Avatar Island is an exclusive F2P Slide Puzzle Game on Playstation 5. It therefore immediately reminded me of Slide N’ Go, another free Slide Puzzle Game for PS4, which I reviewed 2 years ago on this blog (https://gamereviewnation.blogspot.com/2024/01/slide-n-go-ps4-review.html).
I don’t think I need to extensively explain what a Slide Puzzle Game is. You have to solve a picture puzzle, where the slides are mixed up and one of them got removed. You can only move slides into the empty missing space and have to move all slides around in a way that restores the original image.
While Slide N’ Go allows you to solve every Puzzle with 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 tiles, you are limited to 4x4 in Avatar Island. There are no variations (Just as I was about to publish the article, they patched in a new 3x3 variant). Avatar Island also offers far less Puzzles to solve. The first 10 are included with the game and another 10 I was able to download for free, but all future Puzzles will have to be purchased for money. According to his own words, the developer intends to add new Puzzles monthly. Slide N’ Go on the other hand features hundreds of Puzzles and all of them are available for free.
And let’s also talk about the allegations of Copyright Infringement. Avatar Island has Puzzles that seem to feature Venom from Marvel, Vegeta from Dragon Ball and even a Pokemon! I have to say, the accusations of Copyright Infringement and being an AI Slop don’t seem very far-fetched. It also doesn’t help that the acronym for Avatar Island is AI. Neither does the fact, that the Avatar Island title font is clearly trying to make you think this would be a game belonging to the popular Avatar franchise by James Cameron. Slide N’ Go on the other hand has no accusations of copyright infringement. The pictures don’t look like anything special, but at least they are not stolen.
I however want to mention the one thing Avatar Island does clearly better than Slide N’ Go and that is the trophy support. Admittedly Slide N’ Go also did have some very noticeable technical issues in the past, but they seem to have been fixed, because I didn’t encounter them again when replaying the game for this review. Oh, and Avatar Island also has one really obscure technical issue. For some reason it doesn’t send any activity to your TV when you are solving the Puzzles, so that your screen protection measures will activate after a few minutes. I didn’t encounter this problem in any other Puzzle Game, so I am pretty sure it’s an Avatar Island problem.
Anyway, Slide N’ Go features 0 Playstation Trophies. Avatar Island on the other hand features a very easy trophy list, including a Platinum Trophy and 11 Gold Trophies. For Trophy Hunters Avatar Island can therefore be totally recommend for a quick and easy Platinum.
Result:
Avatar Island is a very simple Slide Puzzle Game. For Trophy Hunters I can indeed strongly recommend the game. Otherwise, the game is far more problematic. The core gameplay is very simple, but gets the job done. Slide N’ Go however is also a free Slide Puzzle Game and essentially does everything better. Avatar Island is more limited in the size of the Puzzles. It offers far less Puzzle images, only a few of them are for free and in contrast to Slide N’ Go most of them images were likely stolen or poorly programmed by AI. Whether you are able to overlook the last aspect is a personal choice, but the much smaller amount of content forces me to give Avatar Island a significantly lower score than Slide N’ Go. Since it fulfills its function as a Slide Puzzle Game mostly as intended, it still gets a 4/10 from me.
4/10
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