Isles & Tiles Steam news

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• Release dateAug 25, 2025
• DeveloperBirdworks
• PublisherBirdworks

Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: BirdworksPublisher: Birdworks

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Isles & Tiles Steam news

Isles & Tiles news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• September 4th mini-patch - 4 September 2026

  This update fixes a few rare bugs that could cause your deck to get re-shuffled incorrectly after playing rune cards under certain conditions. It also fixes a memory leak on macOS.

• Incredibly Minor Update - 27 November 2025

  Just an engine update to patch a security vulnerability (https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01) in Unity.

• Under-the-Hood Fixes & Minor Improvements - 10 September 2025

  A smaller update this time, focused on stability (fewer crashes!) and performance (better FPS on underpowered machines!) rather than new content. 🐛 Bug FixesFixed a bug where burying a card could corrupt your discard pile, causing your deck to balloon in size over a long game.Fixed rune cards sometimes returning the wrong card to your discard pile when removed. ⚡ PerformanceFixed a memory leak while idling on the main menu that could grind the game down if you...left it running in the menu. Nobody did this, but hey. Now it's fixed.Camera panning is now ever so slightly smoother.Starting a fresh game is now slightly faster.

• Update 1.3 - 10 September 2025

  This update is kind of a strange one: it's sort of a major update, because it adds a whole new scenario that's unlocked right from the start. But it's sort of a minor update, because that scenario is a free-form Sandbox mode where it's impossible to win (or lose!), but you can build freely and explore. I'm not a big "sandbox" kind of player myself, but even I lost a few more hours than I'd care to admit just chilling out and building a giant island without having to worry about mana. If that's your thing – if you just want to plop tiles for a bit and relax – this update is for you!

• Update 1.2 - 3 September 2025

  🖱️ Mouse-only players, this one's for you! The big change in this update is the addition of a new camera movement mode: right-click-and-drag with the mouse now rotates, zooms, and tilts the camera – allowing you to move freely (and, really, play the whole game) with just the mouse.I've also added a few bonus quality-of-life features folks have asked for, like an in-game UI scale slider, and added a highlight outline that shows you the current selected tile. If you're playing on a smaller screen (cough Steam Deck cough) this one will probably make your island-building a lot less error-prone. I'm pretty much a 100% Steam Deck player myself, and I'm definitely a fan.Hopefully you will be, too.Fixed a bug where corner ribbons on foil cards did not disappear on hover (in the card library and when selecting cards to draw).Extended loading screen tips so they stay on-screen long enough to act…

• Update 1.1, plus the BIG Fall Showcase - 31 August 2025

  🏝️ Hey, fellow island folks! I've gotten some great feedback and a bunch of fantastic suggestions for improvements and new content in this past week following the launch, and I'm pleased to say that I'm releasing an update to Isles & Tiles today that fixes a handful of bugs and makes a few tweaks here and there that should make the game a fair bit nicer to play.Big thanks in particular to Renraku for a fantastic Steam review that included a veritable laundry list of great suggestions and quality bug reports. A lot of those have been fixed in this update, and I hope to have more to come next week!Fix incorrect description on Blacksmith card, to indicate that it produces +1 iron for every 2 (not 1) adjacent minesFix one-time mana bonus from playing a Mana resource card (was 5, now 10) so it matches the description on the card.Tweaked the size & auto-scaling of the current hand, so it dis…

• Back to School Celebration - 25 August 2025

  Need one last blast of that chill summer feeling before school starts? Check out Isles & Tiles, out now and on sale for 15% off during the 2025 Back to School Games Celebration.

• Prerelease Update 3 - 24 August 2025

  So, a confession: development on the (free!) post-release content update for Isles & Tiles has been a bit slower for the last month or two than I'd planned. That's 100% because I finally got my hands on an OLED Steam Deck in order to make sure the game plays well on the it, and wow is this thing an absolute rockstar of a machine. I'm kind of in love.(It didn't help that the Deck arrived pretty much the same time as the Oblivion remaster; I'm such a sucker for a good nostalgia trip, and stomping around Cyrodil on the Steam Deck was such a delight).Anyway, all that's to say that the last pre-release update for Isles & Tiles is here, and mostly fixes a bunch of little edge-case UI bugs that made the game less nice to play on tiny screens like the Deck. So if you're looking for a chill game to add to your Steam Deck, you can safely ignore the "Steam is still learning about this game" warnin…

• Prerelease Update 2 - 12 June 2025

  It turns out that a lot more folks are playing on Steam Deck than I would have expected! I'm still working on proper Steam Deck support which I expect to have done by the end of this weekend (sorry, new Next Fest Steam Deck players!), but in the meantime I've updated both the game and the demo to use a custom, nicer UI scale on the Steam Deck's relatively small native screen resolution. Isles & Tiles will also ship with a custom Steam Deck input template – look for it on the Workshop if it doesn't show up by default!There's no other new content in this update, sadly. I have a ton more story beats and decisions coming in the next update, but I'm not quite happy with some of 'em so you'll have to wait until next week to check those out.

• Prerelease Update 1 - 18 May 2025

  Happy Isles & Demos! Based on some early feedback, I've re-balanced the difficulty levels that are available in the demo and made a few other UI tweaks here and there that should make things a little nicer to play. The game will now be slightly harder on easy and normal, and, well, much harder on harder difficulties. Which is why they're hard! So that makes sense. I've also translated both the pre-release main game and the demo into four new languages: German French Japanese Chinese Keep that feedback coming (Bluesky or Steam Discussions is best!) and let's work out all the Bugs & Tiles we can, together. And if you'd be willing to help me translate the game into a language that's not on the list above let me know; I'm looking to get the game into more European languages in particular, and I need your help!

• Isles & Tiles at WX Games Weekend in Yorkshire - 10 March 2025

  We took Isles & Tiles out for its first public showing this past weekend, at Game Republic's WX Games Weekend in Wakefield. Apparently there were around 6000 people who visited over a two-day event, and we were delighted to have hundreds of folks play through the first scenario of Isles & Tiles. Heard lots of great feedback, made a bunch of new friends, and we certainly had a blast watching folks play the game and get into the nitty-gritty of buildings decks and designing islands! We're particularly pleased with the super-chill soundtrack we've put together, but a big gaming convention isn't exactly the best place to enjoy a bit of relaxed ambient folk music. So instead we brought along our harpist -- one half of the harp/clarinet duo that's recorded every track -- and let people try out the game with a live-accompanied soundtrack. You can get a sneak peek at that soundtrack by checking…

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