ISLANDS: Non-Places
Skip · Short indie · 2016
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$4.99Skip
On its price record
$3.63Fair
- Length
- 0.8h 0.8h to 100%
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 373 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.63 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 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
About the game
The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cloud Gardens ($17.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Proteus ($9.99, scores 32).
More about ISLANDS: Non-Places
Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 307 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 95 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
ISLANDS: Non-Places scores 46/100 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/540510/islands-non-placesReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.