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Isle of Arrows
Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I absolutely love this game - it is very inventive for a Tower Defense and quite addictive! The latter levels are a bit difficult, but it turns out this is a good thing as continual gameplay almost inevitably, naturally, has you paying a bit closer attention to arrangement. I…”
— a player, Steam review · 2,350 hrs played“Its a TD game where you get a card that you lets you place things on the island. You start with a short path and 1 tower. Each new card can be either a tower or a piece of the path or a building. If you dont that the offered card, it will be discared and you get the next one.…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“I like the gameplay loop but the tile placement is so restrictive with where paths are allowed to be built it causes incredibly frustrating moments of throwing away pieces you need.”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:19 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Patch Notes for July 6, 2023
New Content Miners Guild: Miners have more choices when building towers but must mine the ground of the isle in the process General Reworded the ignition card to make it more clear it only transforms
Winter Fortress
Snowy days ahead A blizzard has hit the isle and covered it with snow! To celebrate winter and the end of the year, the Daily Defense will take place in a snowy visual backdrop. This event, which does
Patch notes for November 30, 2022
Introduction Today’s patch adds Simplified Chinese localization to the game, along with a few other smaller features, improvements, and bug fixes. Please leave a comment here, on Discord, or through e
Patch notes for November 9, 2022
Bug fixes Fixed a bug that would display a missing localization warning.
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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 | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Puzzle · Board Game · Strategy · Minimalist · Choices Matter · Rogue-lite · Procedural Generation · Colorful · Casual · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese |
| Achievements | 9 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://gridpop.co/isle |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11 Processor: Dual-core CPU @ 2GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GT 630 / 640M or AMD Radeon HD 7450 equivalent Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: –