Home Island is a pull-the-pin puzzle survival game with home construction and incremental elements. After a mother and child become stranded at sea, they need the player's help to survive on the open waters and an island.�
The game's levels offer the pull-the-pin puzzles. Its main home screen features the construction and semi-idle elements. Whenever the player pulls pins successfully, they earn coins they can then use to build home-related objects. The game automatically generates earnings every second and additional earnings with each structure. If the player upgrades the structures over time and stays on the browser tab, the construction sites increasingly generate higher earnings.
Home Island isn't a difficult game. The player simply needs to pull the pins in the most logical order to provide for the mother and child. With the right sequence of pulled pins, for example, they might provide life preservers to save the lives of the characters or logs, canvas and sticks to build a raft and sail. They can also destroy threats with bombs, boulders and other weapons.
With coins and ad views, the player can also update the hat, clothes and shoes for the family. They can upgrade the designs of the pins and unlock treasure chests. The game also allows the player to collect and hatch pets.