Sunshine Island Reviews

I just noticed that my credit card was charged for approximately $63 for 2 packages.. first that I never received, 2nd that there wasn't enough funds on my card to begin with. So it said that the transaction was cancelled. When I made a credit card payment 2 days later ~ paid it off ~ all of a sudden, I had charges for the amount that I was trying to purchase when I was over the limit on my card. I disputed it with Apple, who denied it... And I'm appealing again. I tried to put a support ticket in for this game ~ and it says due to technical issues... It can't go thru at this time. This is complete horse****. I loved the game, but I shouldn't be charged for things that were cancelled on the games end due to over the limit on card, then charged on a later date... To which I never received.

Same old game I’ve played before. Long production times, super glitchy, and asking for a ridiculous amount of hard to come by items to expand your island, and of course making progress in the game difficult unless you plan to spend a lot of real money. And I don’t mind spending money, but I’m sick of game developers making progress in the game nearly impossible WITHOUT paying real money. Greed, greed, greed. And if it wasn’t, they would listen to the reviews and do something about the issues. But they won’t.

HELLLO PEOPLE WE MADE THIS GAME I HATE IT BECAUSE even though I just started it said you can check all the needs for the island so I clicked on the needs button and clicked on the girl and then clicked the x and it froze. I deleted it 5 billion times and closed all my tabs redownloaded it did all the steps again and it still froze. SO i hate this game . But whoever made it or responds to the reviews I really hope you do to me and fix the game.

I was really looking forward to play this game…it looked like it would be enjoyable. BUT for some reason I can’t move or do anything at all. I can’t even get to customer service. It’s just frozen! I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it several times. Does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it? Thank you.
Regards,
Linda Wallace

I was enjoying it but then all of a sudden I started having issues. Example: My windmill is glitching out to the point that I can’t see inventory, can’t upgrade it, or make anything. I’ve even uninstalled it and reinstalled it, signed out, signed back in, nothing’s working. And yes my app is up to date.
Now I can’t do anything, so no point in playing it anymore.

I’ve played a lot of island/city-building games, and from what I have played of this game, only two minutes was enjoyable. But when I got to the tutorial part where you click on the quest book, my game bricked; nothing was tappable. I even deleted it and restarted my phone, but nothing. Hopefully, I can come back to this game, but as of now, it’s unplayable

I downloaded the game. It looks like it will be lots of fun but it is completely glitched. At first it wasn't giving me any guided intro at all which I thought was odd so I just clicked around, sold some things, etc. then decided I should try to restart SunshineIsland .
I restarted and now I have the guides. Great! Except it wants me to sell something I no longer have. It won't let me out of the guided instructions to try to get what I'm missing, I'm just stuck with the little hand cursor tapping "well" over and over again even though I can't do it. I've deleted and re downloaded the game, nothing works. Such a huge disappointment. I have been looking for a game for ages that actually interested me and thought this could be it.

Started playing and after the everyone loves bread mission; you can’t click on anything but it’s showing you to click which the white finger that’s pointing to the trees. You can’t progress and you can’t build anything because everytime you restart the game the same dialogue and mission pops up. Frustrating; wouldn’t download it again.

I really like the game but I’ll delete it because things after level 9 things start to take 5 or 6 hours to produce. If you need a hundred of things, then the game isn’t worth playing. I’ve seen many many many comments about that. What this tells me is your not listening to your costumers. That’s just not cool. If I find a game I like I don’t mind spending some money on it, but with the game taking so long to move forward, and the developers just not listening to their customers, well frankly, why play? If you have to wait so long, why play at something that you can’t move forward at? I’ll just delete this one.

Harvesting time takes too long but if you want to speed up production time it requires too many gems already… too early in the game for that if you ask me. You only get one worker in the beginning as well and so with that again production is slow. Didn’t even have the game for more than 10 minutes and I’ve already uninstalled it.

Game froze in the middle of the tutorial and I couldn’t get any further.

I too was like oh check this game out. How cool, everything about it I liked, I even purchased once for the big guys quest, everything was good. Then I purchased again on a different day, but this day was different, I bought a 4.99 pkg. the game took it twice, I only wanted it once, I asked for my 4.99 back, the game replied saying i got it back, but my bank acct doesn’t show that and then I find out I’m BANNED FROM because, they say, I OWE THEM money, lol umm no……so now I’m banned…..not a happy gamer.

Unfortunately I could not play past the tutorial. The game freezes every time it prompts me to tap on the bakery quest. The white hand is wanting me to tap in a certain spot and the game locks up and I’m not able to do anything. I tried reinstalling and still have the same problem :(

I got a new iPad and want to sign in to the game I already have in progress, but it is stuck in the tutorial and I can’t get by to get to my saved game. I hate playing on my phone, and want this fixed. I’ve tried uninstalling the game, but it doesn’t remove the place I’m at in the tutorial, making it still stuck. I’ve also put in a help request, and have gotten no response for two days.

Keep in mind, I was payed to play this game and still quit playing. When I started playing it was actually kind of fun. Then I started running into issues. There’s limited storage for each item which is fine, but you can’t upgrade it and orders come in for way more than you can have at a time. Ex: limit is 100 for milk but the order needs 250 and you HAVE to do it all at once. If you have too many of an item you’re supposed to be able to just sell it. But I can’t with the ostriches which severely limits manure and log productions. Again, this wouldn’t be a deal breaker if it weren’t for the fact that every time I get more than 65 manure IT RESETS TO 25. This has happened four times now. I’m so sick of this game. I’m not going to play a game that has issues like this especially since the development team doesn’t seem to care about these reviews and only leave an automated message that takes you to a terrible and unhelpful “common questions”. So yeah don’t play this game. It’s a complete waste of time

I’ve redownloaded, restated my phone and it does NOT allow me to pass. The hand gestures keep pointing but I’ve poked every inch of my screen. Very frustrating bug. I was super excited to play but I might just delete. We will see I guess if they fix it in the next day or so.

I hate when games force you to waste jewels to speed things up! Every time you forced me to do that I left the game and came back later. Also, every time the game locked up which is constantly I would leave the game and enter again later! I found the solution to both problems. I DELETED your stupid game! Problems solved! If I could give you a Negative ten stars I would!

This is the worst game I have ever downloaded. It won’t allow you to skip the tutorial in the beginning. The tutorial makes the entire game lag and I couldn’t get past the introduction. Why make a game you can’t even play. I deleted this horribly designed app immediately!!!

I gave it a shot but it’s just not worth it. 6 hrs to get feathers, come on. 200 nails not to mention no space to build. I think folks are lying, 4.9 please,,

I love the art style and it seems like such a fun game! Buuuuuut… the game kept bugging out within just the first 5 minutes of playing and wouldn’t allow me to progress any farther than checking on the quest book for the very first quest. Which wouldn’t bother me as much but I was really looking forward to playing. I tried deleting SunshineIsland , re downloading it, logging out of SunshineIsland , updating it… nothing worked. If this could get fixed I would definitely be an avid player! :)

So expensive to do level up. Plane and ship orders is too much. Cannot tell who joins in and going out the game. Cannot tell if other players needs help. Definitely developers need lots of work in this game.

Seriously, you want a town building game, there are at least two that are better? Want an island building game? Again there is a better one. What does this game offer that others don’t?

If nothing then devs leave the typical “Sorry you did not like this, please contact us so we can help you with any problems.”

I just updated the game and everything was good except that there has been this dark shadow that has been routinely covering the right half of my screen and then moving out of the way. Idk if this is intentional, but it is really annoying and I’ve found no obvious way to fix it or any mention of anything like this in the patch notes.

(update deleted it but that didn’t fix my issue so I’m stuck on level four forever I guess ) I made the mistake of building two houses as soon as I was able to build a house and then when the tasks became available, it wanted me to build a bakery but I had no room and I couldn’t get out of the tutorial. I’m restarting in hopes that that will fix everything but I’ll probably have to start from the beginning.

The game is decent, but almost all of the items take forever to produce. A good chunk of them take 3-6 hours just to produce a small amount at a time. If you don’t mind only being able to play for maybe 15 minutes at a time while you wait hours for everything else to be finished. Game requires you to spend way too much of your own money to make any real progress. Also, their customer support is not very helpful if you have any issues with gameplay.

I’m at the part in the tutorial where you have to buy a bakery. Once i’ve closed out of the screen after pressing the “?” it just repetitively shows a hand showing me where to press but won’t let me do anything. Super disappointed, tried to delete and redownload and nothing worked. Please fix it.

This game is super social and fun to play. The updates tend to mess up more than they fix. This last update needs some serious patches. 2/4 Aside from that, my only complaint is some things take far longer to produce than is reasonable. I understand that not everything is going to be readily available but others like coffee cups takes 2 hours and grinding coffee takes forever and ties up your windmill all day.

Ads….just why? I know companies need to make money to keep the game running but ads for just about everything that the game offers???? This game would be better without the “optional” ads but because we would lose items on not watching them most if not all players will watch them.

I will keep 3 stars until ads are removed.
Follow the clash of clans model but for farming, that would make this game perfect.

I love this game, but it recently had an update you had to do and now I keep getting an error message. I don’t want to delete, because I’ve gotten pretty far. Please fix soon!

I enjoy this little game to waste time, anywhere from 10-30 minutes at a time. I’d play for longer but really that’s all you need to do everything and then wait… Waiting is a BIG part of the game. Which is fine. Expanding areas takes forever because accumulating the parts necessary takes time. I wish it as easier to expand my areas so I could have more production buildings and stuff like that but I’m absolutely not going to keep spending actual money on these apps, especially when it’s not necessary. It just makes the game go smoother and you can get further a lot quicker, obviously, but I don’t have money to spend like that, so it’s very slow going. I like it, but I also wish it moved a little faster for those of us that can’t afford to keep buying gems. Even expanding, the coin costs go up by the millions for each plot - that’s insane. And annoying. And frustrating. Then I remember it’s just a game and close it.

It would be so nice in a game to be able to access Settings in order to mute the sound and music. I have no interest in hearing sound or music while I am playing a game. The fact that I must go through the tutorial in order just to get to settings is unacceptable. Game over!

It’s good game but I’ve issue in my ostrich farm I can’t get items or sell them I tried to destroy the farm but it keep saying building in progress

Game starts out fine but very quickly you realize the timers are ridiculously long and you need a lot of everything to progress. I’m someone who likes to make at least a tiny bit of progress every day within a few minutes, but this game will progress at a snail’s pace at that rate. Sure you are given a lot of premium currency to fast forward the timers but when those are gone what are you left with? It’s one of the least fun games of this kind I’ve downloaded.

I was really enjoying this game. I have several friends that are on here playing with me, but I don’t see the reasoning why you feel the need of using foul language? Also don’t understand why you feel the need to bring different relationships into the game. I’m very well aware of gay rights and all but why do we have to bring any of that to this game?
As a Christian, it would be nice to get on a site and just play a game without worrying about whether it’s infringing on my religion. I probably won’t be continuing this game long, several of us are already looking for a different one to move to if things don’t change.
I’m so disappointed I don’t know why you all had to do this now after we’ve been playing so long.

The game is fun and while similar to it's predecessor, Big Farm, they have made a lot of improvements. I like managing multiple farms on multiple islands, both individual and group tasks, the ability to upgrade production, etc. My one complaint is they purposefully restrict specific productions and then request unrealistic quantities of that item. What is with this game's fascination with gold, copper, and iron ore? There are so many things that could be produced yet it seems this game only cares about forcing you to mine more ore than is possible. They limit you to a single forge that has ridiculously long production times (iron bars take more than 24 hours), require you to use that single building to produce three different metals (gold, copper, iron) and then request those bars on practically every plane, boat, and customer order. And, those ores are also necessary ingredients in other production items. Gold sheets? What is a gold sheet? I'm sure they exist, but who has ever seen or heard of them and why include them in a farming game? Overall, fun but some really weird decisions being made by developers.

I’m only a level 14 I have not had to pay for anything yet but I am also patient and don’t care to spend diamonds to move forward.

I will not spend money on a game, if it comes down to a roadblock in the near future i will try to come back and edit or rewrite the review.

Fun game to stay busy in small bursts.

I’m stuck at level 4 because it wants me to build a bakery but there’s a white hand that won’t let me go past it plz help me fix I litterly can’t do anything anymore and I want to play plz fix asap

I only downloaded this game for point on the Fetch app but I actually really like it. It’s relaxing and the challenges aren’t timed and there’s not a ton of stuff going on that you have to complete after doing a chain of 30 different things. It’s all in all a pretty chill game and I’m probably gonna stick with it even after I get my points. The only thing I don’t like is different islands with challenges, Ik other people like it but it’s not my style, and the high number of gems to do stuff. I’m not buying stuff when I’m trying to just play a game, again, Ik others will do it’s wtv. PS I LOVE the “background” movements like the whales and turtles moving around.

I love this game and the mechanics, and how I can play for extended periods of time without needing to spend money or watch tons of ads. However, I find the graphics to be personally a little too much, and I find myself easily overwhelmed by them. Maybe too many icons on the screen? Either way, love the game! Thanks for your hard work!

Cute game, entertaining and fun up until Level 15 - a few hours in - when it becomes impossible to get materials you need to do anything. 6 hour wait time for a cup of coffee and feathers? 200 bread to fill an airplane crate at 10 per 10 minutes? You do the math. The game needs serious rebalancing at this point. It started to take so much time I deleted it. It shouldn’t be so hard to make progress.

I love this game and play non-stop. But I hate that you only get one chance to buy second construction crew. I never even saw chance to buy the second one. It really makes it difficult to get things done with only one. I’d give 5 ⭐️ If that was changed.

I am currently level 27 and have been able to reach it without having to pay anything or wait ridiculous amounts of time. They have a lot of opportunities to get gems and the more expensive/long wait time objects without needing to pay. I do choose to watch ads quite a bit to get them though but I find it worth it. I also use regular coins to buy items a lot. They prices are very fair!

They have a lot of quests and tasks that keep you interested in playing. My only complaint is that once you get into the teen levels the amount of quests drop A LOT. I have gone many many levels without any quests. Part of the problem is that I would enter a new level and I already had the materials or upgrades to complete the new quests so it automatically checked them off without letting me see what I did or giving me something else.

I think the higher levels need more pop up’s from the citizens asking for random things to keep us interested. I haven’t seen a citizen since the single digit levels. My only goal right now is to get my warehouse to level 6 and that’s going to take a long time. Some more tasks would be good while I would on it.

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.

You don’t have issues trying to get farm items like in other games..you can play without spending money..The game was so much fun until around level 20, then the quests drop dramatically and gets somewhat boring…you don’t have many items to add to the farm after mid teen levels..I keep playing because I hope it gets better…the game constantly updates, I’ve had 2 updates so far today..they desperately need to use some of those updates to improve the levels…I’m a leader of the guild and it says I will win guild coins after every event but I have zero..

I really enjoy this game. I play hay day and other games so thought I’d give this a try.
I am really enjoying the flow and the challenges . The three maps are a plus. I’m at level 25 and still moving right along.
Ok so the first issue I have is in customizing the farms. Once items are placed it’s impossible to move and edit to other locations without paying a ridiculous amount of gems to store something in order to move things around. So I’m stuck with a setup that’s just cluttered and mismatched. I can’t really customize until I save enough to expand. I wish you could make it easier to edit the farms better.
The other thing is once you get to a certain levels the people or quest book is few and far between so it is getting a little boring without that. Would be nice if you added more quests with the npc interactions .
Thanks.

I do really love this game however the beaver drop is really hard to find the beavers. I spent hours looking for them. I’m on part eight out of 10 and I have one more to go and I can’t find it anywhere and I’m really disappointed.
Maybe the challenges can be a little bit easier I shouldn’t have to spend an hour looking for 1 thing.

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Great fun with plenty to do in keeping you busy BUT the option to move buildings and things at least with IPhone is failing. I know you have to wait until you reach level five before you can drag and drop. I noticed it at level 8 so clearly it hasn’t stopped me from playing but it’s kind of annoying.

Good game. Passes the time. However it needs more quests. You essentially just farm for planes and boats and if your guild does something. You only get quests at the start of a new level and it’s done very quickly. So, you guys need to make more quests. Like the beginning with a story line. Just continue from there.

Getting supplies needed for upgrades is too slow to get with the amount of them offered at a time and the resources needed to get those rewards. Upgrading many buildings takes a long time.

It’s a great alone time game by your self I love it it’s not bad it’s actually a great game

Relaxing but repetitive. While the game has good graphics it does lag a bit at times. The rewards are decent with options to watch ads in order to gain more. Although, often there are some ads that you have to tap out of numerous times after you’ve watched them, which can be annoying… hopefully the update fixes those issues. One of my biggest complaints though is that whenever you want to store an item in order to edit and move things around within the area of the “island” you have to purchase (with the game’s currency) storage space for any items such as decorations, and buildings, so basically you need to delete an empty garden plot and repurchase when needing to move stuff around — I realized that is the cheapest option after I had already spent a lot doing so. Oh, and it would be nice if there were an option to edit/change the name of one’s guild. Overall I really do enjoy this game — It is one of the better ones of its type. I’m glad that it isn’t a merge game because those have become overkill.

Good game. I really enjoy it but it keeps freezing and I have to keep restarting. Please fix. Other than that I say a 4 star.

Can only complain that my pencil is not compatible. Would love to be able to use it, the game is fun!

I love the game but I am only able to play it on my iPhone 6, I sure hope you will be able to play it on a Chromebook sometime in the near future.

The only thing I don’t like how the expansion are so much it’s not a small jump it’s a big jump in coins wish they were a little less as you expand

This game is awesome but I wish I knew or there was a way to get more animals or pets cause when I go to the construction hat there’s nothing soo

I love this game as it’s EASY and portable, but I have YET to be able to participate in the “mini games” that are only available via Facebook or Discord! I click on the Facebook link and when it opens up the page, it never shows anything more than the top of the page with the “loading more” message and doesn’t load any more! I’m bummed that I can’t get to the mini games 😔

I love this game. However, my only complaint is that the planes and planes have unrealistic orders. In order to fill them we have to buy vouchers so that seems a bit unfair. Even asking for help means our group has to rely on vouchers to help. It would be nice if you would fix that more reachable.

This game takes me back to when the very first games like this started out in Facebook. I would spend hours playing and this one is even better!! I wish I had more time to play I absolutely love building your own lands it makes me feel productive while gaming. Amazing!

I really enjoy this game and the missions you need to complete. It is very relaxing. I enjoy that there is no matching thing or jewels to move around. You complete making items and growing items. You work to expand the farm. I LOVE that there isn’t a bunch of ads!!

Great game a fun way to spend time on your phone if you are always on your phone bored and it has lots of missions to complete it does have a few questions things that could be fixed . For example it’s so hard to Martian your islands/farms after the first couple level , although you really just have to wait until all ur crops are done processing. Also the reviews other people on SunshineIsland rate ur farms because it’s hard to maintain your sales on items because it does take time for them to produce. Other than that I relish SunshineIsland and have spent hours on it today.

I really like all the different tasks and goals this game has. It’s hard to be bored even when you are waiting for items to finish growing or producing. I also like the different ways you can earn gems and tokens to buy different items needed. I’m sure there are ways to improve the game but I’m satisfied with the game play and would recommend this game to all.

Please make this game a little more reasonable priced on some of the items and you with find that players will be willing to spend money..Upgrades on something’s are a joke and the way way the game is set up the market order,planes,and ship al, want the same things so we have to decide which to fulfill.. I really love the game and it’s a little different and you offer some great rewards which help and encourage player to keep coming back but some upgrades are to expensive for the average player to advance and there are to many demands for us to meet.. Thank you for your time and I really do enjoy this game try giving us more time to full ship orders without expanding what we need to fulfill them..I just send ships away,they are to greedy and unless players are spending a lot of cash to expand farms I see no way to fulfill orders as like mine wanted 1500 milk plus a ridiculous amount of other items..

Unlike most games like this you do not have to save up energy’s to be able to play I absolutely love that about this game. It’s challenging at times as to be expected but still totally fun and is super easy to understand. If you just wanna pass some time by with good genuine fun, then get SunshineIsland and play.

It’s fun to play a lot of grinding. A couple of things that would be helpful is if we could see how much stars we need left to go to the next level but also It would be helpful if we could store our building to move around without a cost and not to mention if we can lower how much everything is and tools you need to upgrade or even add an extension.

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 SunshineIsland 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

You can actually get further in this game because everything doesn’t cost a ton of stuff and it’s easy to get the stuff you need unlike other games like this.

I love every thing about this game. I really love the fact that you can advance in the game cause u don’t have to pay a bunch of money for things. Plus the tournaments give away plenty of materials

I love this game!!! I love everything about it and love the players I have meet in my group. But you need to make it easier for expansions and buying things. I am at level 38 and it very hard with the expansions and things being so expensive .

Love it

This is a fun game! Looking forward to the Halloween update.
My one suggestion, let us buy more land. Without land, there are no new buildings or fields.

This is one of the funniest games I’ve ever played!😃Thank you whoever made it!

Easy to pickup and not the usual farm that bores you quickly

I love this game!! So fun and relaxing

Great game to pass the time.

Such a fun game!

An excellent game without spending money! Wonderful graphics and entertaining!

Thank you for making this game I love it you are awesome

Easy to play and progress. Really fun!

Game is fun and is for any age i play it all the time on my down time at work

This game is SO cute and fun- light and relaxing. I really love and appreciate the fact that the game style doesn’t require “having” to purchase any special packages to fully enjoy playing! Definitely one of my favorites that I’ve come across

Like any building game, it’s fun and is a good time waster.

I love this game!!! Easy to play and lots of fun!!!

Fun and easy to play. You can burn a lot of time playing this and still enjoy it after long sessions of playing.

So far, it’s a great game to pass time. Very little to no Ads and hasn’t been glitchy or anything. Quite happy with it

Awesome game, love everything so far and also it has great graphics!!

So I was really board and my mom actually introduced me to this game and I’ve been playing it for 3days and I’m on level 13

I can’t get passed the part of the tutorial where it tells you about the quest list! The little hand just taps in an open space and won’t let me do anything at all! I can’t even email support because I don’t have an in game name yet! I really would like to try this game :(. I’ve tried deleting it and re downloading it, there is no update, I’m stuck like Chuck :(.

UPDATE

As of December 18th 2023 I’ve been able to play the game and get passed the horrible quest list bug!
Thanks for updating and this is a very good game!

Great little farming game if that’s what you’re looking for. Plant something, wait for it to grow, then reap what you sow. Doesn’t get better than that. It’s about time devs got it right.

I like the game. I think you should come up with something where your Facebook friends can help or sell you items.

This is a great game to play. I love that you can choose if/when to watch ads. The game gets more interesting with both solo and team challenges. The game also gives out gems as rewards for completing tasks and tournament, which you can spend on a lot of affordable upgrades. It’s definitely worth downloading and checking it out for yourself!

I really enjoy playing SunshineIsland, because there is always something new and my guild is great. The developers put a lot of effort into this game (new events, voucher codes, asking for input, updates), so I don’t mind spending some real $$. (I usually don’t in other games) However the game can be played without that and still be fun.
Keep up the great work! Now back to my guild tournament!