Ancient Islands is an arcade, released 10 March 2022 on Nintendo Switch.
What Ancient Islands is
Ancient Islands was released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hard tower-defense mixed with economy elements. It features complex skill tree, resource trading, building your own village, and setting individual tactics for each tower.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Ancient Islands holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 24 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Ancient Islands launched on 10 March 2022, within three weeks of Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Tunic and Ghostwire: Tokyo. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo.
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