Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 06:44 pm
Survival Island: EVO Adventure – Simulation Game Review
Survival Island: EVO Adventure is a Simulation/Adventure game from Gemjam llc, first launched in 23rd April 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 8,527+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Survival Island: EVO Adventure Stand Out
You don’t remember how you got to this island, but now you’re stranded in the wild. Surviving here will be no simple task. First you’ll need to find food, craft some primitive tools, and build a shelter. Think you have what it takes? Your survival adventure is about to begin…
Game features:
*Explore the wilderness!
- Build your house from the ground up!
- Utilize an extensive crafting system with tons of recipes!
- Meet the island fauna!
- Island survival sandbox simulator.
Survivalist tips:
- Begin with chopping wood in the forest. Wood is used for craft.
- Craft armor and weapons for fighting wild animals.
- Don’t starve, survivor: collect all available resources to keep yourself fed.
- Craft everything you might need.
- Keep track of your health, or you won’t survive…
If you like other survival games, play Survival Island: EVO – it’ll be just what you’re looking for. Begin your survival adventure now!
*IMPORTANT. Online multiplayer is still in development and will be available soon. Follow our news feed to be the first to know when you can play with friends!
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This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Survival Island: EVO Adventure is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th October 2024
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed a few bugs;
- Improved stability.
Download & Availability
Survival Island: EVO Adventure is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Survival Island: EVO Adventure 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:
This game is incredible its actually the most survival game we aved ever played.
The game is good and all but it has a lot of adds and they also should add furniture to the game.
We decided to give it a try and game won't open.
The game is well made but the ads are annoying.
This was awesome but it had some issues.
We think you should have like a bed in the game or a couch maybe something more than nothing because you need furniture it makes a game more fun when you can create furniture please add furniture. Also maybe consider making a or a better pet or maybe easier source to get coins.
If Im being honest, this game is an iconic part of our mobile gaming experience, we love the idea and the lore. But at the same time, it does have its fair share of bugs. To any developers reading, heres what we personally think you should add to the game: 1. Make furniture more dynamic and easier to use, because we simply placed a bed in our house on this game and it simply doesnt work. And while placing it, we recommend you make it somewhat see-through so you can truly see where youre placing it, and have it get a tint of red when its in a spot where it could glitch with another. 2. Make the game look like the preview images. Pretty simple, we would specify, but by just taking a good look at the elements in the previews, you can see what you need to add and subtract. 3. Simply improving the good you already have. We mean, itd be nice if the already decently realistic animals for mobile game acted a bit more realistic, maybe transition animations. Or when you create a wooden wall or floor, the wood is already polished even though you havent polished it in the game. Small tweaks are greatly appreciated by a lot of players, this games potential is through the roof.
Takes way too long to load, it has a ton of ads when you open it up or after you die, theres no description of what amount of comfort your clothes or fire gives, we cannot move our objects after they have been placed. The graphics are good.
There are way too many ads. We feel like Im watching an ad tell us to download a game that has no ads. We just want to play the game without sitting an waiting on a bunch of ads. Spread them out a little please.
Its a good game but definitely needs a bed in the game and when you put your armor on and view your character it doesnt show it. What is up with that.
Great potential, but too many animals constantly attacking us!! Its absurd and very unrealistic. Also, we watch ads for coins or prizes but we NEVER get the reward! PLEASE FIX THIS GAME.
We like it; its exactly what we were looking for just survival, no zombies or weird stuff. Just plain survival on a stranded island alone. But heres what we hate: 1. It doesnt make sense to have to remake tools all the time. How do you use up a knife or a fishing pole in a couple uses? How do you ever use up a bucket for water? Doesnt make sense. 2. Cant seem to renovate a structure, like do we have to just build another from scratch if we want rooms? (Turns out you have to use up tools to destroy parts to replace them.) 3. Tent came after the cane building. Why would we need a tent with a building? 4. Boat just sits there. Waste of supplies. 5. Hunting whole thing is wonky; animals flying. Doesnt take four shots with an arrow or knife to kill something so why in this game? Also, anything bigger will kill you hopefully theres better armor later. 6. Every other piece of clothing and no shoes? Also, does clothing even contribute to warmth? Does the building contribute to warmth? Why am we making a fire every six game days to warm up? Makes no sense. 7. Night lasts so long, like got it its night time, and just sitting here cause Im not wasting supplies on a torch just to see. Also, dude needs all the basics except sleep?? 8. Cant load saved games on another device. Stuck with whats on our phone. 9. We wish we could buy (one time purchase) ad free experience. Also, if you die you are bombarded with ads, have to be quick to click the button to load the game because it will just keep spamming you. 10. Why do we need lard to cook a fish.
Every time we want to craft something we have to watch a 30 second ad, and plus the tools break way too easily. We played this thinking it would be fun because the graphics looked good, but it just isnt a game we would like playing because we like games without that many ads, and we are sure others like it too. Everything else is good, but like we said, there is way too many ads.
This is a great game the graphics are wonderful as well as the gameplay but our only problem is that we have nonstop ads and there has been no option to have them removed. We were wondering if that could be some update or if someone knows how to turn off please let us know.
We hope you fix the tree cutting action, because it hurts our thumb, you can fix it by holding down so it automatically cuts the tree.
Ive been playing this on and off for about 5 years now. The ads have greatly increased almost making it frustrating to progress. Also, we just built our shelter and every time the game plays an ad, we lose the walls we put up. Theyre not in our reserve either. Im going to stop playing for now to give them time to fix bugs since theres now way to report them.
Decent game but there's an ad every 30 secinds.
This would be a great game if it werent for the constant ads.
Hi sorry to say this but your game is not good we cant kill anything and get resources.
Ive watched more ads than we spent playing the game.
Had higher hopes than for it. Needs more tutorials and less ads.
Its a great game until it starts saying your under water and your not, then you have to start all over again and lose the progress youve already made.
Thank you for making this possible. We love this game! Thank you again for sharing this game. It has been so much fun! Thank you.
While we do love playing this game. We had to start completely over unfortunately. Now when we try to cut down a tree, or try to collect rocks or clay, it uses our weapon but will not give us the item.
We loved this game and remembered playing it all the time we recently re downloaded it and there is a lot of problems we cant cut down trees or kill certain animals. Every time we try there is no bar on top showing the health of the trees and animals it just says tree or animal Ive tried restarting the app and reloading and restarting from the beginning. Nothing has worked Im so frustrated and sad because we wont be able to play correctly also there is a lot more ads very disappointing.
Our trees dont fall, we cant get wood to progress. Please fix it. Ill be nice and give three stars but it will be five if this can get fixed for us.
We started playing like 5 years ago when we were really young and we kept dying and assuming it was because we didnt know what to do, but playing years later, Im having fun with the crafting and the exploring, but we tried killing a chicken with a stone knife, axe, and pickaxe and the chicken destroyed all our tools, means we dont know how to hunt for meat. How do we hunt? Maybe debuff animals health.
Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Opening and closing the app. And we still cant cut down trees or break boulders no matter how many axes or pickaxes we craft. Is there a way to fix this glitch.
We cant chop trees down and we dont know why.
But it was really hard to get good weapons we were constantly dying in the start.
El juego esta sper bueno, espero que sigan mejorndolo, a decir verdad esta muy bueno solo que us gustara que le aadieran un poquito ms de grficos pero sigue siendo bueno, us gustara que le aadieran mas islas y ms animales pero us conformo porque Baff to un juego como este no lo he encontrado y si existe no us importa este us gusta un montn, solo doy opiniones, us gustara jugar con amigos as que si pudieran desbloquear el modo multijugador todo bien, espero que estn bien y cudense chau.
We like to play this game a lot in our free time it helps us alot.
This game is so fun if you got the patience. We see so many negative reviews about things that are supposed to be that way in this game. Tools running out, nothing lasts making it from hand. The bone tools last longer. Its supposed to be hard to kill the animals. The bigger ones are harder than the smaller ones, of course. You go through the game not only defending yourself but collecting materials to build huts, survive, etc etc. Love that the fox pet is free with ads, but the hippos attack her like crazy (do hippos not like foxs). It might be hard to incorporate but you should make it able to control the pet, she attack when Im just trying to chill, and collect. Shes there to protect us (speaking of: if the pet getting attacked there should be some vibration or a different color of alerts like the ones the player get when getting attacked) You also shouldnt have to press equip in the quick pick menu at the bottom of the screen. We should be able to switch up what we choose to put in the menu very easily. QUESTION: When will the multiplayer be finished and added, will we be able to play with who we choose? That would be cool if we did. LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS GAME. BEEN HOOKED SINCE we DOWNLOADED. It took us a few tries to get the hang of it. But definitely recommended it to family and will do the same with friends. :D UPDATE: still playing this game years later. Restarted but progress is just about the same. Still got the same question: When is multiplayer coming? Its been Coming Soon for years now. HERES SOMETHING YOU GUYS CAN DO: give us half walls or fences for our bridges. Im tired of falling off and having to swim the rest of the way (lowering our health), or even having to turn around back to where we started, just to get back on the bridge and try again. Think itd be weird/stupid to use full walls on them, so half walls or fences, please.
We really like this game, a soiled 10/10. We also have some recommendations for it. Sharks would be a good idea for when a player wants to go across sea so its not so easy or boring and puts the player to something to look out for. Another idea for it. Is birds in the sky, that are killable for food and other resources. Another idea is for snakes , buffalo, different landscapes like swap for the crocodiles/alligator, also could add traps for catching animals, for a apex predator besides the lion, is to add any type of panthers to the game and should only spawn at night for that scary vibe to be more careful at night. Good job on the game very good.
Great game. We like craft survival games. Running around killing lions and chickens is so much fun. To the creator great job. Please put some sharks and visible fish in the waters. Maybe some rivers. Thanks for a great game.
Hahaha ur mom (good suggestion).
You could build your own shelter and tame animals.
This is yet the best game we played we enjoy playing it everyday.
Ive played on and off for a couple of years and havent run into this issue until now. We keep getting a screen saying checking internet connection even though our connection is fine. Other apps work. We tried restarting our iPad and deleting the app and then reinstalling it. Same problem. Any help will be appreciated.
Ive not been playing very long but so far the game is all right. Our only problem is that it is very similar to ARK with some different features, graphics, and animals. Ive not been playing too long so we cant judge the game at its full potential but so far it is basically a simpler version of ARK.
The only two things are the enemy hitbox, and menus. The hitbox should be on the mouth instead of the whole body so you have to go backwards then forwards and repeat that to dodge, and that is insanely tricky to do on mobile. The menus for crafting and stuff should pause the game because if youre not careful enough, then an enemy will kill you while you are in the menu.
This app is super fun to play and survive. All we need to make this a 5 star app is the multiplayer game mod. It says coming soon and we have be waiting for so long! We hope you can make multiplayer happen.
We died multiple times and we dont know why there was no monsters or anything near us still fun tho.
We used to play this game all the time but with no updates it started getting dull then we saw the multiplayer option and have been waiting on it since it was announced but other than that it is a great game.
The game overall is the average survival game. Unlock recipes, ours stones, hunt animals, collect wood and leaves, a decent building system etc. But there is definitely room for improvement. This game at first is overall fun, like building your first hut, making your first meal, traveling the landscape, but soon once you craft all the weapons, finish the interior and exterior of your first home, and traveled the island, the game gets very repetitive. To start off, the terrain needs to have an entire overhaul. The mountains feel too bumpy and climbing them feels so unrealistic. Secondly, theres only one type of trees. Tropical trees. There should be actual forests, and different types of trees with more complex vegetation such as plants, flowers, berries, and fruits you can use for recipes, bushes that you can crouch in and hunt animals from since the crouch and stealth in the game doesnt work, and maybe stones you can collect so theres more immersion making the grass not appear plain and adds another way of collecting rock. Also should be more recipes for different types of tools and weapons, like wooden tools, stone tools, and metal/iron tools and weapons. Different types of arrows, more armor like metal, and more types of outer design like metal and wood walls and floors and way more furniture. Thats all we can think of, but the game is pretty fun for like a day or two until you are maxed out on everything. Hopefully multiplayer will come out with some of these features, the game will definitely rise in popularity.
We really like this game, but lately it wont reload saved games, so we keep having to start over if we want to play. Very frustrating when you have a lot built. Also, the other islands wont load properly either when you travel to them. Please fix these glitches.
Love the game. Only thing we would ask is if item rotation would be added. We put on two parts of a wooden roof and they were facing in odd directions from one another. No option to fix or rotate. Also, maybe a salvage feature as well. When a wall or something is destroyed to fix or expand a house, at least some of the material is salvaged. Other than that, love it.
The game needs a lot of bugs fixed. Resource gathering wont register certain resources in your inventory. Bone and clay, no matter how much we gathered, it would never show in inventory, so we could never craft items that require that resource. On other islands, there were resources that couldnt be gathered on that island. No way to advance beyond that point.
The game is fun to play but there is way to many animals that spawn and are everywhere. The physics arent the best. But other than that the game is pretty cool. Many options for building and plenty of creativity.
Separate things like the oven, workshop, crafting. This way users can be more efficient.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.42.2
- Size: 498.88 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Gemjam llc
Last updated: 12th October 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: Gemjam llc