The Isle

The Isle

Fair · Multiplayer · 2015 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour
$3.84/hr
Reviews▼
80% of 123,479
Genre rank
Top 16% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Early access, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
5.2h

Price and sales

Sales
49 on record
Typical cut
33% off
Steam low
$9.99 June 2017
Sale every
84d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $9.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
18,379 now
Recent reviews
79% 30 days
Cheaper than
10% of its genre
Better reviewed
80% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

49 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 33 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games closest to it, Beasts of Bermuda ($19.99, scores 15) and Animalia Survival ($19.99, scores 8) both come in lower.

More about The Isle

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 28 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 217 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 6,209 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

123,479 reviews stand behind that percentage.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $13.39 (33% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Refunds28 of 800 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

What players say

Highly recommend checking out some of the VOIP servers on the EVRIMA build, lots of fun PVP and nice interactions with people.
NivekRecommendedafter 36hOct 2026early accessRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Very fun game if you like dinosaurs, I highly recommend it. Be sure to join Evrima and check the unofficial server list!
ChiefAries42Recommendedafter 40hOct 2026early accessRead on Steam
You can spend 12 hours raising a Trex to prime, spending about half or more of that time hiding in a bush due to heavy rain, pitch blackness due to night time, or fog. then when you hit that full grown stage where not many things can 1v1 you, a baby trike that just spent $150 on a hack comes in and 1 taps you. after 300 hours of gameplay, ive spent the past 6 nights being killed by hackers. and the admins say im...
S1imJonNot recommendedafter 301h53 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam

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

About the game

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

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

Cite this score

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The Isle scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/376210/the-isle
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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, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperAfterthought LLC
PublisherAfterthought LLC
GenreMultiplayer
Released2015
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate