Fit check
Is The Isolated worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Survival-horror players who want resource gathering alongside investigation
- Solo players who prefer exploring beaches, mines, and abandoned facilities
- Players who enjoy crafting equipment and uncovering an environmental mystery
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly guided story may find the survival, exploration, and clue-searching structure diffuse
- Players who want combat without resource gathering, shelter construction, or environmental threats may find the repeated survival tasks limiting
- Players looking for cooperative survival play may not find a suitable match here
- Players seeking a bright or relaxed setting may not fit the horror atmosphere and hostile monsters
Our take on The Isolated
The trade-off is breadth of survival activity for a more focused horror-investigation setting. Gathering supplies, crafting equipment, exploring locations, and tracking clues all compete for attention, while the isolated island and changing darkness keep the experience centered on vulnerability.
What is The Isolated?
Survive as the lone survivor of a plane crash on an isolated island concealed by fog.
Gather food and water, make weapons and tools, build a shelter, and defend against dangers. Investigation is part of the survival loop: notes, documents, and other clues reveal what happened and why the island’s inhabitants became monsters. Exploration covers beaches, mines, and an abandoned military base. Crafting uses everyday materials to produce weapons, tools, clothing, and medicine. A changing day-and-night cycle affects the environment, while horror elements place threats in the surrounding darkness and sounds.
How The Isolated plays
- 01Resource Survival
- Food and water must be gathered while weapons, tools, shelter, clothing, and medicine are created from available materials.
- 02Island Investigation
- Notes, documents, and clues provide information about the island’s events and its transformed inhabitants.
- 03Varied Exploration
- The island includes beaches, mines, and an abandoned military base as explorable locations.
- 04Changing Time Cycle
- Day and night alternate while dangers remain present across the island.
The Isolated compared to similar games
The Isolated combines survival crafting with horror and detective investigation, while Mr. Prepper centers on preparing an underground shelter and resisting an authoritarian government during the threat of nuclear war. Unplagued also uses survival and crafting elements, but focuses on a team of up to 4 companions purging plague from procedurally generated medieval villages. The Isolated instead places a lone survivor on one island with clues about transformed inhabitants.
The Isolated: platforms & release
Is The Isolated worth it?
It is worth it if: survival-horror players who want resource gathering alongside investigation. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly guided story may find the survival, exploration, and clue-searching structure diffuse.
Where can I download The Isolated?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Isolated's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Isolated on?
Windows only.
