The main goal of the Robinsonade game is to survive on a dangerous island and to find a way to return home.

The second installment of the game was released under the CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license with its source code.

Resource management is a vital component of gameplay, since the player character has a constant need for food and water, and has to sleep.

So the player is forced to gather resources like branches, stones and vines to construct tools, buildings and weapons.

There are also some mini-missions such as rescuing kiwi birds or fighting off a pack of blood-thirsty raptors under a time limit.