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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“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“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“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 playedAchievement 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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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
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
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
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
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.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · City Builder · Roguelite · RTS · Casual · Relaxing · Minimalist · 3D · Puzzle · Cute · Stylized · Logic (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Custom Volume Controls · Stereo Sound · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Italian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Filipino, Thai, Turkish, Dutch |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 18 |
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