Adventures On The Polluted Islands

pixel art adventure game with sandbox elements in which you control a crab exploring radioactively contaminated islands. ✅Iinteresting idea: playing as a carab ✅The ability to explore islands ✅Good sound design ❌Repeatable quests from island 1 to island 2, of the "fetch an item" type. ❌Im not a fan of pixel art ❌The price could have been lower ❌Undifferentiated enemies ❌Very simple combat system without much development of new skills or interesting combat mechanics ❌No option to change resolution ❌❌ Verdict: [strike] Terrible [/strike], [b] Bad [/b], [strike] Mediocre [/strike], [strike] Decent [/strike], [strike] Good [/strike], [strike] Very Good [/strike] (Rating scale for tested game) [quote] If you'd like to see more of my reviews, you can find them on my curator page:[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45994324/admin/reviews_manage/]CuratorKingViking[/url] and on my group: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CuratorKingViking]GroupKingViking[/url] If you have any questions about my reviews, feel free to ask. I'm happy to answer them. All reviews are my own!! Best regards, King Viking Bezimienny, Polish Game Reviewer. [/quote]

Crab throws a boomerang.

It's simply boring. I don't recommend it as a paid game, and only good enough to pass free time if you really have nothing else to do.

Adventures On The Polluted Islands, developed by Uncle Frost Team and published by Sometimes You, is a surprisingly thoughtful and atmospheric indie adventure that uses its modest presentation to deliver a quiet yet resonant environmental narrative. Set within a chain of islands poisoned by industrial neglect, the game introduces players to a world where beauty and ruin coexist. Instead of spelling out its backstory through exposition, it relies on visual storytelling—abandoned machinery, contaminated waters, decaying structures, and scattered remnants of a civilization that either fled or surrendered. This minimalistic approach gives the world a sense of authenticity, encouraging players to draw their own conclusions about what happened and why. The result is a setting that feels eerily plausible, touching on themes of environmental collapse without becoming preachy or melodramatic. The gameplay blends gentle exploration, simple combat encounters, gathering, light crafting, and environmental problem-solving, but it keeps everything accessible and streamlined. Progression is built around collecting resources, purifying polluted zones, unlocking traversal tools, and gradually resto…

The crab-with-a-boomerang premise is charming and genuinely unique, but the execution drags it down. Controls initially shipped without a proper scheme and reportedly only got fixed after players emailed the publisher directly, and even now the aiming feels a bit off, forcing constant repositioning during fights; controls also can't be rebound. The crab's slow movement speed compounds the bigger issue: a lot of fetch-quest backtracking across screens with no map and few in-game hints, which turns exploration into tedious repetition rather than discovery. There's also a reported boss-fight bug on island 2 where the boss's health bar drains instantly before the fight even really starts, cutting the encounter short. Tightening the pacing (faster movement or shorter backtracks), adding a map, and fixing the boss health bug would go a long way toward letting the game's fun, weird concept shine through.

It's... super repetitive. But... I guess fun enough to find yourself glued to it.