ISLANDERS: New Shores
BANGER · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 35%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 18.6h
- Value
- $0.32/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($6.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 950, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
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
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 12 times in the 15 months tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $5.99 at 40 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nodebuster ($1.94, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats SteamWorld Build ($24.99, scores 49).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $25.12. It costs $5.99.
83 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 57 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 348 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
18.6 hours to finish it, 65 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
74% start to 57% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
31 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
ISLANDERS: New Shores scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2368930/islanders-new-shoresReviews 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 25, price as of Oct 1.
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