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The Gold River Project
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“This game is fantastic! I will start by saying of course there are bugs as it is still super early in development (less than a year). But from my experience the bugs are not super significant, and certainly not game breaking for me. As a father of two kids, and someone who is…”
— a player, Steam review · 46 hrs played“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 50 hrs played“Please save your money until the game is fully released, it will be a fun game to play when you can actually play it without any of these issues. It's far too messy to try and play. Dying cos the host saves the game. Loading in and instantly dying, desync issues, laggy, audio…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Performance & Optimization Test | Try Out BETA Version Of Next Update Today!
Hey there Hikers! We're getting close on this upcoming update! In short, we have upgraded from UE 5.4 --> UE5.7 and with that comes new technology aimed at better optimization. New engine update means
Fireside Chat: Talkin' About August!
Happy Friday, Hikers! It’s Fireside Chat time! :) Last month, we mentioned August would be a quieter month in terms of updates while we lock in to focus on bug fixes and moving the game onto an update
Fireside Chat: The Trail So Far
We can’t believe it’s time for another Fireside Chat already! Following the Mariner update a couple of months ago, June and July, we have been heads down tackling bug fixes with patches extremely freq
The Gold River Project 30% Midsummer Sale!
Hello hello, Hikers! Time to touch some (virtual) grass! The Gold River Project is 30% off for the next 7 days! While we continue to work on development, we wanted to treat you all with another sale :
QOL Adjustments, Cooking UI update and new Rope craft option! | July 11, 2026
Hello Campers!! Lots of new QOL fixes, bug fixes and minor updates for the weekend. Be safe out there!! ****** EA.01.26.07.11a CL:10392 NEW - Hunger and Thirst details add to Cooking UI system per rec
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Open World Survival Craft · Adventure · Open World · Action-Adventure · Exploration · Multiplayer · Co-op · Survival · Third Person · First-Person · Indie (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Achievements | 25 |
| Official site | https://fairviewgames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions) Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-core or better Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 11GB / AMD Radeon 6750 XT or better DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 62 GB available space Additional Notes: 10 GB or more of VRAM is required. Requires internet connection for multiplayer. Servers are player hosted. SSD hard drive required.