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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-24 01:21 UTC · history 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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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