Island Getaway - DEMO

Amazing demo loved the atmosphere the whole time it felt very ominous rowing up onto the shore, the Starting sequence with the shark, although feeling a little drawn out long felt nice and made me worry I was gonna lose at the very start. the ending of the demo felt very interesting to what I stumbled upon and I cant wait for the full game!!

I don't know how the developer created this and said "Yeah, this is good for a demo". Only good thing is the atmosphere. The game starts with you receiving a letter from a company offering a free vacation with all expenses covered. Right after that, you are thrown into a rowboat, surrounded by 2 sharks. You have to swim to the shore. Like make it make sense. Shouldn't the company offer transportation or any reason we are in a rowboat in the first place? That is as far as the story goes. Now to the gameplay, the initial sequence of using a rowboat to reach the shore is just boring considering you will be doing that for 10 minutes. Once you reach the shore, you sleep and next day you travel further to see a farm burning and chased by kids wearing masks who are attacking you. Why? You can't kill them but they can kill you. Your only weapon is a briefcase that stuns the kid for 10 seconds before they get up and start attacking. And that is it. Like what was even the point of this demo. If anything, it showed me that I should stay away from this garbage and other stuff this developer has a hand in it. Genuinely, I am angry at the dev for creating this mess. There is slop, asset flips, shovelware,etc and then there is this.

Love the creepy vibes and strange dystopia landscape. It drops you right into a dinky boat where you soon have to dodge and evade a shark. The shark isn't too difficult to maneuver around, but wait until you get to the Children! They are terrifying as they laugh and try to hit you with rocks and knives. Absolutely unnerving. There are moments in the middle where you aren't actively evading attackers and get to take in the eerie landscape; burning buildings, corporate goons, and bleating sheep. Throughout the game is some excellent sound design. There is a building dissonant soundtrack that very slowly builds as you play. Can't wait to find out what other elements are at play on the island.

i mean it was ok...but not really scary but i did turn it down but further in the game i relized its trash but a little bit fun

While this is not a ripoff like how some of the reviews are putting it, this game makes me wonder did the dev even playtest this game with other people? The game is roughly 13 minutes long and the 10 of those minutes are spent in the beginning where you're rowing your boat to the titular Island Getaway, with the 3 minutes left showing some half baked Light House, A24 imagery followed by a kid killing me with my only means of attack being limply throwing my briefcase at them. I can see a lot of potential here, a horror game with pixelated gloomy watercolor look could be something really interesting and lends itself well to either a darkly comedic game like Bucket Detective or incredibly dark experience like Mouthwashing or Lost in Vivo. However, as it stands, it's just babies first attempt at a traditional horror game made by someone who's only previous game was a Garfield themed horror experience on itch.io.

The game does not have settings so i could not change the sound or the sensitivity of it witch was VERY slow, so slow that i had to use 6400 dpi to be able to look around, also the fact that the game throws you right into it would be nice if that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shark would stop ramming into my boat every minute. I tried many times to get to shore but could not because of that shark.

it so qwick