Coral Island

Overall, the game is fun with plenty of missions, sometimes even overwhelming, but still can be enjoyed with a relaxing pace. Farming, ranching, mining, foraging, combat, fishing, bug catching are all classical elements of farming games. What makes the game special is the supernatural elements, like temple offering, giants, goddess and guardians, diving which unlocks the merfolk kingdom. The downside is their contents aren't deep enough, I want more stories about the supernatural casts, not just a few cutscenes and heart events. The graphics are great and music is soothing, but after getting automation, the animation makes the game laggy and the fps drops to about 60 only. Romance roster is huge and I believe anyone can find someone attractive, but they are designed unequally, some gets deep backstories like Theo, Rafael, Yuri and Raina, some get interesting scenes and interactions like Agung, but people like Chaem and Charles are just boring or annoying.

Games pretty fun. Started replaying after finally getting a steam deck. My main issue is they took the unstuck button away. Kind of ruined everything considering you get stuck on this pretty constant sometimes. Why am I forced to wait until 2am to pass out, get money taken from me because im stuck. Taking the button away really ruined this game. Thinking of asking for my.money back.

Ultimately really fun game but given the price, i would have expected less game and progress-breaking bugs. Right now my kelp extractors only give 1 kelp essence no matter how much kelp i put in. I'll have all three filled to make 5 essence each and when i wake up the next day, two are empty and one extractor just has one single essence in it. That's not the only bug i just dont want this review to be 3 pages long. Just really annoying given there's no way to report bugs or any kind of "unstuck" button to fix things in the moment

This game is directly inspired by Stardew Valley. The map is structured almost exactly the same way, yet the game feels different, it has a unique character of its own. I think that's mainly because it's 3D rather than pixel art, but the characters, in my opinion, have more to offer than in Stardew Valley. That said, I don't think it's fair to constantly compare the two games. Coral Island is a great game. Unfortunately, more than 2 years after launch it still has bugs, but the dev team is constantly working on it, improving the game with new features and fixing problems. It's a super chill game that you can easily lose a lot of hours to (as you can see in my case, I have more than 120 hours on my PS5), and it can also be a great game for someone with ADHD, like me. The game constantly throws small objectives at you. It makes you glued to it, and before you realize it, you've spent an absurd amount of time chasing that one goal. Once you're done with it, a new one appears, and so on, until you basically finish the game. In my case, getting nearly every achievement. If you like farming games, enjoyed Stardew Valley, or just like chill games, give Coral Island a chance…

Very fun, if you've played out STV too many times, this is another great game to jump into. Idk, I wanted to write silly stuff but played so much brain go bye now.

Very fun farmsim/lifesim with a LOT of content. No other farmsim/lifesim that I've fully played has come close.