Ocean Is Home : Island Life Simulator

So far I'm liking what I see. Obviously as an early-access game it's incomplete, but it's looking promising. I have been playing the mobile version for some time, and this game is a big step up from there. The island has been reimagined, while keeping the same basic layout as before, which is nice as there isn't too much of a learning curve if you come from the mobile version. The graphics of course have all had a facelift, and it generally looks gorgeous now. Even driving, which used to be a chore on the mobile version, has beccome a joy with the first-person view (though it could do with the ability to look left and right at junctions) which makes it so much easier to steer, which is essential around the new twisty and hilly roads. Other things of note: the litter (bananas, bottles of water, etc) that used to litter the island (a hangover from the old version 1 mobile days I think) are now gone. And quite rightly - they were a bit silly really. Instead free food can be obtained from street vendors, or you buy the good stuff from shops as before. Speaking of shops, some have been consolidated so that there's a bit less trawling around to find the things you need. The mall is empty, at the moment, with all the hardware bits from there and elsewhere gathered into a general hardware store, and the food moved to a dedicated food shop near your starting house. Which makes more sense really. I don't know what the plans for the mall are, but I can't wait to see how it develops. As well as being incomplete there are a couple of oddities at the moment which are due to be tackled in the next releases, but nothing major. This game is very much the culmination of years of practice with the mobile versions. It's an evolution of them taking the best bits and building on them through feedback from the players, which as a player makes me feel valued. Which is nice.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ( Reminds me of GTA 3,4 Graphics, but more Modern, Very clean looking ) ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ( Game is in Early Access so many things are still in progress but the game is very playable ) ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ( Sound has been where it needs to be, but a NOTE: the vehicle has a radio station but you can also put MP3 files in a folder in the game files and play your own music as the radio station. ) ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ( Anyone who enjoys a casual Life simulator and have no problems with figuring some things out along the way during early access will have fun here ) ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ( The better the PC the better, but it shouldn't take a power house to run. You should be able to run it just fine. ) ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ( Basic concept but has very deep mechanics under the hood, so be prepared to find how deep this rabbit hole goes, there is a lot of features here and just waiting to be uncovered. ) ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ( Play at your own pace... If you want to grind you can.. Grind for your $$$ and buy a business, vehicles, and property to build a new home or put more $$$ into your current home and let your imagination go wild. ) ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ( They may add story features at some point, who knows, I never saw any story, but I don't need it. ) ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond (Play at your pace and as long as you like.... That is how it appears to me. ) ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ( Price is fare, give them time to develop. they are receptive in the discussions if you have questions. Early Access, so give it time to blossom and grow. ) ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ( I have had no real issues with bugs, I am sure there are a few hanging around... But nothing has bothered me sense I have been playing. ) ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ( For Early Access at the Price Point, 8/10, This has great potential as long as they stay on course and not float off into left field somewhere with unnecessary stuff. People are going to ask for a lot of weird stuff but if they stick with Island Life Simulation and do not waiver this could be a good game for a long time and a building platform for maybe a Life Simulator Part 2 in the future somewhere. ☐ 9 ☐ 10 I paid for this game and I was not influenced to write anything here, this is all my opinion.

Last updated in June, 2023... no news since. Stay away, it is dead.

I really wanted to like this game as I LOVE 80s aesthetics & music and the concept behind this game, but I'm returning it as I felt there is a lack of tutorial / guidance and what also would have been great is if there was a task / log quest viewer where you have to achieve certain things in order to make progress. Things like "visit the store, buy XYZ, chop some wood, sell XYZ to JKL" - that sort of thing. It would give people some help to get started in this game. It's great that a message pops up at the start of the game saying you can buy & sell things, renovate and what not, but it doesn't tell you HOW. :( So basically you're running around like a headless chicken in this game wasting your time. I would definitely reconsider buying it again once it's a bit more developed.

while the game is still in development and lots is left to do, i like the laid back design., you can be a postman, trash collector, store owner or other occupatons. and tooling around is fun. but, as i said, its still got ways to go. you can see that the devs have a lot of good ideas and will have a fairly good game in a yeara or so.

Very enjoyable sandbox game. From running a store to building your own house from the ground up. Most of the negative reviews are ones that say there is no starting guide or direction. If you read the starting part and treat the game like starting a new life in a undiscovered area where you need to learn the ropes you will do fine and have fun I believe. Happy Gaming

Ocean is Home; is another early access game, very early access, and surprisingly, has very few bugs. In this game, there is a lot of driving involved in this game, and if you decide to buy this game, I strongly urge you to read the basic guides for how to play. When I first booted up this game, I admit I was rather lost in what to do, and how to do things, so going over the rather short but very useful guides, is strongly recommended. There are survival elements to this game as well, your character has to eat, drink, and work to make money. You have a starter home, and a beat up pickup to drive with to get you started and a credit card with a good amount of starting cash available. There are some shops, not too many, with gas stations for fuel, and a few garages available to maintain, your vehicles engine, and tires for when they wear out. So you may ask what the downside is, and actually there is not a lot to complain about. Driving is something of a pain when turning, as the cars/trucks tend to over steer any turns, rather abruptly, so a soft touch is required. The amount of maintenance on vehicles may be a bit too often required, and could use a little tweaking so your not spending too much for repair work. ( except maybe in my case: "Ooops hit a tree!") . What's great about it? you may ask. Well I love the fact there are so many classic cars available to drive, The general lee type Dodge Charger, an El Camino, the old Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors on it, with more to be added over time, yes there is controller support available ( double check to be sure as I don't use any). The game is pretty laid back, no rush, thank goodness, considering how long it takes me to get from one end of the Island to the other. You can mine resources, build homes, from scratch, go Zombie hunting on the "unsafe" northern side of the island, which is divided by a river, so the south side is safe. The devs promise to make new business's available down the road, and you can rent out a shop to start one, I have not tried that yet, as I've only been playing for a short while, and the island is quite big. lots of potential in this game. If you don't mind the slow start, and the quirky driving system, this could be the game for you, especially if you like the old muscle cars.

Pretty fun concept but it is still way too early access to enjoy: Unintuitive UI Items are used without any animations Some furniture in your house is for show (expected to be able to drink water from the sink I installed in the kitchen or from the sink in the bathroom but I couldn't) You can turn on the faucets to drink water from the water fountains but you can't turn it off, you have to wait for a long time until it turns off on its own. You can't seem to be able to pick up multiple parcels at once. You cannot sprint (did not check keybinds, I tried SHIFT and that did nothing) You cannot place different permanent markers on the map (I had issues remembering where my house was and I had to drive around the area until I saw a house with a missing fence lol, there is an icon for this but it's a generic icon for other plots too) The world is pretty bare and there's not that much to do. It would be awesome if you'd get a tutorial / initial questline to get you going. You cannot seem to be able to pack items up and place them in the house's inventory without some sort of tool? I saw in someone's guide that they were using a tool to destroy already placed items in the shop (destroy or pack, not sure) - I bought a large bed and I was unable to remove the one person one. Pretty small obstacles stop your car so if you want to use shortcuts you can't really. This might be a design choice and the aim is realism but in a game it can be pretty annoying. Refunding for now but I'll be keeping an eye on this as it has the potential to be great one day.

A unique concept that no other game has. this is my childhood game i used to play on mobile. a very good game. DEVS if u see this please respond to my message :)

A very fun game and the technical support is wonderful and fast. It spends hours without getting bored. It needs some modifications and additions. I think programmers will speed up adding it.

This here should absolutely not be a bad review, because the game is pretty cool for being in its infancy. Here below I would just like to note things that I would like to see as improvements. I hope that one or the other will still be implemented, because it certainly stimulates the fun of the game even more. -What bothers me is why can't you sell the houses? -I wanted to sell a piece of furniture, but have not yet found out found out if this works (I don't think so). Had to scrapped it. (also would be great more choice) -I would like to see a little more improvement in the graphics, of course. Graphics, the figures (but also otherwise) sometimes look very angular and why can you address them, but nobody wants to talk to you? -It would be cool if you could have pets too. -Naturally more options for lands to buy and develop more. -And worst of all, yesterday my car got stuck on a ledge, I could respawn myself but not the car, so I could (thank god I haven't been playing that long) I have not played so long) start over. And that you do not think everything is bad.... The music is really the hit :D And for this price and considering that it's early acess (released 9th December 2022), you can't fault it. I'm curious to see how the game develops.

The game is dead, dont even bother, unless you have 15 bucks to spare and you absoloutely love the game.

It's just a great game. Driving the vehicles is quite good fun, can honestly say, I never drifted a transit quite so hard haha :)

I wouldn't buy this. Had watched a few run throughs on YouTube but it feels very repetitive and it's unclear what to do. There's not a lot of guidance online if you're stuck either.

Like where the game is heading . really chill game to just play in your free time . the building is pretty addicting and there's tons of different vehicles and items in game

EDIT - - - EDIT - - - EDIT - - - This game was ABANDONED by the developer.. do NOT waste you money here.. now while the game is fun and playable , it has not gotten an update in well over a year plus. Do not feed a developer that made a game , took the money and ran away. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alright so i only just bought this game and it's not bad , but the total lack of tutorial is one of my major issues , sure you'll figure it out and you'll learn how to make money. Game is fun and for the price it's not a bad deal. GOOD - Fun and entertaining. - Got the rags-to-riches vibe - has internet radio that really hits on that 80's vibe. - Good amount of vehicles to buy. - You have to buy vehicles. - You cannot steal vehicles. - You can buy property (Build a house from the ground up , Run a business , micro-manage) BAD - Fuel usage is horrible. (Needs major tweaking) - Vitals need tweaking. (Hunger , Thirst , Sleep) - Island feels to small. - GPS needs to be revamped (A line in the road , arrows on the road are needed- Something to follow) - game has no tutorial (Could use a way to teach you the ropes in a story-like way) - In-game wiki is hidden in the settings menu. UGLY - Game has zombies. a game about living your life and making something of yourself has no place for pathetic zombies. Feels like they added it because they're trying to cater to the "Shooter" community. IS IT WORTH A BUY ?? NO !! Game was ABANDONED !

Upon release i had high hopes but now i am not so sure seems they are redoing the game engine and i don't think that will be a fast process so no new content to speak of yet few interior improvements of the cars but that's it.. I would wait and see if they turn it into anything better. Sad because i had high hopes for this game.

All interface and controls feels like a cheesy mobile game, you should improve this for pc port and don't have any starting guide except bunch of nonsense text. Not worth a penny in this situation.

A Decent tiny world of happiness 😊. The shop are new updates. But old mobile update 2021-2022.(road on zombie island,gas station with stuffs ,zombie in the house with stuff.., guns...) ARE MISSING IN IT. 5 shop with food stuff store are boring.. Cloth shop,Electrical shop and car service or car sales store are interesting.

finally I can play the PC version, so far I've been playing with the emulator, good job, I'm waiting for further developments

Great Game, one the of the best indie life sims out there, its only going to get better with time

Very good game developers! Consider porting Ocean Is Home: Island Survival to PC as well please.

It's a great game, got 37 hours game time and so much to do and so much fun. I give 10 thumbs up. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Been over 2 months now no movement Developers last comment made it sound like a money grab they were moving away from an going onto something else avoid this developer from sound of things they got a better chance of finishing a case of beer then they do a game.

imagine this game if the modding community got there hands on it

Such a bad game no update since 2023.It's a dead game and waste my money. I completely need a refund.

it was very promising at the beginning-now its abandoned. not enough content.

Very chill relaxing game... you can do any job to earn money. You can buy a shop and open your own grocery store to earn more money. You can build your own house from scratch.

GAME DOES NOT WORK! When you start new game your character just spins in place with the build menu glitching through you. The only way to exit is to launch task manager. Must be a failed project makes no sense to SELL a game that does not work! So do not buy

there are no mod plez and mod it not fun

This game definitely deserves more attention. Players who like to play survival games will love it, but also who likes to put efforts because this game is all about efforts. Developers should look forward to update the stores, maybe allow players to hire one more person to top up goods in the store.

It,s a great fun game, constantly being upgraded, new items are being added all the time , just a relaxing casual game with good building mechanics. Run a business and build your dream home. Also with some classic V8 cars cars available. What more could you want. Relax and have fun with it.

quite good but i think it is a little over priced

This Game Is Asome, Realy Nice, it's just as good as it's MOBLE VERSION (Avlable on IOS An ANDROID) $14.99 is worth it also a bug report my stereang is drifting (and I know it is not my keybord) pls get this fixed in the next update

it's very great game but i hope if they add more jobs it will be more fun <3

Add gunstore please and gun in PC game

I love this game! PC version is too much better than mobile version.

nice and calming, and there is action when you want it

It's what every gamer should have on their casual shelf. Prepare to become significant!

Dead game :/

Interesting concept.

Nice game.Worth playing!

bo nie ma słoni

GOOD JOB so far!

cool

not recommented , bad game.

awesome game, lots to do

Très bon jeu!

love the game

bad