Name: CodeKnight
Price range: $

Raft is a survival game where you start with nothing but a plastic hook, on a piece of wood in the ocean (no idea why). Unfortunately, after 3 years in EA the game still feels basic, grindy and artificially extended. I spent 90% of my time scavenging food and purifying water. The other 10% of the time was spent fending off a permanently present shark. There's some great ideas in this game, but it's held back by busy work and poor inventory management. Raft has been in EA for almost 3 years now, which feels slow; I don't think I could recommend buying it until it's fully released at this pace. Not that they need the money, judging by the number of reviews.

Pros

Nice art style
I like that you start with nothing on a raft
Scavanging materials that float past you is an original idea
Islands provide a welcome respite from the constant journey forwards, although unrealistically if you miss them it's almost impossible to go backwards
Building a floating castle is great, when you're not constantly being attacked by the shark

Cons

I don't think I could recommend playing on normal right now, it's really grindy. Constantly grabbing materials and drinking and eating just to avoid dying gets old really fast.
The shark is a bad game mechanic. I can understand why it exists but it's a badly implemented idea. If you turn it off, there's no reason to use the hook, and just jump in the water and grab resources. However, there is ALWAYS a shark in the water. Even if you kill it, it comes back 3 minutes later. It takes a huge amount of resources to create shark bait, which only makes it go away for 20 seconds. It attacks the raft every 5 minutes. Right now it's a cheap game mechanic that just adds a constant annoyance and distraction from doing something interesting.
The islands are interesting, but suffer from the procedurally generated problem, they're all basically the same
If you wash up against an island and you don't have the materials to make a paddle, game over. There's no way to move on.