Battle Islands

Battle Islands

Skip · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
75% of 3,470
Genre rank
Top 51% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Time and effort

To 100%
39.9h
Achievements
96

Players and genre

Online
8 now
Better reviewed
42% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

72% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Among the games that feel like it, Operation: Harsh Doorstop (free, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats Battle Tanks: World War II (free, scores 16).

It is still busy. 8 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 3, 12:47 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
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

Battle friends over air, land and sea in this epic WW2-themed battle strategy game.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX9 Compatible, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Battle Islands scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/305260/battle-islands
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperDR Studios
Publisher505 Games
GenreShooter
Released2014
Completionist39.9h100%, HowLongToBeat
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements96