One More Island
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 15h 56h to 100%
- Value
- $0.20/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 268 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated GPU might work, Nvidia Geforce GTX 550+ or AMD Radeon HD 5000, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 42 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 85 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Settlement Survival ($4.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Surviving the Abyss ($19.99, scores 12).
More about One More Island
The main story runs 15 hours. Doing everything runs 56, 3.7 times as long.
The drop-off
71% start to 2% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 11:57 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Its very annoying. Like the idea is simple; -You begin with one island. It can only do early game crops and ores -You then have a log wait to get to the next island. -You're okay until you lock the 2nd tier and suddenly... you need to maintain your buildings. -You struggle to maintain anything because the demand versus supply chain sucks and is fickle -You have to carefully pick what islands to settle on and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Glitchy mechanics and UI. Trade routes don't function properly. Not worth your money. Rimworld is 1000X better.
So, the negative reviews got me wondering how the game really is. It's great to know that when the civs are starving, it's not actually food related but other needs. IE Clothing, lol I didn't know that was food. Gotta keep a surplus of everything more or less to maintain a tier. Not as casual as I'd like as I prefer to forget things and it doesn't keep you on your toes in the sense of being attacked, but the random...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
One More Island scores 23/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1454160/one-more-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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.