A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

About Solace Isle

Solace Isle is a cozy single-player island life sim.
You and your cats have settled on a small, quiet island far from the city. There are no quests to rush, no timers to chase — just a soft pastel sea, a warm wind, and time that moves slowly.

Build a little home, decorate it with cute furniture, fish in the pond, and do nothing at all if you want to. This island is yours.


Features

  • Your Island, Your Pace — Single-player only. No online, no pressure. Save locally and come back anytime.
  • Build & Decorate — Place houses, cabins, beds, chests, campfires, fences, trees and flowers. Rotate, snap, and remove anytime — cost is refunded.
  • Pastel Crafting — All items are soft, cute, and low-poly. Houses use Kenney city-suburban kits, furniture is hand-made pastel.
  • Gentle Fishing — Find the pond at the center of the island (2, -10), press [E] and hit the green zone. Catch common, rare and treasure fish for your inventory.
  • Three Cats — Cream, gray and brown. Chosen in-game and saved to your profile. They follow you, nap, and judge your decorating skills.
  • Living Island — 38m hand-crafted terrain, 120+ flowers, palms, rocks, bushes, beach ring, drifting clouds, fireflies and a warm sun. Everything sways lightly in the wind.

Build & Decorate

Press [1]–[5] to pick a building, [R] to rotate 45°, LMB to place, [X] to remove (within 4m), [B] or [ESC] to cancel.
Preview turns green when you can build, red when blocked by slope, overlap or missing materials (wood / flower seeds).

Fishing

The pond is a calm 12×12 area with lilypads, reeds and a little dock. Press [E] to cast, wait for the bite (1–3 sec), then press [E] again in the green zone (62%). For now, any hit catches — enjoy the splash of pastel water, stars and a pink heart.

Your Cats

Chibi-style cats built from Kenney cube-pets (scale 0.68) with fluffy tails and big blush cheeks. Choose cream / gray / brown — your choice is saved in cat.cfg and stays even after you reset the island.


Controls

  • WASD Move  |  Mouse Camera  |  Scroll Zoom  |  Shift Sprint  |  Space Jump
  • [E] Fish  |  [1]–[5] Build  |  [R] Rotate  |  [X] Remove  |  [I] Inventory
  • [ESC] Unlock cursor / Close UI  |  Top Bar Save / Quit / Audio

Save & Comfort

All saves are local: user://saves/local_player.json
Daily gift: bait x3 + flower seed x2 once per day. Audio volumes are saved separately and kept between islands.

Credits & Specs

  • Made with Godot 4.4 (Forward Plus) — GDScript, single-player
  • Models: Kenney (cube-pets, nature-kit, city-suburban, mini-forest — CC0) — asset-first with pastel procedural fallback
  • Audio: Kenney Interface Sounds + cozy generated WAVs — Master / SFX / BGM buses
  • Platforms: Windows (.exe + .pck) / macOS (.zip, universal) / Linux (.x86_64 + .pck) — 70–138 MB

A warm afternoon nap, made into an island. Come when you need a break.

Tip: Press [I] to see your inventory with cute emoji. If visuals look stale after an update, delete your local save from Main Menu → New Game.

Download

Download
solace-isle-windows.zip 58 MB
Version 0.0.1 10 days ago
Download
solace-isle-mac.zip 79 MB
Version 0.0.1 10 days ago
Download
solace-isle-linux.zip 48 MB
Version 0.0.1 10 days ago

Install instructions

How to Play

No install wizard needed — just download, unzip, and play. Your save stays on your computer (local_player.json).

Windows — 138 MB (exe + pck)

  1. Click Download → choose Windows → save the .zip
  2. Right-click → Extract All (keep SolaceIsle.exe and SolaceIsle.pck together in the same folder)
  3. Double-click SolaceIsle.exe → play

If Windows SmartScreen says “Unknown publisher” → click More info → Run anyway. It’s unsigned indie build. Antivirus false positive? Allow the folder.

macOS — 81 MB (.zip → .app, Universal Intel + Apple Silicon)

  1. Click Download → choose macOS → you get SolaceIsle_macOS.zip
  2. Double-click the zip → Solace Isle.app appears. Drag it to Applications (optional)
  3. First launch: Right-click the app → Open → click Open in the dialog. Next time, just double-click.

Gatekeeper says “damaged / can’t be opened”? Run once in Terminal: xattr -cr "/Applications/Solace Isle.app" then right-click → Open again. No notarization yet.

Linux — 105 MB (x86_64 + pck)

  1. Click Download → choose Linux → save and extract the zip
  2. Keep SolaceIsle.x86_64 and SolaceIsle.pck together
  3. Open Terminal in that folder and run:
    chmod +x SolaceIsle.x86_64<br>./SolaceIsle.x86_64

Ubuntu 22.04+ / Steam Deck Desktop tested. Needs executable permission.


itch app (easiest updates)

Install itch app, open the game page, click Install → the app picks the right file for your OS and patches automatically next update (50% smaller via butler).

Saves & Reset

Save: auto in user folder → Windows %APPDATA%/Godot/app_userdata/Solace Isle/saves/local_player.json / macOS ~/Library/Application Support/Godot/app_userdata/Solace Isle/saves/ / Linux ~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/Solace Isle/saves/
To start fresh: in-game Main Menu → New Game (clears save). To fully uninstall, just delete the game folder + saves folder above.