Thu Oct 23 2025
Maintenance Update
We've fixed some bugs and improved the game a bit: dusted off the ruins, painted the tropical butterflies and put some shine on the treasures.
The island is even more beautiful now!
If some playful monkeys steal your key items, or you just need our help, send an e-mail to support@island-hoppers.zendesk.com
Have a fun adventure!
this is the only game where i willingly turn my ringer on and allow myself to be indulged into and listen to such a peaceful, beautiful game. i have only been playing for a month and am already on level 15, with farming/discovery games like this i usually throw aside or get bored of them and forget they exist. they usually become almost impossible for me to level up without having to spend actual money. this game allows you to make everything you need, giving you so much to do in adventures or events. i have become very fond of the events, not only because of the rewards but also because of the fact that i do not get bored of them! i spend almost a full hour on this game daily, its just what i need after working a 12 hour shift. this game was definitely not what i expected after seeing the advertisements on it. i think the ads don't show the games full potential or just how amazing the graphics are. i thank this game and the amazing developers behind it for keeping me calm and busy, this is easily one of my favorite games by far. :)
First, the game is NOTHING like the preview. No dehydrated creatures, no ditch digging, no chests underwater. Second, I completed mapped quests months ago. All that’s left is mini quests. The mapped mini quests are good, but some of the resources needed are behind locked gates. The items needed to open the gates are almost impossible to get for free, and have to be gotten from chests with keys that are just as impossible to get, so you have to purchase the keys. CON. Third, I also purchased every production item months ago. Some of them can be upgraded with gems, but some of the resources needed to mine the gems (pickaxes) are also hard to get unless…you guessed it…you purchase them. One of the buildings produces items that are superfluous. Not one item ever needed. Because the mapped quests are completed, it’s hard to maintain materials needed for production. You can purchase SOME of those resources, using energy, but the batches are very small and require multiple purchases to make a difference. Fourth, there is a locked gate on the island. Beyond that gate is another set of buildings shrouded in fog. The massage when clicking the gate says you have to expand your farm to open, but expand to where and how? Fifth, the crop plots cannot be upgraded and some of the crops take a long time to grow. You can speed them up with fertilizer but, again, it’s a rare find.
I have been playing this game for awhile now and really enjoy it. My only issue is with getting coins. It’s a no win circle…..to grow crops you use a lot of coins….and you need crops to feed animals. You also need coins to buy animals to make products. For weeks now I have not been able to build up more that 5000 to 8000 coins and all the new buildings I need to complete tasks cost 30,000 plus. It’s a bit disheartening that’s there not a better way to build up coins apart from buying ALOT of them and it really would be a lot considering how many buildings there are over 30,000. Sure you can collect coins and energy as you play….but most of the time that is like 3-5 coins each time and that doesn’t add up to much …..so it doesn't really help much. It is sad when the only way you can advance in a game is to spend $5-$20 A DAY buying energy and coins. So sadly I will leave the game as it just gets boring when you can’t really achieve anything.
I have been playing this games for a while now and loved it. However, the app froze at one point on my iPad and I did everything that was suggested by help. I deleted the app and shut down my iPad, then restarted it and reinstalled the app. When I logged on, the same locked screen appeared. I went on my desktop and opened it up in my web browser and logged on and got the same locked screen. I tried other browsers and got the same result, I can understand that these kind of problems can happen, so I contacted support but never received an answer. I tried contacting support several times and still no response. I have no choice but to delete the app and never be able to use the account again. Due to the poor support, I felt that I could only rate this with two stars. Oops! It appears that the app was not locked up at all. It was waiting for me to find an object to move a rock. I apologize for the misinformation. Because of this, I am changing my rating to 4 stars. The game is excellent but support still never got back to me; therefore, I chose 4 stars instead of 5 stars.
While I agree with other comments that the game is quite lovely with wonderful graphics and fluid storyline; I must disagree that the game moves along without in game purchases. After about level 15 it becomes practically impossible to not spend $$ to keep up. The rewards during play are not sufficient to keep up with planting, building, and maintaining the farm. It is almost laughable how minuscule the rewards are within the game. Enormous piles of coins gets you only 20-30 in your pocket, and giant urns of energy another 20-30, but you’ll be expected to crash through a boulder that requires 50 energy, and you’ll burn through all this coins to plant your next set of crops. Energy runs out so quickly you cannot even finish one room within the game, meaning you cannot feed to energy boost items. I have remained at a static level of money for multiple levels and not able to replenish it fast enough to balance out the cost of planting crops. It is a fun game but to stay active will require you part with your own dollars, which will only prolong the inevitable need to do so again and again.
I thought this was going to be fun at first, and building the farm is - but some of the puzzles in the alternate locations are just a nightmare. I spent ages going through every possible move for the lighthouse - several times over, even though I couldn't see where the exit was supposed to be, as the instructions were blocking the bottom of my screen and couldn't be moved. No matter what I did, it wouldn't open up the next stage (seeing into the shipwreck) and there are no clues or help offered to resolve this - which means no way ever to move on to a different location, as far as I can tell! I was sure I'd solved another puzzle correctly, but nothing happened, so I closed the game and re-opened it - at which point it suddenly showed as solved. But that trick didn't work with the lighthouse. I'm feeling that there must be too many glitches and bugs, perhaps because it's a complex game - but hints to resolve problems would really help. There are so many bits of info available dotted about the farm, which is great - but no help getting out of a dead end situation with an unsolvable puzzle.
I really liked the game at first, but when I passed level 10 it kept getting more difficult to hold on to energy. You only get 50 energy every hour and some little grass pieces are 5 then 5 then 25 then a patch of dirt that’s 65 energy… what?!? The urns don’t help much as they only replenish 1-4 energy and your pet only replenishes 7 every so often. I never collect enough fruit to replenish energy and now I’m losing coins on top of that too. I had 50,000 coins and now I’m at 5,000 because of everything I had to buy and plant. The mini games are fun but you have to wait 8 hrs just to play again to get 40-50 extra energy. It is very annoying to have to quit every few minutes just to get through a level. Maybe I’ll go back to Klondike, at least they had spend energy to get energy events frequently that kept me interested. I’m not going to waste real money when my fake money gets spent so quickly. Please make this game less expensive both in energy and coins. Thank you.
Just started playing this game 3 days ago. I agree it’s a shame we can’t sell our products. The game has started freezing up on me…right after I discovered the 3 parrots. I placed them in the correct spots and the game froze. Backed out twice but still frozen. I’m up against a clock because I chose to go to the new island and will only have this 3rd island for about 23.5 hrs. Pls help! Update: well my game didn’t work in time to finish playing the one adventure before the time ran out & that island couldn’t be visited anymore. Started the Joust on Saturday and now that game has become frozen up too and I’ll lose the ability to finish that island too. The page has darkened like a cloud came over the land and shaded it. The part of the screen that has the sun shining on it allows the curser to move but it’s all over the dense forest and says something to the effect of “Didn’t think it would get this overgrown” but am unable to access any of the foliage to eliminate it. Both frustrating and disappointing
For reasons unknown, it fell into ruin. Now is the time to find out what fate befell the ancient people and discover their legendary treasures.
AppAdvice Sat Sep 30 2023