Morrigan's Isle

Morrigan's Isle is a survival and building game about protecting the Tree of Life on an uncharted island in the Irish Sea. After being shipwrecked, you gather resources and build a fortified base with traps and arrow towers to hold back the island's dark forces. The Tree begins as a sapling and passes through several stages of growth until it becomes a massive tree as the island's darkness is pushed back.

Survive the nightly attacks

Enemies emerge from wells around the island and attack in greater numbers and with increasing strength each night. You can play in Steam multiplayer sessions with up to 16 players, though the game is intended to be played from start to finish with a buddy or significant other.

The island's ruins contain will-o'-wisps, spirits of the departed that power automatic arrow towers. Ogham Runes can improve a tower's damage, range or firing rate, or let it shoot magic arrows that pass through everything except enemies. A Cauldron of Mending burns bones to slowly repair nearby structures, helping you keep walls and towers in good condition.

Build your base

Building pieces are mostly 8ft x 8ft to make base construction quicker, with 2ft x 2ft walls available for smaller builds. You can make wooden houses, palisades, archer towers, stone houses, castle walls and stone archer towers. Pieces can be rotated in all three directions, and you can turn off snapping for more freedom when placing them.

Decorations for your house increase your rested buff. Some also serve other purposes: a bust statue lets you change your character's appearance, while the Harp of Time skips directly to the next night, or to the next morning if the current wave is cleared.

Develop your character

Your character has separate Combat and Survival levels. Combat experience comes from defeating enemies, including enemies killed by your defenses, and awards points for perks that improve combat ability. Survival experience comes from gathering trees, plants, rocks, ore and other resources, and provides perk points for non-combat perks such as increased woodcutting damage.

Armor and weapons

The available armor and weapons come in Cloth, Leather, Bronze and Iron tiers. Armor sets grant increasingly strong stat bonuses as you equip more pieces from the same set, or you can mix sets to take only their first bonuses. You can also combine two armor pieces with set bonuses into a main armor piece to add a set bonus; if the bonuses differ, one is chosen at random.

Weapons include one-handed and two-handed weapons, spears, greataxes and scythes, warhammers, and bows, with different attack animations for each type. The island's strongest inhabitants hide in ruins; defeating them can yield powerful weapons that cannot be crafted.