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CasualIndieRPGSimulationLife SimFarming SimBuildingSandboxCrafting

Starsand Island

Tired of the city grind? Escape to Starsand Island and embrace the simple joys of country life! Live alongside capybaras, cats, and dogs, reel in a big catch, and explore the enchanting Moonlit Forest. Leave the hustle behind and experience the charm of this seaside paradise.

Developer
Seed Sparkle Lab
Publisher
Seed Sparkle Lab
Franchise
Release date
Aug 18, 2026
Store page updated
Sep 1, 2026
Price
$39.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

50.6/ 100

Based on 415 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙁 Mostly Negative 38% of 421
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 77% of 7,130
“finally a farming sim that lets you save whenever you want, calls it a masterpiece”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.57
Controls & feel -1.62 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle

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Story & World
-0.83
Story -2.72 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
“no sense of storyline, quests feel rushed, inconsistent” (25)

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Content Volume
-0.96
Variety -2.08 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition

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Visuals & Sound
+2.23
Visuals +2.87 · Graphics, art style, and animation
“love the gameplay and visual style, enjoying the game a lot” (104)

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Multiplayer
-2.58
Playing together -2.83 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

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Pricing & Fairness
-2.59
Pricing -2.67 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge
“political messaging about One China policy and ethnic minorities disguised as diversity” (25)
버그 많고 컨텐츠가 부실하거나 BGM 등이 뚝 끊어지거나 등등 잡스러운 부분은 다 이해하고 넘어갔습니다. 빡치는 상황도 많았다만 얼리니까 넘어갔음 근데 >>>'하나의 중국'(ONE CHINA POLICY)<<<을 주장하는 듯한 내용이 있어서 추천은 못 하겠습니다. 당장 보이는 것도 아니고 첫 계절인 여름을 지나서 가을로 넘어간 뒤 옷가게 태블릿을 봤더니 대놓고 위구르족(Uyghurウイグル族), 몽골족(Mongoliaモンゴル族), 하자크(Kazakhハザク族)족의 춤이 있네요. 다양성을 존중하는 의미에서 넣었나 잠깐 고민했는데 그랬으면 중국 외 국가의 복장이 그 나라 이름으로 적혀서 나온다거나 했겠죠. 근데 거의 뭐 의상종류의 3분의 1쯤은 중국 계열?이고 춤은 죄다 특정한 중국 소속이라고 주장하는 소수민족 춤이면... 판단은 개개인의 몫이라고 생각합니다. 하지만 이 사실을 알려면 이미 인게임에서 1계절을 보내야하기 때문에 뒤늦게 알고 환불 못 하는 저처럼 되기 전에 미리 알아두셨으면 해서 리뷰 써둡니다.

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Tech & Support
-2.07
Developer support -2.01 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
“devs banning concerns in Discord, botted reviews, dishonest Kickstarter behavior” (42)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update
20%40%60%80%100%
Feb 11, 2026Sep 16, 2026
Reviews
per day · 421 reviews, peak 55/day
050100
Aug 20Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the week before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 415 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English40%
  • Chinese21%
  • Japanese16%
  • German5%
  • French4%
  • Russian4%
  • Other10%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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