The Island is a Ren'Py visual novel by MichaelFenix, using 3DCG and animated scenes. You play a wealthy business owner who sails the world on a luxury yacht in a near-future setting. A family secret changes his routine when his twin step-sisters move in, turning the story into an adventure with horror undertones and multiple endings.
The current build is v1.0.0, a completed release rather than a demo, released March 17, 2025. The story was completed in an earlier update, which added the remaining three endings, and this version focuses on polish: many animations were rebuilt at higher quality, glitchy ones were repaired, and credits were added at the end. It is listed for Windows, Mac, and Linux, in English, with no censorship.
Developer's description
A visual novel where you are the Main Character, A wealthy business owner sailing the world on his luxury yacht in the not too distant future. Until one day a family secret comes out and your twin step-sisters come to live with you.
v1.0.0
As I previously mentioned, it will be for PC and Mac users only. The only difference between this and the previous version is that many of the animations were redone in a bit higher quality, and the glitchy ones were fixed. (I think I got them all.) As well as adding the credits at the end.
v0.4.5
So it's finally done story-wise, this version includes the other 3 possible endings.
As I mentioned before, this will be the final Android version. After this, I plan to go back and fix a couple of glitchy things and redo the Animations to be a better resolution than the .webm format. So yes, when the totally final version is released, it's gonna be a fairly larger size due to the animated scenes being higher res.
v0.4.4
1,223 images and 4 animations. This update will finish our MC's story and depending on your choices in the past give you the best possible ending. Now just so you are aware, in the epilouge there won't be sound effects in parts, this is intentional as it's the MC recanting events in current time basically. Plus the way the ending plays they kind of don't fit I felt. Now as previously stated I'm going to work on the other less than great endings that are possible. Timeline wise I don't have an estimate as this current job is still pulling 60 hours a week bullshit. But I hope it'll be faster than this update was as they are not going to be quite as long or will re-use certain renders.
v0.4.3
N/A
v0.4.2
N/A
v0.4.1
N/A
v0.3.10
new update added 547 images and 18 animations.
v0.3.9
added 807 images and 19 animations.
V0.3.7
669 new images, 15 new animations
v0.3.5
655 images 8 animations.
v0.3.4
added 631 images 17 animations, some typo fixs.
v0.3.3
588 images and 17 animations. Some typo fixes.
v0.10
As I stated previously, V0.11 is the end of this chapter and now I am taking a couple of very needed weeks off. Then I'm going to hit the old rendering tutorials in an effort to avoid these lighting issues that have been a bit of a reoccurring problem for a lot of people. And also re-do some of the earliest scenes that still came out looking off, before getting the render rig I got during the production of v0.5. As well as polish up this first chapter as much as possible. So my current estimate is to be back on the project with all new content around August-ish.
v0.7
For the dark scenes people are experiencing. I have added a monitor calibration at the start of the story when you choose your name in V8 in an effort to help some people figure out their monitor settings to see certain scenes better. Admittedly the sauna scene was rather dim and will be lightened up a bit in the future. V7 is gonna have another dark scene in it as well just to forwarn people. After talking with a couple of my patrons, Indoor scenes at night characters will be leaving the light's on a dim setting as opposed to off completely and relying on moonlight for scenes.
v0.3
It has 518 images, 9 animations, and some choices that will impact later scenes.
v0.2
added
300 images
6 animations
v0.1
First release
Player reviews
Player rating2.0 / 5 · 20 ratings
Written reviews20 · avg 2.3★
Positive (4–5★)20%
Latest review2026-04-10
What players say
Most players rate it poorly, citing weak story and excessive lesbian sex; a few enjoy the renders and lewd scenes.
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Players like
Good character models and renders
Some adult scenes are fun
Writing is okay for some
Common complaints
Story is weak or barely present
Excessive lesbian scenes sideline the male protagonist
Poor writing and repetitive scenes
Best for players who enjoy frequent lesbian scenes and little story
Summarised from 20 written player reviews.
supernova8742026-04-10★★★★★
While begin with great story idea ,execution was poorly , sexathlon VN will be describe the game , not much of a story progression and in the end the main love interest was removed from equation and the game completed…
Gus-Ga2026-03-18★★★★★
At best, the whole game can be described as a sex orgy. There’s hardly any plot to speak of. Take the main character out of the story and virtually nothing changes. In my view, the characters look pretty rubbish too…
Ronoc192025-09-09★★★★★
More than half the game i sex scenes with a bunch of girls and the main charcaracter is nowhere around. The story (What little there is of a story) is bloody terrible, the writing is some of the worst I've…