ISLANDERS

Each island rewards thoughtful placement: buildings earn points, unlock more options and open the way to another settlement. If you want relaxed, self-contained city-building rather than lengthy resource management, ISLANDERS keeps its appeal focused. At its recorded low, it costs ≈ $1.00 from Kinguin; Steam player reviews are 94% positive from 16,120 reviews.

The game is designed around this repeatable loop, not a sprawling project: when the building supply runs out, the round ends and another can begin. That makes it a natural fit for occasional island visits and chasing a personal high score, rather than online sessions. At $1.49 from Kinguin, ISLANDERS is at its currently recorded low, offering a chance to enjoy relaxed island city-building; 94% positive reviews out of 16,120 give a sense of player response.

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94%Steam Reviews16.1K reviews82Metacritic/10078OpenCritic/100

Released: Apr 4, 2019

Relaxing · City Builder · Strategy · Building · Puzzle

KinguinISLANDERS PC Steam CD Key (valid until March 2027)·Platform:·Checked 2026-10-16~~~ $5.62~~-82%from~ $1.00(~ €0.89)ALL-TIME LOWSave $0.49 vs SteamBuy now

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All-time low ~ $1.06across Steam & third-party storesat the recorded all-time low

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Past 36 months · Updated daily

Historical Low~ $1.062025-03Current Low Across Stores~ $4.74GamersGatevs. Historical Low+347%

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01About ISLANDERS

Place buildings on colorful islands and shape them into settlements. Each building’s surroundings affect its score, helping refill your inventory and unlock new structures. Procedurally generated islands offer fresh places to settle and new rounds to play. Steam player reviews: 94% positive from 16,120 reviews.

Credits

Developer

Coatsink · GrizzlyGames · Stage Clear Studios

Publisher

Coatsink

Steam player reviews

94%positiveVery Positive16,120 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$1.062025-03-27 · GamersGateBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	—	—
English	Yes	—	—
German	Yes	—	—

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Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	—	—
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-17

02Before you buy

Play mode

The Steam PC version is listed as single-player. The description explicitly says online multiplayer is not included.

Language and cloud

English and Simplified Chinese are confirmed interface languages for Steam PC; Steam Cloud is listed.

03Frequently asked questions

How does building work?

Buildings earn points based on their surroundings when placed. Earn enough points to refill your inventory and unlock new buildings.

Can I explore more islands?

Islands are procedurally generated, and you can travel to another island once your settlement is large enough.

When does a round end?

The round ends when you run out of buildings. You can then start another round and try to beat your high score.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

06/17/2020

Never have I been so torn on a game before this one. Ultimately, I don't *think* I could recommend it to people based on my experience with it. I spent 61 minutes in game, working my way through the island, getting stumped and starting over again. And not once did I not enjoy myself; on the contrary the game is very charming and sweet. Everything possesses a toy-like quality which can't help but put you at ease. My issue happened after the sixty first minute, I suddenly realized I had seen all I felt was necessary. I didn't feel the urge to continue, and I knew I would be unlikely to play it again. Again, not because anything was poorly done or unenjoyable, I just felt like I had finished the experience. It rather feels like the game possesses little replay value due to no lasting progression; you simply play each island until you run out of buildings to place, and if you generated enough score you get another building pack, otherwise game over. That is my one real issue with this game. The price is super affordable and the developers are as humble and genuine as the game is itself. I would readily play anything developed by their hands based on what I have seen in Islanders. But, at the end of the day, I would not recommend the game (or any game) where I might suddenly mutter "Oh...that's it?" before I even felt like I had really began. Which is what happened an hour in. However, for all the above reasons, clicking the thumbs down button would feel like picking the wings off a butterfly...I feel comfortable supporting the team, if not this particular game.Show moreShow less

1 hours at review418 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

08/18/2019

The fact that you can't go back and view/keep the old islands you've made really ruins it for meShow moreShow less

0.7 hours at review137 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

04/05/2019

A game you can play with a dog on your lap. I have a small dog and he likes to sit on my lap and rest his head against my left arm when I'm at my computer. Unfortunately this means that I can't move my left arm that much without disturbing his nap. This game can be entirely played with the mouse, so it's the perfect game for if your arm has been taken hostage. Also it's really relaxing and cool. 10/10 can play with dog on your lap.Show moreShow less

0.8 hours at review412 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

07/10/2019

I feel like a dork for giving this a thumbs down, but I think marking it as a city-builder game is a little misleading. It has a great concept, but it lacks depth. I just finished a session that lasted about half an hour, and I was bored. The music on a loop started to grate at me, and I was hoping it would finish soon. That said, it is a novel game, lovely graphics, lovely music (until you hear the same track for the thousanth time lol), and yet, lacking depth, it gets tedious. The buildings don't actually do anything, so to recognize what they are to get the most points, you willl be mousing over them a lot to see the name. And you'll be just mousing around a lot to find the best place to put the next buildings It's cheap, so you can try it, and make sure you check out reviews so you know exactly what you are getting.Show moreShow less

1.9 hours at review85 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

04/07/2019

Super chill. Super good. ISLANDERS is the second game from three-man indie outfit, GrizzlyGames. While it looks like a city builder at first glance, Islanders is actually more of a strategy/puzzle game where you place buildings in certain positions in order to earn points. Earning a set amount of points unlocks new buildings, and eventually if you get enough points you can move on to another island. Positives: The game is really beautiful. The islands look great, the buildings are really well designed, and the art style really fits well with the style of game. Islanders is an absolute pleasure to look at. The core gameplay is really simple, but there’s a lot of hidden depth to the game too. It’ll be enjoyable for casual players and minmaxers alike. Essentially, you start with an empty island (apart from a few things like flowers and statues that come in handy with certain buildings) and you’re given one pack of buildings to begin with. In order to get more buildings, you have to hit a certain score threshold. Buildings get points from interactions with other buildings as well as stuff that’s on the island, so success in Islanders comes from your positioning of buildings. You can do pretty well just by playing casually (like I do) but if you really plan things out you can get incredibly high-scores, I’ve seen some seriously impressive stuff from other people playing this game. As I mentioned, it’s really more of a puzzle game rather than a city builder. Not having to worry about resources or income etc. makes a really nice change, and the way positioning works keeps enough strategy in the game to keep it interesting. There’s no grid or anything, you’re free to play things wherever you want, but the buildings do slot together really nicely. One of my favourite parts of the game is designing cities, because the mansions and houses slot together really nicely. It’s a really relaxing game to play. There are no time limits to speak of, the music is really calming, and as I mentioned earlier it really is a pleasure to look at. This would be a great candidate for a ‘podcast’ game, but I’ve been really enjoying unwinding with it without any other kind of audio. The procedural generation for the islands is fantastic. The islands always look beautiful, they’re really well varied and for the most part you have everything you need when you start. Having such good proc-gen really is crucial to this game for replayability, and they absolutely nailed it. There are also a couple of different biomes and weather effects that really add to it as well. It’s an absolute steal for $5, I gladly would have paid twice as much for this game. It’s so well designed and it offers a lot of replayability. I’m going to keep playing this over the weekend, but I definitely see this being something I pick up every so often to unwind for a little while. Negatives: There’s currently no undo function. This can be kind of frustrating as you often have to be very careful with positioning to get the points you need, and it’s easy to make a tiny mistake that really messes you up. There’s currently no free build mode. I’d really like to see this added. The core gameplay is great fun, but I’d really like the option to just build whatever I want. You can't tilt the camera or zoom in/zoom out. Verdict: ISLANDERS is an excellent little game. The core gameplay works really well, and the whole thing is lovely to look at. Add a bunch of replayability, and you've got a great game for just $5. Highly recommended. If you found this review helpful, please consider following my curator page: Kemo's Corner.Show moreShow less

4.3 hours at review207 people found this helpful

Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.