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Islands of Insight

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

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

What works

  • Massive variety and quantity of puzzles
  • Beautiful open world and exploration
  • Relaxing and immersive atmosphere
  • Addictive progression and mastery systems
  • Optional multiplayer presence adds social vibe

Things to keep in mind

  • Always-online requirement caused lag and frustration
  • Multiplayer features minimal and underdeveloped
  • Some puzzles frustrating or unintuitive
  • Performance issues on lower-end pcs
  • Lack of achievements and deeper social interaction

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Talos Principle 2

  • A Monster's Expedition

  • Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure

  • Fantasia of the Wind - 风之幻想曲

  • Isles of Sea and Sky

  • Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

Less expressive

Games that feels like Islands of Insight but with less self-expression and customization

  • Chronoquartz

  • Quell

  • XING: The Land Beyond

  • Dungeons of Dreadrock

  • Taiji

  • Logiart Grimoire

More violent

Games that feels like Islands of Insight but with more combat and destruction

  • CrossCode

  • KAKU: Ancient Seal

  • Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition

  • Kingsgrave

  • Evoland Legendary Edition

  • Driftmoon

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  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Islands of Insight. These titles are not in What to play next.

Islands of Insight: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Strategy, Continuation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026