Fit check
Is ISLAND 404 worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Survival-game players who want to manage hunger and thirst while exploring
- Crafting fans who want to make tools and weapons from scavenged materials
- Adventure players who prefer quests involving stranded survivors and an escape goal
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players who want to avoid repeated resource gathering may hit a wall when survival requires finding water and hunting for food.
- Players looking for a non-combat survival game may bounce off encounters with the island’s creatures.
- Players seeking a focused combat game may find that exploration and survival management are also central systems.
Our take on ISLAND 404
The likely sticking point is the survival loop: players must keep hunger and thirst in check by finding water and hunting, alongside exploring and fighting. Those who want to move directly from one combat encounter to the next may lose interest when resource gathering takes priority.
What is ISLAND 404?
After a plane crash, survivors are stranded on an island.
Explore the map, collect resources, and avoid dangers while monitoring hunger and thirst. Find water and hunt animals to meet those needs, then make tools, equipment, and weapons from materials found nearby. Combat includes a variety of creatures, and quests involve helping other crash victims in exchange for rewards. The goal is to find a way to escape and return alive. The game combines island exploration, survival management, crafting, and fighting, with story quests and achievements.
How ISLAND 404 plays
- 01Hunger and thirst
- Survival requires finding drinking water and hunting animals while keeping both needs in check.
- 02Crafted equipment
- Materials gathered on the island can be made into tools and weapons.
- 03Rescue quests
- Helping people stranded on the island can earn rewards.
ISLAND 404 compared to similar games
Mr. Prepper centers on building an underground shelter and preparing for a nuclear-war threat, while ISLAND 404 focuses on gathering supplies, managing hunger and thirst, and escaping an island. Unplagued is a team-based fight against plague-mutated inhabitants in procedurally generated medieval villages; ISLAND 404 instead pairs island survival and crafting with helping crash victims.
ISLAND 404: platforms & release
Is ISLAND 404 worth it?
It is worth it if: survival-game players who want to manage hunger and thirst while exploring. Skip it if: players who want to avoid repeated resource gathering may hit a wall when survival requires finding water and hunting for food.
Where can I download ISLAND 404?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens ISLAND 404's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is ISLAND 404 on?
Windows only.
