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60%98260% positive reviews, Mixed across 982 reviews·Survival · Crafting
—A top-down story-driven survival game, set on unknown islands you must explore in order to find a way home. Your adventure will contain classic mechanics like crafting, acquiring resources, hunting animals, farming, fishing, building shelter, and defending from enemies.

Faraway Islands is a top-down 2D story-driven survival game, set on procedurally generated islands you can travel between and explore. The game features classic survival mechanics like crafting based on combining, gathering resources and food, farming, hunting animals, increasing character skills, building shelter and defending against enemies.
You play as a survivor of a passenger ship that sank in wild storm. As you try to find a way home from these islands you encounter new friends, that will help you, and enemies giving you a hard time. (character visuals can be customized)

Creating items is done by combining or processing items in your inventory. These combinations are not shown to the player from start, so you have to try new combinations. Some are recommended to you by story characters or written in quests.

You can built your own shelter to ensure your safety from predators and enemies. Game has several basic buildings to choose and construct from and more are unlocked by increasing your skills.

All islands are procedurally generated, that means everything from its shape to number of crabs and mushrooms is randomly chosen and then created by predefined rules. Not all resources are the same on every island, so you must explore and find what you need.

Wild animals are dangerous, and you should be cautious when moving around them. So beware that pack of tigers can kill you quite quickly. There are also human enemies that will attack every few days. You can prepare for these situations by crafting weapons and armor.

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