RPGM - The Island [v0.9.24.5.1.2] [SWAJ]

v.0.9.23.1

Extreme amount of bugs. it's crazy. i dont recommend you this game on this patch at all. wait until bugs are fixed. near unplayable.

you can barely open the menu, it's very bugged. if you spam num0, 95% of the time it won't open. if it opens then you cannot see which option is selected. you have to randomly select something, go back(with num0) then it properly highlights what's selected... but after you quit menu again it's really really hard to open it up again, you have to open some other random stuff with enter (other menus from clickable things) so somehow the menu resets back to be openable.

workaround: if you use menu use it only once, keep in mind where the invisible highlight of cursor is, choose what you want (save) and quit menu, if you do it this way, the highlight selection of options is never visible but at least you can open the menu on demand.

furthermore there is no skip option. even sex scenes are not skippable. and for example if there is a full sex event, it will consist of like 7different scenes (7 positions) and all you will have a 10second animation, unskippable. so for the full scene it will take 1minute10seconds.

other bugs, literally starting the game for 1minute you have to collect stuff... now every time you collect things, it writes "you collected 0"... yes 0. all the time. how are these devs so lazy when all these bugs are observable in 1 minute of playing.

there are many other bugs too. sometimes text mistakes, there is no force 60 fps frame rate option so your clicks sometimes are extra fast.

although you can mute sex noises since a couple of patches ago so i dont know what the previous reviewer was talking about that sex sounds were annoying when it's literally the first game ive seen where you can mute only the sex sfx if you want. so that's a plus.

i think this game could be really fun but in its current patch: hard avoid.

review as of v0.9.20.1

So... this is an interesting idea, but the implementation is just... not good.

Visually, this game is quite bad to be honest. Outdated af - even when using Illusion games as a base for your art you can install custom textures and shaders to make it look better. And even if you don't, the characters simply look really bland and generic, as if literally 0 effort went into creating them in the character maker.

Sex animations are very low quality and are unskippable, and the button to turn off sounds during sex scenes (which for me are a huge turn off) straight up does nothing.

Gameplay is even worse though. Certain things take ungodly amount of time. Like, the first time you go into a cave, you have to climb a bit to get to where you need to be. And so your character sloooooowly climbs a bit. Takes a break. Sloooooowly climbs a little more. Takes another break. And then finally slooooowly climbs the last bit. Is it necessary? Is it REALLY necessary? Or like the scene where someone masturbates as they sleep - you're literally just watching a dude masturbation animation for at least 10 seconds. Why? Just why? Thankfully, you can hold enter to speed SOME of these up, but not all, and it's still way too long.

Then there's an issue of things like - you make a fishing spear and go fishing. Guess how long that spear lasts? One attempt. ONE. It literally breaks after one use and you're forced to make another. Bruh...

This game is just not fun. A for idea, F for implementation. If you want something more fun, there are better survival games out there. I can think of at least two... it's a shame the genre is kinda lacking... I was really hoping this would be better.

Pros:

• No major bugs
• The choreography of many of the scenes are really well done.
• Once you accept the dumb setting (it's a porn game after all), you'll notice that the characters are smart enough to be relatable.
• Story's isn't edge of the seat gripping, but is good enough to keep me interested, which is a rare accomplishment.

Cons:

• Lots of minor bugs. Most are fixed.
• The render of scenes are nothing to write home about. It gets the job done though. Revamped scenes are better now.
• Most of the game's a little grindy. Not too bad, as most of the grind are for optional (and useless) consumables with no scenes attatched, so you can just skip those.
• Near the very end of the current content, there's a camp management section that's ridiculously grindy and unskippable. Grind of the camp section is reduced in last update.
• No minimap, and you will get lost on the overworld map.

At its current state, it's a decent game, but not bad either. If the tags fits your taste, you probably would still enjoy it despite the minor annoyance .

Most of the annoyance are gone. It's now a very enjoyable game

Nicely done in my opinion good attention to details also decent storyline it got me playing for many hours sometimes i even forgot i playing adult game so I'm definitely will be waiting for final version to see ending

Interesting game with a premise I haven't seen done this way, I like it very much
the content is varied and the story is cool, makes you care and try to see it to end and get those girls outta there with many tribulations on the way

(As of 0.7.3)
So far, so decent. There are a lot of pieces that need to be touched up on, but I think that the game is a neat idea. For some improvements/gripes you will notice, we have:
1. Movement is waaaaay too slow for all the exploration and backtracking. If sprinting is going to cost me, at least make it actually fast and not what i want the basic movement to be.
2. You are punished for sex scenes (bad) but its because the game has a built in corruption system to surround it (good), and I would say that maybe the only touch is to lower how fast the 'return to monke' bar fills so we can enjoy the slow burn of the corruption. If I have sex once and am 75% of the way to monke, then its not corruption, it's mind break
3. Engine and UI feel awful. I am not super bugged by the ripped art or the clunky scenes, as those are staples in this nook, but I do think the egregious menu-ing and the clunky ass interface that is also forcing me to use a bunch of bizarre ass keys to operate need to change (like right mouse for no but z for yes kinda janky coding)

I am not sure on how to rate it. If it were right now, a 1/5, but I think if it gets polished really well and re-released that the island could be great.

TLDR: Not bad but needs polish, actually a 2.5/5 but rounded down

The story is quite authentic and optimistic for RPG and sandbox enthusiasts. Although I don't like 3D and I don't relish the Render Art of the game, I played it for a long period because the story and mechanics are quite intriguing. The female lead characters are engaging, specifically, the plot and the span of the narrative are ideally shaped for an erotic type of story, I liked it.

This is... not the greatest or the worst game you will find out there. The scenes are good as well as the overall content, if you are into powerpoint presentations, but a few minor flaws are outright infuriating. The most glaring flaw would be the load times and delay between certain scenes, and just the speed of everything in general. Eventually, should you choose to try out this game, you will realize that the scenes are indeed meant to run that slow and it isn't your laptop or PC crapping out on you. I have a fairly damn nice gaming laptop that I played this on, and the last time I experienced slow downs this bad was back when I was trying to use a laptop with 2GB RAM to run steam.

I would really like to give this game the four stars it deserves, if it worked as hopefully intended, but damn does the agonizingly long time it take to do anything make playing this game almost unbearable.

[Rev @ The Island v0.3.2.1]

Not for me.

I got no value from the art; custom girl render software + RPGMaker chipset 'augmented' by a spattering of 2-frame animations. The wandering bellybutton on the spearfishing sequence made me laugh as the highpoint of my experience.

The writing badly needs an editor. Scenario is trite and while there is some novelty to this presentation is isn't novel enough to warrant me coming back.

None of the porn squicked me. The gore sure as fuck did.

The design philosophy seems like bizarro-world logic to my brain: you get porn in this porn game as a sign that you're doing badly, the most effort went into an overlong game over sequence, and it's all closed out by gore and death. Not why I'm here thanks. The movement speed lends a very nearly physical feeling of wasting one's time.

TLDR: You do you, fam.

So, game is kinda bad at this moment.
Engine is laggy, buggy and slow.
Lazy CG's from other popular game(forgot the name) and i don't understand why so many creators take this game for CGs and not atleast smth like Wild life. The transitions in dialogs are so slow that it is frustrating. Walking in open world is a fking torture. Sex scenes is not that great in my opinion and once again you are getting punished for having sex in porn game.
Like for trying, i guess.

The game has an intersting premise, and while it is still very early in develpoment, its very first iteration already had promise and a base storyline and mechanics established, not a 5 minute half assed demo.

The engine is a bit dated, but it has an old school charm and not appalling to look at, by any means.
The dev is very dedicated and works to improve his product on a daily basis.

4 stars with the very real possiblity of having 5 if it reaches a state it can certainly achieve.

If you are a fan of survival , pregnancy and horror elements be on the lookup for more

That's an actual game how it should be done. You have a various gameplay, nice graphics, atmosphere. I wish every developer would put as much effort as this dev did instead of going lazy mod like 90% here.
Definitely will look for more.

Good game, I like the idea. Maybe increase player speed or sprint time a little bit if there is going to be so much running back and forth. Or add more random events between locations. Crafting materials seem largely un-needed in the current state