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Spirit Island
Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control 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
80 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The game itself is awesome, but this is a terrible digitization of it. The UI is prohibitively awful and aspects of it randomly don't work, not to mention needing to tediously vote for every minor thing in the game for…”
“It's a great game and turn-based-strategy even for solo. Kind of like simplified civ. Support the company so they can remain afloat amid Trumps awful tariff.”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Big enjoyer of the physical boardgame. Being able to play online with friends I otherwise wouldn't be able to play this with is a big plus. Definitely consider purchasing if you enjoy cooperative boardgames with a deep…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I own the physical copy of this game and all it's expansions but still bought this digital version and all of the DLCs as it is good to play this game in solo without long set up time. The game offers lots of variety,…”
“I have also around 50 hours in tabletop, and there are still combinations of spirits and adversaries i want to try. It never gets old!”
“Spirit Island is like. My most evergreen boardgame of all time. Tho, i painted the minis irl cuz base they look kinda boring, they should add colored blights/adversary pieces n such someday”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I own the physical copy of this game and all it's expansions but still bought this digital version and all of the DLCs as it is good to play this game in solo without long set up time. The game offers lots of variety,…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The music is great, the sounds/theming is great, and the implementation is picture perfect. I'm really happy with how they digitally carried over Spirit Island and look forward to diving into it more in the near future.”
“Y'know when your computer just doesn't have enough RAM or the processor is too slow and it stutters and lags? This game does that to me. I grind out my plan each turn and barely survive to play the next. But when I…”
“Highly recommend. Great art, music, and gameplay wrapped up in a digital package that's almost even better than playing the physical board game, at least by yourself. So nice to not need to shuffle so many cards.”
18 of the 103 reviews raise this · 12 of them still recommend the game.
“The game itself is awesome, but this is a terrible digitization of it. The UI is prohibitively awful and aspects of it randomly don't work, not to mention needing to tediously vote for every minor thing in the game for…”
“♥♥♥♥ this overpriced version of the game. Go get tabletop simulator and enjoy it there. Events can absolutely ♥♥♥♥ you and instead of having the ability to throw out bad ones or remove the broken event cards you'll just…”
“The actual board game is one of my favorite board games of all time, but the implementation by these developers leaves a lot to be desired. Things like the "undo" functionality running the risk of bricking your game,…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“The game itself is awesome, but this is a terrible digitization of it. The UI is prohibitively awful and aspects of it randomly don't work, not to mention needing to tediously vote for every minor thing in the game for…”
“Multiplayer experience is deeply frustrating and bug filled. Oh, someone is doing something so you can't do your thing. What is preventing you from doing your thing? Sorry, we won't say. Someone's internet glitched?…”
“This may be the worst UI of any boardgame on steam that I have ever seen or heard about. It was impossible to tell which space the action was taking place in, and there was so much weird downtime for multiplayer with…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“♥♥♥♥ this overpriced version of the game. Go get tabletop simulator and enjoy it there. Events can absolutely ♥♥♥♥ you and instead of having the ability to throw out bad ones or remove the broken event cards you'll just…”
“If this were ever a game eligible for "best game you suck at" I'd smash that nominate button into the floor.”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The game itself is awesome, but this is a terrible digitization of it. The UI is prohibitively awful and aspects of it randomly don't work, not to mention needing to tediously vote for every minor thing in the game for…”
“Multiplayer experience is deeply frustrating and bug filled. Oh, someone is doing something so you can't do your thing. What is preventing you from doing your thing? Sorry, we won't say. Someone's internet glitched?…”
“♥♥♥♥ this overpriced version of the game. Go get tabletop simulator and enjoy it there. Events can absolutely ♥♥♥♥ you and instead of having the ability to throw out bad ones or remove the broken event cards you'll just…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 91.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“IDK how this isn't more popular, one of the best strategy games I have ever played. Love this game, own even expansion in physical and can't wait for the dlcs to be finished.”
— a player, Steam review · 74 hrs played“Great for learning to play the physical version. UI and rules are not easy to understand so this is not for everyone, but if you manage to understand the game you can spend hours of fun with it.”
— a player, Steam review · 380 hrs played“I hate to give a game that I've played so much a bad review, but even as a superfan of the Spirit Island board game the digital version is lacking. It really is a shame because this game could be so much better but it seems like the development team is very small and they are…”
— a player, Steam review · 141 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 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 2026-09-05.
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.
What's New in Version 3.3.2
This update has several fixes and improvements, including: Improved support for rejoining multiplayer games in progress. If you intentionally leave a multiplayer game, you may now rejoin the game from
What's New in Version 3.3.1
This update has a number of fixes and improvements, including: Fixed a problem where resuming a multiplayer game saved for later would not allow previously disconnected players to join the game. Stren
Version 3.3 Now Available: Deeps of Earth and Sea
Jungles, wetlands, sands, and mountains; the terrains making up Spirit Island are important, but in some ways, only scratch the surface. The true locus of power can be found within the Deeps of Earth
What's New in Version 3.2.2
This update has various fixes and improvements, including: Fixed an issue in which undoing Entwined Power could cause a repeated Power gaining loop. Fixed some cases where Devouring Teeth Lurk Underfo
What's New in Version 3.2.1
This update has a number of fixes and improvements, including: The text of game items that modify land Health or check for "overkill" have been updated to match the wording from the Nature Incarnate r
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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 | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Nature · Board Game · Turn-Based Tactics · Destruction · Indie · Grand Strategy · Strategy · Tabletop · Card Game · Local Co-Op · 2D · Deckbuilding (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 54 |
| Official site | http://spiritislanddigital.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 Capable DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 1 GB available space Additional Notes: Hardware vendor officially supported drivers