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I found Angus, a chunky, grumpy monkey, to be particularly entertaining, whether he was bristling about some imaginary slight from another animal or asking you, urgently, to bury some incriminating documents for him before tax collectors turn up. From the moment you find yourself on the island, animals start giving you instructions like you’re a long-serving tropical butler, and when they’re not giving you low stakes quests to complete they’re telling you something odd and/or charming about themselves. If you’ve ever played Animal Crossing, the game will be instantly familiar.

It is the world standard for anthropomorphic animals, after all. Rather than trying to find a way back to a life and family you must surely have left behind, you decide to follow the instructions of a strange animal person you’ve never met, and live on the island forever. I wrote a bit about the game back when I played it on mobile, you can find that here.Castaway Paradise begins with you washing up on the shore of an island after a storm. That way you could enjoy the game without further micro transactions needed. And that’s why this game would be perfect on the Switch for a set price. What I didn’t like in the mobile version though, is the rather aggressive approach to micro transactions. In the mobile version, it had a good social component too, giving each other gifts. Around the winter holidays for example, the island will be covered in snow, and you can help the villagers by decorating all the houses and the rest of the island. But the game keeps it very interesting to play, with festive times like Christmas, lots of decorations. It’s a blocky approach, and I’d even say the characters are kinds ugly. Graphically a very different approachĭon’t expect the smooth and cute graphics of Animal Crossing, and you won’t be disappointed. Fill up the museum with bugs and such, and even play on the stock market to make more money.

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Familiar eh?Įventually you upgrade your house, build more bridges to reach other parts of the islands and get to know more islanders. The mayor is there to welcome you, and after the kelp beard is taken off you your looks are revealed, dependent on whether you choose to be a girl or a boy. You spend your first time on the island sleeping in a tent, tending flowers, picking apples, fishing, catching bugs ( hey, nobody said it would be frightfully original) and doing chores for the islanders. You are washed ashore on, you guessed it, an island, but at least you’re not alone. And as Nintendo is making us wait for years for each new AC instalment, playing something similar is great. After all, imitation is the highest form of flattery. The game is engaging, you can play it any way you see fit, you can pore your creativity in it and you can live your virtual life together with the animals in your town doing your everyday chores.Ĭastaway Paradise is very clearly inspired by a love for Animal Crossing, which in my book, is always a good sign.

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With Animal Crossing, a series that started out on the Gamecube in 2002, Nintendo has a hugely popular hit series, with a very dedicated and ever growing fan base. So maybe we will see it on Switch as well? Let’s take a look at Castaway Paradise. I want to play games on the go!Ī week ago I told you about Deiland ( you can read that here), this week I want to highlight a game that took another route: from mobile to Steam. The simple reason is that I don’t play games on my MacBook for the same reason I don’t play them on a home console. Of course, I have played none of them myself. To play the casual simulation games whenever wherever you are. In from Steam to Switch? I highlight a game weekly that would be a good one to port over. And though the library of simulation games is improving, there still aren’t enough casual simulation games in the Switch. We have seen an influx of independently developed games to Nintendo’s hybrid console in 2018.