I was recently introduced to "Soul Island" by a colleague. I originally thought it was a survival game that would make you crazy, but I found out that you can play it quite happily even during a half-hour lunch break. The two of us are hiding in the company's rest area during our lunch break. We each have a glass of iced Americano. We take out our mobile phones and start building houses, fighting monsters, and exploring the plot. Is the game free with buyout? Anyway, I didn't see the in-app purchase entrance, sorry!
The game opens with you being thrown onto an island inexplicably. You start with a knife and you have to pick up all the equipment. However, the plot is quite attractive. It says you want to save your family, which makes it look like "Lost". The key is that you don't need to be connected to the Internet. You can take it out and play it while waiting for the subway, waiting for takeout, or going to the toilet. The save is super fast, and you can exit and reenter without losing progress. The survival system is not complicated. Cutting down trees, quarrying rocks, and building houses can be used by even a disabled person. However, in the later stages, there are RPG-like skill trees and equipment matching, which is deep enough for you to slowly ponder.
My colleague is an obsessive gamer and insists on building a symmetrical villa with sea views. I laughed at him by saying, "I spent my lunch break moving bricks and will continue to move them in the game." But to be honest, the graphics and atmosphere of this game are quite immersive. Sometimes when you are tired from working overtime at noon, it is quite therapeutic to look at the cabin you built in the game and listen to the sound of the waves. Recently, the two of us were competing to see who could defeat the first plot boss first. The loser was treated to milk tea, and we became more motivated to fish during our lunch break, hahaha.
Summary: It's suitable for social animals like us who don't have a lot of time but want to experience the survival sandbox. It's free and has no krypton gold, and the progress will not be stuck in single player. It's an artifact of fishing in fragmented time. It is recommended to play with colleagues during lunch break and steal resources from each other (don't ask me how I know this).