Isle Of Spirits

**OK, so I played for about 35 minutes, so I can't really comment on the long-tail of the game, but I can give some notes. That also goes without saying that maybe this suddenly changes and blossoms into an amazing game at some point, but I don't see evidence of that and from what I've played, I don't think it's likely. ** This looks & feels like someone's first game, so I don't want to be too hard on anyone, I'll do my best to phrase this as constructively as I can, but if anything comes across as mean/sarcastic, please know it's not meant that way. If I'd come across this on itchio for free and saw it was the dev's first game, I'd be pleasantly surprised. The basic mechanics work(outside a confusing cooking mini-game), there's something of a core loop, there's a vague goal. It's all more or less passable, for a free game. The look of things are off though, the sort of soft 3D-chibi protagonist doesn't belong in the blocky world, and the blocky world implies the ability to deform the terrain(since that's the entire point of building a big world out of cubes) but I could not figure out any way to do so, and it appears there just isn't a way to deform the world. The game is adver…

Pros -interesting graphics style -proceduarally generated islands Cons -expensive for almost no content (all you can do is collect resources and craft a few items) -no story line or lore around the spirits -spend most of your time trying not to starve and chopping trees -your bed, chests, and house get destroyed by tornadoes almost daily -you will run out of food within a day and spend the rest of your game trying to not starve instead of being able to progress -meals and cooked foods give almost no food so you will always be hungry -not much to do except run around and chop trees -permadeath -weird camera angle (you can't look up very far) -buggy - sometimes will not chop trees or get stuck on edges, fires go out for no reason in the middle of the night and you have no way of knowing when or if it will happen -no guides or instructions (this is not a feature, this is a problematic thing to put into a game)

[b]Isle of Spirits[/b] is a pretty hardcore survival game that's set on a remote island. The goal here, in addition to surviving from day to day, is to craft a raft and escape from said remote island. The game has no wildlife to speak of, but if you're caught in the dark at night, then you'll be attacked by some invisible force. In some ways, this aspect of the game is similar to Don't Starve. ----------------------- [h1]Watch me play![/h1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGgFPxUTH0 Died twice here - once because I wanted to "gather water" from the pool and apparently, water insta-killed my character; and second, I ran out of food. ----------------------- The challenging/hardcore part of the game is reflected in the game's hunger and sleep meters. Like most survival games, you'll need to find and consume food, as well as to have enough rest. The thing is food is moderately hard to come by and it restores only a small portion of your hunger meter. Basically, you'll need more food than you can find and gather in this game, even if you have a few farms going. This, in turn, means that you'll really need to make full use of the first few days you have (so far, I've managed to make i…

Isle of Spirits is a selection of Unity Asset Store assets (like the Hand Painted Pine Pack by Zugzug Art) slapped together to make a rudimentary, but very low quality Minecraft ripoff that's worse than Minecraft in every respect. Putting aside the fact that the game assets are all flipped, at least the developer tried to make some kind of game out of this instead of taking someone else's game pack and selling it as if they wrote it themselves. Unfortunately, the resultant product is still just about as bad. Touching water instakills you, there's only a few things you can craft, there's no point to the game. The quality here is very poor, I can't see why gamers should give this any more consideration than any other Unity asset flip.

Really really nice looking game but there's just not much to do.

A small survival game you will finish in about 30 minutes. I think this might actually have a potential to be "alright" if the devs expanded the gameplay, added more islands, visible enemies, weapons and more craftables. Youre stranded on a (not so big) island and you have to gather resources to craft a raft. You will probably die once or twice before you learn the game mechanics, water insta kills you, there are invisible mobs in the dark and cooking food could be explained better. All in all there isnt much to do, you walk around gathering resources while cursing the tiny inventory. For your own sanity you're probably better off not wondering "why do i have 15 wood pieces filling up my whole inventory, when they could just be stacked together like in any other game". Other than random events that kill you, the game is actually supposed to be pretty relaxing however I found gathering wood/stone via tools so slow that it actually gave me stress. I havent found any settings to fiddle with so youre stuck with a pretty annoying camera view and slightly too loud music. 4 eur for about 1h of gameplay is a bit of an overkill in my opinion.