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Away From Life

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77%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
77% User Score Based on 108 reviews

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About Away From Life

Away From Life is a single player and multiplayer open world role playing shooter game. It was developed by Cursor Games and was released on April 22, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Latest Major Update About the GameAfter surviving a helicopter crash, your main goal is to return home. Stranded on remote islands, you must endure as a castaway - gathering resources to find food, build shelter, craft essential tools, uncover the islands’ mysteries both on land and underwater, and fight to chart your way back to safety. In these islands and waters, you can’t do groceri…

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77%Audience ScoreBased on 108 reviews
gameplay6 positive mentions
stability10 negative mentions
  • Immersive and beautiful graphics with detailed environments and dynamic weather that enhance the survival atmosphere.
  • Engaging exploration and crafting systems that provide a satisfying survival experience, especially improved by cooperative multiplayer play.
  • Active and responsive developer with consistent updates and community engagement, showing strong promise for future improvements.
  • The game suffers from numerous bugs and technical issues including inventory loss, building glitches, and unstable multiplayer connectivity.
  • Gameplay mechanics such as raft control, resource balancing, combat, and controller support are often clunky, unfinished, or inconsistent.
  • Limited content and variety lead to repetitive progression and lack of long-term goals, making the experience feel incomplete at this stage.

  • gameplay

    29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    21% positive mentions, 69% neutral mentions, 10% negative mentions

    Gameplay offers a familiar open-world survival experience with enjoyable exploration, crafting, and cooperative elements, but is marred by clunky, inconsistent mechanics, buggy systems, and awkward controls. While the core loop remains engaging for fans of sandbox-style gameplay, many foundational mechanics like building and combat feel poorly implemented and require significant refinement. Players seeking polished, strategic gameplay may find the rough edges and technical issues detract from the overall experience.

    • “Away from Life is an open-world survival game that embraces many familiar mechanics of the genre while attempting to build a large and immersive island adventure around them.”
    • “While the game clearly draws inspiration from many well-known survival titles, it still manages to create an enjoyable experience through its atmosphere, exploration systems, and cooperative gameplay potential.”
    • “Cooperative gameplay further strengthens the experience by transforming routine survival tasks into collaborative adventures filled with exploration and discovery.”
    • “The mechanics themselves are really poorly implemented: you cut trees down that have loads of palm leaves on and don't receive any palm leaves, for example. This means it's easier to build complex equipment than it is to build a simple shelter.”
    • “All my original criticisms stand: clunky mechanics, choppy UI, broken survival loop, bad AI, but most of all an emphasis on throwing more content in the game over fixing what's there.”
    • “Combat is clunky and doesn't connect well; the base building mechanic doesn't quite fit right when you're trying to build things. For example, you can't even place a stairwell on the entryway of your doorway to help you walk up into your home easier.”

  • graphics

    22 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    68% positive mentions, 18% neutral mentions, 14% negative mentions

    The game's graphics are consistently praised for their beauty, immersion, and realism, creating a captivating atmosphere despite not matching AAA-level visuals. Some users note occasional bugs and performance hiccups, but overall, the visuals are polished, smooth, and enhance the survival experience effectively.

    • “The graphics are spectacular and the very small team that made this game possible genuinely care about the game and their community ❤️ 10/10 recommend.”
    • “Graphics are beautiful, 0 bugs, realism, everything you could want in a survival game this is it!”
    • “Graphics are a solid 10/10, I like the visual cues when your stats start to falter so I'm not constantly having to look at the watch.”
    • “It is clunky, graphics are a total mess, not much to do in the game.”
    • “I cannot get the graphics to clean up.”
    • “It does have some bugs, and it is recommended to check the graphics settings before starting a new game, as the settings are all set to epic level.”

  • stability

    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    9% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 91% negative mentions

    The game currently experiences several bugs and stability issues typical of early access, including occasional crashes and glitches with new vehicles. However, the developer is responsive and releasing prompt updates to address these problems, resulting in generally smooth gameplay on many islands despite some ongoing frustrations. Overall, stability is improving but still needs further work before the game feels fully polished.

    • “So far, traveled to a decent amount of islands and the game runs great.”
    • “New boat is a little fragile, and gets stuck/glitched easily (maybe add an anchor to it so it doesn't have to be beached?). When it glitches, you spawn somewhere random across the map like it was driving the whole time.”
    • “My first playthrough I played 3.5 hours then the game slammed shut (because it is a new game and buggy) and I lost everything.”
    • “There's just too many unfinished, buggy glitches everywhere with awkward controls, commands, mechanics, and stability.”

  • atmosphere

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game effectively creates an immersive island survival atmosphere through its detailed visuals, sound design, and exploration, capturing a genuine sense of isolation and tension. While some environmental life feels sparse and minor technical issues occur, the overall mood and cooperative potential offer a compelling and enjoyable experience.

    • “The graphics are fantastic and the whole atmosphere is amazing; it truly captures being stuck on an island with no sense of what to do.”
    • “The world itself is enjoyable to explore, the building systems are satisfying, and the atmosphere successfully captures the lonely tension that survival games often strive for.”
    • “Quiet moments while exploring forests or sailing between islands feel surprisingly atmospheric because of how effectively the audio captures isolation.”

  • story

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    43% positive mentions, 14% neutral mentions, 43% negative mentions

    The story is centered on survival and exploration in a challenging island setting, offering an immersive experience with crafting and discovery at its core. While players appreciate the atmosphere and potential, many desire more story missions, diverse NPCs, and greater map depth to enrich the narrative. Some quest issues and technical glitches currently hinder seamless story progression, but the game's foundation for an engaging survival adventure is strong.

    • “Your mission is simple yet challenging: survive the wild and somehow make your way back to civilization.”
    • “If you enjoy survival games where exploration, crafting, and discovery are the heart of the experience, this adventure offers a challenging and immersive island survival story.”
    • “In future updates it would be amazing to see more story missions and more enemy NPC or wildlife and a map size increase if possible; the game is awesome and has potential to be really amazing.”
    • “It just needs more life and story, and when you chop a tree down you don't get any palm leaves; only some trees give you them, which is a bit annoying. The GPS is also not accurate—it shows me on a mountain when I'm on flat ground on some islands.”
    • “The quest where I have to visit 3 islands and find 2 notes: I have found both notes, and I know they are the right ones since they worked for my friends, but they don't register for the quest, so now I'm stuck.”
    • “Players willing to accept some rough edges and technical imperfections will likely find plenty to enjoy, particularly if they value exploration and sandbox-style gameplay more than combat or story-driven progression.”

  • optimization

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    Optimization feedback is mixed: some users experience performance drops, bugs, and issues even with high-end hardware, while others find the game well-polished and running smoothly with solid graphics. The developers are actively working on improvements through ongoing updates.

    • “I was a little hesitant to buy it at first, with it being in early access and from a first time developer, but I have to say this is very well-polished, runs smoothly, and the graphics are great.”
    • “The graphics are solid, performance is smooth, and I haven’t run into any major issues so far.”
    • “You added WC to character, my game optimization is terrible even with a 4050 GPU.”
    • “Players may encounter bugs involving inventory management, building mechanics, physics issues, multiplayer synchronization, and occasional performance drops.”
    • “The developers also appear committed to improving the game over time through updates, additional content, and optimization efforts.”

  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's music is praised for complementing the experience without overwhelming players, relying more on natural environmental sounds to enhance immersion and tension. Reviewers find the music pleasant and relaxing, contributing positively to the overall atmosphere.

    • “The game wisely avoids overwhelming players with nonstop music, instead relying heavily on natural environmental sounds to create tension and immersion.”
    • “I plan to keep playing the game, and awaiting improvements, as it was a decently immersive and relaxing experience, especially with the sounds and music in the background.”
    • “The music and the graphics are very nice.”

  • humor

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's humor is praised for its unique atmosphere and distinctive comedic style, showcasing impressive creativity from a solo developer. Players are enthusiastic about future updates, anticipating further enhancements to its humor and overall experience.

    • “Personally, my impression is extremely positive: the game has atmosphere, its own sense of humor, and a lot of potential.”
    • “The funny thing is this is a solo dev and to be honest, keep up the work. I cannot wait for the 2026 roadmap and to see what else you incorporate into this game especially, when it has a lot of roads it could take.”
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25h Median play time
149h Average play time
9-550h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 4 analyzed playthroughs
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Away From Life is a open world role playing shooter game. Common tags for Away From Life include first-person, realistic, indie, exploration, crafting and others.

Away From Life is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 149 hours playing Away From Life.

Away From Life was released on April 22, 2026.

Away From Life was developed by Cursor Games.

Away From Life has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Away From Life for its gameplay but disliked it for its stability.

Away From Life is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Stranded Deep, Project Castaway, Escape The Pacific, Sunkenland, Journey Of Life and others.