Welcome to our review of Castaway Paradise, a really cheap clone of what is often called the Animal Crossing genre.
This is your island, your adventure! Instant vacation on your own tropical island! Decorate the island, dress up, collect insects, grow crops and help your new neighbors. On Castaway Paradise you can do whatever you want. Fun activities. Grow plants. Create your own outfit. Decorate your island. Help the villager out. Enjoy the seasons and various events
What would you like to do today in Castaway Paradise?
Originally, Castaway Paradise is a mobile game and it shows. Its backwards controls and tacky mannerisms, just about everything about this game screams at me to delete it from my Switch and I have had this issue from the start. Let me start by the most annoying of features, the fact that it is at times damn near impossible to select the tile you want from the first try. There is clearly no visual cue available and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
There is also this need to do things in such a way, that they make you want to pull your hairs out. Like getting crops to grow. The grounds first need to be worked, which forces you to go into the menu. You select the proper tool, do the work and around 5 minutes later, your 12 pieces of soil are ready to be worked upon. You spend another 5 minutes to sow your seeds and if you are lucky enough, just spend 4 minutes to give them all water. Again, every time needing to go into your menu to select the right option in between things. Very tedious as a job and I would rather listen to a political podcast than do this?
And that is the worst part, I truly hate politics but the entire mechanics of this game, it just hurts so much more. Castaway Paradise is in my humble opinion a game that should have stayed away from Switch. I can not remember how many times I have just sighed while playing this game. It actually did not stop at the outdated mechanics, I was also unable to speak to many other characters from the start, having to fiddle around them before it actually worked.
Castaway Paradise is just such a broken game on Nintendo Switch, that I strongly recommend sticking with the king of the genre, Animal Crossing. As someone who dislikes chores in real life so much that I prefer to not do them during my game time, I tend to stay away from this style of games on consoles, but I have to say, Castaway Paradise is a bleak experience and I think some people out there might enjoy it, but not me. I felt the entire experience was horrible and I am recommending strongly against buying it.
I can not in all honesty promote a game of this style with so many issues and faults. Bad mechanics and just overall bad feelings are to blame.
In conclusion, just buy Animal Crossing and stay away from this “game”.
