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SimulationStrategyEarly AccessSandboxCraftingAutomationOpen WorldOpen World Survival Craft

Sandustry

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Developer
Lantto Games
Publisher
Hooded Horse
Franchise
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Release date
Aug 13, 2026
Store page updated
Aug 28, 2026
Price
$14.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

91.3/ 100

Based on 447 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 2,861
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 5,045
“enjoyed it, wants more, very good”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.94
Strategy +3.07
“sand mechanics are great and fun” (47)

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Story & World
+2.60
World +3.17

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Content Volume
+0.51
Volume -0.08
“only 18 hours of content, needs 200-hour challenge like Factorio” (63)

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Visuals & Sound
+2.51
Visuals +2.68
“visuals are gorgeous, beautiful sand physics and lava effects” (15)
Игра очень хорошая. Ради интереса почитал отрицательные отзывы, в том числе на английском языке. Большинство игроков жалуется на то, что игра "не про автоматизация" и что "это не factorygame", что постоянно приходится делать что-то руками. Но это как раз и то что мне понравилось в игре. Игра очень медитативна, без стресса и давления временем, наблюдать как сыпется "что-то красивое" - вот в этом изюминка и всё удовольствие. Поэтому необходимость постоянно делать что-то руками совсем не напрягает, даже спустя 34 часа мне всё ещё нравится вручную переносить песок и другие сыпучие материалы, котор

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Multiplayer
+1.67

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Community +2.67

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Fairness
+0.87
Monetization +3.09

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Tech & Ops
+0.11
Developer support +2.14

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Aug 13, 2026Sep 17, 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,853 reviews, peak 271/day
0250500
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 446 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English60%
  • Japanese8%
  • German8%
  • Chinese7%
  • Russian6%
  • Portuguese4%
  • Other8%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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