Islanders
Islanders is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands. Explore an infinite number of ever-changing new lands, expand your settlements from sprawling villages to vast cities and…
Islanders is an indie developed by GrizzlyGames, released 4 April 2019 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.19 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 2 hrs to finish.
What Islanders is
Islanders is an indie game developed by GrizzlyGames and released in 2019. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Islanders is a casual city-building game developed and published by German indie game studio Grizzly Games. It was initially released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on 4 April 2019, and support for macOS and Linux was added in June that year. A version for consoles was released for Nintendo Switch on 11 August 2021 and PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 26 August 2021. This version was published by Coatsink, which announced it had acquired the franchise from Grizzly Games in May 2022. A version for the Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets was released on 28 September 2023. A sequel, Islanders: New Shores, was released in July 2025.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 38 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Islanders holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 3 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.19, that works out to about $0.60 per hour of the main story, or $0.40 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent, 2 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX950 or higher. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.19 at Fanatical, 76% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Islanders launched on 4 April 2019, within three weeks of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Anno 1800 and Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Anno 1800, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Islanders yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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