Coral Island

This game stole my heart. I've started playing it not long after its release, it was incomplete with many areas under development. I still managed to achieve a lot in game and stopped playing for quite some time. Now, after big updates I am back and addicted again. The small changes and quality of life improvements make me enjoy every minute of it, the game is very relaxing and serves as a wonderful way to escape the reality. I'd say the only downside of Coral Island - all the characters are so nice and beautiful, it's very hard to choose who to romance XD

TLDR: This game is grindy, didn’t like the mechanics, hated the lack of music, and didn’t care for the npcs. I liked diving I guess. I wanted to like this game but I really don’t. I know everyone likes to call this game a stardew clone, but it’s so bad I genuinely don’t know how people are finding a resemblance. This game is so grindy. I’ve never had to do that in Stardew and people like to min-max this game to the limit. I keep a checklist of all the things I need to keep track of in Stardew and even that has not stressed me out as much as this game. Everyone online advertises this as a cozy game but there’s nothing damn cozy about this. I have to spend a long time gathering resources just to progress, then gather more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ resources to keep moving on. Fields of Mistria’s lore progression is also basically gather this, gather that, but it was nowhere near as grindy or stressful or infuriating as it is in this game. Why are you demanding 50 bronze quality fruits and vegetables when I’m literally on the 11th day of spring. I don’t even have money for 50 crops let alone 50 bronze quality ones. And I don’t even know where to get fruits. I hate gathering in this game. I know it will come to me as I play and progress in the game, but when I look at the amount I have to collect, all the different quality things I need to save, things I need that are locked away and won’t be available for a long ass time, I just feel ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tired. I game to relax, to have fun and be happy with my skills and progression. It feels like such a grind in this game. I don’t look at the community center in Stardew valley and groan, but gathering offerings for the goddess in the game just makes me want to tear off my skin. I don’t know what it is that makes gathering in this game so exhausting, but literally just thinking about how much effort it takes kills any will in me to play this. And that’s another thing, there are some mechanics that just aren’t explained. If I have to look up a fishing tutorial on youtube for your game, you’re doing something wrong. And ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it’s worse than Stardew’s. I HATE fishing in this game and that’s my main money maker in Stardew for a long ass time before I get to farming. I don’t even want to look at my fishing rod in this game. I read another review that talked about the lack of music in this game but I did not expect it to be this bad. I am writing this review while the game is running in the background and it’s dead silent. The few times music does play, it stops midway when I walk into certain areas. And then it’s just silence. Sure, the ambiance of the waterfalls and insects is nice, but even that audio is so damn low I have to crank the in-game audio and my device’s audio super high to hear it. With other games in the genre like Stardew valley and Fields of Mistria, the music is so good you’re either bopping along while it plays, or humming along or something. I’ve probably memorized almost all the songs in both games, and FOM just came out of early access. I understand that these games are all going for completely different vibes but give me something to chew on here. Half the time there’s nothing playing, and the other half, the music is so dead and boring I wonder why I wanted it back in the first place. The NPCs aren’t intriguing to me. I really don’t know what it is but besides some of their face cards, there is nothing making me go out of my way to say hi to them, or gift them or literally anything. And I bought this game to be able to talk to the townies and potentially build relationships. I find them all to be dead honestly. I can’t stand it. I might keep playing just to give the game a chance (I bought it full price so I feel like I have to give it a bit more time) but when I think about it, there’s nothing I’d be playing this game for besides diving maybe. I really like clearing the ocean but since I’m so early in the game, I have no energy to really get anywhere. At the end of the day, I don’t hate the game, I just feel numb/passive about it. And I prefer the 2D art in this game to the 3D graphics.

It's a really great game and very cozy. I feel like its better than most of the other games in its genre like stardew valley (very gross game, ewwwww) The developers are still updating the game and adding pretty amazing new content and quality-of-life stuff.

Für 29,99 ohne Rabatt lohnt sich das Spiel absolut auch ohne Rabatt. Es hat eine super süße Grafik, coole Figuren, viele Figuren und Interaktionsmöglichkeiten mit diesen, Story und eine riesige Palette an Sachen, die man erledigen kann/muss. - Feste - Haus und Hof bauen - Meereserkundung - Höhlenerkundung - Romance und Freundschaft - übliches Farmleben - Angeln - Insekten ... Man kann sich stundenlang verlieren ... ich weiß nie wo ich anfangen und weitermachen soll. Ich liebs in Kombination mit der Abwechslung die damit einhergeht.

Coral Island is basically Stardew Valley + Fast Travel, 50% Day speed, Town Rank, Seed upgrades, Ocean diving and more. This has to be my favorite farming sim now. Harvest Moon was the original, Stardew Valley revitalized the franchise and there have been many new farming sims since then. It is set on an Indonesian inspired tropical island. Coral Island is basically a spiritual successor to Stardew Valley, it shares many game mechanics and has a similar plot. But it does have extra features, such as quick and easy access to fast travel waypoints, the sprinklers are unlocked earlier and have a bigger range you dont even need to ugrade your sprinkling can, the game also has the option to increase the amount of time per game day, and there are new gameplay mechanics like upgrading the Town Rank to unlock new crops/animals, there’s also ocean diving and bug catching. There’s an appliance store since you need various kitchen appliances for cooking, and a clothing shop. There’s a diverse cast of characters and you can romance both single men and women if that’s something your interested in. There are also some similarities to OG Harvest Moon with its cute fat animals and a Harvest Goddess.

It's super cute and I love the direction they are going, but it has some very huge problems right now with game breaking bugs. It didn't spawn crucial cutscenes in the diving part of the game so I am stuck plus I didn't know that the item from this cut scene was needed and now I'm in winter realizing that I have to probably make a whole new game file, so not great. If they fixed these things it would be great, but as it stands, pass.

Waited forever for 1.3 to come out so I can finally start a new playthrough, you over hauled the mining so bad that I am completely out of all my resources and can't even get down to level 10, it feels horrible to play now. Revert the changes, because whatever you did was not needed and makes the game terrible to play and progress now.

剧情流程和星露谷有相似之处，画风太太太漂亮了，人很多很热闹，装修风格好看，制作组审美好