Coral Island Early Access First Impressions
Coral Island takes elements of every farming simulator you’ve ever played, throws them in a blender, and adds a storyline about an environmental disaster and a town in crisis. The mixture is then poured over a sprawling world with a diverse population, beautiful scenery, and plenty to explore. In short, Coral Island is shaping up to be one farming simulator to unite them all.
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Surprisingly, one genre trope you won’t find is a grandchild inherits a farm from their grandparent and has no idea where to start. Instead, you have made the choice to move away from the city and start a new life on Coral Island, although it seems that something else may be at play, since a supernatural element sees you connect with what appear to be nature spirits in order to start healing the island. This intriguing storyline leads into a game that blends the best farming sims have to offer.
Coral Island is still in early access, and there are some areas where this is more obvious than others, such as a couple of festival features marked as ‘not yet available’. However, the world itself feels full and vibrant. You start your new life on an overgrown patch of land, but it’s far prettier than I expected. I love having unique scenery, and the water sources around the place make crop watering much easier in the early game. There are also some interesting features around the plot - which I’m still trying to guess the function of - and most things you can place can go anywhere on the very large patch of land, allowing for creative freedom. Just make sure you think about where you put down your furnaces and kilns first, since editing your farm isn’t a simple process right now.
The town itself offers all
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