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After a crash strands you on a mysterious island, gather, craft, build a base, and explore abandoned research sites at your own pace.
Released 05 Mar 2024
Build Island Settlements
Uncover Jill’s Recordings
Grow Your Own Food
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Developed by Witte Studio · Published by Witte Studio









You survive an aircraft crash and awaken alone on an island that seems peaceful but holds traces of a failed research facility. Voice recordings left by Jill hint at the island’s past as you explore, with no fixed objectives dictating your route.
Gather materials, craft tools and weapons, hunt wildlife, and manage hunger, thirst, and exhaustion. Build shelters and settlements from materials such as wood, stone, and glass, and make workbenches and furniture.
Expand your setup by growing food, cooking, smelting metals, and generating electricity with solar or wind power. You can tame a dog, travel by vehicle, horse, or boat, and play alone or cooperatively as you explore changing weather and day-night conditions.
Some players enjoy the game’s quiet atmosphere, open-ended exploration, and freedom to build at their own pace, often praising the scenery and the range of things to discover. Building and relaxed survival are recurring draws, and several reviews appreciate continued updates. Other players describe the world as empty or the experience as unfinished, with rough interactions and combat undermining the appeal.
The focus is on building, crafting, discovery, and relaxed survival at your own pace.
Shape your own survival experience: There are no fixed objectives. Set your own goals, explore the island, build your base, and freely develop your own playstyle.
A global pandemic has shaken humanity. On this remote island once stood a secret research facility that was meant to develop a cure, but something went terribly wrong.
During the global chaos, an evacuation flight was launched, but navigation data became unreliable, communication systems failed, and fuel supplies ran low.
The aircraft lost control and crashed near an unknown island, by chance... or perhaps not?
You survive the crash and find yourself alone in what appears to be a peaceful yet abandoned world.
As you explore the island, you discover voice recordings from a woman named Jill, who was here before you. She speaks of strange events, experiments conducted within the research facility, and something hidden deep beneath the surface.
Inside the facility, you uncover traces of those experiments... remnants of something that was once human, but is no longer entirely human.
The research created something that should never have existed.
Jill's final message ends with a warning:
"I can no longer receive signals from anywhere in the world - except for one final, weak radio transmission from New York. Stay on the island... this may be the last safe place left."
The island reveals only part of the truth.
The deeper you venture, the greater the mystery of the world becomes.
Build bases using wood, stone, glass, straw, and much more
Construct workbenches, furniture, and functional structures
Create your own settlements and creative projects
Craft tools, weapons, and equipment
Process materials, smelt metals, and expand your infrastructure
Generate electricity using solar and wind power
Grow your own garden (e.g. vegetables, potatoes, and plants)
Process resources through cooking and smelting
Tame dogs as loyal hunting companions
Open world featuring abandoned buildings and hidden locations
Travel using vehicles, horses, and boats
Dynamic weather and day-night cycle
Discover clues about the island's true story
Hunger, thirst, and exhaustion
Hunt and defend yourself against wild animals
No zombies or monsters in the main game
Play alone or cooperatively with friends (P2P)
KeepUp Survival offers an open world with no fixed ending. You decide how you survive, build, explore, and uncover the island's secrets.
Every decision shapes your own story.
Whether you want to build creatively, live peacefully, or explore the island's lore, you decide where your journey leads.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 32 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 5 listed on Steam |
| DRM / EULA |
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| Website | Official website |
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