Spirit of the Island
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 26.6h 60.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews
- 66% of 1,907 positive
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
About the game
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce MMX 110, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
45 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dinkum ($19.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
More about Spirit of the Island
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 26.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 666 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 375 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 270 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 26.6 hours. Doing everything runs 60, 2.3 times as long.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
38% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Игра пыталась быть чем-то схожим на SdV, но геймплей оказался посредственным, масштабы куцые, история скучная. Посредственность во плоти. Некоторые ачивки сломаны (много жалоб), техподдержка в игре не отвечает неделями. RIP
1 more review, not recommended
The games fun but feels unfinished and unpolished, at just 25 hours ive completed everything with my GF besides maxing out my fishing and social skills, the travel mechanic is interesting but very quickly u end up with maxed gear and everything is a breese. didnt even make it past mid summer, and therew 2 more seasons that dont really change much for the game. dialog is kind of weird and feels written by someone who...
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Cite this score
Spirit of the Island scores 18/100 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/1592110/spirit-of-the-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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.