Surviving Skeleton Island

Surviving Skeleton Island is a third-person, 3D open-world survival and crafting game with RPG elements. Stranded on a mysterious island with amnesia, you gather resources, make equipment, build a base and explore its dangers in search of clues to your past and a way to escape. Your choices shape how you survive and what you become.

Explore Skeleton Island

The hand-designed island has over 12 biomes, each with unique animals, monsters, resources and secrets. Areas become more dangerous as you venture farther, but also offer more valuable resources. You can explore hidden dungeons, defeat their powerful bosses and find treasure, loot and clues to the island’s mysteries.

Ghostly and undead characters offer quests and rare items, and some reveal clues about your past or hints on how to thrive and escape. You may also find and trade with the mysterious ghost maidens of Skeleton Island, selling loot and buying items.

Gather and craft

You begin with primitive equipment and use what you find to make tools, weapons, clothing and armor. Different trees provide different kinds of wood; you can also gather fruit, berries, vegetables and honey, and mine rocks, ores and crystals with varying uses and rarity. Gaining experience unlocks more crafting recipes.

Crafting includes axes, pickaxes, shovels, fishing rods and animal traps, as well as melee weapons such as bats, axes, swords and spears. Ranged options include slingshots, bows and primitive acorn guns, with magical weapons and staves also possible to discover. You can make clothes for different weather and armor for protection.

Build and defend

Build a base to protect yourself and your belongings. Structures include walls, protective spikes, shelters, furniture and statues with different benefits; other constructions let you refine resources and craft more advanced materials. You need to advance your recipes and prepare for the island’s dangers.

At night, the island’s skeletons come alive and attack you and your belongings. You can fight with melee attacks, blocking and shields, or use ranged weapons. Ammunition can be collected, traded for, looted or crafted. Skeletons can drop valuables including gold, gems, rare weapons and armor, while animals and monsters become more dangerous the farther you explore.

Hunt and stay fed

Hunt animals with weapons and traps; different animals provide different loot. You can fish, explore for larger game, skin animals and use their horns and teeth to make items. Gather food and fresh water to manage hunger and thirst, or cook recipes over open flames and in a pot. Different dishes affect health, hunger, thirst and happiness, and you can brew potions and healing mixtures through alchemy.

Travel and companions

You can tame pets to help find buried treasure, starting with small dogs and potentially finding tigers and monsters that can fight beside you. Horses and other animals can serve as mounts and speed up travel. You can also build a raft and progress to more advanced boats to reach nearby islands for resources and perhaps find a way off Skeleton Island. The journey by sea can bring encounters with sharks and other monsters.

Magic and progression

As your experience and skills grow, you can make more powerful weapons, armor, structures and bases. You can learn to enchant weapons and armor, brew potions and discover the island’s magic, including magical weapons that shoot fireballs or call down electricity. The game also includes farming, fishing, cooking, dungeon exploration and leveling up for better gear.