Coral Island
Worth it · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 56.1h
- Value
- $0.53/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $17.99, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 26 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Littlewood ($14.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 845 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
56.1 hours to finish it, 170 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
3 years after release, 2.7K people were playing it when we last checked, on Sep 27, 18:45 UTC.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
55% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2,691 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 18:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I'm going to be approaching this review from the point of view of an avid Stardew Valley player. For reference, I have over 2000 hours into Stardew across multiple platforms, I've 100 percent completed the game multiple times, have the board game, have gone to concerts for the game, one could say I'm a fan. I'm using Stardew as my base for the review of this game for two reasons, the first is because this game is...
Very cute game, like Stardew Valley but better. Also RAINA is now romanceable which is excellent.
Who says farming sims are simply just farming, mining, and fishing? Coral Island is here to prove otherwise. Coral Island is more of a life sim than your regular farming sim. Imagine Stardew Valley + Fields of Mistria but with SO MUCH MORE. I've spent a godly amount of time playing this game and I still feel that the content is endless. Every time I feel like I'm close to finishing the game, new lore comes in. The...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Coral Island scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1158160/coral-islandReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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