Solace Isle
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
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)
- Click Download → choose Windows → save the
.zip - Right-click → Extract All (keep
SolaceIsle.exeandSolaceIsle.pcktogether in the same folder) - 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)
- Click Download → choose macOS → you get
SolaceIsle_macOS.zip - Double-click the zip → Solace Isle.app appears. Drag it to Applications (optional)
- 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)
- Click Download → choose Linux → save and extract the zip
- Keep
SolaceIsle.x86_64andSolaceIsle.pcktogether - 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.
