Spirit Island
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $9.61/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: DX10, DX11, DX12 Capable, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control game.
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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 49 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sentinels of the Multiverse ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats RISK: Global Domination (free, scores 53).
This site sampled 427 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 763 have a larger share.
The drop-off
61% 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
176 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 18:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is really a well done game, not only the PC game, but also the real Board Game, I have both, and the reason I bought the PC game is that it is way easier to start and end a game, 3 seconds against the 5 minutes of the board game. Also the ability to continue the game at a more convenient time. Overall one of the challenging games that keeps you wanting more and try new things and plan forward in a fun way.
Overall, I really enjoyed this digital adaptation of the board game! Since this is a board game at its core, Spirit Island is hard to teach or turn into a tutorial, and searching through the digital manual to find out certain rules can be a bit annoying, but since I was already familiar with how to play the game this was only a minor inconvenience. Despite the fact that this game is fairly complicated and has very...
Takes all the fiddly, mechanically complicated management portions of the board game and automates them to create a streamlined experience. If you enjoy the original, everything you love is here, and the mindful addition of things like an undo feature keeps the spirit of board gaming pretty well.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Spirit Island scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1236720/spirit-islandReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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