Raft Life
Chop palm trees, sell the logs at your stall and spend the coins on new sections of raft — a relaxed builder on the open sea.
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What is Raft Life?
Raft Life is a free raft-building game for the browser: you walk around a small wooden raft on the open sea, chop palm trees for logs, sell the logs at a market stall for coins, and spend the coins on new sections of raft. GameDistribution’s description sums it up as “Build your own island on the raft and show off your awesome craft and survival skills!”
The loop is clear from the first screen. Each palm tree stands in a wooden planter under a speech bubble showing a log. Walk into one and your character chops it down; the logs stack up on their back; and the tree starts to grow back from a sapling in the same planter.
Logs turn into money at the Sale Stall, whose sign shows a log becoming a coin. Step into the dashed circle in front of it and your stack is sold — in our test, 15 logs became 15 coins. Standing there also opens the stall’s panel: at level 1 it sells wood for 1 coin a log, and the next upgrade, for 15 coins, adds 1 coin to that price and 22% to harvest speed.
Coins make the raft bigger. Outlined squares around its edge show what each new section costs — 45 and 110 coins in our game — and you pay by standing on one, which feeds your coins in a few at a time. We had 6 coins when we stepped onto a 110-coin square; it dropped to 104 and kept the payment, so a section can be bought in instalments.
The official description promises more than wood: chopping trees, building new sections, catching fish, planting and growing fruit and vegetables, and “watch out for the sharks!” We did not reach those in our session, where the work was all palm trees, logs and expansion squares. What did turn up was a seagull, flying over with a red money bag marked $135, $270 or $405, landing on the raft for a moment and taking off again.
GameDistribution lists Raft Life under Boombit S.A. and published it on December 18, 2023, in landscape for desktop, iOS and Android. Despite the name, it is not the PC survival game Raft: Raft Life is a lighter builder you can play a few minutes at a time, and in our testing the raft, its trees and our coin balance were all still there when we reloaded the page.
Playing Raft Life
- 1Load your raft
Press Play and wait for Raft Life to load. The game opens on your raft: palm trees in planters, a Sale Stall and outlined squares around the edge.
- 2Walk with WASD
Move your character around the raft with W, A, S and D. GameDistribution lists the mouse as well, for the on-screen buttons.
- 3Chop the palm trees
Walk into a palm tree to chop it. The logs stack on your character’s back, and the tree regrows from a sapling.
- 4Sell at the stall
Walk into the dashed circle in front of the Sale Stall to sell your logs. Your coins appear in the top-left corner.
- 5Buy new sections
Stand on an outlined square at the edge of the raft. Your coins flow into it and its price counts down; come back with more to finish paying for it.
- 6Upgrade the stall
The stall’s panel offers upgrades that raise the price of wood and your harvest speed. Buy them when you can afford them.
Raft Life controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| W / A / S / D | Walk around the raft |
| Walk into a palm tree | Chop it for logs |
| Stand in the stall’s circle | Sell the logs you are carrying |
| Stand on an outlined square | Pay coins into a new section of raft |
| Click / tap | Upgrade button, settings gear and other on-screen buttons |
| Settings (gear, top left) | Sound and music on or off |
How to win at Raft Life
Buy the first stall upgrade straight away. At level 1 the stall pays 1 coin a log and the upgrade costs 15 coins. It adds 1 coin to the price, so the next 15-log trip earns 30 coins instead of 15 — the upgrade has paid for itself after a single trip.
Carry a full stack. The log counter in the top-right corner read ×15 throughout our session, and 15 logs was exactly what one trip sold for. Walking to the stall with a full stack wastes fewer steps than selling a few logs at a time.
Start with the cheapest square. Expansion squares are not all the same price — 45 and 110 coins in our game. Fill the cheaper one first and the raft grows sooner.
Pay in instalments. You do not need the full price before you step onto a square. Standing on it hands over whatever coins you have and the square remembers the rest, so drop off each trip’s takings on the way back from the stall.
Keep the trees cycling. A chopped palm grows back from a sapling in the same planter. While one tree regrows, walk over and work another.
Look up for the seagull. A seagull with a money bag flies in now and then and does not stay long. We saw bags marked $135, $270 and $405 in one short session.
Play in the same browser. Raft Life kept our raft and coins between visits, but the save lives in your browser — play on the same browser and device to pick up where you left off.
Good to know — Raft Life’s first stall upgrade pays for itself in one trip: it costs 15 coins and lifts the price of a log from 1 coin to 2, so the next full 15-log stack brings in 15 extra coins.
What makes Raft Life fun
- A chop, carry and sell loop that is easy to learn
- An upgradable Sale Stall that raises the price of wood and harvest speed
- Expansion squares priced in coins and paid in instalments
- Palm trees that grow back after you chop them
- A seagull that flies in with money bags
- Fishing, farming and sharks, according to the official description
- Progress kept between visits in the same browser
- Free in the browser, with no download and no signup
Why play Raft Life on PlayFutbol?
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Explore PlayFutbol's daily gamesFrequently asked questions
Walk around your raft with WASD, chop palm trees for logs, sell the logs at the Sale Stall for coins, and spend the coins on new sections of raft by standing on the outlined squares at its edge.
W, A, S and D move your character. Everything else happens by walking: into a tree to chop it, into the stall’s circle to sell, onto a square to pay for it. GameDistribution lists the mouse as well, for the on-screen buttons such as the stall upgrade and the settings gear.
By selling logs at the Sale Stall — 1 coin per log at level 1, more after you upgrade it. In our test a stack of 15 logs sold for 15 coins.
Stand on one of the outlined squares around the edge of the raft. Each shows its price — 45 or 110 coins in our game — and counts down as you pay. The coins you put in stay there, so a square can be paid off over several trips.
No. Raft is a PC survival game; Raft Life is a separate, lighter builder that GameDistribution lists under Boombit S.A. and that runs in your browser.
The official description warns “watch out for the sharks!”, along with fishing and growing fruit and vegetables. We did not meet a shark in our early-game session, which was spent on palm trees, logs and expansion squares.
It flies over the raft carrying a red money bag marked with a dollar figure — $135, $270 and $405 in our session — lands for a moment and takes off again. It did not stay long enough for us to work out how to catch it.
Yes, in the same browser. When we reloaded the page, our raft, its trees and our coins were where we had left them.
GameDistribution lists Raft Life for iOS and Android in landscape. Hold your phone sideways to see the whole raft.
GameDistribution lists Raft Life under Boombit S.A. and published it on December 18, 2023.
Yes. Raft Life runs free in your browser on PlayFutbol, with no download and no account.
Raft Life is a third-party HTML5 game served via GameDistribution and embedded here for free play. PlayFutbol's own 48 daily football trivia games are first-party.