Isles of Yore is a multiplayer simulator that aims to make you experience what it was like to go through life as a prehistoric animal.
Survival
Claim your domain with an animal of your choosing in an environment that best suits your needs—dense jungle, treacherous swamps, and the wide open areas of the island all offer unique advantages and challenges.
Compete with other players and AI in a bid for supremacy and survival in the food chain.
Various carnivores and a herbivore character are available for play, with AI driven characters likewise inhabiting and stalking the land around you.
Future updates will extend this roster further, with larger animals and aquatic biomes planned.
An immersive PvPvE simulation experience
The game's core centers around making you feel like your animal, putting you in full control and giving you a sense of what it was like for the animal when it roamed the Earth, growing and tending to its needs. Balancing thirst, hunger, and stamina are vital day-to-day concerns as you explore the rich environment around you alone or in a pack of friends.
While the main focus is on the immersive simulation, PvP elements with combat between players is available.
If there are no other players around you'll encounter AI animals on your journey, helpful considering our small community and true to the game's core focus of providing a simulation experience in a world that progresses without you.
If you're looking for a more laid back experience, Isles of Yore might be right up your alley.
Customisation and progression
The game includes a character customisation system, giving you creative control over aspects such as patterns, colouring, and skin types.
Spots or Stripes? Proto-feathers or scales? It's up to you.
A talent tree system also exists to further tailor your chosen animal to your liking, with options to specialise for the playstyle you prefer.
A dynamic world
Explore a large, diverse island with its own day/night cycle and highly variable weather.
Fog, snow, and storms may reduce your vision as you navigate through the world, heat waves and cold spells may force you to take refuge in shelters.
AI
The game features a variety of AI animals that can be found inhabiting the island.
Each species has its own own schedule and is trying to survive on the map just like you.
You'll run into migrating herbivores and hungry carnivores hunting for their meals—make sure you don't end up on the menu!
Younger animals can be found amongst the roaming packs and may present an opportune snack if you're quick enough to escape the adult's protective claws and fangs.
A big goal of the project is to further extend the AI systems and make the animals feel true to life with behaviour that uniquely suits them.
Custom servers
Documentation on server hosting is available, with a plethora of options available for server owners—gameplay parameters such as the speed at which your needs deplete, stats overrides, and many more are all available to tailor the experience to your community's liking.
⚠️ Please note that the server configuration system is currently going through a revamp, and some options have been deprecated for the time being (mainly weather changes, time of day progression, and control over the AI count). This is part of an ongoing effort to update these systems and make the core experience better.
Social
Going at it alone is not required, as grouping and chatting (toggleable) with your friends is fully supported.
A labour of love from a small team
Isles of Yore is a passion project started from a place of admiration for the awe-inspiring history of life on our planet. The path forged by games in the survival genre offers a uniquely visceral, tantalising glimpse into this strange and wondrous past, and Yore intends to build on this formula with special care to highlight the uniqueness of the animals that came before us.
The game is being developed by a small team and is still going through its update cycle to expand and improve the experience.
Your feedback is most welcome in the Discord to help drive development.
