The Isle

The Isle is an open-world survival horror game set in a prehistoric landscape. You explore forests, plains, mountains and swamps, search ruins for clues about the past, and try to survive in a world where other creatures can be as dangerous as you are. The game offers little guidance, and your mistakes can be punished.

Prehistoric survival

You play as one of dozens of creatures, from small herbivores such as Dryosaurus to predators such as T. Rex and Allosaurus. Use each creature’s natural abilities and senses to avoid becoming prey, hunt, grow stronger and claim territory. Servers support more than 100 players, who can form packs or herds, build nests, defend offspring and hunt together.

Game modes

Survival is the main mode. You start small and vulnerable, then progress through several life stages as you try to grow quickly enough to survive. Scent, night vision and your wits help you stay alive; growth can unlock abilities such as nesting. Not every creature is playable in Survival.

Sandbox offers an expanded roster of dinosaurs for players who want to skip the struggle and life cycle. You can enter as an adult, whether a super predator or a peaceful giant, and dying carries no major penalties or consequences. Humans are also mentioned as a future addition to this mode.

The island’s story

The game tells its story through the environment, with discoveries depending on cooperation among players. The mysteries include whether you are stranded, what AE is, how the dinosaurs arrived and what causes the distant call heard at night. Community discoveries directly affect the future of the game’s storyline.

Planned additions

The game’s stated development goals include:

• Playable aquatic and aerial creatures
• More playable dinosaurs with complete life cycles
• Modern humans and indigenous people as playable factions
• Advanced “strain” versions of certain dinosaurs
• Dinosaur AI with complex behaviours
• Additional biomes, including thick jungles
• A dynamic aerial drop-in spawn system
• A global in-game world quest