From Press Release:
San Rafael, California and Prague, Czech Republic – August 31, 2026. North Beach Games today revealed the first teaser trailer for Stranded Deep 2, giving players their first look at the next evolution of the survival sandbox experience. The game’s Steam page is now live alongside the Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest, giving players the opportunity to wishlist the game and discover the new frontier that awaits.
Developed and published by North Beach Games, with Stranded Deep co-creator Sam Edwards heading up the team as Creative Director, Stranded Deep 2 expands the survival sandbox experience into an unforgiving desert wilderness. Rather than being stranded in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, players must now survive within a harsh landscape shaped by scorching heat, winding rivers, towering canyons and deadly wildlife, with a whole new world of biomes to explore and resources to discover.
But the desert is only the beginning.
Stranded Deep 2 is a frontier exploration survival game. Players start as survivors, grow into explorers, and gradually discover that there is far more to the world than simply staying alive. At the heart of the experience is an endless river world, carving through canyons, dunes and valleys and providing a lifeline into a vast wilderness filled with danger and discovery.
Players can navigate the river by kayak or raft, with every journey offering new locations and experiences. The world is built around a growing library of handcrafted content, meaning the endless landscape isn’t simply an infinite loop of procedurally generated repetition. New biomes, locations, wildlife, crafting and other content can be added over time, allowing the world to become richer as the game evolves.
A World to Explore, Shape and Make Your Own
The world of Stranded Deep 2 reacts to the player, with dynamic water and terrain creating new ways to interact with the environment. Players can dig into the landscape, reshape terrain and redirect the river, while rapids and treacherous waters add new challenges to exploration.
Survival remains at the heart of the experience, with players managing health, hunger, thirst and exposure while learning to recognise the dangers around them.
For those looking to establish a home, mobile bases allow players to build floating homes and take them along the river. Pack up and move to the next stretch of wilderness, or settle on the banks and build a more permanent base.
The wilderness itself is a living ecosystem, with animals roaming, hunting and following a real food chain. Players are part of that ecosystem, and they’re not necessarily at the top.
Crafting has also been expanded through a more physical approach to customisation. Players choose the materials used to build their tools and structures, allowing equipment and creations to reflect the resources found during their journey.
The returning Cartographer has been revamped as Cartographer 2.0, giving players the tools to create their own locations and experiences and share them with friends across platforms.
Built to Grow
Built on a decade of community feedback, Stranded Deep 2 has been designed from the outset to grow through regular content updates.
Its modular foundation allows North Beach Games to expand the world with new biomes, locations, wildlife, crafting and Cartographer content, creating a world that gets richer over time and giving players more reasons to keep exploring.
Co-op is also being developed as a first-class feature, giving players new ways to explore the frontier together.
Stranded Deep 2 takes everything players loved about the original and expands it into a larger, more dynamic frontier, one where survival is just the beginning.
How Far Will You Go?
Wishlist Stranded Deep 2 Now
The Steam page for Stranded Deep 2 is live now, giving fans their first opportunity to wishlist the game and follow its development.
Follow Stranded Deep 2’s development journey on the official website www.strandeddeep2.com as well the game’s social media channels | YOUTUBE | INSTAGRAM | X | REDDIT | TIKTOK | FACEBOOK | BSKY
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About North Beach Games
North Beach Games is a global independent game company that publishes PC and console games with a focus on the survival crafting and role-playing categories. Its mission is to partner with and empower the world’s best independent developers and studios. Headquartered in San Rafael, CA, North Beach Games is comprised of industry veterans with a wide range of experience in publishing, marketing and game development. The company opened a new internal development studio in 2024 in Prague to expand its global footprint as a premier expert of survival crafting and RPG experiences. Most recently, North Beach Games launched the Durin’s Folk expansion for The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ with developer Free Range Games, available on the Epic Games Store, Steam, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation®5. Inquiries regarding publishing and development opportunities can be directed to Contact@northbeachgames.com.
About Stranded Deep 2
Stranded Deep 2 is an expanded survival sandbox experience developed and published by North Beach Games, with Stranded Deep co-creator Sam Edwards returning as Creative Director.
Stranded in a scorching desert, players must follow an endless river through canyons and dunes, gathering resources, crafting, building and surviving against the elements and deadly wildlife. With expanded building systems, mobile raft bases, dynamic water interaction, diverse biomes and a new world to explore, Stranded Deep 2 takes the survival experience in an entirely new direction.
Survival is just the beginning. www.strandeddeep2.com
