Pinewood Island Demo

Visiting secluded places is no doubt an unforgettable adventure, but this also comes with a long list of risks you must be willing to take. As such, you need to be prepared for things to go horribly wrong, usually by packing all the things you would need in the case of an emergency. It doesn’t always help to be with a group, because even then surprises can happen.

Pinewood Island is an adventure game with dating sim and mystery elements in which you get to create a character at the beginning and use it to go through a variety of different events. Not only that, but you actually get a say when it comes to how the story progresses, since there are multiple possible routes, not to mention the over twenty endings you can reach depending on these choices.

As mentioned before, you can customize the main character by choosing a name, as well as a few other things like hair and skin color. The adventure starts when you and a couple of students go to a secluded island for four weeks in order to study nature with a professor. However, the professor is murdered not long after you reach the island, and you have to survive until the next boat comes to rescue you.

Although the threat of a murderer should keep you on your toes, there’s also the possibility to become romantically involved with one of the many other characters that are part of the game. Hence, depending on what you say or do you can attract the attention of the one you fancy the most. Naturally, multiple playthroughs are recommended to make sure you are not missing out on anything.

Since the adventure takes place in such a tropical environment, it’s no wonder that the graphics are very colorful as well. A lot of work seems to have gone into the character design, but the backdrops are not too bad either. They seem to be pre-rendered 3D scenes, on the other hand, which doesn’t sit very well with the cartoony characters placed on top sometimes.

When it’s all said and done, Pinewood Island has a lot to offer, especially since there are so many possibilities and routes you can take. Hence, both adventure and visual novel fans should find what they are looking for.