
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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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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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America*languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
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J'ai donné assez de chances à ce jeu depuis janvier. A chaque connexions, un nouveau bug. Impossible de jouer parfois, bugs sur bugs, objets qui ne peuvent pas être utilisés etc etc
Games nice and as far as i got into the story very good, but bugs and disappearing keys and items in general makes it so you cant progress much. Had to load 2 previous save game files to get items back. Will play again once it's fully playable.
Your team has something brewing, unfortunately your game is so buggy it is almost unplayable. I appreciate your team responding to reviews but a lot of what was flagged as a bug persists today. Our group of 3 experiences issues getting into the same lobby, frame/stuttering issues, DC'ing and loss of inventory upon return, inability to remove campfire pings, etc. I'll be checking back in here in the future to see if your team has fixed this game enough to play it co-op with my friends and see if the review changes then, but as of right now I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone looking to play co-op. From what I've seen online, the game looks to play better when playing solo. I would focus on fixing what you guys have over adding content and marketing this out now...we weren't able to even enjoy the current amount of content that's out. And it seems like there is a lot of it.
One of the best games I have found this year! I hope they can continue to grow and make this the game I know it can be! Well worth the money!
First off, I have 20 hours in the game so it's not like I did not give it a shot. This could be a fantastic game. I love how scarce food is, however after sometime I could no longer get the attach menu to pull up for the simple fishing rod. I crafted the first one so I figured even though it had 99 (uses or percent not really sure) left on the rod. Tried the rod you can just find on the map and got the same results. Having a flaw or glitch in the game is no big deal, but when you have an issue with one of the only reliable sources of food in the game none the less a survival game it's unacceptable. Finding food in containers is very rare and berries are not just out in the wild as I have found they are only at POI and do very little for hunger. (In the words of the sharks) "And for this I am out". I have requested a refund, whether I will receive it who knows but if I were anyone looking at this game I would wait till it's closer to being finished and/or becomes way cheaper it's not worth the $20-ish dollars in my opinion at this time. Edit: So after almost 10 more hours giving this game a change, it's so much worse than I thought. Containers and pouches will for no reason no longer allow you to see inside them in your inventory. I have tried everything and nothing aside from starting all over for the second time will resolve the issue. About the only help you will receive is a Dev commenting on your review telling you theirs works just fine. Do not spend money on this game till they have developed solutions or finished the game.
看作者更新挺频繁的以为可以尝尝了,结果还是包了糖纸的屎。
There is no game to hunt and no way to attach anything to your Kayak. all you seem to be able to do is fish and paddle around or walk. to nowhere! Attach the cooler to a small location on the left side of Kayak and Net connects to one on the very back Game is picking up.
Absolutely love this game - Played for 80+ hours and still not lost interest. Great fun setting up camp and trying to find everything needed. Still have lots to complete and looking forward to completing it :)
Starting out the game did glitch out in the intro cabin, but after that didn't have any performance issues. A few times something would stop working, like being able to drink from the lake or save at a camp fire (still able to save at the save boxes). Just exited out and reloaded it and it was fine. I think the game is fairly deep crafting wise and I look forward to all the new things I'll discover. I do like how expanding your inventory can be done by finding a bigger backpack, cargo shorts or vest with pockets, all cool elements. Food, water and cold all seem realistic, eating once or twice a day is good and doesn't seem like thats all I do is look for food. My only complaint is trying to walk up hills is clunky and its incredibly easy to get fall damage from going down them. Overall I think the game is entertaining and worth the price. Thank you developers
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