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Dreaming Isles

Dreaming Isles

A farming life sim with high seas adventure. Grow crops, grow ammo, grow a backbone! Side with the Pirates or help restore Global Trade. Feed the islanders, forge relationships, find romance, and call people "scurvy dog"! Raise the mainsail, fire the cannons, and set sail for adventure!

Released Jan 13, 2025 Developer YawningDad Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Farming SimNaval CombatExplorationRomanceLife Sim
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-05-20)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

50.0%positive86 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“I just got this game for 2.99 and have been playing it. I have to say its better then so many ive purchased and refunded and demos ive played. I dont understand why so many bad reviews. It looks like the dev tried to update and with so many bad reviews i cant blame them for just…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“I loved what I played of this game. The graphics are beautiful, with each island being entirely unique. The combat was satisfying and learning how to do the naval combat was fun and something I haven't done in a game before. The farming was great-no watering and making the…”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Not recommended · 12 found this helpful

“A fun game with interesting mechanics. The piracy aspect is enjoyable, but is slightly spoiled by the fact that there's a bug impacting your ability to engage in naval combat if you're using controllers instead of mouse+keyboard. Bought on sale for $3, and is a very nice game…”

— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

18achievements
10.2%median completion
1.4%rarest: Restoring Order
52.6% of players 51.7% of players 50.3% of players 29.6% of players 29.4% of players 13.2% of players 12.2% of players 11.9% of players 10.8% of players 10.2% of players 9.5% of players 6.3% of players 5.7% of players 5.5% of players 5.1% of players 2.9% of players 2.0% of players 1.4% of players 52.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
52.6%On a Boat — You earned a boat! Time to set sail.
51.7%Mostly Dead — Come on, you apes! You want to live forever?!
50.3%Ship it! — You shipped some produce to the islanders!
Rarest badges of honor
1.4%Restoring Order — Never put passion before principles. Even if you win, you lose.
2.0%Mawiage — Wuv... Twue wuv...
2.9%As You Wish — This is true love. Think this happens every day?

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jan 21, 2025
Update Notes for 1.0.5

A few more bug fixes, with special thanks to Ventz Petkov for the great bug reporting! Gameplay Fixes - Object collision fixes for things like the Western Tower entrance, lightning barrier, etc. - The

Jan 20, 2025
Update Notes for 1.0.4

Gameplay Fixes - Game should now correctly resume at fullscreen when returning from screensaver or alt-tab. Quality of Life Changes - Gamepad / Steam Deck users should now see tile highlighting when f

Jan 18, 2025
Update notes for 1.0.3

New Features - Steam Cloud Saves : Synching games across platforms and devices should now be possible via Steam Cloud. To ensure you have this functionality enabled, open Steam and click Steam -> Sett

Jan 17, 2025
Update notes for 1.0.2

Gameplay FIxes - Fixed surface rendering and mouse coordinates in windowed and widescreen modes. - Steam Deck ocean optimizations - Cave tile fixes Quality of Life Changes - Better quest descriptions

Jan 13, 2025
Dreaming Isles is Live!

After more than four years of work, Dreaming Isles is out! In a way, this is only the beginning. I'm already starting work on the 1.1 Homestead update, which you can read about here . I'm a solo devel

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation
Player tagsFarming Sim · Naval Combat · Exploration · Romance · Life Sim · Dungeon Crawler · Fishing · Farming · Naval · Pirates · Sailing · Crafting (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal
ControllerFull support
Achievements18
Official sitehttps://dreamingisles.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 10 Processor: 64bit Intel Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 4-compliant DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 600 MB available space