Forsaken Isle

Overall I'm not sure, but for clarity, it has been revived and is being worked on.
It went dark for years but has now had updates regularly for a a year or more.

I have not played in a long while but this game has definitely become more interesting.

Giving is a good review because the Devs returned as of 2025 with a huge overhaul of the game.

Bought this game ages ago, developer got busy and life sorta forced him to basically let this game drop to the side for quite a while, which explains all the negative older reviews. I for one held out and the developer is back with a vengeance as he said he would, so thumbs up to him for keeping to his words.

This is a fun little game, seems cute and simple and it is easy to get into and as with most survival craft games it's crafting and gathering that really makes this game shine even more. Here's to the developer keeping his word and continuing to develop this little gem of a game.

So much fun. I bought this game awhile back and the dev disappeared, but now they are back and better than ever!

I don't often write reviews, but this warrants it.
This Dev came back!

After so many abandoned passion projects cluttering my library I was bewildered to see activity on this little rough gem. Turns out after going dark for two years the Dev is working on this game steadily and it is a charming fun little top-down Terraria on a deserted island. It has the usual harvest, craft, build, repeat loop with some pretty fun combat and some tiny bits of inspired design. I KNOW that it has so many negative reviews from when the Dev left for a time, but this one is fun enough in it's alpha state to warrant the support, people were passionate enough to write those reviews because the base idea is good enough to make them feel something.

The baseline play is fun all it needs is additional content that the Dev has been steadily adding and the crafting progression is steady and not as infuriating as some other craft/survive games. The controls are easy enough to grasp WASD and mouse like pretty much everything, left button strike right, button interact but the different weapons make that left click really feel like something. A gnarled old root used as a wand to fling little balls of energy, a clunky wooden sword to swing frantically while dodging a charging boar... the variation even in the first few minutes of the game leave you with a thirst for more.

So should you buy it? Maybe.
If you want a few hours of frantic fights and crafting for the cost of a movie ticket, then yes.
If you want a low stakes survival game with a cute art style that reminds me of Maple Story or Ragnarok, then yes
If you want a simple but well honed little gameplay loop, then absolutly.
If you want a game with all the polish and shine of a Triple A studio, then no.

Loved this game when it first released and the dev is finally back! W revamp

Such a fun game and it has continued support from the devs. It still needs some work, like QoL improvements and a bit more content but otherwise its a solid game that is similar to Necesse, and Core Keeper. Which have become my favorite games along with Terraria and Stardew Valley.

Love the art style.
Game play is smooth and fun.

I have 0 recollection of buying or playing this game. Wtf?

It looks really great and the fact I just noticed the dev is back into the project it's getting me hyped!

Just giving a thumbs up in hopes it continues and encourage more work on it!

[PS: would enjoy a multiplayer version, but that'd be quite a stretch I would gather...]

Wasn't expecting the dev to come back, looked at this game recently and was surprised to see its being worked on. nice little game and would recommend it.

I recently found this game while searching for 2D RPG games, and even though this seems to have been around for many years, I had never come across it. It is great to see the new updates that have recently come out. It is very nicely drawn. The past few weeks I've spent a lot of time playing Enshrouded, with kind of the same features, but in 3D. Then yesterday, while playing Enshrouded I was thinking of trying Forsaken Isle, as it seemed simpler with progression and now I am hooked.
When you first start it isn't very clear how to get resources and if you should keep hitting a tree or rock with your bare hands or not, but when trying other things, you understand how the recipes and crafting works. Early on you can get seeds and build a base and grow crops. Instead of building walls, I decided to hack into the rocks and use those as my living area, which works very well.
Well done, dev, I think you built a great game and I hope you will keep at it for a while.

It's great, try it.

imagine my surprise when one day i look through my steam library to see an image i've never seen before, only to read that it was an old friend, back from the dead.

THE RETURN OF THE KING.

Very cute wilderness survival game where you play as a pirate who can build a house, have a farm and raise animals. You can play on casual or difficult which I find is nice because I like to just craft things and have a farm. I would recommend if you enjoy sandbox crafting games.

this game is super

a must have

It is a very good game it has changed a lot even though it is not completely finished and from what it looks like there will be a new island, what it lacks is more help from the community for crafting and certain things even though they are not so difficult some are complicated but the 10/10 game with much more help the game would be perfect (I don't know what I have to do with the npc of the black robe in the Dungeon help)