Send fleets
Drag from your island to another one. Choose 25, 50, 75 or 100% of the troops to send.
In development · not yet released
Tint the sea, take the isles.
Inkisle is a quick island-conquest strategy game for your phone. Drag fleets from your islands to the next one: the bigger number takes the island and the ink spreads in your color. Each stage takes a few minutes.
Follow the makingAbout the game
Not released yet. There is no store page, release date or final price. We are building it in the open and publishing the process here.
Bigger number wins
A fleet that arrives with more troops than the island holds captures it, and the island turns your color.
Sea by sea
Clear a stage, open the next one. Every sea adds one new rule, and none of it needs a network.
From the journal
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Four game ideas, one core: why we chose island conquest
We drafted four concepts for our next game. All four shared one core, sending troops between nodes. Here is why we kept the core, dropped the story and put it on the sea.
Read more →At a glance
- Real-time island-conquest strategy, single player.
- Stages of about 3 to 5 minutes, played upright with one hand.
- Works offline: no account and no network needed.
- Minimal vector art; each side has its own color and flag shape so it also reads without color.
- Planned for iOS first, with Android developed alongside. No release date yet.
Follow the making
We publish one journal post a day while Inkisle is built: why we chose this game, the rules, the art, the prototype and the mistakes along the way.