White Island: The island seen from a high lookout: the village, the bay and a helicopter

The world's first JRS game

Survival has no script

Not in real life.
Not in White Island.

A survival game with no programmed limits

Interact with the world the way you would in real life, experiment and find your own ways of doing things. You're not limited by what the game lets you do, but by what you can imagine.

No instructions

Nobody tells you how to survive. There are no tutorials, no recipes to unlock and no skills that give you permission. You have to watch, think and find a way. Just like you would in real life.

No predefined actions

Materials, objects and physical forces interact according to their own properties. It's not about finding the right action. It's about learning to survive in real conditions and finding out how far you can go.

The world doesn't forgive

You can improvise, experiment and find solutions you never imagined. But meaning well isn't enough. Things can go wrong. Your decisions leave a mark. And you'll have to live with the consequences.

No engine could do this

White Island needed a system able to turn the logic of real life into possibilities inside a video game. That's why this was built:

JRS Just Real System

An engine built from scratch
only for White Island

Dev hub

Updates

Everything that reaches the game week by week: new features, improvements, changes and content that keep the experience evolving.

Screenshots

What the game looks like

A look at how the game's visuals are evolving, from its landscapes to the small details that bring the world to life. These screenshots show how it looks right now, with the graphics, lighting and environments exactly as they are in this week's version.

White Island: Rocks and a palm tree against the light, with the sun setting over the beach

White Island: The crown of a palm tree leaning over the beach, seen from the trunk

White Island: The shore at sunset, with an orange and violet sky

White Island: Diving with arms spread, with two sharks above

White Island: A campfire on the beach at nightfall, with a fish on a skewer

White Island: The island from the air, with its reef in the middle of the ocean

White Island: A machete in hand, on the shore, with the sun low

White Island: Palm trees and rocks against the light, with the sun behind

White Island: The tail of the plane sticking out of the sea at sunset

White Island: Palm crowns from below, with the sun between the leaves

White Island: The shore in the last light, already violet

White Island: A coconut on the ground, at the foot of a palm tree

White Island: A hole dug in the sand, with a shovel made from a stick and a shell

White Island: The white sand beach, with rocks and palm trees in the sun

White Island: Palm trees from the top of the island, with the sea in the background

White Island: The calm sea at nightfall, with the rocks to one side

The community

Development open to the community

Every version is shown before it comes out, every bug is out in the open and what changes in the game is voted on together.

Early access Open now

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Frequently asked questions