Starsand Island

If you're buying this for multiplayer, don't bother. "1.0" is incredibly misleading.

had hope for this game but its just incredibly empty and certainly not worth the money. feels like a free to play game.

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現状恋愛と会話やイベント関係は数が少ないのでその辺りが寂しいですね まぁアーリーなのでその辺りは追々ですかね？ その他の手触りはいい感じ

Biggest waste of money. Their game genre focuses on something very different from what is stated in the store. Steam doesn't refund because of world's most idiotic rule: playtime exceeds their policy. So you have to not know what you bought, in order to refund. Furthermore the game is full of bugs and glitches, with the team's focus going to their offcenter genres.

什么都不说了，官方群1群是充满水军。3群也是孝子贤孙出现。游戏承诺不兑现，群里我说国产游戏就该玩学习的体验后才考虑。比如星沙到自己就做不到EA的承诺。然后星孝子直接跳脸，管理接着直接说我骂人。无视跳脸的2333大家自己考虑吧

I have 236 hours in this game (at the time of writing) over 2 complete playthroughs: one in early access which ran flawlessly, one since 1.0 which has been a buggy mess. Starsand Island is a recommend for me, but it's complicated. The Positives: Farming is great, probably the best iteration of farming across all the Stardew Valley-likes that I've played (and I've played a lot). Farming has emergent gameplay that allows you to pull off crazy things once you explore and experiment with its systems. The automation comes early enough that the tedious parts you don't remember; and the automation comes from gameplay (immortal seeds) rather than 'here's a device that lets you skip the friction'. Ranching is almost as good - it's deeply embedded in the farming (rabbits and chickens control weeds and bugs on your plots, so you're balancing how many rabbits or chickens do I need). There's a nice closed gameplay loop where animal byproducts from the earlier animals are needed to make food for the later animals. On the other hand, there's no real production line from ranching - you vendor most of the material you get, and over both playthroughs I've yet to buy any of the highest tier animals as I've had no use for them. There are no fun production chains to set up wth randing, unlike, say, Stardew Valley or Coral Island. Building is amazing - the level of control for what you can build on your property is unprecedented in this genre, in my experience. You need to go to something like House Flipper to find a house building system as deep and customisable as this. That said, someone uncreative like me ends up just buying a blueprint, because I don't have the skill to buld from scratch even with the tools available. There is an slmost equally-broad range of outfits and outfit combinations for your character as well. Moving around the world is also best-in-slot. Very early on you get access to rollerskates, and the game regularly gives you improvements (hoverboards, flying cloud) plus bikes, cars, boats, mounts... I wish every Stardew Valley-like had this level of option for moving around the world - I no longer need to mod the movement speed when I can just stand on my hoverboard and go. The In-betweens: The world is very beautiful, and moving around it is constant eye-candy; character are also all very beautiful (in an empty-anime style), which is not quite as good. The world starts off as a fairly generic 'Japanese village', but as the game goes on the the team leans into their own (Chinese) cultural heritage, the world becomes richer and deeper and very enjoyable to be in. Multiplayer works well, but it's important to note that it's not Valheim-multiplayer or even Sandrock-multiplayer: it's Animal Crossing-multiplayer where you go visit another island, do some stuff, then go home. I have a lot of hours in Animal Crossing, so it's fine for me - but if you're looking to build a farm together a la Sandrock multiplayer, then no, this is not for you. NPC Characters are fairly thin - in early access, they were even thinner, but 1.0 adds new character-driven quests for most of the important NPCs... it's just that most of these are broken or buggy ><. There is very little inner life to these NPCs, unlike, say, Coral Island; but they are at least less empty than they were... when the new quests work. The Negatives: Events and Quests are empty: you participate in an event, but it's just you. There's no sense the NPCs are participating. There's an event early on, A Dream of BLue Tears, that tells you to go to the beach to look at how pretty it is. And it is! But it's just you, the player, looking at something a developer has made; there's no gameplay - not even an NPC saying 'look how pretty it is'. I could probably add the emptiness of most NPCs to this list, but they have improved somewhat in 1.0 - when they're not buggy. You get a houseboat! To fish! Which is great! But you cannot sleep on the houseboat, so you cannot fish at night - so it fills exactly the same function as the NPC boat you can use to fish, that you get access to very early on - except that you save a trivial amount of money on rental. You can customise the houseboat *extensively* - see the positive comments above about building - but you can't use it _as_ a houseboat. The big one: the 1.0 release is a buggy mess. My current playthrough is done except for two new NPC quests that are both broken - so broken they stop me even talking with those NPCs for affection or gifts or commissions or indeed anything except the quests that won't progress. My wife has had even more problems: she finished a playthrough in early August, no crashes or bugs - and two weeks later with 1.0 as she was continuing that playthrough, she was crashing every 10 minutes *on top of* quest-breaking bugs. 1.0 has not been pleasant. I've gone back to Coral Island for now, and will wait to see if this stabilises. Credit where it is due - the devs are patching regularly (and I imagine, frantically); the most recent patch fixed one of my broken quests but not the other, and none of the problems my wife has. It's a really interesting game with some deep systems and clever innovations on the genre - if you can look past the anime-emptiness. Just not at the moment. At the time of writing (Aug/Sept 2026) I would say: go play something else for now and come back to this in a few months, when hopefully it runs like it did in early access. PS: there's a lot of drama about possible AI use/ ownership by Tencent/ secretly run by AAA company/ telemetry being sent to China/ needing to wear tinfoil to play this. As far as I can tell, this is all drama caused by a superfan who was banned from the discord and then became a superhater, throwing accusations around hoping somethng would stick. I've not seen any evidence of any of these claimed scandals. The 1.0 bugs though - those are real, and those are game-breakers.

本來想推薦，但缺點太明顯先不給了，等正式版出來再看情況修改。 目前EA階段只推薦給真的只想玩休閒模式和蓋房子的玩家，缺點非常明顯，物品取得和道具升級都非常容易，只是耗材較多要反覆取得大量資源。 目前遊戲內時間2個月，缺點： ▶鍵盤設置對左撇子不友好 ▶[strike]化妝師的家大門重疊無法進入BUG（不能收集圖紙）[/strike][b]已解決[/b] ▶大地圖很RPG很好，但有很多無意義的空置場景（也可能是因為目前還是EA？ ▶礦區難度太太太太太太低 ▶釣魚難度太太太低，魚釣不上來只可能是收線按早和工具等級太低 ▶難得融入不少中華元素，但中華元素基本只表現在建築和物品上。目前節日只有沙灘節和春節，沒有類似：元宵節、情人節、端午節、中秋節、七夕、啤酒節、感恩節、萬聖節、聖誕節…之類世界各地重要或特殊節日。也沒有市集、博覽會的活動設定。 ▶使用滑板和直排輪時無法手持物品，看藏寶圖很不方便（雖然寶箱位置基本固定） ▶NPC如果正在進行特定動作，選擇交談有時要2-3次才會觸發或是延遲觸發 ▶目前沒遇見任何帶有負面、滑稽、陰暗、反派特徵的NPC和事件，除了建築師比較冷淡之外其他都是溫柔友善好人，不太有戲劇性。 ▶遊客小任務太少且難度太低。 ▶男NPC不分老少有幾人太相似，農夫廚師音樂家根本三胞胎，老頭都是矮壯發福。女性NPC問題相對較小。 ★身高體型變化極小缺乏特殊性，還有很多建模做錯的，仨老頭180、170、155cm做一樣高、建築師175cm跟其他185cm男的一樣高、160cm農女比175cm木工女高，其他170cm女角比164cm穿小高跟的裁縫師矮一大截，這部份疏漏太多。 以及年齡大斷層，只有幼童、青年、中老年、沒有少年和壯年。 光是白色短髮就有四個（我一開始還以為島上有淺色頭髮基因，後來看到其他NPC才發現不是），紅毛有兩個，冒險家和音樂家髮型太像，廚師和農夫髮型太像，木工姊和修車姊撞定位，以及製作團隊居然沒發現小青梅、偶像、宅女、咖啡妹的瀏海髮夾撞型了……