ISLANDERS

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

ISLANDERS is a relaxing, city builder and strategy game developed by Coatsink, GrizzlyGames and Stage Clear Studios and published by Coatsink.
Released on April 04th 2019 is available on Windows and MacOS in 12 languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil and Turkish.

It has received 15,976 reviews of which 15,129 were positive and 847 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 1.24€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified ISLANDERS into these genres:

Relaxing City Builder Strategy Building Puzzle Indie Minimalist Singleplayer Beautiful Colony Sim Atmospheric Colorful Procedural Generation Addictive Replay Value Score Attack 3D Top-Down Turn-Based Strategy Multiplayer

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7, 8 or 10
Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX950 or higher
Storage: 200 MB available space
Sound Card: We don't really think you need one. Just humming your favorite tune while playing is perfectly fine.

MacOS

OS: MacOS X Yosemite (10.10)
Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX950 or higher
Storage: 200 MB available space
Sound Card: We don't really think you need one. Just humming your favorite tune while playing is perfectly fine.

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Nov. 2024

A fun game i can keep coming back to. I enjoy that the game can be as competitive as you make it. Wanna chill out and enjoy the aesthetics? Go for it. Want to see how far you can get and try to plan out as far ahead as you can? We got you.

Sept. 2024

This game is a great way to scratch the city-building itch, without having to invest hours at a time. It's very easy to play, with 0 learning curve: just click where you want to place your buildings. There are no resources, and very few decisions to make, other than what building to place and where to place it. The game uses a minimalist art style that looks good and meshes well with how lightweight the gameplay is. I would not recommend this game to someone who only likes complex mechanics and deep strategic planning - I enjoy those types of games, but for me this is an excellent change of pace every now and then.

June 2024

Islanders is a relaxing puzzle game in which you build a up city. Each building has some kind of range and you get a score with the placement, which is calculated by checking what kind of other buildings are in that range. By achieving the next score milestone you will have access to more buildings and you will always get a new score milestone goal. This might sound easy, but it is also easy to get lost, especially at the first few times while you have not built up your own strategy on how to build up your city ideally. When you collect enough scores you can progress to a new island and everything starting from the beginning, well, with one difference, you will keep your score. That's it, quite a simple game idea but in this game the execution was impressive and the developers created a chilling atmosphere and a game which was enjoyable in short sessions too. One more plus is the affordable price tag of the game, while it is also not rare that Islanders get a decent discount during various sales. I liked this game, but as an achievement hunter I really disliked the pointless reach of the 21st island achievement. Cosy, relaxing games shouldn’t have hardcore grind achievements. Hey, I am an achievement hunter! How to perfect?: Well, you need to get to the 21st island without starting a new game. It is not easy. Game is very evil when generating new islands, most of the islands impossible to beat so yes, you need manually backup your save file before moving to the next island and restore if you do not like the new island, which will happen a lot! After Island 15 I needed to restore the save file and generate a new island like 30-50 times each time I moved to the next island. I like challenges, but the game likes to generate islands at that point where you literally don’t have any space to place buildings. Perfection Difficulty: 7/10. It is difficult to perfect because of reaching island 10 and reaching island 21 achievements, very tedious to finish that and very boring just to keep restoring the save file and hope for a better island creation. 100% time: ~25h+ [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30168383] If you like to get suggestion about enjoyable and fun games, in which 100% achievements possible, then please consider following our Average Achievement Hunter curator or just check out our curated games if you looking for some gaming tips:-) Thanks

June 2024

Islanders is the very definition of an easy to learn, hard to master game. It is definitely a serene and relaxing city builder, as advertized; the Sandbox mode alone gives you plenty of room to let you express your creativity in full! But for those of you who like to sweat on their mouse and keyboard, High Score mode is the place to learn truly optimal placement. If you're hunting for achievements, most of them are fun and easy to unlock, though a couple will require literal hours of grinding. Fortunately, the Steam Community has come up with some pretty handy guides on building placement and planning strategies. Overall, it's a very pretty game with a chill soundtrack that didn't get too repetitive for me, even after 15 hours of gameplay. 👌

May 2024

In ISLANDERS, you're not really building a city, you are planning your city from top to bottom and executing it under varying circumstances. That's what sets ISLANDERS apart from standard city builders, and what makes it much more intense, and yet, at the same time it's more practical. Let me explain how. When you start a new map, you need to think of zones even before you put down a single building. This is crucial to maximize your score because of the building synergies, and necessary because there is no way to move or remove buildings (but you get one undo so that you can experiment a little bit). Once you're confident, you can choose one of two sets of 6 random, but related buildings. Every building has a range, and the amount of points you get is determined by what other things are within range. By gaining points you can choose another set of buildings to build. Even though there is RNG involved in which exact buildings you get each time, the game ultimately gives you a more or less fixed amount of each type of building. And this is just another brilliant aspect of ISLANDERS. Random yet knowable, therefore challenging but fair. Additionally, unlike conventional city builders, you're never overwhelmed because you're always working with a limited number of buildings. And still, at the end, you get an enormous sense of accomplishment, because you know very well how much thought went into each of the dozens of buildings. My only complaint is this achievement of reaching the 21st island. You can go to the next island after reaching some amount of points, but the objective becomes higher and higher. And the islands also seem to get more difficult (less space, less farmland, etc.) If you fail an island, you have to go back all the way to island 1, which I find a bit too punishing. But otherwise, I hope I've convinced you of the BRILLIANCE of ISLANDERS. It's a city builder that's challenges you mentally, rather than physically. Easily worth its price.

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-75% 4.99€ 1.24€

9.2

15,129

847

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Developer

Coatsink, GrizzlyGames, Stage Clear Studios

Publisher

Coatsink

Release 04 Apr 2019

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