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Castaway Cove – Adventure Game Review
Castaway Cove is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from Kongregate, Inc., first launched in 29th August 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 474+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Castaway Cove Stand Out
Welcome to the island of Castaway Cove!
Collect survivors to build an island paradise, as they collect supplies and resources by exploring the mysteries of the island.
Features:
Tap your way into Sand Dollar riches, which can be used to upgrade and improve your village!
Adventure through exciting special events such as Pearl Diving!
Discover and collect rare survivors who work harder and have better attributes than the others!
Use dozens of island resources to upgrade your buildings to even higher levels!
More than 10 buildings to upgrade and generate Sand Dollars to improve your village.
Collect enough wealth to set sail from the island to move on to bigger and better things!
*Play your way: supports both portrait and landscape modes!
Castaway Cove is optimized for Phones and Tablets.
PLEASE NOTE: Castaway Cove is free to play, but some extra game items can be purchased for real money. You can disable in-app purchases in your device's settings.
A network connection is required to play.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Castaway Cove is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th March 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Updated event rankings to prevent exploitation
- General bug fixes
Download & Availability
Castaway Cove is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Castaway Cove on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Having fun in early stage not forced to pay to progress early on.
This game is absolutely amazing! The graphics are adorable and its so simple. But, to get new survivors you need to use the castaway packs. And the free one take 7 HOURS to get two new survivors. Please make it at least less then 2 hours. Anyway, we are now going to get back to playing our favorite game yet.
We dont know why in this day and age a game from a big company would be released Lille this but it is not figured on our phone. Menus cut off at the edges. It mostly works but its more annoying than anything but honestly we will still keep playing it. Its cute and fun.
Its a great game but it kinda gets boring after a while so its 4 stars.
Good for killing some time. Will probably put it on our phone in addition to our iPad so that we can have something to play while in lines.
Make this full screen for iPhone X it looks crappy if we see only the center of the game.
When we sailed away, our characters and other stuff were GONE! Please fix this and keep our level and Castaways.
So, for a younger kid, we can see where this can possibly be fun, but we also see where the child could easily lose interest. As an adult, it was fun leveling up at first. We are now at Level 47, and it is really starting to get boring. Its the same thing over and over.
Good game, screen needs to be fixed for iPhone X though.
The game is good, but it doesnt completely fit the iPhone X screen.
Its not a bad game. We like it Bc we dont have to constantly watch it. Only gave it three stars Bc we havent set sail yet and dont know how much more there is to do.
Unable to connect to cove. Advises connection lost but our internet is working properly.
It does have weekly events/tournaments to make it semi interesting but it gets stale relatively quickly. Ive not run into any bugs that other players have spoken about in their reviews but the updates have been non existent.
Game hasnt opened in months. Constantly crashes when we try to open the app.
The game is cute but the image is off. To exit out or hit certain buttons is almost impossible because its not fitted into the screen. Almost like its zoomed in.
This game has been fun for us for so long, but could you explain why the 1st post in the turtle event started at 39.1m?!? Thats craziness. Theres no way Im gonna sit and tap this screen 39.1 MILLION times just to start the event! Im sure its a glitch, and needs to be addressed because now we cant even participate in the event.
Ive been getting a lot of video playback errors when we try to watch the add.
When we swipe the app out we lose all our stuff, otherwise a good game.
Playing on iPhone 6s. Open the game for 2 min and whole phone become hot. Game play is great but we dont seeing more Content.
Bonuses does not work all the time. You click on the button and it does nothing.
This is only a game we can play for a day and then delete. Im bored, everything takes too long.
Great game but the graphics dont for the screen we have an iPhone X, and the graphics are too big so its cutoff. Please fix for 5 star review.
Please work on optimization for iPhone X.
We dont know why they did this but the new version is pretty unplayable.
We have been playing for months. The weekly side games keep things fun and the new update is awesome! Thank you.
We want to thank you very much for the wonderful game we love playing every day of the week.
Kongregate has yet again created a terrible pump and dump game that takes lots of money and leaves you with zero updates.
A lot like any other tap game, but this one has really cute characters. No idea about music or sounds as we play on silent.
Cute game!!!! It's fun and interesting. We don't have to pay to play so that's ALWAYS a plus.
This is honestly a great game if you like to grow over time. We rate 5 stars.
Enjoyable for the first day we had it downloaded… Then not enough to hold our interest. Also jumping the price of the bundles from the $5ish intro bundle to a $50 one after that ensures we wont be spending anything in an ongoing basis. Micro transactions are called that for a reason.
Play for an entire week an receive nothing out of it. We know the games a time waster, but come on.
This is a fun little game but exploring got us stuck on a jungle screen which prevented us from progressing. Disappointing.
Can't do anything crashes every time we open the app.
The game is full of bugs, and a lot of rewards cannor be claimed succesfully. The support doesn't care about issues and will just dismiss you so we are dissapointed in this game even if it had potential.
This is a great game for the beginner who likes some strategy, time management and resource allocation …Makes it fun..What we said before makes it sound like a business class! Lol..Quite the opposite..Have fun.
Obsessed with it right now lol :).
We always seem to get addicted to tap and upgrade games for a few hours then delete them. This one is fun and easy to play with the addition of goals and a storyline to keep it interesting. Definitely worth a try.
SOOOO OBSESSED PLZ GET THIS GAME BEST THING IN MY LIFE ITS LIKE ADVENTURE CAPITALIST BUT WITH A CLASH OF CLANS TYPE OF THING!!! ANYONE CAN TRY IT.
Cool mindless fun. Stuck. Garden bonus will not close and send us to the garden. It sends us back to the beach. Help.
Very fun game and a great way to pass the time.
This game is jam-packed with the greatest traits seen in many clicker games and non clicker games which makes this the best game right now.
We love this game! This is just what we've been looking for! Everything is great. But we only have one suggestion, they should add a upgrade menu. Like a special upgrade menu.
Easy to play, great way to kill some time.
This is a fun and well balanced iteration of this style of game.
Pretty Fun Just Takes Forever To Upgrade But It Makes Upu Play For Longer.
This game is fun but the music we're playing lowers volume even when we have the sound off. If you fix this, we'll give you five stars.
It took up our storage and it was awful.
Pretty fun we found adventure capitalist and then our brother was like hey look at this it is really fun and we were like ok.
It's really fun and it's a decent paced game also a good time waster.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.25.0
- Size: 226.36 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Kongregate, Inc.
Last updated: 12th March 2018 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Kongregate, Inc.