Islantiles – Press Kit

Quick Facts

Title: Islantiles

Tagline: City Puzzler meets deep Deck Builder on beautiful, hand-crafted islands.

Platforms: Windows PC (Steam)

Developer: Thunderrock Innovations, a two-person indie team

Website: https://www.thunderrockinnovations.com

Steam Page: Wishlist on Steam

Press Contact: devs@islantiles.com

Description

Short: Islantiles is a cozy roguelite that blends city puzzling with deep deckbuilding. Build your own deck of buildings, unlock technologies, upgrade your cards and conquer 100 hand-crafted islands in a calm but strategic experience.

Long: In Islantiles, players place buildings from a custom-built deck to form settlements on beautiful islands. With 150 unlockable technologies and countless strategic synergies, each run is different. When a run ends, you lose your deck—but retain your unlocks, allowing you to build new strategies in the future. With no timers, no combat, and no citizen micromanagement, it's all about thoughtful placement and long-term planning.

On each handcrafted isle you will:

• Accumulate Goods - Harvest different resources like timber, ore, and fruits to generate goods.
• Boost Production - Use synergies to boost your productivity.
• Generate Trade Value - Combine resources into valuable luxuries to generate high trade value.

Technologies can twist, stack, or even invert those three parallel scoring layers. For example, a tech might double your timber output and apply a ×3 multiplier to trade value—turning a modest harvest into a cascading windfall. Fuse up to five tech cards with your upgradeable card deck to customize your economy, then place buildings to trigger dazzling chain reactions. You have one year per island to gather enough wealth to expand to the next one, unlocking new technologies and revealing deeper strategies.

Key Features

• Deckbuilding meets puzzle strategy
• 150+ unlockable technologies
• 100 hand-crafted islands
• No timers, no combat, no micromanagement
• Beautiful, atmospheric art and sound
• Roguelite progression and strategic depth
• Leaderboards and endless build variety

Developer Quote

“We love deep strategy, but we also wanted to create something calming—something you could play with a cup of tea,” says Daniel Espen, one of the two developers of Islantiles. “Every run teaches you something new, and there’s always a new synergy to explore.”

Media

• Watch the trailer (MP4)
• Download screenshots
• Download logos and key art (PNG/SVG)

About the Developers

Thunderrock Innovations is a small indie game studio run by two passionate developers. With a focus on strategic depth and relaxing gameplay, Islantiles is their latest project, built from the ground up with care and creativity.