Stranded on a Raft: Multiplayer, Expos and 730,000 plays

Stranded on a Raft, by Rinexus Games, is a story about someone who keeps showing up, update after update, for years, until a small project turns into something with a real audience.

Rinexus Games is Rinax, a one-person studio based in the Philippines. Stranded on a Raft started as a single-player survival game built in GDevelop: you wake up alone on a small raft in the middle of the ocean, and you have to gather wood and rocks, build out your raft, fish, farm, and stay alive while sharks circle and mutated frogs spit projectiles at you from the water.

Now, it is much more than that.

Stranded on a Raft is a great coop game!

From a solo raft to a multiplayer one

Rinax kept updating Stranded on a Raft over the years: new biomes, new enemies, accounts that carry your progress and cosmetics across platforms, proper world saving, UI passes based on player feedback. Using GDevelop's built-in multiplayer feature, Rinax took the leap from single-player to multiplayer. You can now team up with other players on the same raft and chat while you build.

The game runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, all from a single GDevelop project. On Android alone, Stranded on a Raft has passed 50,000 downloads on the Play Store.

Newgrounds, gd.games, and a 700,000+ plays

Stranded on a Raft made it onto the front page of Newgrounds, one of the oldest and most recognizable portals for web games around.

On gd.games, GDevelop's own web games platform, Stranded on a Raft has been played over 730,000 times, with a 91% positive rating from players.

Showing up in person too

Rinax has also taken Stranded on a Raft to PGDX, the Philippine GameDev Expo, in 2024 and 2025. PGDX is the country's biggest trade show for game development, held at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, and its 2025 edition listed Stranded on a Raft as part of its lineup of indie games for visitors to try.

The 2024 edition alone drew more than 25,000 attendees, including visitors from Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the US.

Hundreds of people played the game, gave great feedback and continued pushing up those stats.

People playing Stranded on a Raft at PGDX 2024!

Teaching the next batch of developers

Rinax doesn't just build with GDevelop, he also teaches it. We first wrote about him in 2023, when he ran a GDevelop workshop for students at La Salle University in Ozamiz City, walking them through the basics of the engine and helping them build their first platformer.

Built in GDevelop, still going

Stranded on a Raft is great because it has been a GDevelop project for years, shipping updates, listening to player feedback, porting to new platforms as the game grew, and teaching others to do the same along the way.

Newgrounds, gd.games, the Play Store, a video from one of YouTube's biggest channels, and a couple of expo booths all came out of that, one update at a time.

If you haven't played it yet, Stranded on a Raft is on gd.games and on the Play Store. Grab some wood, build a raft, and watch out for the sharks.