Survival Isles

Survival Isles: Craft & Quest. Wash ashore with nothing.

Chop, mine and fish your way up twelve skills. Build a camp block by block, hold it through the night raids, then build a raft and sail for the next isle.

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Step 1: Every tap pays out

Tap a tree. Watch the numbers fly.

A chop, a swing of the pickaxe, a cast into the shallows: each one lands with a sound, a puff of chips and a number that floats up into a skill bar. Levels come fast at first and every one unlocks something you can see from the beach.

Try it. This tree is the real one from the game, and so is the survivor.

Woodcutting

Level 1, 0 XP

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What one log becomes

  1. Tap a tree
  2. Logs
  3. Workbench
  4. Planks
  5. A trap on the wall

Step 2: Twelve skills, one to ninety-nine

Every level unlocks something you can see from the beach.

Four combat skills and eight for gathering and making. Woodcutting 15 opens the oaks, Smithing 30 the steel, Construction 24 the watchtower. The panel always shows what the next level brings.

Skills

Total level 377

  • Attack31
    Level 10: iron swords
  • Strength28
    Every level: a bigger max hit
  • Defence24
    Level 20: steel plate
  • Hitpoints33
    Starts at level 10
  • Woodcutting42
    Level 15: oak trees
  • Mining37
    Level 15: iron ore
  • Fishing40
    Level 20: trout
  • Farming22
    Level 40: pumpkins
  • Cooking35
    Level 18: the stove
  • Smithing30
    Level 30: steel
  • Crafting26
    Level 30: the lobster pot
  • Construction29
    Level 24: the watchtower

Five tiers of everything

Metal, tree, ore and fish climb together. The level is what it takes to smith the bar.

  1. BronzeSmithing 1

    Tree · Copper and tin · Shrimp

  2. IronSmithing 15

    Oak · Iron · Trout

  3. SteelSmithing 30

    Willow · Coal · Salmon

  4. MithrilSmithing 50

    Maple · Mithril · Lobster

  5. AdamantSmithing 70

    Yew · Adamant · Swordfish

12 skills, 5 metals, 44 journal steps.

Step 3: Build a camp worth defending

Walls go where you put them. So does everything else.

Pick a piece, turn it, tap the grid. Walls join their neighbours into one run, gates let you through and keep raiders out, traps and towers do the fighting while you cook. Plots, coops and pens go anywhere on the isle.

Every piece can be moved or removed later. The Hearth in the middle is the only thing that stays put.

The survivor hammering at the anvil inside a walled camp at dusk: furnace, stove, chicken coop, cow pen, four farm plots, torches and a watchtower with a red banner

Build

Construction level and cost

  • CampfireLevel 15 logs, 2 coal
  • WorkbenchLevel 110 logs, 5 fibre
  • Wood wallLevel 24 planks
  • FurnaceLevel 520 stone
  • AnvilLevel 810 stone, 3 bronze bars
  • Spike trapLevel 143 planks, 2 bronze bars
  • Chicken coopLevel 168 planks, 4 rope
  • WatchtowerLevel 2410 oak planks, 4 iron bars
  • Reinforced wallLevel 304 stone, 2 iron bars, 2 oak planks
The camp at night: torches on the palisade, the Hearth burning gold in the middle, the survivor at the gate with sword and shield, and three smoky shade creatures with yellow eyes creeping out of the forest

Step 4: Survive the night

When night falls, the Shades come for the Hearth.

A day on the isle lasts 12 minutes. At dusk the raiders rise on the beach in three waves and walk straight at your Hearth, breaking whatever stands in the way. Hold the walls, keep it burning, and at dawn the raid chest is yours.

Lose the Hearth and your streak resets; nothing is stolen. Too tired to fight? Sleep in a bed at dusk and skip the night.

Who comes knocking

  • Shadeling

    Small, quick, many.

  • Shade brute

    Slow. Breaks walls.

  • Shade stalker

    Fast. Goes for the gate.

Each night brings more of them, and stronger, never more than a few levels above your own. Watchtowers shoot, spike traps bite, and every raider you drop is combat XP.

Nights survived

Every dawn with the Hearth still burning adds a night to the streak. The streak pays out at these milestones.

  1. 3nights
  2. 7nights
  3. 14nights
  4. 30nights

The raid chest: coins, resources of your tier, moonshards, sometimes gems.

Step 5: Sail to new isles

The map is bigger than the beach.

Mend the old dock and a raft takes you to Pinewood. Build a sailboat and Stonepeak is yours. Each isle has its own trees, ores, fish and monsters, and a boss at the end of the road.

  1. Driftwood Isle

    Levels 1 to 20

    Home. A beach, an oak wood, a quarry with a boarded-up mine, a meadow of chickens and cows, and a cove where something big lives.

    Copper, tin and coal · Shrimp and sardines · Crabs, slimes, goblins, boars. Boss: Giant Crab, level 20.

  2. Pinewood Isle

    Levels 15 to 40

    Reached by raft. Willows along a trout river, iron in the quarry, wolves in the pines and a goblin fort on the hill.

    Iron and coal · Trout and salmon · Wolves, bandits, bears. Boss: Goblin Warlord, level 38.

  3. Stonepeak Isle

    Levels 35 to 65

    Reached by sailboat. Maples and an ancient yew grove, mithril and adamant in the mountain, lobster and swordfish off the cliffs.

    Mithril and adamant · Lobster and swordfish · Skeletons, golems, wraiths, trolls. Boss: Stone Titan, level 65.

Frostfang Isle and Emberfall Isle are charted on the map, not yet landed on.

The archipelago map on parchment: Driftwood Isle with the camp and dock, the pine-covered Pinewood Isle, the mountainous Stonepeak Isle, an ice isle and a volcano isle, joined by a dotted sailing route
The old mine under Driftwood: lanterns, blue crystals and glowing mushrooms, copper and iron veins in the rock, a minecart, and the survivor with a pickaxe and lantern facing two cave goblins across an underground stream

Under the quarry

The old mine has a rotten door and something behind it.

Mining 15, ten planks, three rope and two bronze bars mend the door. Below: copper and tin galleries, a coal gallery, and three deep chambers where the cave goblins guard the iron. Lanterns and crystals light the way. No raids, no merchant, no building down there. Just ore.

Step 6: Come back tomorrow

Being away never hurts you. Coming back always pays.

The isle keeps its own clock. Close the game at lunch and by evening there is a crate on the beach, ripe crops, a haul in the chest and rested XP waiting to double your next hour.

Survivor's log, one ordinary day

  1. 07:10

    A supply crate washes ashore every 4 hours. Open it for coins, resources, seeds and sometimes gems. Two wait on the beach at once.

  2. 07:12

    Crops grow on the clock while you are away: potatoes in three minutes, corn in two hours, pumpkins in four. Plant them by the water and they never need watering.

  3. 12:40

    The job you left running keeps going: about 2 items an hour, 8 at most, with their XP, into your storage chest.

  4. 18:05

    Rested XP builds up at 1,500 an hour away, up to 20,000. While it lasts, every gain is doubled.

  5. 18:06

    A 7-day login calendar that never resets when you miss a day, three daily tasks scaled to your levels, and a chest for finishing all three.

  6. 20:00

    Chickens lay, cows give milk, and the game can remind you when the coop is full or the crate has landed. Reminders are local, opt-in and yours to switch off.

Step 7: Straight from the game

No mock-ups. These are the isles as your phone draws them.

Pre-rendered 3D drawn as sprites, so it runs smoothly on phones from years ago and looks like this on tablets too.

  • A new castaway chopping a tree on Driftwood Isle, the first journal step Timber! showing at the top
    Every tap pays out
  • The camp at dusk from above: a palisade with a gate, the Hearth, a workbench, a furnace, an anvil, a chest, torches and a watchtower
    Your camp, your layout
  • A night raid: the survivor in iron armour inside the walls, torches burning, the raid wave counter and the Hearth health bar at the top
    Hold the walls till dawn
  • The Skills panel listing twelve skills with their levels, total level 377 and combat level 33
    Twelve skills to 99
  • A level-up card: Woodcutting level 15, unlocked oak trees, the next unlock listed below
    Every level unlocks something

Step 8: Ask the merchant

Questions, answered before you land.

He trades from dawn to dusk and goes home for the night. Anything else, write to support.

Is Survival Isles free?

Yes. The game is free to play with optional rewarded ads and optional in-app purchases. Ads never interrupt gathering or fights; an occasional ad may show when you sail between isles, and a one-time Remove Ads purchase turns those off for good.

Do I need an account?

No. You pick a survivor name and start playing in seconds. An optional account (e-mail code, Sign in with Apple or Google) keeps a cloud copy of your progress so you can restore it on another device.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Your island is saved on your device and plays without a connection. Online features (cloud save and the leaderboard) sync when you are back online, and the activity you left running brings back a small haul while you were away.

Which phones and tablets can run it?

Android 7.0 and up, and iOS 16.4 and up, phones and tablets. The world is pre-rendered 3D drawn as sprites, so it runs smoothly on phones that are several years old.

What is the Survivor's Pass?

An optional monthly subscription: no interstitial ads, ad bonuses without watching ads, bigger offline hauls (12 items instead of 8), a third supply-crate slot, double daily login rewards and a higher rested XP cap. Cancel any time in your App Store or Google Play settings.

Is it multiplayer?

No. Survival Isles is a single-player game with a global leaderboard of total levels. There is no chat and no user-generated content.

How do I delete my account?

In the game: Settings, Account, Delete account, then type DELETE. Your cloud save, leaderboard entry and purchase records are erased immediately. Without the app, e-mail support@flowzy.ai from the address linked to your account.

Journal complete

The raft is built. The tide is right.

Survival Isles is free on iPhone and Android. No account, no waiting: you are chopping your first tree thirty seconds from now.

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