Islands of Insight is a shared-world puzzle game that's like The Talos Principle crossed with Myst, and I'm having a great time with it

pcgamer.com:

Islands of Insight is an open-world first-person puzzle game from Lunarch Studios and Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive that's currently in the midst of an open playtest on Steam. I've been playing it quite a bit since the weekend (the playtest began on September 7) and so far, I'm happy to say that I'm having a really good time with it.

Islands of Insight reminds me quite a lot of The Talos Principle, with a couple shots of The Witness and Uru: Ages Beyond Myst thrown in for good measure. The game world is a series of floating islands that blends wilderness, ancient ruins, and mysticism, and there's a vaguely condescending greater power of some sort riding herd over the whole thing.

But there are some key differences, too. For one, it's a much more open world: Different regions need to be unlocked by completing certain tasks, but for the most part you can just go wherever and do whatever you want. It's also a shared world—not exactly multiplayer, because there are no co-op puzzles (not yet, at least), but you can see other people in the world and interact with them in limited ways.

Along with the multiple types of puzzles—tetromino block-droppers, logic and perspective puzzles, memory tests, fractal-draggers, and more—there other types of activities to take on, like chasing floating orbs or discovering objects and gateways: Just simple stuff to do if you if you want switch your brain off and just knock around inside the game world. It really comes off as more of a digital playground than a straight-up puzzle game: Aside from the broad concept that a supreme being has you in this world for some sort of greater purpose (which may or may not actually be the case), there doesn't seem to be any overarching