About the Game

A quick note from the developers:
You want to build beautiful cities without investing hours on end into stressful resource management? Say no more! ISLANDERS should be right up your alley.ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands. Explore an infinite number of ever-changing new lands, expand your settlements from sprawling villages to vast cities and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere.
If you’re thinking about buying ISLANDERS please keep in mind that we are a very passionate but small team of three. This is not a blockbuster experience with hours and hours of content. What we’d like to offer you is a simple game that lets anybody create and explore their own little worlds, while providing enough depth for players who want to challenge themselves. And you can get it at the price of a medium sized pumpkin spice matcha caramel latte.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have feedback, questions, or problems with the game. We’ll do our best to get back to you as quickly as possible and provide support if needed. Also let us know if you enjoyed the game, because that makes our day!

This game offers you:
- Intuitive and rewarding city building gameplay
- Endless amount of procedurally generated islands
- A relaxing atmosphere
- Beautiful, vibrant colors
- Great for playing every now and then, discovering some new islands and beating your high score
This game doesn’t have:
- Helicopters
- Guns
- Lootboxes
- A cinematic story
- Huge explosions (not even small ones actually)
- Online multiplayer
- Microtransactions
- Orcs
Wanna know the specifics?
The gameplay of ISLANDERS is pretty intuitive. You start with a set of buildings in your inventory that you can place on your island. Placing buildings is rewarded with points. The amount of points you get depends on what surrounds the buildings when you place them. Gather enough points to refill your inventory and unlock new buildings.
Once your city is big enough you may choose to travel to the next island (they are generated procedurally, so you can literally keep exploring forever). If you run out of buildings the game ends. This is where you high five yourself for beating the high score, take a proud last glance at the epic city you've built and start just one more round...
ISLANDERS is inspired by amazing games like:
- Bad North
- Anno
- The Settlers
- Sim City
- Kingdoms and Castles
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 17942654
Up to date
Greetings Islanders!
We have just implemented a new patch which will address some of the issues raised by the Islanders community. Here's what you can expect:
As always, we hope these changes will make your Islanders experience even better. We also wanted to thank all of you for continuing to feedback to us about the game - we really appreciate all your feedback and suggestions! ❤️
Wishing you lots of fun and happy building,
Your Islanders Team 🏝️
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We have just implemented a new patch which will address some of the issues raised by the Islanders community. Here's what you can expect:
- Added an option to switch from the enhanced UI to the classic UI of the original game
- The Conqueror achievement has been adjusted to be more attainable
- Mac warning message "Your MacOS OS does not support 32bit builds" will disappear with the new patch
As always, we hope these changes will make your Islanders experience even better. We also wanted to thank all of you for continuing to feedback to us about the game - we really appreciate all your feedback and suggestions! ❤️
Wishing you lots of fun and happy building,
Your Islanders Team 🏝️
Want to stay up to date about our latest news and connect with your fellow islanders?
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Anybody else feel that chill down their spine? 👻 It must be the Islanders Halloween Update!
The spookiest of spooky updates is out now so you can celebrate the most bewitching of holidays in style! 🎃
Features:
🕸️ New themed buildings to create your ghostly empires.
🕸️ Themed music to get you into the Halloween mood.
Here's a sneak peek of what you can expect:
Daytime
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Nighttime
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We can't wait to see what you will create! Happy Halloween! 🎃
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The spookiest of spooky updates is out now so you can celebrate the most bewitching of holidays in style! 🎃
Features:
🕸️ New themed buildings to create your ghostly empires.
🕸️ Themed music to get you into the Halloween mood.
Here's a sneak peek of what you can expect:
Daytime
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Nighttime
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We can't wait to see what you will create! Happy Halloween! 🎃
Want to stay up to date about our latest news and connect with your fellow islanders?
Join the Official Coatsink Discord
Follow Islanders on Twitter
Today we have put out a small patch that includes:
Daytime
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Nightime
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Plus a few small bug fixes to help resolve minor issues the community were reporting.
Console versions will follow, but we will update you on this in time.
Have a wonderful summer! ☀️
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- New Summer themed skins.
- New jingle and summer music theme.
Daytime
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Nightime
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Plus a few small bug fixes to help resolve minor issues the community were reporting.
Console versions will follow, but we will update you on this in time.
Have a wonderful summer! ☀️
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Follow Islanders on Twitter
Easter Patch
Expanded Photo Mode
Added a UI menu that allows to add filters, frames and prints to the Photo Mode
New achievements
New achievements have been added.
The most difficult achievements that were already available have been changed to be cumulative instead of being obtained in a single round:
Building event skins
Added an option to change the building skin models via Settings
Switch building model (Sandbox mode)
While placing some buildings (Houses, Mansions, Water Plateaus and Parks), pressing CMB (Central Mouse Button) the building model
changes, allowing the user to select which building model wants to place
Added new music
Added an option to create a customizable music playlist via Settings
Steam Trading Cards
Added Steam Trading Cards, including unlockable badges, profile backgrounds and emojis
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Expanded Photo Mode
Added a UI menu that allows to add filters, frames and prints to the Photo Mode
New achievements
New achievements have been added.
The most difficult achievements that were already available have been changed to be cumulative instead of being obtained in a single round:
- Builder
- Explorer
- Mayor
- King
- Emperor
- Constructor
- Adventurer
- Explorer
Building event skins
Added an option to change the building skin models via Settings
Switch building model (Sandbox mode)
While placing some buildings (Houses, Mansions, Water Plateaus and Parks), pressing CMB (Central Mouse Button) the building model
changes, allowing the user to select which building model wants to place
Added new music
Added an option to create a customizable music playlist via Settings
Steam Trading Cards
Added Steam Trading Cards, including unlockable badges, profile backgrounds and emojis
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Improvements
Expanded Sandbox Mode
The sandbox mode received significant improvements with two features:
UX Improvements:
- We placed the delete button out of the building zone in the UI.
- Also, users have a new shortcut to delete all the buildings on the island.
Island generation window: A new window to modify the parameters of island generation with variables like island types, biomes or weather.
Island archive
- Players can save and load islands created with the sandbox mode.
- There are 20 save slots for islands.
- Every save is displayed with useful data so it's easier to recognize or remember each island.
Friends Score Tab
- We implemented a new filter in the leaderboard to display scores from players' friends.
Day/Night slider settings menu
- Players can now use a slider in the settings menu to change the time of the day/night, pause it or play it
21st Island tip
Upon reaching the 21st island on Highscore Mode, a tip will inform the user that it won't be able to move to the next island as that one is the last one of them, however it can keep scoring points.
Valentine's Day event
This event replaces the Christmas event. It includes themed buildings, music and VFX.
Bugfixing
Fixed particles when placing buildings:
- Marjet
- Plateau
- Resort Oasis
- Temple
- Wall Plateau
- Water Plateau
Thank you as always for letting us know when you experience issue with the game.
We have updated the game to fix the following:
● Adjusted building lights at night.
● Adjusted wrong scoring interactions when placing huts.
● Fixed "undo" button malfunction.
● Added "Exit game" button in the score screen.
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We have updated the game to fix the following:
● Adjusted building lights at night.
● Adjusted wrong scoring interactions when placing huts.
● Fixed "undo" button malfunction.
● Added "Exit game" button in the score screen.
Join our official Discord server https://discord.gg/VsjQ9zYdrF
Bugs Fixed:
• Adjusted UI for 4k resolution screens (start and tutorial buttons are now smaller).
• Adjusted day and night cycle to recover previous illumination. Shadows move again with the camera.
• With mouse the next available card is not auto-selected. On controller is available as in the console version.
• Added new graphic option Bloom to avoid excessive brightness on screen.
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Updates:
• Christmas pack is now available.
• Christmas content will be exclusively available only for the duration 23rd December - 18th January
• In-game graphics and audio updated based on the current festivity.
• Users can keep the original content if they wish.
• Game menus have been unified between Console & Steam versions.
• Real-time day/night cycles that modify the lighting and soundscape of all the islands have been added.
• The user can turn on/off this feature on the gameplay settings menu.
• We added new types of islands to all game modes that were previously console-exclusive.
• We added controller support to PC.
• Game mode selection added to the flow.
Quality of Life improvements:
• Centre camera and centre pointer functionalities added
• Centre camera on keyboard using 'H' key
• Centre camera on controller pressing 'Left Stick'
• Centre pointer on controller only by pressing 'Right Stick'
• Cancel Pack selection: users can now cancel the Pack selection to allow them to check their island before deciding which pack they want to unlock
Bug fixing:
• Fixed blocker if buttons were pressed multiple times
• Optimized menu save/load system
• Fixed that while using a gamepad, entering on "New Game" pop-up and exiting immediately, blocked the d-pad input until the user enter another menu
• Fixed Selection Pack Menu: Putting the cursor between text and image caused the button to scale up and down repeatedly
If you experience any bugs or wish to share you thoughts, join the Coatsink community on Discord: https://discord.gg/UFX5e7KPee
Have a wonderful holiday season!
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We've read through tons of your comments, threads and reviews and with this update we aim to bring you some of the most requested features and increase the gameplay variety of ISLANDERS.
This update features:
Thanks for all of your awesome feedback so far. Here is a comprehensive list of all changes we made:
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The seaweed pack contains seaweed fields which need to be placed on water and the seaweed farms which needs to be placed on land.
With this addition we wanted to increase the variety in the early game. The range sphere of the seaweed farm has an offset to allow for some new and interesting placement strategies.
The balloon is a flying building that gets points from the circus, towers and markets. This will give you a new option in the mid-game and it should be a nice addition to your beautiful city.
The monument is a relatively small building that loves being next to parks and the temple but heavily dislikes fields and hop fields. Why? Cause the gods say so. This is supposed to be a new toy for our most skilled optimizers out there. Let’s see how many points you can squeeze out of this!
As you might know islands in ISLANDERS are procedurally generated so “new island types” just means you’ll see even more variety from now on. Enjoy! :)
With this update we’re adding two of the most requested features: Camera zoom and a screenshot mode that hides the ingame UI and cursor. You can enter the screenshot mode by clicking the camera icon in the bottom left corner of the main menu. We love seeing the amazing cities you build, so please keep sharing your screenshots and tag us with @_grizzlygames on Twitter if you post there!
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We’re still humbled and excited to have such a positive and passionate community. Our approach has always been to be open and honest with you and therefore we want to give you a clear idea where we’re headed with ISLANDERS.
Our midterm goal is to move on to new exciting projects. We feel like that’s how everybody gets the best deal: We can keep doing what we love with new challenges and you’ll get new games!
That being said, we’re listening to your feedback of course and still have a couple of cool things headed your way for ISLANDERS.
Cheers,
Friedemann, Paul & Jonas
aka GrizzlyGames
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Hey everybody, we’ve been working on an exciting little content update and are finally ready to share it with you.
We've read through tons of your comments, threads and reviews and with this update we aim to bring you some of the most requested features and increase the gameplay variety of ISLANDERS.
This update features:
- 4 New Buildings
- New Island Types
- Screenshot Mode & Zoom
- Balance Adjustments
- Quality of Life Improvements
Thanks for all of your awesome feedback so far. Here is a comprehensive list of all changes we made:
NEW CONTENT
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Buildings Added: Seaweed Pack
The seaweed pack contains seaweed fields which need to be placed on water and the seaweed farms which needs to be placed on land.
With this addition we wanted to increase the variety in the early game. The range sphere of the seaweed farm has an offset to allow for some new and interesting placement strategies.
Building Added: Balloon
The balloon is a flying building that gets points from the circus, towers and markets. This will give you a new option in the mid-game and it should be a nice addition to your beautiful city.
Building Added: Monument
The monument is a relatively small building that loves being next to parks and the temple but heavily dislikes fields and hop fields. Why? Cause the gods say so. This is supposed to be a new toy for our most skilled optimizers out there. Let’s see how many points you can squeeze out of this!
New Island Types
As you might know islands in ISLANDERS are procedurally generated so “new island types” just means you’ll see even more variety from now on. Enjoy! :)
Screenshot Mode & Zoom
With this update we’re adding two of the most requested features: Camera zoom and a screenshot mode that hides the ingame UI and cursor. You can enter the screenshot mode by clicking the camera icon in the bottom left corner of the main menu. We love seeing the amazing cities you build, so please keep sharing your screenshots and tag us with @_grizzlygames on Twitter if you post there!
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Balancing Updates
- Reduced Wall-collider size to make them easier to place. Walls now have two range-spheres to allow for more visually pleasing placement.
- More water plateaus in late-game to decrease chances of running out of space.
- Slight rebalancing of Tower to allow for placement on higher ground (because it looks so cool).
- Slightly nerfed the “Air Temple” (Temple on Wall Plateaus over cities) by making it more centered in its range sphere but we also increased its range a bit for compensation.
Other Small Changes
- Fishers, Warehouses, Plateaus, Breweries, City Centers and Shamans now get points from Seaweed Farms or Seaweed Fields and were rebalanced accordingly.
- Mills can now be placed on wooden platforms.
- Resort Oasis is a bit easier to place (reduced collider size and allows for more uneven ground).
- Jewelry earns 35 instead of 30 points from Gold Mine.
- Other small adjustments to incorporate the new buildings.
Quality of Life
- Your online highscore is now updated every time you enter the main menu.
- Added a safety prompt when clicking “New Game” to avoid losing progress on an active session.
- Base score-values for buildings (like the temple's infamous -75) show up in the tooltips now.
- Improved score-preview-UI readability. The little score numbers have an outline now.
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We’re still humbled and excited to have such a positive and passionate community. Our approach has always been to be open and honest with you and therefore we want to give you a clear idea where we’re headed with ISLANDERS.
Our midterm goal is to move on to new exciting projects. We feel like that’s how everybody gets the best deal: We can keep doing what we love with new challenges and you’ll get new games!
That being said, we’re listening to your feedback of course and still have a couple of cool things headed your way for ISLANDERS.
Thank you all so much for being such a supportive and positive crowd, keep it up! :)
Cheers,
Friedemann, Paul & Jonas
aka GrizzlyGames
Current Release
17942654
Uploaded Apr 01, 2025
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent
RAM
2 GB RAM
GPU
Nvidia GeForce GTX950 or higher
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ISO file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Mount the ISO file (double-click or right-click → Mount)
4
Run setup.exe
5
Launch the game from desktop shortcut or Start Menu
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Size
250 MB
Build
17942654
Password: cracked-games.org or 123
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