Island Escape

Island Escape is a point-and-click adventure on a small tropical island. You wake up on a sandy beach with nothing but a friendly green parrot for company, and the only way home is a raft you will have to build yourself. Eight hand-painted scenes join up around the island: the beach, a palm grove, a rock pool, a waterfall, a windy cliff top, a dark cave, an old shipwreck and a hidden cove. Tap the arrows at the edge of a scene to walk, and once you find the map in a bottle you can hop straight back to anywhere you have been.

Tap anything to look at it or pick it up, then use what you carry on the world around you. Tie a vine to a stick and you have a fishing rod; cut open a coconut with a sharp shell and you have a bowl. Feed the hungry crab, carry water from the waterfall to the fire that blocks the cave, flash a mirror at the big blue parrot on the cliff and trade it a fresh fish for the key around its neck. Count the turtle eggs to open the chest, turn the totem faces to match the old cliff carving, then lash logs, rope, sail and rudder into a raft and head for the sunset. Every clue is a picture, a colour or a count, so it is a proper little brain teaser that never asks you to read a wall of text.

There is nothing to fail and no clock that runs out: relax and explore at your own pace, or race the par time for a quick three-star escape. Three hints make the next useful thing glow, a wrong guess never uses up an item, and the parrot keeps you company with two-word comments. Your progress saves itself after every step, with a chapter checkpoint at each big moment, so you can stop for dinner and pick up right where you left off.