Our game · In development
BARELY
CIVILIZED.
A place worth surviving.
Build a home on the islands, or put it on a raft and take it with you.
A survival sandbox to play alone or with friends.
Actual gameplay October 2026
Your time on the islands
Your place on
the islands.
A club and a workbench get you started. From there, build a home, grow food, and prepare a raft for the next island. Cold weather costs more food, and the infected are more common after dark.
Settle in on your own or share a world with friends. You can work together. You can also steal each other’s fishing rods.
What’s in the game
Somewhere to call home.
Build a shelter, then add the furniture and a garden. Sleep in a bed or sleeping bag to choose your respawn spot.
Just one more cast.
Name your rod, get better with it, and find out what’s biting off the next shore.
Company with opinions.
Catch animals and care for them at home. Some will even let you ride. Don’t trust the sheep.
Still an alpha. Expect rough edges, bugs, and updates that can break saves. The game page keeps the current features and availability together.
The people making it are playing it
We actually
play it.
We sit down to test for an hour. Somehow, the evening disappears.
The stolen-bow feud has lasted several sessions. Sometimes writing down the bugs takes more discipline than finding them.
A note from us
Our locally added test builds, tracked through Steam. Captured October 2026. Open either screenshot to see it in full.
ArTchie Studios
Made by
ArTchie Studios.
Barely Civilized is our main project. ArTchie and Timber play the test builds together, then bring what worked and what broke back into development.
We’re still making an alpha. Some evenings produce a list of fixes; others produce a photograph of a goat ignoring gravity.
Behind the scenes
We make tools for our own development work, too. They’re staying behind the scenes for now.