Dream Town Island

After collecting all the achievements in 20 hours in one playthrough I can for sure say I've seen a lot of things
-My first resident becoming a successful chef with his loving gardener wife only for his first daughter to show off her body
-A bunny adopting an elephant and then marrying a chick on a horse with a horse
-Everyone loved the aquarium until the baseball stadiums came along
-People taking off their clothes and begging for love
-Official contest for nerds and gamers (I CAN MAKE MONEY GAMING!?!?!?"
-I bought loads of stock
10/10
Reminds me of the sims

I own 44 Kairosoft games on Steam and this one is easily top 3. Might even be their best one. Must play

i got this game on a whim, i saw someone on reddit say it scratched the same itch as tomodachi life. i've been going through a bunch of games under that "user-generated rng lifesim" genre for a personal project. and honestly, this was probably one of my favorite impulse purchases. this game isn't for everyone i'd say (very few are), but if you miss that old school mobile game feeling, or something to waste a few hours on, i'd absolutely recommend it!
i played kairosoft's games growing up and am so delighted to see their formula hasn't changed at all, and has only improved! it has the same reach #1 goal as... pretty much all of their other simulator games, but with so much more to do to reach it, like setting townies up to get married, or finishing tasks for buildings so you can force all your residents to ride cows to work, or organizing your districts and decorating your city. basically, it's just a super simple gameplay loop with so many different ways to use it.
my only complaint is that the menu design isn't... great. some submenus are pretty unintuitive, and the arial font is a bit souldraining, but both those things are very likely due to it being translated by a small team from japanese to english. so they're not at all dealbreakers. wow who would have thought i'd have an essay in me about this silly little game?

My boyfriend bought this game for me after he saw how addicted I became to Jumbo Airport Story and wow there's so much stuff to do in this game! I'm 50hrs in so far and have only completed 1 map.. there's 3 in total! I'm definitely getting my playtime out of this haha :)

It's basically a pretty good town building game. While you can pause the game by opening a menu, it would be even nicer to have a separate pause button, and sometimes you just want to do nothing and watch the town you built.
基本上算是一个很不错的小镇建造游戏。虽然打开菜单可以暂停游戏，但是如果有个独立的暂停键就更好了，有时候你就想什么都不做看看自己造的小镇。

One of the best games I’ve played in awhile. It has me HOOKED. I’ve tried some of the other Kairosoft games, but none of them appealed to me as much as this one. Getting close to getting all the achievements, then I plan on playing it again.

As expected, Kairosoft delivers fun pixel art in a dynamic simulation game. Some parts can feel repetitive, especially the unskippable and contest/romancing cutscenes, but there is surprising depth in managing the layout of the town. Buildings must be arranged in an adjacency bonus puzzle while also satisfying the needs of different types of residents. Different choices of buildings can steer your residents towards different stat growths, hobbies, incomes, or resource generation, which allows for strategy.
The game can be played either optimally or just as a sandbox. The main objective is to reach town rank 10 by fulfilling sets of goals, and beyond that to achieve a "high score," which is determined by metrics such as final town value. The high score is set in 14 years, which is roughly 28 hours of playtime without the unlockable speed-up. There is a -lot- of room for optimizing a high score, and the extra "title" challenges give the game suitable difficulty to be replayable. However, you can also just play the game to enjoy designing a town you think looks nice, since there are plenty of floors, decorations, and buildings to piece together. Every building comes with dialogues and animations you can see as you watch your residents interact with the town you built. Elevation and water tools serve as a hindrance for score-seeking, but can provide nice aesthetics as you see in the preview images. Overall, I think both types of playthroughs are enjoyable.
The game comes with a few issues. There is no in-game feature to save high scores between playthroughs, so you have to keep track of it separately. The steam achievements are insufficient; it will be very difficult not to 100% the achievements on your first playthrough. The in-game tooltips and help menu are not descriptive enough to explain several key features. For example, what is value? Does it do anything other than score? How does tourism, a major feature, even work? There is speculation online but no conclusive answers, leaving me confused about how to move forward. Minor exploits exist, including deleting the ocean by moving your port into it and laying value-generating roads underneath your buildings. There were also issues drawing from the fact the game is a mobile port. There are only two(!) save files! Some parts of the game require you to hold lmb to speed up scenes instead of just being able to click once to speed through, which is tiring for the wrist compared to a finger.
Despite the game's flaws, this is a good Kairosoft title. I couldn't put it down, and thoroughly enjoyed thinking through mechanics and town layouts. If pixel art and simulation games are your style, this is worth a play at the given price. You can also find the game on the Google Play Store for a lower price, but there are no issues in the port so it is up to your preference.