Fun but Not worth the emeralds.

While the game itself is fun, it is almost unplayable without buying emeralds. Which for an app you have to buy is cheesy at best. As you progress through the game the majority of the tasks are timed with unrealistically short time limits that you must extend for 5 emeralds. Many building upgrades require outrageous quantities of resources that only 1 of shows up over an extended period of time. Of course you can buy them for just a few emeralds. Ive stopped playing, its just not worth all those emeralds!

RTS Junkie about The Island Castaway®, v1.6