Cozy Island Idle

I had a lot of hope for this when I installed it, but within 1 minute of opening the game, I already had to reboot it because I got into the boat to roam around the island, and then was unable to exit the boat to get back to the island lmao. On top of that, as soon as you start earning money, it will tell you that your money is in the trillions ([something] Tri) but then when you try to purchase something that is 5K, it will tell you you don't have enough money? There is no way to see the actual precise amount of money you have as far as I could figure out, so that makes it quite difficult to see where you're at... Then the fishing mechanic, which is like, the main reason for getting this game... It is just Stardew Valley's fishing mechanic, but once you have the fish inside the greenbar once, it doesn't feel like it matters what you do after because I've never seen the progress bar for catching go down lol... Then during my boat voyage that I had to reboot after, I found a bunch of chests floating in the water, and ALL of them were empty when opened? ... lol So yeah, I thought this would be fun but it kinda feels like I'm playing someone's FIRST prototype of the game before even they themselves have tested it... This game may be good later, but it needs A LOT MORE WORK. IT IS ABSOLUTELY UNPLAYABLE. UNTIL THESE MANY ESSENTIAL MECHANICS GET FIXED, DO NOT BUY. It's literally nothing.

Cozy Island Idle is at best a framework for an Idle game that wasn’t really setup to be a good idle game. You basically set your character to go fishing which can be active or idle. If you like me dislike fishing mini-games you will go the idle route which is about ~20 sec per fish. there's a semblance of a customization system but not well integrated and very limited. I think I got the game for something like 90c but this game isn’t solid enough to recommend even at that price. Pros: -Solid core mechanics and systems cons: -Most of the systems don’t interact well or are poorly balanced -There is content but its barebones. -Camera control system was odd and had no place being so complex in such a shallow game.

This idle game is too short. I struggle to find a reason to give this a positive score.

Another game by this developer with an offset mouse by about half an inch. Time to refund and never trust this developer and their bad games again.

For a game that could have been able to run on a Mac II it is pretty badly optimised.

An und für sich ein nettes Spiel, es hat mich aber einfach nicht abholen können. Wollte es dann trotzdem gerne vervollständigen aber hm... habe irgendwie mehr erwartet, glaube das war mein Problem. Hatte am Anfang auch leider technische Probleme, weil ich das Spiel Fullscreen laufen hatte und die Beschriftungen der Buttons war dann so im Weg, dass man die kaum anklicken konnte. Habe das dann aber fixen können, indem ich auf "1920x1080 - FS" gewechselt bin. Idk why but okay. Fortschritt war auch iwie... super schnell. Das einzig wirklich anstrenge waren die 100 Diamanten für das Jetski. Und was auch suuper weird war, ich war die ganze Zeit am Ende im Millionen Bereich vom Geld, konnte aber trotzdem machmal diese Upgrades hier kaufen? I don't get it. Außerdem wars am Ende gar nicht wirklich Idle, weil ich halt dauernd rein musste, weil das Aquarium ständig voll war. Und ich hatte bestimmt 20 Schatzkisten aber alle waren immer leer und manchmal wurden auch zwei gleichzeitig geöffnet? Also man merkt halt, dass hier an allen Ecken und Kanten was nicht gestimmt hat und das hat mir den Spaß daran wirklich genommen. Was sehr schade ist, weil die Grundidee echt süß ist. Auch, dass im Shop fast alles nur für Diamanten war, ist auf Dauer einfach demotivierend. Und halt noch so Kleinigkeiten, dass der Typ da in der Mitte voll genervt hat, das Boot fahren hat auch nicht gut geklappt, den Quest Tip am Ende konnte man nicht wegklicken und Quests kamen nur, wenn man das Spiel gestartet hat und waren nur ganz kurz zu sehen... Also ja, prinzipiell ein süßes Spiel aber halt mit vielen technischen Problemen und für mich wars halt auch einfach langweilig. Das muss nicht heißen, dass es bei euch auch so ist, nicht vergessen bitte.

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[h1]Idle Fishing![/h1] [i]Cozy Island Idle[/i] is a simple idle game of fishing to stock your aquarium, a standard collect 'em all game. Your fisher sits on their beach chair and fishes for you. The idle speed is reasonable, but you can upgrade the speed a few levels. Or, you can try a fishing mini-game, a common one where you need to keep the fish within a bar for a few seconds. There's no indication the mini-game yields anything better than just idly fishing, and the novelty and fun of the mini-game wears off long before you can finish the game. Caught fish automatically go into the aquarium and start to earn coins. You can look in your aquarium to see the fish swim about. Sometimes, of course, you pull up trash. Both trash and fishies take up storage slots. Your fisher stops and returns home when the aquarium is filled. You'll have to sell off trash and fish to fill up space and send them back out. There's different rarities of fish, and different tiers of fish. Rarity impacts how frequently you can catch the fish. Tiers of fish are caught with the same tier of fishing rod. One rarity, the Dark set, can be fished up only at night. As there seems to be no day-only fishies, night fishing is the way to go here. A few hours in, the game annoys you when you have to pay for the later half of rods with diamonds. The game has NO microtransactions, but diamonds are a premium-type drop, found every so often with fish. Fortunately, you CAN upgrade the frequency of diamond drops with simple coins. It'll take a few hundred diamonds to unlock the later rods. The game requires some close babysitting. You'll slip into a cycle of fishing, then clearing out most of the aquarium, and fishing and selling off more fish, repeating until you have both all of the latest tier and enough for upgrades. Once you need diamonds to progress, then the cycle is to keep making space for more fishies and thus more chances at diamonds, with upgrades concentrating on tank capacity, fishing speed, and diamond frequency. There are also some cosmetics that are purchased with either coins or diamonds, including some hats, a couple pets, colors and items for the aquarium. WARNING: For such a small game, it's a resource hog, taking about a quarter of my CPU cycles as well as the expected hit to the GPU (to render the 3D). But not nearly enough that I can't multitask and run a few other idle games, including the dev's other 3D game, Island Idle RPG. Something older than my several-years-old hardware might struggle more. This is a cute short little game by a growing developer, worth a look.

worth a dollar i guess but you can just watch the trailer and have the same experience. Lost my progress... not worth a dollar anymore

Mostly assets from the internet, especially apparent in the UI that has mismatched elements and stretched/squished together elements or just not a consistent art style. Runs awful even for such a simple game. Gameplay loop is kinda okay but not truly idle, since to progress you need to manage your inventory every 4 minutes, which shows many design flaws and corners to round out to make it flow more.