ISLANDERS
BANGER · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX950 or higher, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.24. That was November 2024. 59 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dorfromantik ($13.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Pan'orama ($13.99, scores 76).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $8.72. It costs $4.99.
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
20 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 3,712 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
3.1 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A nice and cozy game, perfect for spending some relaxing time. As with many similar games, the most interesting part is pursuing some kind of challenge when building a town on another island :)
Chill music, visual is on point, the interaction is somewhat confusing, hard to see when a small gap matters or sometimes it doesn't, overall amazing game, confusion here doesn't mean frustration, takes a little time to get to know things, 7/10
I really like this game, it's a great way to spend time and wind down while keeping your mind sharp! I like that you have to think ahead and plan for unknown or unexpected variables!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
ISLANDERS scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1046030/islandersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Oct 1.
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