I love this game... but we need to have a talk about game overs.

My absolute biggest issue and what keeps me from starting new games after dying is the sheer amount of time it takes to get back to where you were after a single battle goes wrong. I feel like the easiest way to mitigate this would simply be to add an option in the game for “Checkpoints” to save your progress every 10-15 islands or so. This way, purists can turn it off, but more casual players like me don’t have to go through the sheer pain of losing everything.

Another possibility that would be awesome would be the idea of a limited amount of “lives“ that you could use to replay battles that go horribly wrong.

I’m aware there is a different difficulty setting. But I like playing the game on normal - just with a tad bit more forgiveness when an entire group of units is wiped during a single battle.