Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure

Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure

Skip · RPG · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $17.99.

Length
8.7h 21.2h to 100%
Value
$2.07/hr
Reviews
74% of 476 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Value$2.07/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Refunds7 of 301 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 960 / Radeon 480, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

29 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Garden Paws ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).

More about Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure

Of the 301 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 189 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it.

8.7 hours to finish it, 21 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.

The drop-off

65% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

I will recommend this game in general because it was an interesting and cute game. Only con is if youre a hunter, many bugs and broken achievements. The dev team was super nice and helpful though. Actually responded quickly on the discord. Hoping they fix the one last achievement for getting all others.
Bananas3501Recommendedafter 30h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A fantastic, wholesome, delightful and beautiful game which has enough challenge for the battling and a zillion fun things to work towards. Great companions, outstanding outwork, cute music, good overarching quest to repair the island. It's the perfect antidote to the stress of day to day, perfect!
EnvyRecommendedafter 156hJun 2026Read on Steam
The game is cute and fun to play with others except for the many glitchy bugs. I've had to do two full completions of the game because of various bugs that prevented steam achievements from popping. Getting 100% in all areas was a headache because of bugged animals that weren't in cages but counted to still be, and constructed altars that were completed but marked as incomplete. Finally I managed to unlock all the...
Ruby HeartNot recommendedafter 41hApr 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure scores 31/100 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/1550730/ikonei-island-an-earthlock-adventure
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Reviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperSnowcastle Games
PublisherAmplified Games
GenreRPG
Released2023
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements35