A community-driven effort to organize, document, and theorize on the deep and dark lore of The Isle.
Greetings and welcome! This site is intended to be a resource to organize the diverse tidbits of lore that this community has gleaned across many years from a variety of sources.
If you are new to The Isle or you are an old player returning, some of this lore can be a bit confusing. There have been several distinct phases to The Isle’s development, and some concepts were changed or renamed, while others are outdated and no longer considered canon.
With this in mind, we work to keep this documentation updated as new information arrives and old information is replaced or reaffirmed.
The Isle’s lore can go very deep. While at first, it seems like a standard Jurassic Park clone, The Isle takes the concept of genetically engineered dinosaurs and explores some very dark questions within this pocket genre of sci-fi.
In this world, an organization known as Apollo Engineering (AE) has created engineered organisms that look and behave like dinosaurs. It is highly stressed that these are not simply clones made from old dino DNA, but new creatures made in the image of dinosaurs. This is why you will never find an “Omniraptor” in a real textbook and why many of the animals are featherless.
Similarly, the “humans” in this game are not like us, which is why they are known as “Generation 2s”. It is believed they were created to be the “ideal” human body, playing into the ideas of godhood associated with AE. Additionally, there is another 'human' archetype known as “Gen 1”—a monstrous humanoid that may climb walls and has an unnerving association with an AI entity known as “The Replicator”.
Lastly, there are the enigmatic, infamous genetic monstrosities known as “Strains” - modified animals (and humans) with anomalous and bizarre abilities.
With this information in hand, we now release you to browse the rest of this site as you please.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND
Some information contained here is fragmentary, unclear, or based on community speculation. The developers rarely explain anything in full. Do not take everything here as definite.