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ActionAdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulationEarly AccessDinosaursSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerHunting

The Isle

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Developer
Afterthought LLC
Publisher
Afterthought LLC
Franchise
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Release date
Dec 1, 2015
Store page updated
May 22, 2022
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

64.1/ 100

Based on 404 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 78% of 2,161
All time 😄 Very Positive 80% of 120,848
“I absolutely LOVE this game, intense moments hit harder than DayZ”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-1.05
Difficulty -0.29
“sechs Stunden Wachstum verloren, Fehler nach langer Zeit zurück zum Baby” (27)
The Isle ist das einzige Spiel, das es schafft, dass du vier Stunden lang erfolgreich einen Busch spielst, nur um anschließend von einem Krokodil gefressen zu werden, das seit 1997 regungslos im Wasser auf dich gewartet hat. Du spawnst als kleiner Dino. Du frisst. Du säufst. Du versteckst dich. Du wächst. Und genau in dem Moment, in dem du denkst: "Jetzt bin ich der Endgegner." ...kommt irgendwo aus dem Gebüsch ein 14-jähriger Carno-Spieler mit der Energie eines ADHS-Eichhörnchens auf fünf Dosen Energy und löscht deine komplette Existenz aus. 10 von 10. Das Spiel hat ungefähr so viel Respekt v

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Story & World
+1.23
World +3.21
“dinosaur mechanics and atmosphere are incredible” (48)

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Content Volume
-0.56
Variety -2.11

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Visuals & Sound
+3.15
Visuals +2.79
“graphics rated good with very good gameplay” (48)

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Multiplayer
-0.30
Playing together +1.29
“made good friends in legacy” (32)

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Fairness
-2.84
Balance -3.47

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Tech & Ops
-3.13
Developer support -3.07
“11 years early access with minimal content progress and broken promises” (37)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
50%60%70%80%90%100%
Dec 2015Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,116 reviews, peak 93/day
050100
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 404 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English41%
  • Russian13%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Spanish8%
  • German7%
  • French5%
  • Other16%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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