The Island - Winner + Analysis Blog

I won The Island: Relics Edition! The concept of the "fast survivor" game has been tried on a lot of different websites, but this felt like the most clean and easy one to play. PROS: 1. I really enjoyed how fast the game was. It never felt drawn out, there was always something to do. On the same note, you did have time to socialize with people. We didn't get to experience the tribe format in our game, but I bet being able to talk during that time would ease the quickness of strategy talk at the merge. 2. You can join in a premade and still lose (tribes are randomized, easy way to find powers, shot in the dark odds are fair). It allows new users to play without having too high of a skillcap to succeed in. CONS: 1. If you don't have Discord I do think it could be very hard to win / do well. The built in chat feature is *slightly* clunky and there's no way to make alliance chats on the website itself. 2. I do think the "penalty" for searching for powers isn't really that powerful. I wish it was "If you search for a power, you lose your vote.", but the odds of you finding a power is a LOT bigger because of that. Or something like that! Overall, I had a really great time playing. I think this could be one of the best games on the website with just a couple of refinements, thanks Sin!