Survival sandbox game Raft has been doing very well on Xbox consoles since becoming available there for the first time early last month. The Top Paid game chart from The Microsoft Store shows Raft knocking at the door of the top 10 in the United States market, with some heavy competition keeping it from breaking through that barrier.
Raft first launched in early access on Steam in May 2018. Hitting its full release in June 2022, the survival game, which tasks players with making constant upgrades to the titular raft as they cross a vast sea, has performed admirably on Steam, receiving a 93 percent approval rate among the more than 286,000 players who have left a user review.
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After being announced for Xbox on December 3, 2024, Raft made the leap to Microsoft's consoles the very next day, where it's currently sitting in 11th place in the United States on the Microsoft Store's Top Paid category. The highly-rated co-op survival game seems to be enjoying an unlikely resurgence on a chart that is mostly...