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ActionAdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulationEarly AccessDinosaursSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerHunting

The Isle

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Developer
Afterthought LLC
Publisher
Afterthought LLC
Franchise
—
Release date
Dec 1, 2015
Store page updated
May 22, 2022
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

64.1/ 100

Based on 404 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 78% of 2,112
All time 😄 Very Positive 80% of 120,949
“I absolutely LOVE this game, intense moments hit harder than DayZ”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-1.34
Onboarding -2.54 · How easy it is to learn — tutorials and the first hours

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.10
World +3.21 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is
“dinosaur mechanics and atmosphere are incredible” (48)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
-1.16
Variety -2.11 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+2.77
Visuals +2.79 · Graphics, art style, and animation
“graphics rated good with very good gameplay” (48)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-0.40
Community -1.90 · Who you play with — how many, and how friendly

🔒 2 more indicators

Pricing & Fairness
-3.29
Anti-cheat -3.94 · How common cheaters are and how well they're stopped
“cheater encountered and dev banned reviewer for warning others” (32)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Support
-2.86
Developer support -3.07 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
“11 years early access with minimal content progress and broken promises” (37)

🔒 2 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
50%60%70%80%90%100%
Dec 2015Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,088 reviews, peak 93/day
050100
Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 404 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English41%
  • Russian13%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Spanish8%
  • German7%
  • French5%
  • Other16%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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