A Brief Retreat by Jakob Willforss
You are stranded on a small, desolate island. You are not the first one who have been there, nor the last. Escape the island before it is too late. But take a moment to enjoy the stay.
Binaries for Windows also on Itch
Tools
Game developed in Unity
Sprites drawn in Aseprite (PC) and Pixly (Android)
Level drawn in Tiled
Sea wave audio is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license (retrieved from http://soundbible.com/1936-Crisp-Ocean-Waves.html)
Screenshots

Ratings
| Overall | 299th | 3.5⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 154th | 3.615⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 271th | 3.346⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 227th | 3.731⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 561th | 2.923⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 410th | 2.5⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 166th | 3.708⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 31🗨️ |
I found the management in this game quite fun, and the day-by-day process of building up your ship does a good job of keeping you invested.
I appreciate that you use the hunger as a vital mechanic, rather than just a number, gradually ticking down, that you keep having to replenish.
I feel like a way to show exactly how much of your hunger bar an action will take would make the experience slightly less frustrating at times. I often thought I had enough hunger left to build the boat, only to have building it end me.
I guess what would be good, if you try to decide on one kind of pixel resolution for all the pixel art.
FunFact: You can still craft after you died :D
The time management mechanics made the game interesting to play. Some more animation and sounds would help a lot with feedback.
The notes were neat.
Some improvements could be made: movement across the island should take some time. Some message should be displayed when the boat is being repaired (I don't understand, were first repairs failed, or do you need to repair boat more than once?). Day-night change would be nice. Eating is good, but drinking would be even more necessary.
Good luck!
I've found out one issue that can be corrected - after dying it is still possible to complete the game - after positioning yourself at the part of the screen with ship, bonfire, woods and bushes before dying, you can keep selecting no on the restart popup and gather resources, sleep and repair the ship.
Really well done!