Underplayed Gems

Istrolid (2016)

Istrolid cover
Developer
treeform
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Genres
Free To Play, Indie, Strategy
Rating
4.3 of 5, 2,693 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 9.2 hours
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

designing and testing custom spaceships before deploying them in tight, energy-managed fleet battles.

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What players say

Players say the multiplayer is dead and the singleplayer is too shallow to sustain interest. Building ships is intuitive, but a restrictive money cap and no sandbox mode frustrate experimentation. The game stopped getting updates, and some report random bans. A few still find the core loop addictive for a short while.

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Screenshots

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