We're only on our third month of 2021, and we've already got Harvest Moon: One World, Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town, Littlewood, and a massive Stardew Valley Update... but fans of the farming simulation genre always want more.
Coral Island is far from the first farm-type game to hit the bigtime on funding platform Kickstarter - Ova Magica finished its campaign with all stretch goals met just last week, and Littlewood - which we rated highly - was brought to life thanks to the $82k donated by its supporters.
But Coral Island didn't just hit its goal of $70k. It didn't even just hit all of its stretch goals. The Kickstarter, which concluded earlier today, reached a final funding total of $1,639,338 - a 2341% increase on their initial ask. Farming games: they're kind of a big deal.
Like many games in the genre, Coral Island will let you farm, fish, and f... date one of 16 different characters, with no gender restrictions. Farm animals that you can raise include the usual chickens/cows/pigs/sheep, but also quails, llamas, and the luwak, a small lemur-like animal that's native to Indonesia, where Coral Island's studio is based.
Unlike many games in the genre, Coral Island has a skill tree, which will unlock new techniques as you get better at farming. There are also community projects, pets, festivals, and even quests that open up new storylines, and the general plot of the game is to save the island from the menace of the Pufferfish Drilling Corp, who are looking for oil.
Worry not, farming fans: Coral Island is promised for Switch, since it met its console stretch goals back at $300k funded. The game has been in development since October 2019, and is currently slated for a late 2022 release, with Early Access at the end of 2021.
Is Coral Island your jam? Or have you been burned by farming game Kickstarters before? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
[source kickstarter.com]
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I want this gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
And I'm very happy to be one of those backers. I'm much more receptive to try a newer take on these sim games since the legacy developers such as Story of Seasons and Harvest Moon have lost their way, whereas Stardew Valley shines. Looking forward to playing it
Its a kickstarter. it can be great (undertale) or very bad
Looks fine, I don't see it being a time sink like Stardew Valley has been. I'm getting bland vibes from it, but I hope I'm wrong.
It's a shame Nintendolife hasnt bothered with showing Roots of Pacha, another Stardew Valley inspired game that has passed its Kickstarter goal and headed to the Switch next year Its basically, Primeval Stardew only it has its own ideas to set it apart from the other cloans(unlike Coral Island which is Harvest Moon but...skill tree?) also has a great art style (unlike the blandness of Coral Island).
Ohh this looks awesome.
Combat looks a bit stiff but they definetly have the funds to make massive improvements to this if they wish.
The stardew valley influence is very strong here.
Wish i knew about this before it concluded. I would have backed it.
The charactr art is lovely. Much better than the 3D models. But still looks good to me.
Well I was wondering when we would start getting the Stardew Valley copy cat games.
Remember when these games were inspired by Harvest Moon?
dang we're really getting a lot of farming sims lately
It took all my willpower to not back this game. I'm going to wait until the full release for a change. This game looks promising, though.
Idk about you but I'd rather farm with slimes in ova magica, just saying.
@Burning_Spear at some point the "inspired by" train is going to be so long, we'll have to just cut it back to "inspired by Harvest Moon" again
Stardew valley is the only farm sim I need.
@KateGray Before Stardew came along these games were compared to Farmville. (Ugh.) I'm of the opinion that Marvelous has held the crown to this genre since the 1990s but hasn't asserted itself enough in the past 10 years and has sadly let others steal its thunder. The popularity of Stardew and Farmville (ugh again) should have led people to the original, but Marvelous was inconspicuous during much of that time, quietly focusing on the 3DS while other companies cashed in on the farming genre.
@Burning_Spear If I remember right the guy behind Stardew Valley made it to begin with due to the lack of games like Harvest Moon at the time.
This is the best looking one of late, but it's still not the style I'm hoping for. Call me when it looks like a sequel to A Wonderful Life!
Hm, Coral Island ?
(Searching from Google)
NO WAY....!!! 🤯🤯🤯
Coral Island was an indie farming game made by Indonesian peoples (Jogjakarta) ?! 🇮🇩
My country !!
I am Indonesian people and i will buy that game. 😀
I have Stardew Valley on the go,along with Animal Crossing,My Time In Portia and Friends Of MIneral Town which is way too much as it is but this game grabbed my attention more than the latest Story Of Seasons or Harvest Moon game and unfortunately unlike those two games I NEED to buy this!
It is hard to catch lightning in a bottle more than once. A game like this is gonna have to have a real good twist or difference to make me consider it alongside Animal Crossing and Stardew.
Not to say there aren't other good farming/life sim games around. But there's fierce competition in this genre these days.
@Heavyarms55
Behold, this is farming sim game with Pokemon style from Malaysia (Magnus Games) published by 505 Games will be released on Spring 2021.
This looks great! I'll look forward to the review in over a year's time
This is just 3D stardew valley. The music even sounds similar. Quite close to some of the stardew valley tracks. Also looks pretty unoriginal other than maybe the character art, but that has been done in other games. It seems pretty clunky too. I think my main problem with it is the lack of energy put into it. I’m sure they worked hard on it, but it doesn’t really stand out from stardew valley.
@Anti-Matter Looks pretty interesting.
lmao this game ain't gonna be releasing xD ima be honest here, with the way things are going releastically i don't see this coming out so that money was wasted sadly.
@Anti-Matter It could be interesting. I'll keep an eye open for this one.
@bobzbulder I agree with your points, but just understand that this game still has over a year and a half of development ahead of it. Hopefully, some of the "unappetizing" stuff with be polished up by that time.
I'll wait for a physical release.............
Coral garden looks good and I am looking forward to Sandrock.
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