The Shrouded Isle
Jongwoo Kim · 2017 · Political Sim, Management, 2D, Horror, Turn-Based Strategy
PC
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About The Shrouded Isle
✦ AI summary
Lead a cult on a secluded island as its high priest, strategically managing five noble families while uncovering hidden heretics and choosing seasonal human sacrifices to appease your slumbering god. With randomized virtues and vices, a mysterious contagion spreading through your village, and multiple cinematic endings to discover, every playthrough demands different tactics and moral compromises.
As the high priest, uncover and purge heretics to prepare for the awakening of your beloved god beneath the waves.
Now including the Sunken Sins expansion with a more robust inquiry system, lengthened campaign mode, and a new purification tower mechanic, cinematic ending, art, additional events, personality traits and… madness...?
It is a mistake to assume danger only lies within your island - beware the seas that surround you. A mysterious spiritual contagion has washed upon the shores of your village and contaminated your citizenry. Lock the infected away in the purification tower and allow the holy salt water to wash away their sins, but know such treatment can have ill effects on the healthy…
The free Sunken Sins expansion spawns several major improvements to the game:
In this cult manager, there are sinners aplenty, and not all are eager to confess. Each member of your community has 2 hidden traits - one virtuous, one heretical. If you’ve earned the favor of their House, you may investigate their reputation. Be alert as you may find strange occurrences among your devotees due to a new mysterious contagion. Ensure you lock the infected away and allow the salt water to wash away their sins. Otherwise, you may appoint them to your seasonal council and watch their work for clues.
Five powerful aristocratic families help maintain the village, seeking salvation through book burning, monument building, and heretical investigations. Choose one advisor from each family to assist in their ancient appointed task. However, every season, you must make the ultimate choice, designating a human sacrifice.
Closely examine your citizenry to find the best strategy for your people and beliefs, knowing that nobody wants their child sacrificed, even for the greater good.
When our Lord awakens, will He find you worthy?
The five families of The Shrouded Isle each supervise a different aspect of the community. Be cautious, as their loyalties are fickle as the tide.
Now including the Sunken Sins expansion with a more robust inquiry system, lengthened campaign mode, and a new purification tower mechanic, cinematic ending, art, additional events, personality traits and… madness...?
- Villagers with secret, randomly assigned virtues and vices create a different strategy every time.
- Carefully choose who to serve as your advisors, as one of them must be your sacrifice at season's end
- Rename villagers at whim, and thereby sacrifice simulacrums of your friends, family, or followers.
- 6 different colour schemes available.
- Search out the true heretics with unforgivable sins, to quiet the voices in your dreams.
- Find all seven cinematic endings and meet your Lord’s expectations of purity.
It is a mistake to assume danger only lies within your island - beware the seas that surround you. A mysterious spiritual contagion has washed upon the shores of your village and contaminated your citizenry. Lock the infected away in the purification tower and allow the holy salt water to wash away their sins, but know such treatment can have ill effects on the healthy…
The free Sunken Sins expansion spawns several major improvements to the game:
- A more strategic inquiry system and longer campaign
- New purification tower game mechanic
- Additional events, personality traits, art, animation, and ending
- ....Contagions...?
In this cult manager, there are sinners aplenty, and not all are eager to confess. Each member of your community has 2 hidden traits - one virtuous, one heretical. If you’ve earned the favor of their House, you may investigate their reputation. Be alert as you may find strange occurrences among your devotees due to a new mysterious contagion. Ensure you lock the infected away and allow the salt water to wash away their sins. Otherwise, you may appoint them to your seasonal council and watch their work for clues.
Five powerful aristocratic families help maintain the village, seeking salvation through book burning, monument building, and heretical investigations. Choose one advisor from each family to assist in their ancient appointed task. However, every season, you must make the ultimate choice, designating a human sacrifice.
Closely examine your citizenry to find the best strategy for your people and beliefs, knowing that nobody wants their child sacrificed, even for the greater good.
When our Lord awakens, will He find you worthy?
The five families of The Shrouded Isle each supervise a different aspect of the community. Be cautious, as their loyalties are fickle as the tide.
- House Kegnni manages the farmlands of the village, and is charged with protecting the sacred ignorance of the community. Matron Kegnni trains her sons and daughters in the art of book-burning, erasing any trace of the old world and its many sins.
- House Iosefka are the village builders, using carpentry and masonry to create grand structures that ensure our Fervor may never be extinguished. Adjudicator Iosefka has designed a variety of monuments over the years, and is said to favor pyromaniacs, as their ritual fires burn brightest.
- House Efferson are the judges of our souls, wielding the whips that punish sinners and ensure Penitence. To confess to Vicar Efferson is to discover the newest and most effective flagellation techniques to appease our Lord.
- House Cadwell carefully count the wealth of the village, made up primarily of merchants and miners, and enforce Discipline. Lord Cadwell and his sons and daughters scour the village for forbidden delights that might distract from prayer and (we trust) dispose of them appropriately.
- Everyone in the village dreads House Blackborn, the guards and enforcers of Obedience. Stories abound of the dungeons of Inquisitor Blackborn, but lawful, peace-keeping citizens have nothing to fear.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The Shrouded Isle is a haunting masterpiece of interactive philosophy, where the medium of games truly becomes art. As High Priest of a fog-shrouded cult, you orchestrate the delicate balance of five virtues—Fanaticism, Ignorance, Penitence, Discipline, and Obedience—while five noble families scheme in the shadows. Every season demands ruthless choices: whom to elevate as advisor, whose hidden vices to expose through subtle interrogation, and ultimately, whose blood will sate Chernobog's hunger. This isn't mere management; it's a meditation on power, faith, and the seductive logic of fanaticism. The stark, ink-washed art style and oppressive atmosphere immerse you in Lovecraftian dread, making every portrait feel like a soul laid bare. What elevates The Shrouded Isle beyond a clever sim is its profound understanding of games as moral laboratories. You don't just play; you confront the philosophy of necessary evil—how societies maintain cohesion through sacrifice, literal and figurative. Uncovering traits feels like peeling back the skin of human nature, and the multiple endings reward replay with chilling insight into loyalty and apocalypse. The tension of limited actions per seas…6 found this helpful
No matter how buggy this game might be (especially with the achivements), I will always cherish it's morbid concept and amazing estetics.1 found this helpful
The aesthetic wears off and you realize the game is a uninteresting resource management game where every single resource is the same. There are ten numbers to manage. If any of those ten numbers is low two rounds in a row you lose. That's it. That's the entire game.1 found this helpful
very addictive and hard to master a successful run because always smething slips out of your control, whcih is how you get so many hours out of this game
Lovecraftian Mafia, plain an simple. Love the vibes, love the art. Is what is says on the tin.
Definitely more to this game that meets the eye. It can get a little frustrating on early runs as there is very little in terms of instruction, but once you start to notice patterns in voice lines etc you can start to make better choices. A creepy little cross between detective game & management game - looking forward to playing more & seeing if I can crack this thing!
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