The Shrouded Isle

The Shrouded Isle is a management simulation video game developed and published by Kitfox Games.

The Shrouded Isle
Developer(s)	Kitfox Games
Publisher(s)	Kitfox Games
Composer(s)	François-Xavier Bilodeau
Engine	Unity[1]
Platform(s)	macOS Microsoft Windows Nintendo Switch
Release	macOS, Windows 4 August 2017 Nintendo Switch 17 January 2019
Genre(s)	Management simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

The Shrouded Isle is a Lovecraftian-themed management simulation video game, in which the player is placed in charge of a sacrificial village cult that worships a god who intends to bring about an apocalypse in three years.^[2][3] The player is in charge of five families that occupy the village; their personalities, habits, and vices are procedurally generated.^[3][4]

Development and release

The Shrouded Isle was developed by Kitfox Games.^[5] It is the third product from the four-person independent video game development studio.^[6] It is based on The Sacrifice, a game the team had created for a game jam in 2015.^[5] The Shrouded Isle was announced in October 2016 with a scheduled released date of February 2017,^[4] however the game was released a later date of 4 August 2017 for Windows and macOS.^[5] The game was subsequently released for Nintendo Switch on 17 January 2019.^[7]

Reception

The Shrouded Isle received mixed reviews on Metacritic.^[8][9]