Martin also tells Frog Detective that he is planning a dance party the next day with his friend Finley, who lives off the island.

Frog Detective begins collecting the items needed to create an explosive device from the residents of the island.

Finley and Frog Detective leave the cave and talk to Martin, and they all agree that books should never be trusted.

The Haunted Island's gameplay revolves around collecting the ingredients needed for an explosive device, to see if a ghost is inside a cave.

[5]: Timestamp: 3:53  Grace Bruxner aimed to subvert the detective genre as she created the game, which she had felt had become largely dominated by media such as Agatha Christie's Poirot and L.A.

[5] She also did research into the cinematography and camera angles of the detective genre to use in The Haunted Island, as she felt that the camera angles used in those pieces of media are extremely serious as compared to The Haunted Island, and using them would create comedy due to the mismatch in tone.

[4] Vice's Danielle Riendeau favorably compared it to Donut County, which they said is "another game that is really funny without trying too hard.