Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands () is a game that?ll start off pretty strong. You begin as the son or daughter of a ship, set to go on a voyage to bigger and better places. It?s not long after the tutorial that you?ll learn that you won’t be getting to that bigger and better place and instead your father?s ship is destroyed and the crew is scattered. It?s up to you to save them. It?s a pretty standard story that really won?t be throwing you any curveballs, but hey, gameplay is a pretty big deal and there?s a lot of it to go around.
The beginning of the game will probably be enjoyable. You’ll learn a good deal and it’ll all be at a good pace. You’ll pick up farming pretty quickly and it’ll feel helpful but won’t be something that takes an overwhelming amount of your time. In fact, the beginning is about the only time you’ll feel this way as more features will take up more and more of your time. For starters, you?re going to have your hands full with a lot of different things. Once you arrive on the island, it?ll start off with the smaller things. You?ve got to find a few washed up tools, some seeds, your father, and a few more crew members. From there, you?ll be growing crops and building shacks. Growing things is pretty simple: dig up the earth, put in a seed, then water each day. Some seeds will require replanting after every cycle but you?ll earn more seeds every now and then anyway and can easily have a budding pl...