Cozy Island Idle

Meh...

Terrible camera control. Boring game play loop. Uninspired fish design. Overall, just not fun, and I would recommend trying out a different fishing idle game.

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.

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...