Creep Isles: a free little island strategy game with twikoi's creatures

Screenshots

Creep Isles: a game in progress, hex islands with villages in pink and blue, her creatures on the tiles, fruit on the meadows and clouds over the unexplored sea — Explore under the clouds, claim the empty villages and grow your tribe across the isles.

Creep Isles: a creature selected, white dots where it can move, a red ring round a rival and a card showing the damage both sides would take — Every fight is shown before you start it: how hard you hit, and whether they can hit back.

Creep Isles: the skills screen with four branches (land, water, sky and hills, training), each skill shown with one of her drawings — Twelve skills in four branches: gather new things, cross the water, train new creatures.

Creep Isles: the end of a game, the tribes ranked by score, the isle's stars and a new picture by twikoi — Win on score after the last turn or take every village. Stars open new isles and earn her pictures.

What is Creep Isles?

Creep Isles is a free turn-based strategy game made with twikoi's art. You start with one village and one creature on a little island. Rival tribes live on the other isles, and clouds hide everything nobody has seen yet.

Each turn your villages make ink. Spend it to gather the fruit, plants, swimmers and fallen stars on your land so your villages grow, to learn skills, and to train more creatures. Walk onto empty villages to claim them, and out-grow the rivals before the last turn, or take every village.

How to play

Move. Tap one of your creatures, then tap a glowing tile. Forests and hills stop a move; the water needs Paddling or Sailing.
Grow. Tap the fruit, plants, swimmers or fallen stars on your land and spend ink to gather them. Each one helps a village grow; a bigger village makes more ink, looks after more creatures and picks a gift.
Claim. Walk a creature onto an empty village and tap Claim. Rival villages can be taken the same way once nobody stands on them.
Learn. Open Skills to cross the water, gather new things and train Spitters, Rollers, Flyers, Horned and Giants.
Fight. Tap a rival next to your creature: the game shows exactly what will happen before you hit. Undo takes back a move that found nothing new.

Features

Six kinds of creature with clear numbers, each picked from her drawings by what she drew: Walkers, Spitters (hit from two tiles away), Rollers, Flyers, Horned and Giants.
Twelve skills in four branches, villages that grow to level 5 and pick a gift as they grow, lost pictures to find under the clouds.
Rivals that play by the same rules on Easy, Normal or Hard, a Score game with a turn limit and a Conquest game with none.
Six isles with three stars each, random isles in three sizes, and a daily isle that is the same for everyone, with a share line.
A lesson you play (move, gather, grow, learn, fight), How to play any time, and a game that saves after every move.

Modes, levels and unlocks

Isles: Six maps from a small first isle to a big moon isle with four tribes. Win to earn stars and open the next.
Random isles: A new map every time: small, medium or large, with one to three rivals.
Daily isle: One map a day, the same for everyone, 20 turns against two rivals. Share your place and score.

Tips

Pick the fruit next to your capital early: a level-2 village makes more ink and looks after one more creature.
Paddling first if your island is small: most empty villages are across the shallows.
A Spitter can't be hit back. Let it soften a rival before a Walker or a Horned finishes it.
Stand on forest or hills to defend, and keep a creature on your capital when a rival comes near.
Exploring counts for your score too: every tile you uncover is a point.

Who will like Creep Isles?

Creep Isles is for anyone who likes small strategy games that fit in a coffee break, from first-time players following the lesson to players chasing every star on Hard.

It is also for fans of twikoi's art: every creature, villager, giant, fruit and picture on the isles is one of her drawings.

Questions

Is Creep Isles free?

Yes. Creep Isles is free to play in your web browser. No sign-up and no ads. Ink is play money.

Does it work on phones?

Yes. It is made for phones first: tap a creature, then a glowing tile; drag to look around and pinch to zoom. It works with a mouse and keyboard too.

Does it save my progress?

Yes. Your game saves in this browser after every move, and the title screen's Continue brings it back exactly as you left it.

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Her art in this game

Every creature, villager, giant, fruit, plant, swimmer, fallen star, butterfly and picture is one of her drawings, shown just as she drew it: only moved, scaled, flipped, faded or squashed as it hops and fights. The sea, islands, huts, banners, borders and clouds are plain shapes and colours. Tribes are told apart by plain colour rings and a shape (● ▲ ■ ◆) next to her art, never by changing it. What kind of creature a drawing can be comes from what she drew (legs walk, wings fly, open mouths spit, round ones roll, horns hit hard), and the game asks for kinds of drawings, so new drawings join the isles without changing the game.