Islands of the Caliph

Schmidt Workshops / Sep 29, 2023 / Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG

Singleplayer

windows
Steam Deck Playable

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Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.

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What's new

Multilingual Branch Updated to 1.3.708

2026-06-05

Crash So this time I realized I had changed a few DirectX graphics settings between versions, related to mip-mapping and anisotropic filtering. It did not seem significant to me at the time, but after going through a lot of the comments, people with AMD cards were the ones usually encountering the crash. Also, one person was able to fix it with dgVoodoo2, which is a kind of directx wrapper thing. So I turned off those new settings and I am hoping this resolves the issue. Testing: To test this (if you are willing and/or able) you would right click on "Islands of the Caliph > Properties > Game Versions and Betas" and select "Multilingual" from the menu. If the game is still crashing for you, or not, please let me know here.

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What players say

Very Positive

92% positive, 241 reviews

Recommended23 hrs played

I did not complete the game yet, but I am enjoying it very much. This game puts you in the setting of a low fantasy medieval middle-east where the region, or world, seems to be in a post-cataclysmic flooding event, as the only lands left are the peaks of the former land masses that were flooded hundreds of years ago. Throughout these hundreds of years, the people of these regions lost touch with not only each...

16 found this helpful, 2026-02-25

Recommended5 hrs played

I would recommend this with the caveat that you go in knowing: - Keyboard only controls - Cryptic quest objectives - You have to thorougly explore - Note taking really helps Unfortunately I got motion sickness when playing this game so I was unable to complete it.

6 found this helpful, 2026-01-21

Not recommended0 hrs played

I installed the game and really enjoyed it for about twenty minutes before I had to quit to go and do some tasks. When I came back I was never able to get it to run again. RPG_001.exe failed. Tried un-installing and re-installing. Worked until I closed the game and then never worked again. Don't feel like reinstalling it every time I want to play. I guess this was built on an old engine which seems to be the issue so...

6 found this helpful, 2025-12-07