Apocalypse Island

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Apocalypse Island is a single player action adventure game. It was developed by Bettini Games and was released on June 8, 2025. It received negative reviews from players.

In Apocalypse Island, you play as an ex-scientist stranded on a zombie-infested island, where survival depends on exploration, resource gathering, and combat. Navigate diverse environments, manage hunger, thirst, and fatigue, and craft tools and shelters to endure harsh conditions and relentless undead threats. Uncover the island's dark secrets while fending off danger in a tense open-world adventure.

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Play Modes

Single-Player

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36%

Audience ScoreBased on 33 reviews

graphics3 negative mentions

The game has potential and could evolve into a better experience with future updates.
Some players appreciate the low-poly graphics and find the exploration aspect interesting.
There is a good amount of loot available when players find locations, which adds to the survival aspect.

The game suffers from severe optimization issues, running choppy even on capable hardware.
Many players report frustrating bugs, including inventory issues and unresponsive controls during combat.
The game is criticized for being an asset flip, lacking originality and quality in its design and mechanics.

graphics
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics of the game have received mixed reviews, with many users noting a low-poly aesthetic that feels outdated and recycled from other titles. Performance issues are prevalent, particularly on lower-end devices like the Steam Deck, leading to choppy visuals and lag even at reduced settings. Overall, players express a desire for better graphics options and improved performance.
- “Simple graphics work well.”
- “Game would be better with graphics settings and full controller support.”
- “A game with low-poly look graphics that preloads gigabytes after gigabytes like a high-polygon-count one.”
- “My Steam Deck couldn't render the graphics well; it lagged so badly that I turned it on low with no shadows and rendering of 1k distance.”
- “The graphics run very choppy.”
story
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's story has been criticized for its poor quality, with some reviewers likening it to a hastily generated narrative lacking depth and engagement. Players feel that the developers have overlooked the importance of a compelling story, which detracts from the overall gaming experience. There is hope that future updates may improve the narrative aspect.
- “Hopefully see more when the story comes into play.”
- “The game's story is bad too.”
- “The developer's attitude here is like prompting GPT for a story and then trying to publish it in Reader's Digest 'because he's an author and did all the work.'”
- “For us gamers, for whom games are made (the developer seems to have forgotten that), it doesn't matter if GTA V was made by one guy in a shed over the space of a weekend and Depression Quest took 1000 staff working for 5 years to make; what matters is the resultant quality of the product.”
optimization
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Overall, users express dissatisfaction with the game's optimization, noting that while some fixes have been implemented, there is still significant room for improvement. The general consensus is that optimization remains a major issue affecting performance.
- “Only problem: optimization”
- “Optimization sucks.”
- “That fixed it, but I'm sure it could be better optimized.”
- “Only problem: optimization.”
gameplay
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay is criticized for requiring significant improvements in its foundational mechanics, yet it offers an engaging learning experience, highlighted by moments of unexpected challenge, such as encountering zombies while mastering the game's systems.
- “It truly does teach me everything in the world I could want to know; it was really awesome when the zombie jumped on top of me while I learned game mechanics!”
- “This game needs a lot of work just on the base (not building) mechanics of the game.”
- “It truly does teach me everything in the world I could want to know, but it was really frustrating when the zombie jumped on top of me while I was trying to learn the game mechanics!”
music
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users have reported issues with the music in the game, noting that it can be intrusive and difficult to adjust, leading some to reset the game to resolve the problem.
- “I tried turning down the sound effects and the music to get rid of it, but it persisted, so I had to reset the game.”