Islanders

A simple city planning strategy game.

Overview

Islanders is a little bit of a city building game, but has little in common with games like Simcity. It is more of a strategy game where you plan good placements for future buildings. It's fun, but not especially deep. 

Leaderboard

There is certainly opportunity to really try to maximize score and compete on the leaderboard. However, there are not good tools for satisfying detailed planning. Some criticisms:

• There is no grid to help extreme accurate placement
• Some buildings have random shapes, making planning more difficult
• You cannot easily "mark off" an area for a future building
• You don't know what future buildings will be available to you

All of this isn't really a bad thing. I think the game has far more potential as a relaxing time-waster with some strategy. 

Recommendation

I was finished with this game after like three hours. For a PC game, that's not worth it. However, I could see this game having a lot of replayability on a mobile device. I'd skip the PC version and get the mobile version.