Forsaken Isle

Forsaken Isle

Skip · RPG · 2025

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $8.99.

Length
15h
Value
$0.60/hr
Reviews
71% of 520 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

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 5 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

Raising the score
Value$0.60/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews71% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 189 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
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

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB graphics memory, OpenGL 3.0. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 28 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 48 percent of its genre. It is less well reviewed than 64 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tinkerlands ($9.09, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Edge of Space ($14.99, scores 0).

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 20:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

the store page tag full controller support is a load of bs theres actually several game cruical things you genuinely cannot do with a controller and in mid/end game areas you're gonna have to swap to mouse n keyboard to get through them some examples being the mace weapon is unusuable on controller the grapplehook while i really wish was an actual tool in the game and not locked to a specific zone is literally not...
RazzleNot recommendedafter 8.4hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I played until after beating the Tormenter boss (3rd biome) on Expert mode, and found this game to be somewhat fun, but it is more or less a "worse" version of other games that already exist (Necesse) but with higher quality visuals. My main suggestions for the developer are to improve on QoL, player onboarding, and unique game mechanics. Here is my feedback: QoL: - The codex needs major improvement. Hotkeys (such...
ConmaanNot recommendedafter 12hMar 2026Read on Steam
Good game. Took most of a weekend to complete. There were some parts I got a bit stuck but going back and getting a few extra items got me right through.
CyrogenRecommendedafter 21hSep 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Forsaken Isle 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/347940/forsaken-isle
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSmoodlez
PublisherSmoodlez
GenreRPG
Released2025
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate