PC (Microsoft Windows)2024

Islands of Insight

Islands of Insight is an epic shared-world puzzle game where you play as a Seeker on a peaceful journey of exploration and discovery. Seek out and solve mysterious puzzles at your own pace across an awe-inspiring world of floating islands.

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Play as a Seeker on a peaceful journey rich in exploration and puzzle solving. Embark on the Path of Discovery and let your curiosity guide you through a breathtaking open world where the answer is always in sight.

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Mostly Positive

8 Steam reviews

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8 total

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Steam User 8755STEAMRecommended

This game actually has a sad story with a silver lining to it.
Initially it was meant to be a mix of puzzle gameplay and multiplayer mmo style open world exploration.
You could see other players prancing about solving puzzles and showing off their character and skins, but could not really interact with them in any meaningful way, it was just "cosmetic" levels of jolly togetherness.
The gameplay consist of exploring a frankly beautiful open world filled to the brim with puzzles to solve and rewards to earn. In that sense it is slightly similar to The Witness, but the puzzles are (mostly) not as hard. There are quite a lot of diverse puzzle types though!

But, you see, the online part was eventuall shut down less than 8 months after release, I presume because sales numbers weren't stellar and running an MMO-style server infrastructure for a pay-once game wasn't feasible in the long term, I cannot really blame them.
I only tried the demo before launch and came back a year or so later, so this came as a surprise to me.
But, what they did before shutting down surprised me even more, they patched the game to be playable completely offline! This is actually really nice of them, Ubisoft would've just pulled the plug...
This here feels like the "Stop Killing Games" initiative in action, when devs actually care what happens with their game's legacy.
Granted, the offline-only mode does have it's issues and it's not perfect, BUT as is often the case, there is a fan mod available that fixes most of the shortcomings and bugs and also adds some cut content back, I love this!
See here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2071500/discussions/0/4629230582747983465/
Installation is very easy, and can be done whenever, it is fully compatible to just add and remove at any point without losing anything.

With the fan mod installed, this is still a great game and I can recommend it (especially if you have ADHD because it tickles my fidgety brain just right).
Though you might want to wait for a sale.

Mar 9, 2026·14h·18·Verified

Steam User 7420STEAMRecommended

great game. it had real potential. some puzzles more frustrating than others.

Mar 7, 2026·20h·Verified

Steam User 7491STEAMRecommended

a fun puzzle game which makes me only sometimes feel braindead

Mar 7, 2026·36h·Verified

Steam User 3790STEAMRecommended

Игра представляет из себя простые квесты, по типу пройди через прозрачное кольцо, или соедини два одинаковых символа на кубах, или встань в такую точку, чтобы видеть все столбы... Справится даже ребёнок. Но по локации они разбросаны в изрядном количестве, что приходится изрядно попотеть, дабы найти их всех (и закрыть гештальд).
Вроде даже как присутствует какой-то сюжет и объяснено зачем этому крылатому это вот всё - но оно не важно чуть более чем совсем.
Русская локализация тут по сути и не нужна, всё построено на простейшей логике. А подсказки и описания на простом английском, справится даже ученик 5-го класса.

Подводя итог, отличная убивалка времени, с красивой картинкой. Приобретать строго по скидке.

Feb 28, 2026·8h·Verified

Steam User 8609STEAMRecommended

If you like exploring and puzzles, get the exploring puzzle game

Feb 25, 2026·24h·1·Verified

Steam User 7169STEAMRecommended

really long and fun puzzle game with like over 1,000 puzzles or something although online getting canned is sad :(

Feb 24, 2026·38h·1·Verified

Steam User 3044STEAMRecommended

Recommended at full price.

Walking/ Flight simulator with board solving puzzles (mostly)
Pretty, lots of puzzle, no evironmental/ enemy death... Only puzzles (10,000+).
Little explainations on how to solve the different types of puzzle you need to figure it out.
The biggest puzzle is the map itself (central area vs side areas) and how to complete it. 8-)

Having looked at the negative reviews I hesitated. The big ones were:
Can only play online: It's a puzzle game there is no online component.
Puzzle respawn: Yep, the puzzles in the central area will respawn after a long time, it's in order to do the "daily" quest. No way to run out of a typpe of puzzle because you completed them all. The side areas do not respawn and can be completed to 100%
Some puzzle are too easy/ too hard/ hated, With 10,000 + puzzle there will be some you will dislike. Do the minimum of them (4-8 depending on the zone) in order to complete and then feel free to ignore them for the rest of your play thorough while you concentrate on the puzzles you enjoy.

Try the demo then buy at full price.

Feb 22, 2026·21h·1·Verified

Steam User 3177STEAMRecommended

nice engaging game

Feb 21, 2026·38h·Verified

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