hello and welcome I am Hayden Dingman and I'm here with
Adam Patrick Murray hey that is me and I am here to play
some video or watch you play some video game yeah we're gonna play Islanders
which is my new addiction really I actually have never heard of
this yeah so just came out last week oh great it's gonna give us the tutorial
cuz we are on a new PC oh yay we can move the camera anyways as this goes
through the tutorial we will start talking it's pretty short is about so it
is a puzzle game that is in the guise of a city builder so every single time you
get the choice between two packs they call them uh-huh so let's go ahead we'll
get the farming pack first and gives us these little things down here at the
bottom and then we place them and we have the only structure on the island at
first is this statue and that gives us extra points if we place next to the
statue okay you can see there's that spear around yeah so that governs the
range of each of your your buildings so we'll put this down here and you don't
have to knock down the trees beforehand it doesn't disappear and then we see you
get points down here and we filled up part of this circle oh you're supposed
to like maximize you having effort yes so you are trying to like you can see
when we move here and like if we if we place this over here we get three points
if we place it in range of the the mill we get eight and if we place it in a
range of the mill and the other field we get 10 huh and so every time you fill
that circle you get a new pack and so we filled it once so we can take the lumber
pack next I guess and so now we have a sawmill to Lumberjacks and then we have
three more fields it tends to give you pieces that go with the things that you
just put out okay so we will so if you would have went with the lumber pack
beforehand yeah I would have given us that first and then we would have had
the field in the brewery the next time so we're gonna do as best we can but so
we'll put our sawmill here and you can see if you mouse over each of the
buildings you get it says gets a bonus for each nearby in this case sawmill
statue tree ok loses points regional lumberjack and range so we can't put our
Lumberjacks too close to each other because cuz they're both taking off so
you see we have a minus 6 down here so we need to place it far enough away that
it is not in that range but also close enough that we're still getting the tree
bonuses huh but you tore down the other trees man
yeah we kind of we kind of kill art we're on the smallest island as we as we
move forward you actually get bigger and bigger islands each time wait why is
this kind of like that yeah so this is filling up so we can move on to the next
island and you can actually just like stay on the the first island until you
have like run out of moves so you can kind of spur yourself over if you if you
built wrong right yeah and so you kind of like as you play you learn the rules
so in this case the mansions for instance do not get bonuses for being
near other houses but the house gets bonuses for being near mansions so you
learn all the rules kind of intuitively and one of the things I think is funny
is you don't need streets in this game so you just kind of like I mean these
are people walking around right close to the ocean here yeah there we go
yeah there's no people so yeah technically it could just be decorative
maybe the houses don't get points for other mansions that's interesting later
on there the cities get really complicated so
they're like temples and stuff I'm gonna high and like the temples if they're
near the circus lose a lot of points there's like all the ones get so
complicated but it builds it up really slowly so you know we're still kind of
in the basic stuff here also you don't lose points retro actively so now so
your sawmills yeah so we could technically knock down these trees now
and it does matter for like we're not gonna lose
points on our old Lumberjacks interesting because that would have kind
of been mean yeah it would be it would be almost impossible at the end because
stuff gets really complicated not a great place for us to put this anywhere
so stick there whatever I mean the yeah this doesn't have to be realistic city
planning it just needs to be yeah it's just point and so you get some weird
stuff towards the end so do they have like walls and the walls lose points for
being near other walls which is weird because when this weird like none of
your walls are actually placed very well then it doesn't actually look very good
don't you want walls to like connect to each other and circle yeah that's what
you would think right so let's just head on we'll move to the next Island just
because yeah well and so each of these islands I'm pretty sure is procedurally
generated I could be wrong but I haven't had a repeat yet I have different
terrain and different colors are there any any sort of obstacles like a you
know like a volcano that can wipe something like that is present it's just
a lot of I will say the music it's pretty you know calm against let's crank
that up music yeah I played this I had heard somebody mention it on Twitter
last week and I downloaded it and I was it was late at night and I was like I'll
just play for you know half an hour check it out
uh-huh and then it was like three hours later there's like oh no nice it's one
of those games for sure he's in doubt man yeah well I mean that's the thing
it's like just incredibly peaceful we don't really have a good spot for
this but so this is like this is an interesting one because we have two of
these now we get bonuses for both of those but then we get minuses for both
of these someone they have to go and stand out yeah these are these sand pits
and they go on so they're sent over there - yeah we could have put it over
there but we would have had we wouldn't get the bonus for these and then the
Masons we can't so really the goal is just to get the score and go to the next
Island yeah but like it kind of yes but then you end up I mean at least I ended
up really trying to make nice-looking cities especially by the end just to
spice it up a little bit well just because like it's a it's so Zen that you
end up just like I kinda just want to make something looks nice just like this
is a great game to just zone out and place a bunch of stuff you also you
start to learn like they have achievements for having few buildings in
your in your possession at one time so we only have four buildings right now
but you can just we already filled the thing so you can just pop over the next
one oh I get it by the end they're like some very
there's some super high value things there's like a tower for instance that
gets points for every house and range and the range is like this enormous
circle and so it moves you to just like hold the tower for you know however long
you need to fill in all the houses and then just put the tower at the end and
it'll fill up like I think I got 78 points off of one of them dang which in
this game is a lot so what happens if you place everything down and just like
you know horrible placement yeah that's when you lose so so if it makes you
start this one over again I know you just start from scratch with
a brand new set of islands so we do it right now actually like we just three
points oh no I think I screwed up right there too many points Oh YouTube game
you're just too good let me see how can I
no because you're gonna get all those bonuses right there oh yeah oh no yeah
that's a lot of bonus right there I'm too good guys I played a lot of this
game all right let's burn through the next
pack and then we'll do it that way all right and we place our lumber with zero
fees zero points three this guy gets minus 40 for being next to
the other one so that's a good ooh Wow yeah there we go okay yeah and
then you just start over at the small island again it's really that so you
said it's it's perceived you to generate its yeah it's a brand new song okay so
we get so how far have you gotten then I think I got to the fifth island and
there was one more after that I'm pretty sure like how big we talking oh you like
enormous Wow like I had three cities on my final island or something like that
so you could really back yourself into a corner yeah it's very flexible but also
yeah there's a lot to keep in mind at the end and that's the thing I ended up
at a point where it was really like you keep those big points Kidder's
uh it might oh no your sin is off man yeah you keep those the big points
Kidder's for the end because your ears waiting like at some point you know like
okay I'm gonna be able to put that tower down so that's the one the one thing
that will say or my only complaint with the game is that the PAX tend to follow
the same order on every single island I did notice that yeah it's like always
the yeah so like it kind of makes sense when you think about the
like I don't know it's like sieve right like the this civilization follows a
certain path yeah so yeah it makes sense but by the end you're kind of I knew
exactly what I was gonna get so you know you're gonna get the tower eventually
you know you're gonna get the circus you know you're gonna get the temple and so
it's nice because you can plan around them but also you hit a point where you
just know what's coming and you're just sort of it's kind of nice oh he's
feeding the same I don't know like you're doing the same pattern every
single time do you know what I mean so I would know like okay i'ma throw
these mansions over here because at some point I'm going to need the temple to go
I don't know on that side or the the circus
we'll get points for all of the the lower-class houses but they will lose
points for mansions so eventually I learned like okay I'm going to build my
house is on one side I'm gonna build my mansions on the other so that then
eventually I could put the circus on one side and put the I think is the jeweler
gets points for mansions and not loses points for houses so yeah you just
anti-capitalism man yeah you I kind of you learned that the pattern after a
while but man is so calming and this music is pretty cool she's like really
pretty like I like it reminds me of um EA's Sim City but in a good way
oh it does the little like poof thing every time they go down and just hear
the the money kind of piling up yeah like it especially when you get the
really big ones you uh it's really fun to have be like that little just go on
so what happens if you don't go to the next island like oh we could just keep
playing this until you run out of moves and then you can go on to the next like
the score still like tries to keep you keeps going up and we'll let affect your
next island yeah so you would just start at the higher score and so you can get
to like you end up with a high score at the end that you compare to like a
global high score and so yeah there's a a reason to keep playing like you pretty
much want to play each Island to the end do you know what I mean oh really okay
so yeah that is the better way yeah because they'd be like if you're trying
to maximize your score that is the best way
to play but there's also like if you just want to go through and see the
islands then it probably is faster to go because I think it's that's the next
thing regardless like you have it you have to reach the same point on each
island in order to move forward but yeah I just like playing no the when I was
playing I was playing to just maximize score every time uh-huh
but yeah we could just come on we'll get this one should be even more different
because it's the bigger island so so yeah you we have this crazy island
give this wall right here now that's pretty cool architecture you can build
the like I've built farms up on there before because it is kind of out of the
way it's almost like it's almost like it's hinting that there was a previous
you know yes I have civilization that happened but is any there's no story it
just nope just this you're not gonna like reach the end and find some big
exposition nope I or at least I don't think so I haven't really had it but
yeah I don't know I think it's just this nice peaceful game so Hayden I gotta ask
how much is this you know if this was $60 I'd be like yes it's $20 how much do
you think it is man I'm feeling more like 15 really you're that high yeah
it's too high how about you control this mouse a
t-shirt uh let me read you cancel too bad you can't really mess yourself up
and put this link in the water Adam this is $5 $5 man well that's easy I mean
come on five bucks for Zin this is the easiest purchase it's like you can go to
like a retreat you know and have some Buddhist monk talk to you play this for
hours like I I cannot stress enough it's like one of those games that's just very
easy to lose yourself in do you know what I mean what kind of like that uh
Eminem song yeah like the Eminem song so yeah we could put some houses up here if
we wanted we probably should put the nice houses up on top of the the cliff
but and you can't overlap I'm noticing it's kind of little snapping yeah Reds
out but then yeah if you if you move it around another thing yeah it'll happen
to it so you have we move this down here it'll see it kind of yeah you got a
little bit of weight before it goes through does this have mouse and
keyboard support or I'm sorry a control supporter I don't know that controller
support I haven't messed with it I feel like you could make control or support
work but it's probably easier to get the small fine details yeah like guys people
I found it easier just play mouse and keyboard it's beautiful I think we made
it oh yeah this is this Islanders it's a pretty easy it's only $5 yep $5
beautiful and yeah that music why don't you just listen to the music for a
minute
music cut out right when he said no but I mean I still like the sound effects
it's get that little rain there's thanks everyone for tuning in
you know EC world thanks Adam yeah thank you hate I no mistake