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Harvest Island

Game ID: GID0452547
Game Info
Year
2017
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description

Players cultivate and harvest tropical fruits across four seasons using strategic timing and weather forecasting

Description

Players cultivate and harvest tropical fruits across four seasons using strategic timing and weather forecasting

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • I love it.
Cons
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Thematic elements
  • Cultivating and harvesting fruits year-round
  • Formosa, an island at the intersection of northeastern and southeastern Asia
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Cultivating — Players can sow fruit seeds by tucking them under one of three field cards.
  • Fertilizer — Players can add fertilizer to fields to double their growth.
  • Field capacity — Each field has a particular capacity, suggesting a limit to what can be planted or grown.
  • Harvesting — Players harvest fruits at the right time to score maximum points, using knowledge gained from weather forecasting.
  • planting — Players can plant a fruit of the same species on top of a field if a fruit seed is already present.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Harvest Island, where players take on the role of cultivators as they sow seeds in different types of fields under varying weather conditions in order to maximize their harvests.
  • Using the knowledge gained from weather forecasting, players are going to have to harvest their crops at the proper time in order to become the best cultivator the land has ever seen.
  • The trick here is to harvest the fruits at the right time to score maximum points.
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