Islands of Insight
Skip · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 32.1h
- Value
- $0.93/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($11.99)
- Last discount ended
- 20 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 960 or Radeon R9 380. 4GB VRAM, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. It has been discounted 19 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 50 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. On the same math Manifold Garden ($19.99, scores 64) and The Witness ($39.99, scores 54) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
14 of the 693 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 155 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
32.1 hours to finish it, 158 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.9 times the campaign.
What players say
Admittedly I have a nice PC but this game is awesome. It's basically everything that the Talos Principle is but it just keeps having additional things to find, or you can just get lost and randomly go after stuff. Can't believe I didn't catch this one sooner because normally I'm all over these types of games.
This game is beautiful. It did crash on me once, but I think that was my fault, so full marks from me. Great puzzles, and the skill ceiling keeps rising as I press on.
Puzzles are too short and simple making it get repetitive. Also don't know why it was an MMO, couldn't do anything fun with my buddy. 5 / 10
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Islands of Insight scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2071500/islands-of-insightReviews 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 1.
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