The game also offers you the chance to invest in the bank in the form of stocks. But don’t expect to rush through the game as everything takes time to complete including opening up the other areas of the island.Ĭastaway Paradise currency is Gems, you get them for completing quests and such. You can get them as a reward for completing some of the quests. Planting the crops Unlock all areasĮxtra areas on the island can be unlocked by collecting Puzzle Pieces, 9 for each area.
At first, these timers may seem stifling, but before long, you’re filling the gaps with other activities. While you do have the option of harvesting your crops early, you don’t get as much yield as you would for holding out.
You will have to wait a few minutes for your freshly planted flower patch to bloom. As it can take an hour for your newly planted tree to grow and bear fruit. Much of the rest of the game still operates through timers. Of course, in the Switch version, you can carry on working with the tools till your heart’s content, as there isn’t a recharge time at all. Or have to buy a premium currency to increase their maximum uses and speed up recharge times. In the mobile version of Castaway Paradise, you had to wait for stamina or water to recharge to be able to use your tools such as the watering can. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Especially if you have played Animal Crossing, as a lot of the games activities are the same, only on a smaller scale. You can collect shells, bugs and such and donate them to the island’s museum. There are trophies for collecting all of these, as well as every flower, every crop and every fruit. You can also grow a large variety of flowers as well as many different fruit trees and you can collect shells that wash up on the seashore. Along with the quest to complete, there are also daily objectives available to finish as well. But with a game like this, you don’t have to complete them all in one go and can instead focus on other things such as picking weeds or smashing rocks. The quests aren’t always the most engaging. Crops which are not cheap to buy the seeds for I will add. Quests range from a simple fetch quest, particularly in the first couple of hours, to quests asking you to grow a few crops for them. After all, the homes on the island were damaged in the storm too that ravaged the island and made you a castaway in the first place. You also are upgrading a few other buildings on the island by repairing them.
A house which you can add furniture to and customise by adding wallpaper and flooring.
Upgrade tent to a house Live in a TentĬastaway Paradise offers you a tent for free at the very beginning of the game and allows you to upgrade into a house. But offering such a large selection means there is something for everyone. The clothes and the furniture are all cosmetic. Each level gained opens a huge number of customisable objects such as clothes, seeds and furniture. Then you’ll be performing more complex quests for the island’s anthropomorphic residents to earn some money, items, and experience.Įarning experience will unlock even more items for purchase, and there is plenty of items on offer. You’ll start performing some basic tasks, like picking up litter, until the game tells you you’re ready to strike out on your own. Meeting Viktoria Explore and do Basic Tasks After that it’s on to the main island to go about your business as you see fit. Then you are immediately taken into a very simplistic tutorial. You can play as either a male or female character, after being washed up on shore you meet the mayor of the island, a pig named Viktoria. Collecting fruit, catching fish and insects and donating them to the local museum are your main gathering activities. If you’ve ever played an Animal Crossing game, you’ll know what to expect. You land on an island, which becomes your home. The main idea of the day is that you’re on a deserted island after being trapped in a storm in your boat, in the middle of the raging ocean. But has time been kind to Castaway Paradise? Let’s find out. Now, seven years after it made its debut in the gaming world, it’s the turn of the Nintendo Switch to host the game. Come 2018 the game was released on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Originally conceived as a Facebook game in 2014, Castaway Paradise was then released on mobile and Steam back in 2015.
Review code used, with many thanks to Rokaplay System: Nintendo Switch (also on Steam, PS4, Xbox One & iOS) Genre: Adventure, Education, Simulation, Lifestyle