ISLAND
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $17.01.
- Length
- 17.2h
- Value
- $2.33/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, VRAM320MB, 1280×720, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Sanzenkai Setsuna awakens on the shore of isolated island Urashima with no memories of his past. Befriending three local girls, Rinne, Karen, and Sara, Setsuna's quest to discover the secrets of Urashima and how they tie into his own past - and future - begins.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $19.99. That was June 2025. It has been discounted 62 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $17.01. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, Crisis: The Third Way (free, scores 69) and Hidden Folks ($14.99, scores 69), are both worse buys on this math.
None of the 380 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 17.2 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 2.4 times as long.
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 18:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
ISLAND scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/857450/islandReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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