Ocean Is Home is an open-world survival simulator for mobile, focusing on island exploration, crafting, and base-building.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#196
Games · grossing
Sentiment
4.4
348k reviews
Nemesis
Last Day on Earth: Survival
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Players use the app to experience a sandbox survival loop that removes the energy-gated progression found in many genre competitors.
For Mobile gamers interested in open-world survival, resource management, and base-building simulations.
What does it look like?
Key features
Exploration of a large island environment with freedom of movement, driving session length and ad inventory.
Resource gathering to construct houses and tools, encouraging repeat play and retention.
Progression-based advancement of character abilities, increasing player lifetime value.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model relies on in-app purchases to supplement a free-to-play core.
Velocity
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Development has stalled, with no new feature builds or updates released in the last 295 days. The release history shows a significant deceleration, transitioning from occasional feature-rich updates to infrequent, minor maintenance patches. Given the lack of activity for nearly a year, the app is currently in a zombie state with no clear signs of ongoing support.
Who built it?
Dmitriy Dedkov
6 apps tracked · Games
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Ocean Resort Hotel SimulatorUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans excited. Users appreciate open-world survival and building mechanics provide a satisfying long-term loop for casual players and realistic graphics and immersive environment design keep players engaged during extended survival sessions, but report technical bugs and navigation issues prevent players from interacting with essential game objects like beds.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Open-world survival and building mechanics provide a satisfying long-term loop for casual players
- Realistic graphics and immersive environment design keep players engaged during extended survival sessions
- Frequent content updates and new island additions maintain interest for long-term returning players
- Technical bugs and navigation issues prevent players from interacting with essential game objects like beds
92 of 99 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Ocean Is Home: Survival Island
How's the Games market?
The app maintains a stable presence in the adventure category, though it lacks the high-frequency live-ops updates of its primary rivals. The current rating of 4.14 across 99 recent reviews reflects a satisfied core base but highlights persistent technical friction.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Kefir
Dominates the survival-crafting niche with massive scale and a high-frequency update cycle that keeps the player base engaged.
- Features complex multiplayer clan systems and seasonal events that drive long-term retention beyond basic survival
- Aggressive content release schedule with 10 major updates in six months keeps the meta evolving
- Deep progression systems involving vehicle construction and base raiding create high switching costs for players
Unlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
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Key takeaways for Ocean Is Home: Survival Island
Where is it heading?
The survival-crafting market is consolidating around titles that offer robust social ecosystems and high-frequency live-ops updates. While the core sandbox loop remains engaging, the lack of multiplayer and persistent technical bugs leaves the app vulnerable to rivals that provide more consistent social and stability guarantees.
- Technical bugs in object interaction (beds/inventory) erode the daily active habit, which compounds the rating drag already visible in reviews.
- The absence of multiplayer functionality limits social network effects, accelerating churn pressure toward social-heavy survival rivals.
The SWOT
- Open-world freedom enables high session length
- Progression milestones increase lifetime value via skill systems
- Creative sandbox mode would capture building-focused players
- Cloud save implementation would reduce long-term churn
Next best moves
Ship cloud save functionality because users report progress loss during device changes → increase long-term retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The lack of energy-gated progression is a competitive advantage for casual players…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Multiplayer functionality (available in Last Day on Earth but missing here) +1
Since the last report: Development has stalled into a zombie state with no updates for 295 days, while persistent technical bugs and the lack of cloud save functionality have solidified as primary retention risks.
Bottom line
Addressing technical interaction bugs and implementing cloud saves would stabilize the core retention loop. These foundational fixes are required before the team can effectively pivot to social or multiplayer features to compete with the nemesis.
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Is Ocean Is Home suitable for casual players?
How does Ocean Is Home compare to Last Day on Earth?
Does the game have any major technical limitations?
Are there any multiplayer options available?
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