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Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control game.
Spirit Island is a nature, board game and turn-based tactics game
developed and published by Handelabra Games Inc..
Released on July 29th 2020 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 1,246 reviews of which 1,140 were positive and 106 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Spirit Island into these genres:
System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1+
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 Capable
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 700 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Hardware vendor officially supported drivers
MacOS
- OS: Mojave 10.14+
- Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel x64 architecture with SSE2
- Graphics: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs
- Storage: 700 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Apple officially supported drivers
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 7
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ / Vulkan capable
- Storage: 700 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 windowing system
User reviews & Ratings
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Proof that there is no requirement for high quality graphics or audio for a game to be a lot of fun.
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The best thing about the PC version of this game is that it helps eliminate setup and takedown time of playing the actual tabletop game and it catches all the rules that you might miss. Limitless replayability!
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If nothing else, this is the best board to digital game I have ever played. The soundtrack and sound design is impactful and charming. The animations are also tantalizing to look at. This is an awesome deck building/area control game which rewards you the more you play. The spirits( a total of 24 and I have only played 6) are all wonderfully diverse with their own play styles. It's hard to pick an absolute favorite but if I had to choose a tie then it would be between Shadows and Thunder Bearer. I've never played the board game before this digital adaptation and the last time I tried one (Small World), it was completely underwhelming. This is exactly what every board to digital conversion needs to be. Awesome work by the dev team!
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Imagine if the very best, most engaging, creative, interesting decision-making in a 4x game like Civ was every single turn of every game. Imagine if we're in our 30's and don't necessarily have 3 hours to spend on a given day. In 30min-1 hr, you will experience here some of the greatest game design I have ever come across. Multiple systems interlock in original, meaningful ways that allow both thematic immersion (you're an elemental spirit fighting colonial invaders? Crack open a pedialyte, son. ) and different types of strategic thinking. You've got an engine building aspect within the power card system, a predictive and timing element in the different phases, resource management, and strategic positioning to engage with. Oh, did I mention that every spirit plays completely differently? I bought this game expecting few-evening-long dalliance, a trifle, an amuse bouche for my friend and I to play once or twice, but what I found was - much like a 19th-century Bourgeois society courtesan - instead an endless vacuum of time, fascination, money (you bet your ass I bought the physical board game), tears, and a constantly renewing hunger. Let me pay a call, I say to myself, at 8 AM. Let me pay a call...
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A Yes/No recommendation system doesn't really fit for this game. First, Spirit Island is a great board game. You can read plenty of reviews on BGG to understand if it's a great board game for you. However, the app experience varies heavily depending on if you play solo to multiplayer. If you are playing solo, then this version has two big advantages over TTS: completely automating rules, and a compact and friendly UI (instead of having to constantly pan the TTS camera around). Games are a lot faster than solo with the TTS version (and much, much faster than physical) and it's easier to make informed strategic decisions and play by the rules correctly. The main downside is that not all content is released yet, namely even if you buy all DLC some spirits will be missing. Assuming you already own TTS, it's up to you if the advantages make up for the price point and limited spirit selection. Multiplayer is a completely different experience - the board game experience really doesn't translate well for a lot of reasons. E.g. the inability to easily undo a misclick, the fact that you have to vote on decisions like what order to resolve invader actions/fear cards in which are completely inconsequential most of the time, especially at lower difficulties, having to wait for other players actions which might interfere with yours but are unlikely to, etc. This isn't to mention some of the issues with undos causing desyncs (a recent update claims to have improved this, but some friends and I tried and had a desync issue on our very first undo...). I'm giving a positive review from the perspective of someone who wants the most streamlined solo experience, which will avoid a lot of the multiplayer issues. But for playing with friends, I will only play multiplayer on TTS unless they make some major changes.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Spirit Island is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
Spirit Island is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Spirit Island received 1,140 positive votes out of a total of 1,246 achieving a rating of 8.66.
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Spirit Island was developed and published by Handelabra Games Inc..
Spirit Island is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Spirit Island is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Spirit Island is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Spirit Island offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Spirit Island includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There are 6 DLCs available for Spirit Island. Explore additional content available for Spirit Island on Steam.
Spirit Island does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Spirit Island supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Spirit Island is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Spirit Island.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
145
Developer
Handelabra Games Inc.
Publisher
Handelabra Games Inc.
Release
29 Jul 2020
Platforms
Remote Play