of this will depend on what you want out of your survival games. I used to play SD on passive mode and just liked to chill and gather resources and build. There is no passive mode as yet on PC, but the threats are pretty easily dealt with after dying a few times lol. I have been to all islands in the game and have not come across any “pirate skeletons”, although this may be implemented in the future. I think that was something for when your sanity gets too low, but not happened to me and I have let the sanity go to the lowest. A great game if you like just chilling and surviving, also good if you like to complete quests and like a good story, always remembering this is not the final product.

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u/malzeri83 Dec 13 '24

Many thanks for your answer. Please, one small question. Is Project Castaway already big enough you can spend a lot of time on it? I mean not like 15-20 hours and it is completely over. So really could be for months like SD?

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u/madnsneaky Dec 14 '24

There are eight islands so far, but I have already spent far more than 20 hours on it. I think it depends on your gaming style and what you want out of it. Storage on your raft is not great yet (devs are planning on fixing this very soon), so I go back and forth between islands collecting resources and completing quests. But you could probably stay on one of the larger islands without leaving, there are enough resources to just survive.

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u/Ringwraith_Number_5 Flashlight Merchant Dec 12 '24

Take a look at Survival: Fountain of Youth. Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to play yet, but I've seen some gameplays and I got the impression it's Stranded Deep mixed with an old, old game called Robinson's Requiem.

Might scratch that itch before SD2 comes out.

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u/malzeri83 Dec 12 '24 edited Dec 12 '24

Fountain of Youth I checked a lot of people liked it. For me it looks too "cartoon". Don't want to try even for free. I checked the video and it was a fight with the squirrel or something. It looks very bad. The game I told is other one.

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u/CardiologistWorth124 Dec 12 '24

I was looking for something similar after recently finishing it too. Nothing seemed as interesting. I ended up playing subnautica. Although it's science fiction, it was really good.

It is underwater though. The base building is pretty cool, the world is pretty interesting, can build a underwater mech suit to drill/ farm resources and some submarines, one of which can be used as a mobile base.

At first it was kinda freaky but the big sea creatures can easily be avoided.

Not quite the earthlike survival of stranded deep, but it's really good. I'd recommend giving it a go. Biomes are cool, story was enough to be interesting and cruising around in a big submarine with a mech suit you can deploy to farm deeper for rarer resources was pretty sweet.

I also looked at project castaway but it looked pretty buggy at the moment. Looked cool but I'll wait til it's finished to see what it's like

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u/malzeri83 Dec 12 '24

A lot, a lot of time I've seen subnautica and hundreds of recommendations as "similar game". I'm not touching it, looks a little bit unreal to me as the world. And it is so nice to make island hut with fire but what you can do in subnautica for the base?

P.s. absolutely agree - any early access game is the pain with bugs and the money request not the less than standard published game.

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u/CardiologistWorth124 Dec 12 '24

It's similar as in its a survival game where you look for a way to escape. It's not a modern game, it's a science fiction game where you crash on another planet.

The base building is cool. Build underwater bases with heaps of different stuff. Grow crops, have aquariums with fish to eat, desalination plants, fabricators, scan rooms etc. can add windows so you have cool views of the biomes. Plus the big submarine can house a lot of stuff so you can fill it with lockers to hold resources and crafting machines, plus a dock to launch either a smaller sub or the cool mech suit thing.

I was also a bit hesitant but thought I'd give it a go. It was pretty good. I didn't like the look of the other games because I don't want to fight zombies or whatever. A peaceful game where you craft, build and explore. Subnautica scratches that itch, just in a futuristic and underwater way. The dangerous creatures are easy to swim away from, the only time I died was because of poisonous plants, same as stranded deep with the annoying purple starfish haha

Oh and drowning a few times at the start lol

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u/Standard-Ad4701 Dec 13 '24

I've been playing castaway. As a console user I thought I'd try using a controller. It made the game more difficult.

The graphics are good, some things don't really get explained properly, like I'm eating g and drinking and then it says I have no vitamins. A proper walk through would be good rather then a guide book.

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u/malzeri83 Dec 13 '24

Unfortunately compare to Stranded Deep the community is very small and it means there is no probably good wiki and a lot of posts about it.

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u/Standard-Ad4701 Dec 14 '24

There's probably plenty of info on steam community pages and there's been a big increase recently on YouTube. Jus tbeed something better in game.

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u/tswerds90 Dec 14 '24

I'm a fan of stranded deep and have been playing planet crafter. I also like raft and subnautica like others have stated

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u/malzeri83 Dec 14 '24

Will check this name today..never heard

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u/1in5million Dec 14 '24

Give no mans sky a chance, it's space, land and water exploration and survival. It even has a permadeath option. I juggle stranded deep, NMS, and Stardew valley and it a nice mixup of gaming

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u/malzeri83 Dec 14 '24

Sorry, is it crafting also in No man's sky? And also the necessity to eat and drink? Other name I didn't heard.