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The Isle
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
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 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
64 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“This game is one of the most rewarding and brutally infuriating games that I've ever had the opportunity to play. It has a similar feel to DAYZ, where you have all of your time invested, at risk of being eaten by…”
“Great game,but ♥♥♥♥ the T.Rex user that killed me as soon as I spawned in for my very first game.I hope you stub your toe and bite the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ curb on your way down to hell.”
“IF you enjoy REALISTIC dinosaur survival games, get it. However, I would recommend watching youtube videos beforehand, since the game fails in some aspects of the beginning player experience.”
12 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“it is super realistic and fun great to play with friends”
“it is fun with others and its time consuming but it is worth it.”
“absolute best game ive played, hardcore pvp survival, horror, recommend highly”
8 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“The Isle is visually beautiful, delightful game where you can suspend reality and become a dinosaur. No extra lives, just you vs nature. Sometimes nature hates you, sometimes you are pitted against other players,…”
“Really fun, awesome sorene landscapes and just running around killing stuff is great and so fun”
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
7 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“This game is one of the most rewarding and brutally infuriating games that I've ever had the opportunity to play. It has a similar feel to DAYZ, where you have all of your time invested, at risk of being eaten by…”
4 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“1.6k hours played. Some of my friends have more, which is concerning. The Isle is basically fear, betrayal, and starvation… just like real life, but as a dinosaur. I also have learned a very important life lesson: TRUST…”
“The Isle is one of those games that even when its bad, like broken bad, you keep coming back to it at some point. It has a great community and there is a version of the game for everyone at this point. Will the game…”
“I paid $20 to be a snack. Spawned in. Walked for an hour. Got eaten by something I never even saw its face. This game taught me more about the food chain than school ever did, except in school I wasn't the food.…”
16 of the 102 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“Great game,but ♥♥♥♥ the T.Rex user that killed me as soon as I spawned in for my very first game.I hope you stub your toe and bite the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ curb on your way down to hell.”
“DONT BUY THIS GAME IS YOU SAW VIDOES ON YOUTUBE the game is nothing like that there is a only a single server with VOIP insane amount of cheaters all over every server and very grindy for no reason”
“This could have been a great game with proper development team and dedication. Instead you get a little over dozen people, trying to keep this project from flatlining and in early access stage for 12 years. New content…”
15 of the 102 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“After seeing an increasing amount of videos online about this game, a group of my friends and I decided to give it a go. Immediately we started running into problems. The group/spawn code function is poor and…”
“I would not recommend getting the came, since it has been in development for over 10 years and yet the game crashes constantly even for people with higher end computers like me. Also the lead dev is very childish and…”
“Game is buggy as any game can be, and feels like the devs no longer support the game.”
13 of the 102 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“My husband and I both really love the idea of this game, but with some much of it being poorly polished, needing more work, and the devs kind of mucking around and doing wahtever they feel like instead of doing what's…”
“This could have been a great game with proper development team and dedication. Instead you get a little over dozen people, trying to keep this project from flatlining and in early access stage for 12 years. New content…”
“The only servers the game can actuall find are chinese with 9.999 ping and i can't connect to them. Buying it was a waste of time. Downloading it was a waste of time. and the refund wasted even more time. Also i know…”
10 of the 102 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Begin as Dino, sit for 20 minutes to reginerate stamina, Die to dino while regaining stam. Rinse and repeat. Dino game not fun.”
“life in game pretty much doesnt exist. nothing to eat, animals sound 5 ft away but you can run 50miles and still never find it. waste of money”
“Absolute garbage. Spent 20 minutes sitting in a dark cave unable to do anything but wait to die. There's a reason this has been in early access for almost 11 years. High potential but 0 design sensibilities.”
8 of the 102 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“IF you enjoy REALISTIC dinosaur survival games, get it. However, I would recommend watching youtube videos beforehand, since the game fails in some aspects of the beginning player experience.”
“I'm really enjoying the game, make sure you check properties and select evrima before playing. Not much hand holding as you start to look things up you'll begin to learn it's super indepth.. mind you it's purely a…”
“no explaination of how to play, hard to understand controls and lack of gmae mechanic explanation”
Counted across 102 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 80.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“I was a dinosaur... i got eaten. I was another dinosaur... also got eaten. 10/10 Dino experience. Would get eaten again.”
— a player, Steam review · 74 hrs played“10/10 game Spawned in 5 times as a baby gator and instantly was munched on by bigger gators. Managed to respawn in a less deadly area. Grew to about 60% then found other baby gators. I am now the protector of 6 other baby gators while they grow. We even have a pet PT that hangs…”
— a player, Steam review · 181 hrs played“The core gameplay is genuinely fun, and there’s still nothing quite like The Isle on Steam right now. So why not recommend it? Every time I return, the game feels more broken than before. Basic mechanics regularly fail, and many quality of life improvements the community has…”
— a player, Steam review · 321 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 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.
DevBlog #72
Filipe - Lead Programmer This month I worked mainly on two fronts. The unified systems for footsteps visual effects (VFX) and sound effects (SFX). The system just scales all conditions based on specie
Patch 0.21.772 is now available!
Hey Islanders, Thank you to everyone that participated in our recent Hordetest. Official servers are being taken down as we update the Evrima Public Branch to 0.21.772. Full changelogs can be found in
DevBlog #71
Filipe - Lead Programmer I have been busy refactoring some stuff related to the game’s security and bug fixing but also some updates to mechanics: Migration system: Most of the system is being updated
Patch 0.21.734 Now Available!
Hey Islanders, We're deploying a new build to Evrima. You may need to restart your Steam client if the update is not immediately available to download. Evrima Public Branch - 0.21.734 Enabled hill sli
Patch 0.21.720 Now Available!
Hey Islanders, Thank you to everyone that participated in our recent Hordetest. Official servers are being taken down as we update the Evrima Public Branch to 0.21.720. Full changelogs can be found in
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Dinosaurs · Survival · Open World · Multiplayer · Simulation · Hunting · Realistic · Massively Multiplayer · Adventure · Early Access · Action · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · Partial Controller Support · Valve Anti-Cheat enabled |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | https://survivetheisle.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64-bit or later (64 Bit ONLY) Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 3.0 GHz or faster. Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280X series card or higher. DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 25 GB available space Additional Notes: This game needs a dedicated graphics card to run. Integrated graphics cards will not work.