Island Experiment vs Verdant Skies
Island Experiment
Island Experiment is a fun and addictive simulation game whereby you’ll get to join your fellow young adventurers on a treasure hunt to a remote and mysterious island. In this game, you’ll need to ensure the survival of your people on the island, as well as having sufficient resources, food, and tools to explore and map out the island. Experience various strange events and try to solve problems that arise in your adventures including how to cross a ravine. You can go spelunking in a deep cave for rare resources like iron and other valuable artifacts that you can then sell for cold hard cash too! If you’ve enjoyed games like Coral Isle, you’ll surely enjoy Island Experiment.Verdant Skies
Verdant Skies is an indie farm simulation/RPG combined with a pretty unique art style and visual novel-like dialogue choices. In this game, you play as the latest pioneer who was sent from Earth to a habitable alien planet whose main job is to set up and manage the farms at the colony, but of course, you are often asked to help out other characters with their tasks. You can also interact with the characters to increase your relationship level and eventually unlock new options such as being able to date them and start a family.Verdant Skies also features a straightforward gathering and crafting where every almost every action you take in this game will cost you time and/or energy. There's no need to restore the time you lost, but energy can be easily restored by consuming food. As a game that's very similar to Harvest Moon in essence, the game's farming aspect can be impressively in-depth, allowing you to splice the genes of your crops and your livestock to produce much more superior versions.
Verdant Skies is definitely the sort of game you'd want to check out if you've loved playing games like Harvest Moon, Staxel and even My Time at Portia. The game isn't too expensive either, considering the hours you can get out of it.