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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.
The Gold River Project is a open world survival craft, adventure and open world game
developed by Fairview Games Inc.
and published by Fairview Games Inc. and Sightline Games.
Released on January 23rd 2026 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 625 reviews of which 394 were positive and 231 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.1 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 12.25€ on Steam with a 50% discount, but you can find it for 12.12€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified The Gold River Project into these genres:
Open World Survival Craft
Adventure
Open World
Action-Adventure
Exploration
Multiplayer
Co-op
Survival
Third Person
First-Person
Indie
Simulation
Crafting
Online Co-Op
Singleplayer
Sci-fi
Realistic
Mystery
Nature
3D
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for The Gold River Project:
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| English | |||
| German | |||
| French | |||
| Italian | |||
| Spanish - Spain | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Japanese | |||
| Polish | |||
| Portuguese - Brazil | |||
| Spanish - Latin America |
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System requirements
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Windows
- 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: 80 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.
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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 totally sick and tired of zombies everywhere, this game hits all the right points for me. It is beautiful for starters, intuitive, not grindy, and I don't feel stressed every time I leave my boat parked by the shore. I can pause it to play with the kids, they love watching me play and I'm not scared to make a save file and let my kid just bang the keys and look around. Worst case I just reload the last save, best case he figures it out a bit. For being a team of only 6 devs, I am beyond impressed with the quality and quantity of the content in such a small window of time. Please do keep up the good work, and I will be doing my best to help report bugs as I find them. Maybe CIG can learn a few things from these guys lol
I avoided this game for ages because of all the negative comments. Then I tried it and I am so glad I did. I have played hundreds of survival games and this one is easily my favourite. Yes it still has some bugs. I haven't found any yet that are game breaking but they do exist. What I would add though is that I have never played an early access survival game where the developers were this involved with their player base. The devs are in constant communication with their players, they really listen to what their players want and they patch this game all the time. If a YouTube video is more than a month old then ignore it. They patch this game so often that old videos are out of date. As for the game itself, I won't spoil anything. I will just say, this game is a huge mystery. You go on a camping holiday with some friends to the Gold River. When you get there, your friends are gone and you will start finding lots of things that are hard to explain but make you want to search to figure out what the hell is going on. This game does not hold your hand. Besides a few scattered notes and maps, it is up to you to explore. If you like survival games, then do yourself a favour and give this one a go. I have never played a survival game that had me more intrigued to see where it is going than this one.
im writing this review because i want to tell you ive enjoyed every minute playing this game i run a standard laptop , ive had no bugs and the graphics are great. ive been solidly enjoying this and saw these negative reviews from spoilt kids its early access if you read their complaints its all as such .. the only reason i havent played this more already is im waiting for my partner to join me and dont want to spoil it until they are with me . if your into camping and exploring games and are a grown adult appreciate that its very early access then im confident in saying you wont be disappointed.
Unreasonable Expectations Hello All, I have been following this game for a while now, i had 80 hrs or so on the demo, helped squish some bugs, ( i found the falling thru the elevator floor bug, and a bunch of others) This is a very early access game, being put together by a very small team. There are going to be bugs, The devs will be adding a lot of content, there is going to be lost or broken saves. These eventualities are unavoidable and expected. you should be getting early access games with these very expectations in mind. Get excited when you find a bug and report it. They need all the help they can get, not bad reviews because your save broke,.. They are going to break! not all new content is backwards compatible. And not just new content can break saves. So please, give these guys and gals a break, save any harsh judgments and comments for after version 1.0. They are responsive and care about what they are doing. I have seen huge progress since downloading the demo a year and a half ago. Keep up the good work devs! Best regards Oneflyingfool P.S Side note to the devs: I gave Windows 11 my sizable middle finger. Game Runs better on Zorin OS 18! Go Penguin!!!
This one was a really hard one to review. I saw the negative reviews, but I played through the demo multiple times with NO issues spending 10+ hours exploring and working things out. I purchased the game after having no issues and within 2 mins "Fatal Error". After my reload into the game I jumped and got shot up onto a roof, I went in the water and sank to the bottom like the water wasn't there and just couldn't swim. Items in my inventory kept disappearing and the game looked different and struggled to render foliage causing jittering and screen tearing / motion blur. The full game is not optimised as well as the demo at the moment and there are bugs that need to be sorted out. (Optimisation as a lot better after the late march patches) The dev team have been super active and are constantly patching and improving the stability of the game, however at this point, with the issues I have experienced I have requested a refund. I believe the price point does not match the stage of the game. I'd like to see the super early access games like this be at a cheaper price point and have the price increase as the game develops and has less bugs. I am an advocate for EA games and helping with the development of the game, however this one is priced in a tier where I would expect better gameplay and optimisation. Super early EA games that offer heavily discounted prices is a reward to people who are early adopters and help develop the game through feedback, bug reports etc. This game is priced in line with Valheim which is WAY more polished and stable than this. Lets talk about the game play: I love the gameplay! This game doesn't hold your hand, doesn't give you a map, makes you look at the environment, read notes, listen to the tapes and solve the clues on your own. This is refreshing and I love that about this game. I enjoy being able to walk through the forest and hear the wind, birds and sticks breaking without overpowering music. The sound has been done really well. Some Frustrations: Inventory is the worst. Items are stackable (like cloth) but the inventory will NOT stack them, it will take up an additional slot and makes you drag and drop it. I spent way too much time in my inventory dragging and dropping. Id like to see this updated and stackable items to automatically stack. Watch and compass; it's frustrating that they take up space in your inventory, the watch goes on your Hud, but the compass doesn't unless you are holding it. These should be equipable and sit on the person not in the inventory when it is super limited. Additions: Tape recorders - These are scattered around. I think the experience could be better. Currently I press play and have to stand there and listen. If I walk away I cant hear it. I would love these to be added to the journal so you can listen from in there and walk around exploring while I am listening to it. Journal pages, maps etc - These need to be looted and go into my journal but then I have to drop them from my inventory. Can these just go straight to my journal and be consumable removing the need to drop them. Picking up items - picking up items was frustrating when cooking or cleaning water. They sit on the fire and trying to click on the water bottle enters me back into the cooking menu. Would be good to have them automatically go into your inventory. Settings - I would like to be able to change some settings. Brightness - There is no change for brightness settings, my game was super dark (darker than the demo) and I couldn't brighten it. Cursor dot - I would like to be able to change the cursor dot colour, size etc. Seeing it when picking up items with small hit boxes was difficult at certain points in the day cycle or with flashlights in some areas In closing, The demo for this game really sold me on it. The full version is not like the demo, you can run the demo with no problems and still have issues in the full version. Would I recommend this game at full price? No Would I recommend buying this game on sale? Yes, If you understand it is very early in the development. Would I repurchase the game? I probably will at some point when it is on sale or when some of the bugs have been worked out.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Gold River Project is currently priced at 12.25€ on Steam.
Yes, The Gold River Project is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 12.25€ on Steam.
Yes, The Gold River Project received 394 positive votes out of a total of 625 achieving a rating of 6.12.
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The Gold River Project was developed by Fairview Games Inc. and published by Fairview Games Inc. and Sightline Games.
Yes, The Gold River Project is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, The Gold River Project is not playable on MacOS.
No, The Gold River Project is not playable on Linux.
No, The Gold River Project is not playable on Steam Deck.
This information about The Gold River Project is not available yet.
No, The Gold River Project does not support VR.
The Gold River Project offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
The Gold River Project includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
No, The Gold River Project does not currently offer any DLC.
No, The Gold River Project does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, The Gold River Project does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, The Gold River Project is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for The Gold River Project.
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| Steam price | 29 October 2026 19:31 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 19 October 2026 05:58 UTC |
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
44
Developer
Fairview Games Inc.
Publisher
Fairview Games Inc.,
Sightline Games
Release
23 Jan 2026
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