Farming Game : Sunshine Island 4+

The developers of this app are SO involved in gameplay updates, player feedback, and engagement. They are active in social media and discord with mini games to get free vouchers and make it easy to connect with other players to find good guilds. This is the only app I get excited to watch ads for because the rewards match the time spent watching them (and they often don’t make you watch the full ad to get the reward) Watching ads on other apps now is frustrating since they are all longer than those 😅 I have paid a few times for gems but if you are looking for a game where they aren’t shoving payments down your throat or the game feels slow without premium, this is a good game for you. My game is also never slow to load like some people have experienced so it must be hit or miss. They have new festivals and events all the time so I always feel like I have a reason to come back to the app. This is the only app I’ve played for so long and am impressed with how much work is put into the game each day by the Devs. They’ve upped the standard in app gaming imo. My only complaint is that for my lvl 20s the tasks once I leveled up were immediately completed because I did them already. And they were checked off before I could even see what they were. It was also not as fun because you didn’t have as much of a reason to harvest. But the improvement in festivals and events makes to so right now I’m not feeling that.

Seems like it’s super difficult to find a game that you can actually play and progress in without succumbing to the dreaded “in app purchasing” that every game seems to be modeling. There are add-ons available for purchase, but I’m currently level 18 and haven’t had to spend anything to get here. There are some tasks that give you 1-2 adds to watch, but otherwise I haven’t been inundated with “buy this!” in my face every time I want to do something. Also really enjoy how active the community on the app is, it’s very easy to find a guild to be a part of that is actively participating and communicating with other members to complete tasks. I see myself playing this game for a very long time and enjoying myself

I played hay day religiously for years and when I found this game it seemed super similar so I got it. I do like the aspect of multiple islands, makes it so you have more to do while waiting for production on other islands. Maybe I’m not a high enough level but you cannot buy items from a shop or from other players like you can on hay day. To me that was the biggest downfall because being able to buy items, with coins helps so much. And not just being able to buy with diamonds on select items from their store. I also don’t like how it takes so many shovels and land deeds to buy more land but then you receive almost no land deeds from doing shipments and orders so it takes forever to get more space. Maybe make a section in the shop where you can buy land deeds and other tools for coins. There could be small improvements all around if the game wants to be “superior” to hay day and other similar farming games for sure. People play games like this for the aspect of creating a farm and leveling up, not having to sit there and wait hours to even play again because you don’t have enough of something. Just some thoughts.