Castaway Paradise Welcomes Summer on June 22nd

Don’t you hate it when a great game comes out, but the developer’s fail to follow up with fresh post-launch content. I don’t think you’re going to have that problem with Castaway Paradise. Still available only in soft-launched territories, Stolen Couch …

Don’t you hate it when a great game comes out, but the developer’s fail to follow up with fresh post-launch content. I don’t think you’re going to have that problem with Castaway Paradise.

Still available only in soft-launched territories, Stolen Couch Games has been releasing a steady stream of new content for a game that techincally hasn’t even launched yet. Just last week they released a World Cup update, the month before that a Space Pack, and today they’re announcing that a summer content update will be hitting the game on June 22.

For a game that’s heavily inspired by Animal Crossing, new regular content should be a blessing.

There’s still no word on when the game will be seeing a full release, but Stolen Couch’s Eric Diepeveen tells us that they’re expanding to new territories with each content update, and that gamers can expect to see this one go worldwide “within the next few months.”

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If there's one game type that is egregiously missing from the ever-growing trove of the App Store, it's the Animal Crossing-like life sim. Even with vaguely similar entries like Happy Street and The Sims 3 available on iOS, nothing quite scratches our itch for a colorful, cartoony world where you can spend all day fishing or decorating your den—until now. Castaway Paradise by Stolen Couch Games intends to fill that gap and then some, offering a living, breathing world that is inspired by Animal Crossing but expands upon it in ways that will keep players busy, challenged, and right at home.Castaway Paradise takes place on a collection of islands that gradually open up as the game progresses. Players will assume the role of their personally designed avatar, who washes up on shore and decides to make the most of their shipwrecked situation. While you'll start with only a small, donated tent to house your few belongings—basically the clothes and seaweed on your back—it's easy to begin making money and become a productive member of island society. Similar to Animal Crossing, fishing and bug-catching are lucrative means to expand your coffers, but the bucks don't stop there. "Animal Crossing is the obvious inspiration indeed," Eric Diepeveen, co-founder and game designer at Stolen Couch Games told Gamezebo. "We're diverging from that game by making the gameplay deeper and more task-oriented. We like Animal Crossing, but we're not huge fans per se. My personal problem with the game is the lack of tasks. That's why I designed Castaway Paradise more like a social game.

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