Forest Island 12+

Love it! Can even play without feeling easily overwhelmed

I usually never leave reviews for games since I pretty easily delete games after a while since I get bored, but I absolutely love this one. I don’t feel like another reviewer said, pressured to buy anything. There are ads if you choose to press them to achieve more hearts or coins but other than that the imagery is beautiful and so soft and relaxing. I would definitely recommend it for anyone that gets overwhelmed or anyone that experiences anxiety 💛💛

Developer Response ,

Hello. Welcome to Forest Island. An island where you can heal with nature.🌿

We are glad and grateful to know that you have had a great time on Forest Island.

We will continue striving to create the most peaceful and healing land for you.
The official Instagram is also in operation, so please feel free to visit us when you have time.
(https://www.instagram.com/forrestisle/)

Thank you for playing our game.

Regards,
Forest Island Support

Fix your homepage design. Irritating popups

For a game that is advertised to be calming and peaceful, it could do with ALOT of UI improvements. The game itself is lovely, but the notifications, big red ❗️marks, pop ups and huge buttons everywhere makes it obnoxiously unplayable. It's impossible to actually sit and enjoy looking at the graphics without the cancerous UI buttons annoying the hell out of you. Moving the top menu to actually sit at the top of the mobile screen and making it smaller would be a start, as well as decreasing the size of popups when you zoom in - so you aren't jumpscared by a huge low res coin png when trying to appreciate your ducks. Please review your homepage setup to be less visually distracting and irritating to users.
The quests feature is also slightly bugged as I didn't use the photo option (an early quest) till after I had the bear den, but I still need to lvl up 50 times etc etc despite having completed all of them already.

Need to watch ads daily for progression and my progress disappears

I played the game for a week and during one time I put my device on idle for a short time causing the game to reload and deleting all my entire game progress. Let’s be clear, you cannot progress far without watching ads. The game needs to change how ads are being shown, maybe make all ads skippable after 5 sec. You cannot progress as a free player that watches 0 ads because 2 of the quests(albatross and chest opening) require ad watching. The quests will always cycle in a circle so it won’t be long until you see those 2 ad quests again. Free players will mostly have to watch 15 or more ads a day and even paying players are not free from watching ads either. I felt the annoyance of the ads just 1 day into playing the game so I can only imagine the amount of ads those who have achieved everything in the game had watched.