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Castaway
Retrieve your weapons, face bosses to save your dog in a retro adventure focused on 3 dungeons. Finish the Story mode to unlock the Survivor mode: a 50-floor "Death Tower". You'll enjoy classic mechanics, charming visual style, and an enchanting soundtrack.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.
“Simple, short and fun. Final section of the game (post credit) is kind of a rogue like though, just a heads-up in case you're like me who can play rogue-likes only if they are of a certain kind. In case of this game, the combat is too simple which makes me unwilling to keep…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Castaway is a 2D The Legend of Zelda lite game with 2 main modes. You have adventure mode that can be completed within 45 minutes. It has a small world and 3 dungeons to reclaim what you lost. Then you have tower mode where you go through 50 rooms. Although the rooms are not…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“All that potential wasted on a pseudo roguelike tower climb. Would have loved to push further in the tower, and almost got it, but the game excels at destroying all your hopes with glitches/bugs that completely fumbled an almost perfect run, all thanks to that one section where…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
NEW BUNDLE: "UNDER THE ISLAND" X "CASTAWAY"
Hi folks! I’m proud to announce that in celebration of the release of " Under The Island " by our friends at Slime King Games and Top Hat Studio, we’re offering a VERY INTERESTING bundle featuring our
Castaway is now officially verified for SteamDeck!
Hey folks! I just got a surprise email from Steam last night informing me that Castaway was now Steam Deck Verified! For a game inspired by a handheld game (*cough* Link's Awakening...), it's an honor
CASTAWAY's SOUNDTRACK + BUNDLE AVAILABLE NOW!
I'm proud to announce that CASTAWAY's Original Soundtrack is now available on the following platforms: -> Here on Steam of course ! -> Bundled with the game (with a 20% OFF!) -> On Bandcamp "Experienc
Castaway x The Yetee
Hi folks! I’m really proud to announce this partnership with my friends at The Yetee! Let me introduce: The Castaway Collection ! They brilliantly put together an awesome t-shirt, a hard enamel pin fe
CANARI GAMES BUNDLE!
Great news, Castaway players! A new bundle is now available where you can get my cinematic platformer LUNARK with a sweet 20% OFF . Don’t miss out on this special offer! Oh and also, please leave a re
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Action-Adventure · Survival · Family Friendly · Metroidvania · Anime · Top-Down · Dog · Pixel Graphics · 2D · Sci-fi · Action · 1990's (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 33 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.canarigames.com/homepage/games/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10 Memory: 1 GB RAM Storage: 200 MB available space