
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.43/day in the week to Aug 31 → 0.71/day in the week after.
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The Gold River Project™ throws you and your friends on an epic camping survival adventure! Try to escape a grueling experiment across one of the largest private nature reserves in the Pacific Northwest. You are being watched, studied and manipulated at every turn. Solve the mysteries within and try to survive another day. Players logging 100+ hours are still finding new points of interest, lore, and content, and the game is still growing.
*New* Free Mariner Update: Kayaks, scuba, boats, new fishing systems & new underwater locations to explore.
Replayability: Substations, supplies and points of interest - these locations change with each new play through.
Base Building: Craft and expand your campsite to prepare for what's to come.
Puzzles, Stealth or Discovery: There is more than one way out of this experiment.
Crafting: Craft and Build campsite essentials, weapons, farm plots and more to help you stay alive!
Multiplayer: Survive by yourself or with friends in online co-op!
Learn: Discover new things to craft from items you find or from trade.
Scavenge: All items are all useful, it's up to you to figure it out how.
Progress: Play at your own pace. No time restrictions. Prepare accordingly for upcoming challenges.
Engine: Built in Unreal Engine 5.4.4 upgrading to 5.7.4 summer 2026
Welcome to Gold River! A remote camping adventure you can play alone or with up to 4 friends. A chartered float plane will drop you off by beautiful lakes where you can kayak, hike the gorgeous trails, make camp and survive the elements.
One week turns into several as you suspect your guide is never coming back. Deserted, you discover you are trapped and now an unwilling lab rat. Can you survive an ever changing, artificial environment and it's inhabitants?
Manage health, hydration, hunger, fatigue, and temperature. Use your survival skills and earn badges as you learn new ones. Outlast nature and uncover the perils of what lies beneath the surface.
The world shifts with time. Hunt in the abundance of summer, forage in the dying colors of fall, and fight for warmth in the frozen quiet of winter. Find your way through increasingly harsh environments and outsmart your captors to survive and escape.
Discover a mysterious barrier dividing the forest. Solve environmental puzzles, sneak past security patrols, or piece together scavenged tech to bring it down your own way.
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Reviews
I want to like this game because I can see there is definitely a lot of thought put into it, however in it's current stages I can't really recommend it. I have a medium-high end PC (i5-11600k, 3060ti, 32gb ddr4, nvme ssd) and can barely get 40 fps on this game with everything turned on low. On top of that, clicking "save changes" on the settings doesn't even work because after i close the video settings, when i go back in it shows medium for a couple of things. It'll take me like 4-5 tries before everything is actually on low, and even then I can't really trust what the settings are telling me they're set at because the performance varies a lot. My other big gripe about the game is the lighting. The contrast is super heavy and running through the forest gives me a crazy headache because the brights are too bright. There's a lot of cool content that I can see on the surface and from the few obscure youtube videos that exist about this game, but until it's better optimized I can't really recommend getting it
not enough food sources throughout the game
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.43/day in the week to Jul 24 → 1.29/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 88 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I'm not sure why this game is getting any hate. I was looking for a survival game that wasn't the zombie rinse and repeat survival experience that so many other games have done and this is it. This game really makes you think before making a decision and you never go far without realizing that you're not as alone as you thought you might be. It's definitely a lot of fun for an early access game and I keep getting drawn back into playing it. It really seems like the DEV's are listening and making adjustments based on user feedback.
i got this when it first came out and it had the potential to be so good...but it wasnt, bugs bugs bugs it made it unplayable as a coop. fast forward to 6 months later and we are still finding this game to be absolute diabolical bugger all resources, still buggy as hell and just generally annoying. huge map with nothing on it it seems.
Game has potential but is in no way ready to play without getting frustrated. Save files suck. Loose half your stuff if the save file is even playable. When playing co-op 2nd Player loses everything when coming back into game. Glitches everywhere. Can not fill water bottle in Lake (sometimes, then works sometimes) but then when you dont want it to happen you drink water from the lake and get sick. I got this game on release date and have been playing off and on since then. I guess i will just give it another 6 months and try again... STUPID.
After playing for just 22 hours in single-player mode, I feel comfortable saying the following: - The game has minor bugs, but since it is in Early Access, the developers push out hotfixes quite quickly. They don't wait a month to address issues, and their communication is very honest. (For the record, I have no personal affiliation with them.) - It is a relaxing survival, puzzle, and exploration game. You set your own pace and decide where to go. While there is no rigid direction, there is plenty of hidden content, which encourages exploration. The game has a lot of potential to become an epic experience. It just needs time for the developers to iron out the kinks, and I am confident they will get it done. - I do not regret buying it in Early Access. It is already fun, and I expect it will only get better over time. br. from Denmark
I am totally not a review girlie, but I'm in love with this game so I'm gonna unabashedly squee. My husband and I are avid coop survival gamers. We've played literally everything. Sons of the Forest and Ark:SE are my top tier games. *Were, lol. I have been watching this game for months. We have played the demo and loved it but neither of our PCs are top notch (they're laptops, gasp) and I was worried. We're parents, we don't have the latest and greatest. I have an Alienware m15 r5 with a RTX3070 and he, God love him, is rocking an old Dell with a GTX1060 MaxQ. We waffled for months. Our computers suck. But, this sale we decided F it, we're going for it. Mine runs just fine, his obviously doesn't look like a 4K streamer, but it works fine. We haven't had crashes, and have still had a wonderful experience. I'm in LOVE with the world. I love everything about it. My only feedback is to beg for a loot goblin mode. Just more stuff. All the stuff. So much stuff. I find myself wanting to find more, anything especially before Fall when you've explored most of everything and there's no loot left. I get its by design and the objective is surviving. I get it. But how about a loot goblin peaceful mode where containers respawn? I'll build 500 chests, let the loot flow friends haha! That's totally a girly loot goblin POV and I'm guessing we are not a very big demographic but I'm gonna homestead like a girl and I need more stuff haha. Seriously, thank you for this labor of love. It's been amazing to be with my husband and get completely immersed together in your world. We're watching your streams now and just have fallen in love with your team. Sam - I know you've gotta have some loot goblin decorator in you, help a sister out!!!!!! We will be decompressing and vacationing in your world for a long time to come. If you're on the fence, get it. If you like SoF or ever made a conspiracy theory about Lost or From, buy the game. You will be in for all the squees! 😺
game is not ready. v-sync doesnt even seem to apply, so i get super horrible screen tearing.
Nope. Nice graphics, quirky controls. And ofc its not just surviving in the woods, its always some weird stuff in games like this.
Wann kommt eine deutsche Übersetzung??? Ist nur eine Teilweise deutsche Menüführung. Schade Eine Map wäre sehr hiflreich, habe das Spiel wieder deeinstalliert, da ich im Moment den Sinn nicht verstehe in dem Spiel. Rumlaufen? Mir fehlt da ein bisschen die Führung, und da es nur in englischer Sprache ist hänge ich teilweise. Vllt instaliere ich das Spiel wieder wenn es in deutscher Sprache kommt.
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