Well, the game is about crafting tools and equipment in order to help you along and to take out the more dangerous wildlife, like slingshots and bow & arrows.

But how do you do so? Rabbits are fast and run away from your puny fists. This means that you have to find sources of food, whether it be hunting rabbits or catching fish in order to get meat from them. You have not only your health bar to keep an eye on, but also your hunger, and have to deal with other ailments that may befall you in your time here. Your first objective is just plain surviving. There are two key objectives in Radiation Island and they also kind of form the sequential progression of the game. The story is that you wake up on a mysterious island that was occupied by Japanese forces in the 1940’s, and find that you’re surrounded by wildlife, need to find some food as you’re quite hungry, and oh yeah, there’s that zombie with a sword that’s chasing after you, that’s a real problem too. What is Radiation Island? Well, it’s an entry in a genre we really need to lock down a good name for, as while I call it a survival crafting game, not unlike Minecraft ($6.99), elongated, it’s a first-person open-world wilderness and zombie survival simulation. And if what I described sounds like the ideal game, you need to go buy this even if you aren’t a fan of survival crafting games, because you need to buy this for philosophical reasons alone, to justify other developers making something like this. But I’m glad they did because Radiation Island is fantastic. But hey, for $2.99, maybe the irrational people who don’t want developers to actually make any money have won here. $9.99 would totally be a fair price given the quality and value, at mobile scales. If I see a developer make a game like this, I have to say “why are you disrespecting yourself, try to actually make some money off of this!' This game should at least be $6.99 if not more. I don’t think many other developers could make this kind of package and hope to live off of it – Atypical Games has a track record and possibly even the financial ability to take risks thanks to the long-running Sky Gamblers franchise.

Atypical Games decided to make a game for this most vocal and demanding of irrational consumer. And there’s not in-app purchases to be found anywhere in the vicinity of the game, because those are for suckers, right?. It’s a game that pushes iOS devices to their absolute limits, provides PC-style gameplay on the go with gamepad support, doesn’t do much hand-holding, delivers dozens of hours of gameplay, offers online multiplayer, and oh yeah, it’s only $2.99 for the entire package. What they will describe to you is basically what Radiation Island ($2.99) from Atypical Games delivers on. Take the most irrational and demanding mobile gaming fan – you know the kind, the person that only wants paid games and hates in-app purchases and ads in any form – and ask them for a dream wishlist of everything they’d want from a mobile game.

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