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Mad Island

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

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Quick resume

This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?

Global score

92/100

Genres

Action, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Early Access

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    Pros

    • Extensive player freedom and moral choice
    • Deep crafting and base building systems
    • High replay value with multiple story paths
    • Complex npc management and relationships
    • Unique blend of survival and adult content

    Cons

    • Early access bugs and janky ui
    • Female protagonist limited in options
    • Combat can become repetitive or unbalanced
    • Lack of tutorial or guidance for new players
    • Some untranslated text and technical issues

    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Domination, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fellowship.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

    Motivations

    • Autonomy
      5

      "Players have extensive freedom to choose actions, build bases, manage NPCs, and decide moral paths including extreme options."

    • Competence
      3

      "Survival, combat, crafting, and base building require skill and strategic resource management, though some mechanics can become repetitive or overpowered late game."

    • Competition
      -3

      "Focus is on personal progression and survival rather than direct competition or leaderboards."

    • Continuation
      4

      "High replay value with multiple story paths, base building, and exploration encourages long and habitual play sessions."

    • Cooperation
      2

      "Players manage NPCs who can work, fight, and interact, but multiplayer or direct player cooperation is not emphasized."

    • Creativity
      4

      "Extensive base building, crafting, and customization options allow creative expression in settlements and gameplay style."

    • Domination
      4

      "Players can exert control over NPCs including kidnapping, taming, and commanding them, reflecting exertion of superiority."

    • Escapism
      4

      "The game offers immersive survival and exploration in a dark, lawless island setting, providing strong real-world escape."

    • Expectation
      -4

      "Players engage voluntarily driven by curiosity, personal desire, and intrinsic interest in survival and adult themes."

    • Experimenting
      4

      "Players explore various mechanics, test limits of morality, and experiment with different play styles and base designs."

    • Exploration
      5

      "Open-world island with multiple biomes, secrets, dungeons, and randomized floors encourages discovery."

    • Expression
      4

      "Character customization, NPC appearance, and base aesthetics allow personal expression."

    • Fantasy
      3

      "Includes fantastical elements like monster girls and exaggerated adult content within a survival fiction."

    • Fellowship
      -2

      "Primarily a single-player experience with limited social or community interaction."

    • Growth
      4

      "Players learn survival skills, improve stats, and develop strategies for base building and combat."

    • Health
      -4

      "Sedentary gameplay with extensive grinding and adult content; no physical activity involved."

    • Idle
      -3

      "Requires active attention for combat, crafting, and base management; not designed for idle play."

    • Intimacy
      3

      "Player forms relationships with NPCs including romance, friendship, and complex social dynamics."

    • Leadership
      4

      "Players lead and manage NPCs, assigning jobs and directing actions within their base."

    • Progression
      5

      "Strong emphasis on leveling, item collection, base upgrades, and unlocking new content."

    • Relaxation
      1

      "Some players find base building relaxing, but survival threats and combat add tension."

    • Sensation
      3

      "Anime-style visuals, gore, and adult content provide strong sensory and emotional stimulation."

    • Status
      -3

      "Focus is on personal achievement rather than social recognition or leaderboards."

    • Story
      3

      "Branching narrative with multiple endings and questlines provides narrative immersion."

    • Strategy
      4

      "Combat, resource management, and base defense require planning and tactical thinking."

    • Thrill
      3

      "Combat and survival threats create suspense and excitement, though some aspects become predictable."

    • Value
      4

      "Players report high replay value and content volume relative to price, despite early access bugs."

    • Violence
      5

      "Graphic violence, gore, combat, and mutilation are central gameplay and thematic elements."

    • Survival
      4

      "Core gameplay revolves around managing threats, resources, and staying alive on a hostile island."

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    Last update: 29/04/2026