Boring. Where’s the game? – 1sland Review

The game is aesthetically pleasing, and the minimalistic design is wonderful. There aren’t any intrusive advertisements or annoying UI-menu navigation you have to perform to enjoy playing the game. However, the game is just so empty. Coming into the game I thought it would be an open-world sailing exploration game with the niche battle royals event that you could choose to participate in; but really it’s just a dragged out progression system to make you forget how little content there is in the game. You have these repetitive, simple mini games and fishing quests you can do for the in game currency but they reset every two hours. You do the same thing over and over, catching the same fish- doing the same race, and sailing across empty ocean or icy waters. It’s a shame because I would’ve loved to have the battle royale side as a separate game mode, and have my own 1sland and exploration game to play. For those who care about the battle royale aspect: There really isn’t an advantage to people who want to spend a lot of money to find the island first, and there really isn’t an advantage to find the island first in the first. It takes a fair degree of luck to land your flares correctly to find the island quickly- and that’s it unless you are going to spam flares. Tl;dr: There’s enough content to last you for thirty minutes. Check the game out later maybe?
Review by Guylinerx on 1sland.