LEGO Island, portable

About

Lego Island is a 1997 Lego-themed open-world action-adventure game developed and published by Mindscape for Windows, in which players explore the island as one of five minifigure characters while pizza delivery boy Pepper Roni tries to stop the escaped prisoner known as the Brickster. LEGO Island, portable adapts the LEGO Island decompilation project to be platform-independent, replacing its Windows-only libraries (DirectDraw, DirectSound, DirectInput, Direct3D, and others) with SDL3 and other cross-platform equivalents while aiming to preserve the original 1997 game's experience as faithfully as possible. It ships continuous builds for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, the web, iOS, Android, Xbox One, PS Vita, Switch, and 3DS, and supports light modding through an extensions system.

How it differs from the original

The project deliberately limits itself to platform portability rather than rewriting or improving the original gameplay, though it does add optional light-modding support via extensions that the original release didn't have.

Getting started

An existing copy of LEGO Island is required. A guided installer walks through setup on each supported platform using the continuous builds from the project's Releases page; developers can also build it from source with CMake.

What you need to run it

Features

• Joystick and gamepad input use SDL3.

How to install

1. Use the guided installer to follow the installation steps for a supported platform.
2. The guided installer uses builds from the Releases tab.

Additional notes

Caveat

Downloadable builds are continuous builds of the latest development branch, so occasional regressions are possible.

FAQ

What is LEGO Island, portable?

LEGO Island, portable is an open-source port of Lego Island. An existing game or its source code brought to another platform. The original game ran on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Do I need the original game files to run LEGO Island, portable?

Yes. The project does not include the original game's assets, so you need your own copy. An existing copy of LEGO Island is required to use this project.