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ShoreTiles

ShoreTiles

Build your island around a fragile lighthouse in this Gloomy tile-placement strategy game. Balance growth, economy, and defense - because when night falls, THEY will rise from the depths.

Released Sep 3, 2026 Developer Voxel Studios Publisher Noovola Platforms Windows StrategyCity BuilderRogueliteRTSCasual
View on Steam ↗ $6.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

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

76.2%positive101 reviews
Recommended · 8 found this helpful

“build your island during the day dorfromantik style, tower defense to protect it at night. the building half of the game is A+ excellent. the tower defense half of the game can get a bit stressful and tedious, but updates from devs have improved it. ultimately would really like…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Recommended · 4 found this helpful

“Game is deceptively simple to start out: build a town, matching color tiles for synergies and additional funds. Then it becomes really complicated as you sprawl out from the middle, making you think twice about where to place further tiles. The combat used to be really tedious,…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Not recommended · 15 found this helpful

“I like the building sub-game but the combat portion feels pretty rough. The building phase is a deceptively deep block placer. It starts simply enough, the more tiles of a type adjacent then the more coins given for each adjacent tile placed. But then it starts adding in…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 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
11.9%median completion
0.6%rarest: Merry-Go-Round
98.0% of players 94.0% of players 83.3% of players 62.8% of players 50.3% of players 42.0% of players 35.6% of players 29.8% of players 23.5% of players 11.9% of players 6.7% of players 6.3% of players 5.9% of players 5.6% of players 3.3% of players 1.4% of players 1.2% of players 0.6% of players 98.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
98.0%Welcome Aboard — Place your first tile.
94.0%A New Day — Survive the first night.
83.3%Another Light — Build a lighthouse.
Rarest badges of honor
0.6%Merry-Go-Round — Meet all the inhabitants of the islands.
1.2%Exterminator — Defeat 1,000 Drowned.
1.4%Explorer — Unlock all tiles.

Latest official news

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

Sep 11, 2026
ShoreTiles UPDATE 3 — 11 September 2026

Hello island dwellers, Update 3 has arrived! We’ve been working through your reports and feedback, fixing progression issues and adding further improvements across ShoreTiles. Thank you for continuing

Sep 07, 2026
ShoreTiles Update 2 – Time Controls, Bug Fixes & Quality-of-Life Improvements

Hello, island dwellers! A new ShoreTiles update is now available! This update introduces a reworked time-control system, several quality-of-life improvements and fixes for a number of issues reported

Sep 04, 2026
ShoreTiles Day One Update

Hello island dwellers, Thank you so much for playing ShoreTiles! Since yesterday’s launch, thousands of you have already built your first islands, faced The Drowned and fought to keep the lighthouse b

Sep 03, 2026
ShoreTiles Is Out Now!

Hello island dwellers, the lighthouse has now been lit and ShoreTiles is available on Steam! In Shoretiles, you build your island by day, purchasing tiles from the trader, expanding your territory to

Aug 18, 2026
Demo Translations Are Now Live!

Hello everyone! We’re happy to announce that localised text is now live in the ShoreTiles demo! Our localisation team has been hard at work bringing ShoreTiles to more players around the world, and yo

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

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

GenresCasual, Indie, Strategy
Player tagsStrategy · City Builder · Roguelite · RTS · Casual · Relaxing · Minimalist · 3D · Puzzle · Cute · Stylized · Logic (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Custom Volume Controls · Stereo Sound · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Italian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Filipino, Thai, Turkish, Dutch
ControllerFull support
Achievements18
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia Geforce RTX 1080 Storage: 5 GB available space