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Islands of Insight cover art

Islands of Insight

Lunarch Studios · Behaviour Interactive Inc. · 2024-02-13

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Feb 13, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.

Islands of Insight is a 2024 Adventure and Indie game priced at $7.49, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment (72% of 3245 reviews).

40
playing now
72%
positive of 3.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
60h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$7.49
steam price (US)

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

Islands of Insight is a shared-world puzzle-adventure game set in a fantasy realm. It is developed by Lunarch Studios and published by Behaviour Interactive. A free demo that served as an open playtest was available from September 7 to 21, 2023. The full game was released on February 13, 2024.

Trailer

Islands of Insight trailer thumbnail

Islands of Insight | Reveal Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 40 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 73 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (594 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 65k–146k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,245 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$7.49-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2026-08-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 18 of 35 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
48748720242026Week of 2024-02-01: 487 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

57172026-09-15 00:00 — 46 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 36 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 45 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 26 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 34 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 43 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 33 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 22 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 30 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 50 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 20 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 26 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 41 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 17 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 36 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 57 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 20 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 20 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 45 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 26 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 38 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 41 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 20 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 40 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
81131Feb 2024Aug 2026Feb 2024 — avg 811 · peak 1,965Mar 2024 — avg 464 · peak 906Apr 2024 — avg 248 · peak 596May 2024 — avg 126 · peak 289Jun 2024 — avg 436 · peak 7,662Jul 2024 — avg 538 · peak 1,983Aug 2024 — avg 177 · peak 387Sep 2024 — avg 95 · peak 197Oct 2024 — avg 71 · peak 139Nov 2024 — avg 63 · peak 110Dec 2024 — avg 58 · peak 113Jan 2025 — avg 55 · peak 101Feb 2025 — avg 50 · peak 101Mar 2025 — avg 47 · peak 100Apr 2025 — avg 41 · peak 83May 2025 — avg 40 · peak 85Jun 2025 — avg 42 · peak 89Jul 2025 — avg 39 · peak 76Aug 2025 — avg 38 · peak 81Sep 2025 — avg 38 · peak 77Oct 2025 — avg 40 · peak 81Nov 2025 — avg 39 · peak 69Dec 2025 — avg 37 · peak 68Jan 2026 — avg 44 · peak 82Feb 2026 — avg 39 · peak 73Mar 2026 — avg 45 · peak 114Apr 2026 — avg 48 · peak 93May 2026 — avg 41 · peak 75Jun 2026 — avg 36 · peak 77Jul 2026 — avg 34 · peak 68Aug 2026 — avg 31 · peak 78
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$0.002024-02-132026-10-142024-02-13 — best price $29.992024-05-23 — best price $17.992024-06-27 — best price $14.992024-12-04 — best price $29.992025-03-13 — best price $14.992025-05-25 — best price $11.992025-06-23 — best price $24.992025-06-26 — best price $10.802025-07-02 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $28.492025-07-28 — best price $29.992025-08-12 — best price $25.052025-08-24 — best price $27.832025-09-03 — best price $27.832025-09-29 — best price $11.992025-10-21 — best price $27.832025-12-04 — best price $29.992026-01-07 — best price $11.992026-02-18 — best price $11.992026-03-04 — best price $29.992026-04-03 — best price $11.992026-05-21 — best price $11.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-29 — best price $29.992026-08-29 — best price $7.492026-09-01 — best price $7.492026-10-13 — best price $7.492026-10-14 — best price $7.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1922026-05-30 — 5 pageviews2026-06-03 — 5 pageviews2026-06-07 — 4 pageviews2026-06-11 — 3 pageviews2026-06-15 — 6 pageviews2026-06-19 — 6 pageviews2026-06-23 — 3 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 6 pageviews2026-07-05 — 19 pageviews2026-07-09 — 9 pageviews2026-07-13 — 15 pageviews2026-07-17 — 5 pageviews2026-07-21 — 4 pageviews2026-07-25 — 9 pageviews2026-07-29 — 8 pageviews2026-08-02 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 9 pageviews2026-08-10 — 10 pageviews2026-08-14 — 9 pageviews2026-08-18 — 7 pageviews2026-08-22 — 5 pageviews2026-08-26 — 6 pageviews2026-08-30 — 4 pageviews2026-09-03 — 13 pageviews2026-09-07 — 15 pageviews2026-09-11 — 13 pageviews2026-09-15 — 5 pageviews2026-09-19 — 4 pageviews2026-09-23 — 9 pageviews2026-09-27 — 5 pageviews2026-10-01 — 8 pageviews2026-10-05 — 5 pageviews2026-10-08 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CozyLogicPuzzleMysteryRelaxingAdventureNonlinearOpen WorldAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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