Ancient Islands

Ancient Islands

Avernus Software, Art Games Studio S.A. · October 26, 2022 · Difficult, Colorful, Tower Defense, Strategy, 2D

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Positive91% · 32 📉 Recent reviews down 79%
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lowest tracked $1.79
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Ancient Islands price by region

Ancient Islands costs $5.79 in Georgia (USD), £6.19 in the United Kingdom, €7.39 in Europe (EUR), $8.99 in the United States, CA$10.29 in Canada, NZ$11.39 in New Zealand, A$12.95 in Australia, R$18.59 in Brazil and zł32.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Ancient Islands offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $5.79 $5.79 — 1
United Kingdom £6.19 £6.19 — 1
Europe (EUR) €7.39 €7.39 — 1
United Statesyour region $8.99 $8.99 — 1
Canada CA$10.29 CA$10.29 — 1
New Zealand NZ$11.39 NZ$11.39 — 1
Australia A$12.95 A$12.95 — 1
Brazil R$18.59 R$18.59 — 1
Poland zł32.99 zł32.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Ancient Islands

✦ AI summary

Ancient Islands is a hardcore tower defense game where you strategically place towers with unique properties and synergies while developing your village through resource management and construction to fend off waves of enemies. What sets it apart is its deep complexity: customize tower targeting by 14 enemy traits, trade resources dynamically between multiple production chains, unlock towers and abilities through branching skill trees, and adapt your tactics across multiple difficulty levels.

Tower-defense mixed with economy elements. It features complex skill trees, resource trading, building your own village, and setting individual tactics for each tower. Can you defend what you've built from hordes of enemies? Visit Ancient Islands and test your tactical sense!

Ancient Islands — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Feb 10, 2026
The game is half-baked. Interesting ideas but poorly used. The game has a pretty bad balance. The beginning and end are easier, the middle is even on an easy level. You can't upgrade half the things in the game, they don't give you enough points, you need at least twice as many levels. Everything is very expensive and the levels are too small. Achievements give you bonuses but they are either too few or only for certain things. You can't see the upgrades well from the description pile, you can't exit the game without using the keyboard when everything is done with the mouse, sometimes there are bugs like when you pause it stops in one place and you have to turn off the pause to fix it, building construction is slow and stops the production of the building or tower and has to be done in pause, otherwise it gets pretty bad during the game. The game has potential but it seems unfinished and unlikely to be finished or repaired. I wouldn't recommend it in this condition.
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Recommended Jun 29, 2025
I have only played a few minutes, but it seems solid, far more of a TD game than many I pick up. There are four types of towers, the basic infantry, which you use to hold foes in place why either archers or mage towers attack them, and a forth tower called a support tower, with slow and a minor area attack. Each seems to upgrade three times (?), and then one split into two types I think. haven't gotten that far yet. There is also a town where you can work to build the resources needed to build tower, buildings like woodcutter and stone mason, as well as a few more. There are tactical options, in the form of spells, and a rich looking strategic upgrade tree. You can also strengthen your position by completing achievements. There does not seem to be any way to control the enemies path. First correction, there is a very robust targeting system, with several pre-sets where you can pick the first five preferences, which you can then assign to the towers individually. It comes into the tutorial after the second map. It seems fluff light as well, but that may change as I am still playing around with the tutorial. All in all, it looks pretty solid, going to give it two thumbs up for…
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 31, 2024
It freezes, so it does not matter how good the gameplay is (and it is good).
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 29, 2023
honestly mixed feelings just because it feels like a rushed release where more adding content and bug fixing / polishing was planned. what you get is a decent TD with some original ideas, but it's rather short and could do with a bit more development time.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 12, 2025
It's okay but you really shoudnt pay for a flash game
Recommended Aug 25, 2023
It's a decent TD game with a few resource management/city builder type elements. It's a little too short; finished in 6.4hrs. Feels like the developer had more planned but decided to just release as is. Came to this conclusion due to the fact I finished the last mission, yet most of the upgrade trees have yet to be completed, like less than half. All there is now is to go back and complete the missions perfectly, which I expect to be too easy with the upgrades.

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