★★★★★ The most annoying/frustrating glitch
Mon Jul 27 2020 AYoungBullThis game is a great game, it is a slow paced relaxing game that requires lots of play time (or 1 purchase) to complete rewarding goals that pay off. There is a lot of grinding time wether it’s fishing for 20 minutes to find all species to driving around for hours to achieve mile goals. With that being said there are many boats and boat upgrades that can assist you in achieving more goals and getting more oysters (in game currency). My worst experience with this game is wasting oysters because they are very hard to get.
The most annoying glitch is the Position flare, I don’t know if the developers are aware of this glitch but you cannot use a second buoy/position flare. The first one shows your distance from the point you placed it but the second one you drop doesn’t show you the distance which is a complete waste of an oyster. Now if in game currency (oysters) were easily acquired and surplussed this would not be a big problem but all oysters are very important and critical to progression because of how they can be used and how tedious it is to get acquire them.
★★★★★ Amazing Start to a Great Zen Experience!
Fri Apr 01 2022 Davin, bc_toastI'll start off by saying this game has genuinely helped with a lot of anxiety and stress recently. The soundtrack is amazingly peaceful and it honestly makes this one of the most immersive mobile games I have ever played. The mix of the beautiful Animal Crossing style island builder, with the cash flow/gameplay aspects of an idle game mixed in, and complete lack of worrisome permanence with everything you do probably makes this one of the most relaxing experiences I've seen in mobile. It is clearly still fairly early in development with many more features to come I am assuming, so I will admit the game becomes a bit redundant after you buy every building. This point in the game is where fishing becomes a major factor. Fishing is equally as relaxing as the rest of the game, and the only thing I would ask from the developers is to create a wider range of "prizes" for what you catch. Right now it is pretty much either 1 heart or (X) thousand coins which is not a bad thing but it takes a little fun out because it takes some excitement away from what types of fish you catch. Maybe add rarer fish that swim in further away waters, or potentially a seasonal cycle where different types of fish swim during different seasons. Idk, I just know I am very excited for where this game could be headed, and if you are a big fan of 0 stress, complete zen experiences, then this is the game for you. :)
★★★★★ Great Game, Needs a lot of work
Tue Mar 08 2022 Laad LudaI rated it 5 stars because I think it’s great for such a new game. However, there could be a lot more done with it. Consistent crashes when I complete challenges in the ocean. The race is annoying, because you can so easily get stuck on the bordering bouys or whatever they are. I feel like you can build more stuff on an island you discover in a race vs on your own island. Why? I want to be able to build more stuff on my home land. And finding a container 50 miles from home? Seems a bit ridiculous. Maybe some help/hints with finding stuff out at sea? I want to be able to view a gallery of how many I’ve caught of what. Should be more to catch in the ocean. Percentage of rarity of finding different stuff is fine, but more fish and then being able to look at them and read their little bios later would be fun. There’s a glitch where you fish over fish and it doesn’t give you the button at the bottom, that needs fixing. Much more can be done but so far, congratulations developers. You’ve made a relaxing game that does not beg you to play for hours on end. The team should be proud of this app and I cannot wait to see where it goes.
★★★★★ Relaxing, laid back take on competitive gaming
Fri Jan 15 2021 dootdootmrskeltalAll in all it’s an enjoyable game. I’ve been playing it for roughly half a week and I really appreciate how zen the traveling is, with just a bit of problem solving mixed it. It makes for a very nice balance. The developers should be proud of what they’ve made here. I’d also like to say I have no idea where the complaints about the tutorial are coming from. The game is pretty simple and I don’t think the tutorial was overbearing or wordy.
My only gripe is that I seem to have upgraded as much as possible already (I think) yet every single game is won in minutes with me taking around 10-15 to find the island. Cutting down my time to compete with the same 10 champions seems like an impossible task, but I can’t say for sure since I haven’t been playing nearly as long as they have. Just a little disheartening when I see the notification and get excited only to have my chance at being #1 taken away in an average of 3 minutes.
★★★★★ Love it to pieces!
Mon Jul 27 2020 ambergem16(#43)No joke, I have been playing this game every day since I found out about it. At least once every six hour cycle I’m opening up 1sland to try and be the first to win. And I don’t even like battle royales! The pay to win format most of them have is unbearable to me and for the longest time I just gave up on them.
I picked up this game on a whim and now I’m never looking back.
Even with season passes, all they really do is speed up your progression. You can do almost anything a paid player can do, it’s just a slower grind. Yes, pass holders do get exclusive boats, but a non pass holder still has the ability to buy slightly different boats with the exact same advantages.
My only problem with it is that right now there are only two kinds of mini games you can find to earn extra exp, and some more variety would be nice!
Overall, it’s refreshing to see this new “paddle royale” and it’s much more relaxed and fair atmosphere brought to the table. I cannot recommend it enough!
★★★★★ Used to be fun, until
Wed Nov 23 2022 1sland?With the recent update as of Nov2022 now all in game currency (hearts and stars) you were able to earn has been reduced by half at a minimum. Boats used to all have the same base speed, now they have been made extremely slow with a new currency added that you can pay real money for to make them as good as the boats used to be. Boats can no longer be purchased with stars, but now cards as well (the same new currency you use to upgrade boats.) They basically went and turned racing which was more or less about finding the best path to hit speed up orbs and avoid whirlpools/icebergs into a “pay us money and you can have first on the leaderboard.” It used to be optional and if you were good enough you could make top five regardless if you were paying or not. Now it just seems like they tried to monetize everything and make the grind wayyy longer for things just so you’ll give them money to speed it up. Maybe things will change back, but I seriously doubt it with how app and console games are now.
★★★★★ The game is great, here are some tips.
Sun Aug 16 2020 rids711I know this game is going to get popular very fast, so relaxing and slow paced and with a lot of patience you can be permanently put in the Hall of fame and people can see your 1sland!. One extra thing here are couple nit picks, in the tutorial you get bombarded with text that make the tutorial frustrating, which isn’t good because it can deture people from the game. For example trying to get XP you missed behind you is hard because when you go back to get it the tutorial stops you in your place with text. the progress is slow but I think this isn’t a game you are supposed to grind for long time maybe it’s a game you use for relaxation. one last thing getting an island is very very hard but I think it’s to make you enjoy the journey and feel fulfilled when you get an island, anyways amazing game and maybe it can take over the mobile market like Mario kart and or Pokémon go did.
★★★★★ Frustrating tutorials, lots of potential
Sat Aug 15 2020 Dude372Amazing visuals, could’ve been the perfect zen experience, however, the forced annoying tutorial and the forced competition, ruins the experience. I had to delete it after the first ten minutes or so, I went through the first level with the slowest tutorial I’ve ever seen, and after it ended (which btw, was apparently a competition that I didn’t sign up for), I thought cool, it probably has some zen mode or sth, but no, more tutorials and competition 😭!
The visuals and the idea behind the game are great, and as said in the title, it has a lot of potential, if the developer ever gets rid if the tutorial torture and the competition, and adds a complete zen mode, like in Alto’s Adventure, or an offline gaming version in which you don’t have to compete with others online, I would happily re-install it! I rarely write reviews for apps and games, especially games, but I really like this game to get better ‘cause I know it can. I hope I’ll be able to enjoy this game in near future.
