Islanders: New Shores Halloween update out now, patch notes

A new Islanders: New Shores update has arrived in celebration of Halloween.

The update provides a creepy twist to the otherwise cozy minimalist city builder. It adds the “Halloween” biome, the new Boon called “Replace”, pumpkins, gravestones, and candle variants as Seasons items, a new camera filter, and a new building facade to unlock for the Aviary building, both unlockable via new challenges.

The full rundown is as follows:

Islanders: New Shores Halloween update patch notes 

• New Biome “Halloween” (accessible via challenge mode, or sandbox mode)
  • A dark and gloomy map, what’s crawling in the shadows?
    • A creepy SECRET, careful where you click 
• New Decor
  • Seasonal sandbox decor  items: Pumpkins, gravestones, candle variants
  • Trees: Spooky bare trees & trees with candles
• New Boon “Replace”
• New camera filter unlocked via challenge “Clairvoyage”
• New Aviary building reward, unlocked via challenge “Ghost Whisperer”
• New spooky music for the Halloween biome 
• 4 new spooky challenges
  • Ghost Whisperer
    • Rewards on completing challenge – Building Facade: Aviary
  • Clairvoyage
    • Rewards on completing challenge – Halloween Filter “Ghost Vision”
  • Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
  • Industrious
• Added accessibility option for using the gamepad controls (from the first game).
  • In this mode the hotkey for switching between the building and boon bar has moved to the west face button.
  • In this mode it’s not possible to raise/lower buildings in sandbox mode.
• Added re-bindable key “Hold for no snapping” that will ignore snapping when held down (defaults to ‘C’).
• 6 New achievements / Trophies

The game is out now on the Nintendo eShop. Access more Nintendo Switch coverage here.