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Island Defense

Stereo7 Games · 2015-07-23

Steam

ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 23, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Get ready for modern battles! Defend your islands against evil invaders in jungles! Your team will consist of modern snipers, gunners, rockets, ice towers and other great things. A deep conflict has been brewing between you and the evil invaders. Fight to protect your freedom and liberty.

Island Defense is an Action, Casual, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2015, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mixed sentiment based on 53% of 122 reviews.

0
playing now
53%
positive of 122 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Dormant
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 0 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · No new reviews since week of 2022-05-01.
  • · Top 36% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.0k–7.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 122 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.46 at Fanatical (2020-04-21) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420152026Week of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
570Jul 2015Mar 2022Jul 2015 — avg 5 · peak 12Sep 2015 — avg 3 · peak 26Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2016 — avg 9 · peak 40Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8May 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 8May 2017 — avg 1 · peak 19Jul 2017 — avg 48 · peak 642Sep 2017 — avg 18 · peak 512Nov 2017 — avg 20 · peak 493Jan 2018 — avg 3 · peak 45Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 8May 2018 — avg 1 · peak 3Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 3Sep 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 11Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 10Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 132Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2022 — avg 2 · peak 112

▲ +2 avg players vs prior month — Mar 2022

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$1.462015-05-012020-05-252015-05-01 — best price $2.992015-07-24 — best price $4.992016-05-20 — best price $2.492016-05-24 — best price $4.992016-06-01 — best price $2.492016-06-08 — best price $4.992016-08-10 — best price $2.492016-08-17 — best price $4.992016-09-13 — best price $2.492016-09-20 — best price $4.992017-04-14 — best price $1.992017-05-22 — best price $1.792017-05-29 — best price $1.992017-06-23 — best price $1.992018-04-30 — best price $1.792018-05-16 — best price $1.992018-07-18 — best price $1.992020-04-21 — best price $1.462020-05-11 — best price $1.992020-05-12 — best price $1.462020-05-25 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
7.6%
earned "Master of Combat"
4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieActionCasualStrategyTower Defense

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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