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ISLANDS: Non-Places cover art

ISLANDS: Non-Places

Carl Burton · Carlburton Llc · 2016-11-17

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 17, 2016 (Linux), Nov 17, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 17, 2016 (iOS), Nov 17, 2016 (Mac)

The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.

0
playing now
83%
positive of 371 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Islands: Non-Places is a 2016 abstract art game developed and published independently by artist and animator Carl Burton, best known for the animated GIF illustrations he created for season two of the Serial podcast. The game was released on November 17, 2016, on iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux, and consists of a series of anonymous, liminal environments – the eponymous "non-places". These scenes appear mundane at first, but become increasingly surreal as the player interacts with the objects within.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 9,708 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.3k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 371 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2017-05-11) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992016-11-172026-08-172016-11-17 — best price $3.992017-01-12 — best price $2.992017-02-28 — best price $3.992017-05-15 — best price $4.992017-09-28 — best price $0.992017-11-28 — best price $4.992017-12-27 — best price $4.992018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-05-10 — best price $0.992018-07-05 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $0.992019-01-04 — best price $4.992019-05-10 — best price $1.992019-09-12 — best price $4.992019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-03-16 — best price $0.992020-05-21 — best price $4.992020-08-28 — best price $0.992020-11-02 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-04-30 — best price $3.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $3.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $3.992025-08-04 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $2.492025-10-27 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-01-19 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-04-13 — best price $4.992026-08-10 — best price $2.992026-08-17 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualSurrealAbstractRelaxingAtmosphericExperimental

Census log

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

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