The Shrouded Isle

Includes the Sunken Sins free DLC! Your Excellency, in this short game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

The Shrouded Isle is a political sim, management and 2d game developed by Jongwoo Kim, Erica Lahaie, FX Bilodeau and Tanya Short and published by Kitfox Games.
Released on August 04th 2017 is available on Windows and MacOS in 11 languages: English, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Spain and Italian.

It has received 1,436 reviews of which 1,013 were positive and 423 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Shrouded Isle into these genres:

Political Sim Management 2D Horror Turn-Based Strategy Turn-Based Difficult Diplomacy Villain Protagonist Dark Humor Building Strategy RPG Story Rich Strategy Noir Experimental Choices Matter Multiple Endings Lovecraftian Procedural Generation

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP SP2 or later
Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1024 x 768 or larger resolution
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X Lion 10.8.5 or later
Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1024 x 768 or larger resolution
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

The Shrouded Isle will show you that being the high priest of a dark god is a pretty dangerous job. Any job, including picking flowers in a green field, can be stressful if your boss is a big enough bully. However, the threat of being yelled at, humiliated, having your bonuses taken away, or even fired is nothing compared to what awaits you as the high priest of the Slavic god Chernobog. As his name suggests, this boss will not tolerate any failures. If you don't sacrifice enough people and burn enough heretical books, he will climb out of the ocean and unleash a tirade that your rapidly cooling corpses won't be able to handle. Career prospects in The Shrouded Isle are very short-lived indeed. The Shrouded Isle simply looks like a pleasantly depressing murder simulator with a very unique artistic expression. It's worth noting that you can swap out the basic green and black color scheme for a different color scheme if you don't want to spend a few hours feeling like you're staring at the contents of a bucket full of vomit. It's also important to know that one playthrough is usually quite short - don't expect a long campaign. Fortunately, there are 6 different endings, so there's place for replayability. 15%

Dec. 2024

A fun bite, especially if you get it on sale. No way to revert to a previous save or regret a bad decision (unless you go into the Application Data folder and start manually backing up your save states). Good atmosphere in the beginning; the core loop gets repetitive at the end but still provides for a very enjoyable evening or two. Plays quite a bit like a visual novel, and if only it had a skip read / fast forward option like they usually do.

Oct. 2024

The Shrouded Isle - A relaxing village simulator... if your idea of relaxation is sacrificing townsfolk to appease an ancient god and managing a cult on the edge of collapse. I noticed the game because of the art style and the Lovecraft theme, but it was the gameplay that really hooked me. You can tell the developers genuinely care about the game. The sound and atmosphere are perfect. Game is a mix of settlement management and roguelike elements. If you don’t like the game, it’s probably just that the genre isn’t for you. Negative comments like "it’s repetitive and boring" make me laugh, it’s like saying Doom is boring because all you do is walk around and shoot demons.

Sept. 2024

I think this game does something pretty cool but it is fairly flawed. I appreciate that the game quite deftly gets me into the mind of a cult leader, down to the completely immoral way I had to start looking at my flock to make it through to the end. That said, the game doesn't have enough depth to get into once you figure out the spreadsheet style approach that makes the most sense given the unfair difficulty of it. Definitely worth trying, but probably not worth investing more time than you want to into it. I do want more games like this to exist though, where the focus is more artistic in trying to induce a particular experience or feeling as opposed to just making something fun. Additionally, the game is too long now with 2.0. I think 3 years was just about right before. 6/10

March 2024

This is a resource management game. You have five resources and five families who each control one of the resources. You have to select a member of each family each season to try to balance each resource while maintaining favour with all of the families. However, you don’t know each character’s skills and weakness and can’t learn them without hurting the loyalty of the families. Also, you have to kill one person each season. ... Did I forget to mention you are the leader of a Lovercraftian cult? It has a lo-fi aesthetics, which may or may not be a selling point, depending on your personal taste. It’s a fun game to play and there’s enough RNG to have plenty of replay value. Easily with the $15 to buy.

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12.79€

6.8

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Developer

Jongwoo Kim, Erica Lahaie, FX Bilodeau, Tanya Short

Publisher

Kitfox Games

Release 04 Aug 2017

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