Islanders: Console Edition
ISLANDERS is a relaxing, minimalist strategy game about building cities on colourful islands. With simple and intuitive building mechanics, you have the freedom to create your own cities on the rugged cliffs…
Islanders: Console Edition is an indie developed by GrizzlyGames, released 11 August 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Islanders: Console Edition is
Islanders: Console Edition is an indie game developed by GrizzlyGames and released in 2021. It was published by Coatsink Software. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
ISLANDERS is a relaxing, minimalist strategy game about building cities on colourful islands. With simple and intuitive building mechanics, you have the freedom to create your own cities on the rugged cliffs of the game’s islands in half an hour or less. Explore these procedurally generated Islands from lush green grasslands to dry deserts and snowy mountainscapes and expand your settlements from sprawling villages to vast cities.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate). It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Islanders: Console Edition holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 19 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Islanders: Console Edition launched on 11 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and The Forgotten City. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City.
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