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Islands of Insight
Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
37 of the 63 reviews raise this.
14 of the 63 reviews raise this.
“It isn't the absolute most polished open world around (I've seen a few modeling errors like trees or rocks hovering above the ground), but I had a blast exploring around looking for puzzles to solve. My favorite puzzle…”
“Very beautiful, gorgeous game. The puzzles are all interesting and fun, with the main puzzles of this game being logic grids where you fill tiles either white or black depending on rules. Throughout the game, this…”
8 of the 63 reviews raise this.
“I call it an ADHD puzzle game, where you can get distracted doing puzzles for 5 hours. I love it so much just to do all of the different challenges in the game. The fact that there is 10000 things to do is so fun and i…”
“extremely underrated game, worth more than it costs and extremely fun and long”
“really long and fun puzzle game with like over 1,000 puzzles or something although online getting canned is sad :(”
5 of the 63 reviews raise this.
“extremely underrated game, worth more than it costs and extremely fun and long”
“Recommended at full price. Walking/ Flight simulator with board solving puzzles (mostly) Pretty, lots of puzzle, no evironmental/ enemy death... Only puzzles (10,000+). Little explainations on how to solve the different…”
“sale :thumbsup:”
4 of the 63 reviews raise this.
“Very beautiful, gorgeous game. The puzzles are all interesting and fun, with the main puzzles of this game being logic grids where you fill tiles either white or black depending on rules. Throughout the game, this…”
“Wonderful puzzles and atmosphere, but this is one of the games I really don't feel like my style of playing fits. The game is really, REALLY wonderfully tranquil and meditative, but that means it should be enjoyed in…”
“The game is huge and beautiful, you don't see a lot of open world puzzle games but this is one, everything just fits and looks nice never too complex art wise when it comes to puzzles unless needed. The game play is…”
12 of the 63 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Disappointment after disappointment. Getting stuck against random geometry, or in place, forcing me to restart the game many times. Fun was deep valleys and middling peaks. I could only recommend this game to someone if…”
“An interesting concept that the community has made playable after the developer abandoned it. Unfortunately as you get further in the puzzles get worse and worse. Nonsensical morphic fractals and music puzzles that are…”
10 of the 63 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“An interesting concept that the community has made playable after the developer abandoned it. Unfortunately as you get further in the puzzles get worse and worse. Nonsensical morphic fractals and music puzzles that are…”
“It's a bummer the servers got shut down but it's still one of the top 3 puzzle games you can find on Steam. There was no point in making it online-only in the first place imho.”
9 of the 63 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“An interesting concept that the community has made playable after the developer abandoned it. Unfortunately as you get further in the puzzles get worse and worse. Nonsensical morphic fractals and music puzzles that are…”
“It's a bummer the servers got shut down but it's still one of the top 3 puzzle games you can find on Steam. There was no point in making it online-only in the first place imho.”
8 of the 63 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
7 of the 63 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Disappointment after disappointment. Getting stuck against random geometry, or in place, forcing me to restart the game many times. Fun was deep valleys and middling peaks. I could only recommend this game to someone if…”
“It isn't the absolute most polished open world around (I've seen a few modeling errors like trees or rocks hovering above the ground), but I had a blast exploring around looking for puzzles to solve. My favorite puzzle…”
Counted across 63 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 71.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“This game actually has a sad story with a silver lining to it. Initially it was meant to be a mix of puzzle gameplay and multiplayer mmo style open world exploration. You could see other players prancing about solving puzzles and showing off their character and skins, but could…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“This is the kind of game I just wish there was more of. It's an open world puzzle game with a huge amount of variety in the type of puzzle. The logic puzzle grids are the games core draw in, and my personal highlight. Fantastic of the devs to make the game playable offline…”
— a player, Steam review · 162 hrs played“Lost all progress when it went offline only after not playing for awhile. I enjoyed it at first but didn't play for awhile, then suddenly found it was offline only and I had to start over if I wanted to play again. Why couldn't they push our online saves to steam for us? Game…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Islands of Insight | What's Next
Update Oct. 30: Islands of Insight is now offline-only. Seekers, our final Islands of Insight update will arrive on October 30, 2024 , which will permanently modify the game to be offline-only. This w
Islands of Insight | Offline Mode Available Now!
Seekers, it is here. Our Offline Mode is live now! We are happy to expand our play experience and provide more players with the opportunity to join us in the islands and solve beautiful puzzles. For w
Islands of Insight | Offline Mode Release Date
Seekers, we are so happy to announce that our Offline Mode will be released on July 9! This addition provides you, our dedicated players, and new players with more flexibility in how you enjoy the isl
Islands of Insight | Cerebral Puzzle Showcase Wrap-Up (+ NEW wallpapers!)
This year’s Cerebral Puzzle Showcase has come to a close. We’re so grateful to have had so many new puzzle lovers join us as Seekers on the Islands, solving thoughtful, brainy puzzles. Between the Sho
Islands of Insight | Cerebral Puzzle Showcase + SALE!
Islands of Insight is part of the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! If you’re here from the Showcase and don’t know about us, we are a sublime shared-world puzzle game set in a fantasy realm of ancient wonder
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Puzzle-Platformer · Nonlinear · Puzzle · Open World · Exploration · Adventure · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · Relaxing · Philosophical · First-Person · Mystery (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese |
| Official site | https://www.islandsofinsight.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 960 or Radeon R9 380. 4GB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 35 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD recommended