Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 05:57 pm
Stranded Island: Castaway Life – Simulation Game Review
Stranded Island: Castaway Life is a Simulation/Adventure game from HOMA GAMES, first launched in 7th January 2023.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,895+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Stranded Island: Castaway Life Stand Out
Embark on an adventure in Stranded Island: Survival Games, where you're stranded on an archipelago. As a castaway, survival hinges on exploration, resource management, and thrilling rescue missions. As the ultimate castaway, explore lush landscapes, aid survivors, and build a vibrant community. Delve deep into the forest island's mysteries and master the art of rescue. Craft a seaworthy boat to explore the archipelago and save fellow castaways. As an island castaway stranded deep on a wild island, your fate rests in your hands.
Island Survival:
Navigate through the untamed beauty of the archipelago, discovering hidden resources crucial for your survival. Adapt to the environment and master the art of crafting tools, shelters, and weapons to brave the dangers of the castaway island.
Castaway Rescue:
Rescue survivors scattered across the stranded island. Collaborate with your castaway team and put your efforts together to build a boat, explore the islands of the archipelago, gather resources and rebuild your village!
Stranded Island Challenges:
Face unique challenges specific to each island in the archipelago – gather crafting resources, get fruits to cook for your castaway team, mine in the depths of a cave, and cut through wild vegetation!
Rebuild your village:
Help your fellow castaways by rebuilding their homes – build, upgrade and decorate your stranded island village and bring it to its full glory!
If you're looking for island survival games then Stranded Island: Survival Games is the one for you! Test your survival skills, rescue your castaway team, explore the castaway island and experience the thrill of island life! Can you turn your castaway story into an epic tale of survival and rescue? Find out in this captivating survival adventure!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Stranded Island: Castaway Life is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th April 2024
Recent improvements include:
- updates and fixes
Download & Availability
Stranded Island: Castaway Life is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Stranded Island: Castaway Life 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:
Kept us engaged for days on end…. Played until nothing was left lol. Just waiting for an update now so we can keep going!! Needs more/new/updated content cuz we wanna keep playing! WORTH THE DOWNLOAD FOR SURE EDIT: Need new UPDATE…. WAITING FOR MORE. IMPATIENTLY.
Is this game going to get an update anytime soon?? Pretty fun game. Hope it wasnt abandoned.
We enjoy this game very much its so exciting and feel good.
We are disabled and this game has kept us busy for many months now we appreciate how it gives you things to do is the best game Ive played so far.
Our new obsession. Its hard for games to catch our attention we might be playing this awhile.
Its a very cute game nice graphics with good animation and realistic when your stranded on a real island except the monsters at night. Love, Movilla.
Our home island is chaotic lol – we added tiki torches and later deleted them to replace them with bamboo towers… But the land squares where the tiki torches had been now show red so we cant place anything – including buildings – on them… And once we leave our home island, all the previously deleted tiki torches return to their original land squares… Like, anything we place once is now there forever lol HALP.
We love the long levels is what you would call it. We love that the ads are in between each challenge. The game is great.
We have been playing this game for awhile and we love it but cant get to the last beam on Jungle Camp. Any ideas.
So good on world 3 so far make sure to dolowade this game please and its so good.
Overall decent game. It gets uninteresting with the long wait times though. And recently got to Valley of howls to discover theres no loom. So we cant advance until its fixed.
We love this game but it needs more updates. Its kind of glitchy when you reach Atlantis.
Game is simple but fun – however we cant seem to delete items from our home area! All we can do is move them around but if your trying to get rid of them forget it.
Ive been having trouble with a berry glitch. Ill have a ton of berries, Ill go to use a small amount, then we lose the entire stock. We tried to go into settings to report the glitch but there appears to be no glitch reporting system. Otherwise this game is great, the adds arent bad and we have been enjoying this game for a month or so.
Been playing about a week and Im enjoying it. We like how is self-paced so you dont have to worry about getting on by certain times or end up missing out on something big, just play when you feel like it. We also like how you only watch ads when you want to for extra items or just take the time to craft the items yourself without watching an ad. Our only complaint is the need for a help manual. Some things have no explanation of how to accomplish like no To Do list for home base, no info on how to recruit visitors and whether or not they come back if you cant recruit them before they leave, or where to find certain resources.
Ive had fun with this game. Right amount of everything. We would suggest giving things names tho. Sometimes we are looking for a red bean or a pink and black beanie or an orange chiclet or some other thing. Finding out later they are rocks or gems! Names for the items would help. Just finished volcano jaws and Am short some sort of blue atom thing to evolve our town hall to level ten. Who knows what that is, or where to find it?! We have lit all beacons but our quests havent updated. We guess we need the blue atom thing? Keep going homa. Fun game.
We are on the jungle island chain island four and there is no loom. How am we supposed to make rope.
We do like this game we wish you got more free stuff.
Fun game but when you are working alone some tasks take days/weeks to complete unless you purchase items (which we wont do). Other than that its fun.
We were on Coco Island, and sailed to the island with the ruins. Lily asked us to help her look for her friend, Im now back on Coco Island by ourselves, and seem to be stuck. It says we need to escape this island but we cant build a boat and we are wondering around aimlessly. What do we need to do to escape the island and progress through the game.
Great app. But. When we reached the 5th island nothing but lag, skipping, & ads that would lock up Resulting in us restarting app. Unfortunately decided to uninstall. Those with no trouble, Have fun.
Once the journey levels are done the game offers separate versions called Atlantis and Dream. Both are hard to go through because you lose all team members. Also recruiting new members is hard because it requires too many resources and they are hard to get. Also the Atlantis part opens and closes so it takes forever and is rather confusing. It seems like everything resets once it opens again. If not for those things the game would be great.
We enjoy playing this game but not its like glinced we been stuck in this same one for days cause we will not unfreeze the man they run off and just stay running next to the pail of snow Im so disappointed.
We like this game, but we are stuck on the second island just because we cannot find the rope and its getting to the point Im annoyed. We tried everything but just cannot find the rope.
We thought it would be more of a challenge but instead you have a red arrow pointing you everywhere to go. More of a childs game. Other then that its not bad something to pass the time. But we are only on island 3 so we dont know if its still just the beginning and maybe the arrow will disappear after so many levels.
Love the update but now there is a new bug It takes all our berries, we can't tell if it happens with any other ingredients but no matter how little the amount required for the recipe, it takes them all every time! Please fix it -Super bored pregnant momma.
Have no clue how to get rope on the 3rd island.
Love the game but we cannot download anymore island this bug needs fixed.
Thanks for fixing the bugs! Great game! Back to 5 star rating.
Please update Atlantis. Breaking a rick slide for a bridge time is not moving. Ive been in 9 hours for 12 hours already.
We love how simple the game play is! Its easy to complete tasks and the story line is entertaining. For some reason there are sounds and music that just cut in and out. At first we didnt mind it too much but the more we play the more we miss the sound effects and music. We would love to have them consistent.
Good game but adds are to long and wont close until the third attempt to close them. Some adds take you to a page where you have to close the game and restart it.
Th game glitches really bad and freezes a good bit overall a good games just needs a few repairs.
Its a cute game but terrible for battery and causes phone to get VERY warm.
Loved the game overall but once you get to Atlantis it just ends up in this redundant circle where youre doing the same thing over and over and over again. And there are times you cant even access Atlantis and theres nothing to do but decorate your home which is not our thing. There are also a lot of annoying bugs that disrupt or stop the game completely. Dont expect to get any compensation if a bug stops game play for several days, which happened once. We did spend money to buy extras and wasnt even sure at one point if we could ever again access the things we bought. Wish theyd fix the constant little bugs and if there are any, compensate users for any extensive down time experienced cause its a good game overall.
Why does the game have to be open to complete tasks in dream and Atlantis? When we do long tasks and idle our phone progress stops. Thats impossible to do when a task takes a couple of hours. Glitch.
Fun game but wont update so we can move on to the second island.
Like many other people, Im stuck on the 2nd island because there arent any ropes or a way to make ropes. There is no way to contact the developer in the app and the link here to contact them takes you to their business website where we couldnt find a way to contact them about this problem. With this problem and the forced ads unless you pay $8, Im just deleting the app. Seemed like it could be an okay game if it worked and without all the ads.
We have spent money and more money and we like the game it passes time. But the glitches make us want to throw our phone at times. The workers dont follow or you cant get back to your island or your stuff disappears.
Absolutely loved this game, but since the new update, there was a bad bug and it was fixed. Although now we have to deal with constant ads interrupting despite having paid for no ads at all. We still cant play properly without the constant interruptions, so Im afraid until that is fixed, we wont be playing much.
All of a sudden with the new update there are so many adds. This is so disappointing. Please put in a way to get rid of these. We really enjoyed this game but the random pop up adds make us not want to play it anymore.
But we cant download the content! Why.
Simple, but mind relaxing game. Great fun and very addicting. Developers: Your latest update is making the game not able to load the map level we were on. It says we need a stronger internet and wont load. Since our internet was recommended by the cable service at perfect for gamers we dont think the problem is on our end. Please fix soon. We already miss the game. Thank you in advance.
Ive been playing this game for about 2 months very fun game but the bugs Needs to be fix. After the resent up date it wont download so we can Lu.
Ive absolutely fallen in love with this game. We had no issues downloading new content until this last update. Now we keep getting the same error. Failed to download game data. Please check internet connection Ive tried our home internet connection. Our phone data. Our work internet connection. Over the past week and nothing has changed. Ive tried deleting and redownloading. Updating our phone clearing space on our phone and Im still receiving the same error.
Like the game but hit a glitch to move on to the second map. It goes to load extra content and doesnt then locks us out of the game for at least 3 hours!! Sad not worth your time if the game doesnt work past the first map.
The game keeps crashing and it is stuck on the loading screen to transfer worlds. Please fix.
We really liked this game until it stopped allowing to update it and now we can only go to the home island.
We also enjoy the game. However, for the past few days, Ive been unable to dl content.
This game WOULD have our undivided attention however the sound goes out within the first 5-10 mins of the game & remains glitching afterwards, once the sound goes Ill continue playing & itll freeze, Ill have to restart because it says we have no WiFi or Itll repeat another ad after .. Please help its a game thats in the making of being very popular in our opinion.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4.3
- Size: 341.48 MB
- iOS: 12.5 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: HOMA GAMES
Last updated: 29th April 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: HOMA GAMES