hmm.. well its all about islands (hence the name Island wars 2) so the main goal is to take control of all the islands (7 or 9 of them, undecided yet) but theres many things you can do, you can chop down trees and get wood to craft stuff, you can pay the trader to do stuff, you can upgrade and build buildings like sawmill, blacksmith, you can go mining and fight enemys on other islands. basicly it