Faraway Islands overview

Overview

Faraway Islands comes from bocoboc and is published by bocoboc. It arrived on Steam on Dec 13, 2020, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, and Steam Cloud. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Faraway Islands's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 11 September 2026 - 15:52:14 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 55% positive across 11 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Faraway Islands is available in 2 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Faraway Islands has sold up to 330 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $892. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Faraway Islands overview details

Faraway Islands combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Faraway Islands is a top-down 2D story-driven survival game, set on procedurally generated islands you can travel between and explore. The game features classic survival mechanics like crafting based on combining, gathering resources and food, farming, hunting animals, increasing character skills, building shelter, and defending against enemies. ADVENTURE You play as a survivor of a passenger ship that sank in a wild storm. As you try to find a way home from these islands, you encounter new friends who will help you, and enemies giving you a hard time. (character visuals can be customized) CRAFT TOOLS Creating items is done by combining or processing items in your inventory. These combinations are not shown to the player from the start, so you have to try new combinations. Some are recommended to you by story characters or written in quests. CONSTRUCTION You can build your own shelter to ensure your safety from predators and enemies. The game has several basic buildings to choose from and construct, and more are unlocked by increasing your skills. EXPLORE ISLANDS All islands are procedurally generated, which means everything from their shape to the number of crabs and mushrooms is randomly chosen and then created by predefined rules. Not all resources are the same on every island, so you must explore and find what you need. DANGER Wild animals are dangerous, and you should be cautious when moving around them. So beware that pack of tigers can kill you quite quickly. There are also human enemies that will attack every few days. You can prepare for these situations by c…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Faraway Islands is listed as a game with $2.79 (30% off from $3.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, and Steam Cloud, and is associated with Action, Adventure, and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 11 September 2026 - 15:52:14 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 55% positive reviews.

Overview tags

CraftingSurvivalExplorationBuildingTop-DownPixel GraphicsOpen World Survival CraftProcedural GenerationFarmingNatureMiningAdventure2DSingleplayerInventory Management

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