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Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.
Islands of Insight is a puzzle-platformer, nonlinear and puzzle game
developed by Lunarch Studios
and published by Behaviour Interactive Inc..
Released on February 13th 2024 is available only on Windows.
It has received 3,007 reviews of which 2,149 were positive and 858 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 7.49€ on Steam with a 75% discount.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 960 or Radeon R9 380. 4GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 35 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended
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Good Puzzle game so long as you add the offline restored mod link to it can be found here https://steamcommunity.com/app/2071500/discussions/0/4629230582747983465/ personally I play in SolvedStaySolved=0 mode but that's up to you what you do also there is setting for hidden cube volume in the mod crank it to the max if you actually want to be bale to hear them over the game music and any noises in your room also helpful is the save editor if you want to do a newgame+ https://steamcommunity.com/app/2071500/discussions/0/4629230582747983459/
If you play a combat-based open-world game (Skyrim, Breath of the Wild), you're familiar with the gameplay mechanic of "fodder" enemies. These are bandits or goblins or bokoblins or whatever you want to call them. They're wandering monsters who exist to make the landscape more interesting and give you XP and opportunities to increase your skill. Open-world puzzle games don't usually have fodder, because their puzzles tend to be handcrafted, at least for the most part. Islands of Insight is the first game I've seen to solve this problem. It takes place on an archipelago of enormous floating islands, dotted with puzzles that are procedurally generated, with widely varying difficulty and engagement times. The puzzles range from "find the hidden cube" to "stand where you can see all these things at the same time" to "solve this hyper sudoku". The game's tagline claims "10,000+" of them and they're not kidding, you literally can't solve all of them in the same way you can't kill every goblin in Skyrim. Also, just like fodder in combat-oriented games, you can go around them for the most part, and engage with them in any order that you wish. You can nope out of one at any time and just go do something else. There's 24 distinct puzzle types, and most of them are environmentally integrated, where the landscape matters in their solution (just like the landscape matters in fodder combat) which is part of what makes it worthwhile to do again and again. It must have cost them a small fortune to develop 24 full blown puzzle generation algorithms, on top of crafting a decent sized open world, on top of crafting a whole bunch of handmade puzzles, and two full post-game bonus content areas. And I think... they didn't make much of it back. Islands of Insight came out in February of 2024. It was an online-only open-world puzzle game. I say was, because in July of that year, they launched an offline mode... and by the end of October, 9 months after release, the company pulled the plug on the servers and took the game offline only. Based on the size, quality, price, and review count of the game, I estimate that they lost between 1 and 10 million dollars. I think the key mistake they made was in making it online-only in the first place. The kind of people who want to spend hours (I'm at 90+ and rising) wandering around a lush landscape and solving puzzles... aren't the kind of people who want to play online. I certainly don't think being yelled at by a 12 year old about "It's so easy, c'mon" would have enhanced my game experience. I honestly can't imagine what the online benefits could have been. Also, they clearly ran out of money to fix bugs. The game runs like hammered garbage, with a huge spike in GPU load when you go into the main puzzle type: which is literally an unmoving 2d black and white grid that covers the whole screen and means they could stop rendering the lush 3D world... but instead the framerate goes down and my GPU goes to 100% usage. There's numerous bad geometry issues, no controller support, and even remaining debug text left in the game in plain sight. They clearly ran out of money very fast, before they could fix any of these problems. Despite all this, it's still one of the greatest puzzle games out there, because it does something no other puzzle game can do, because no other puzzle game spent (and lost) this much money doing it. Go play the demo, it'll tell you if you like the kinds of puzzles it offers.
I call it an ADHD puzzle game, where you can get distracted doing puzzles for 5 hours. I love it so much just to do all of the different challenges in the game. The fact that there is 10000 things to do is so fun and i do not know how long it will take to 100% the game, but i will def try
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Frequently Asked Questions
Islands of Insight is currently priced at 7.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Islands of Insight is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 7.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Islands of Insight received 2,149 positive votes out of a total of 3,007 achieving a rating of 6.95.
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Islands of Insight was developed by Lunarch Studios and published by Behaviour Interactive Inc..
Yes, Islands of Insight is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Islands of Insight is not playable on MacOS.
No, Islands of Insight is not playable on Linux.
This information about Islands of Insight is not available yet.
This information about Islands of Insight is not available yet.
No, Islands of Insight does not support VR.
Islands of Insight is a single-player game.
No, Islands of Insight does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Islands of Insight does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Islands of Insight does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Islands of Insight is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Islands of Insight.
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Last Updates| Steam data | 16 September 2026 18:07 UTC |
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| Steam price | 17 October 2026 03:10 UTC |
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Developer
Lunarch Studios
Publisher
Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Release
13 Feb 2024
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