The Isle
Fair · Multiplayer · 2015 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280X series card or higher., 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in June 2017. 48 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games closest to it, Beasts of Bermuda ($19.99, scores 15) and Out of Reach ($14.99, scores 2) both come in lower.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 203 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 6,021 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Still 5.9K concurrent players, 11 years in.
Players
5,946 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
If you enjoy pain and suffering and immersive survival with devs who prioritise every single thing apart from bugfixes, the isle is just for you!
Kinda hard to decide if I recommend this game. The game looks great, sure, but It has so many problems. Servers often lagg so badly you keep teleporting back, pouncing is really off and buggy sometimes, without a guide online you can't do anything in this game because it has no tutorial, and even though there are certain rules on offical servers, It feels like there really isn't any. And the server wipes. It takes...
The Isle has some of the best dinosaur mechanics and atmosphere I've ever experienced, which honestly makes its flaws even more frustrating. The biggest issue is that the game mistakes time investment for meaningful gameplay. Growing a dinosaur can take hours, yet most of that time is spent walking between food and water, hiding from larger players, and hoping nothing finds you. Then, after investing your entire...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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The Isle scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/376210/the-isleThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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