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.
Strategy+3.07· Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices
“sand mechanics are great and fun” (47)
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Story & World
+2.75
World+3.17· Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is
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Content Volume
+0.00
Volume-0.08· How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price
“only 18 hours of content, needs 200-hour challenge like Factorio” (63)
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Visuals & Sound
+2.62
Visuals+2.68· Graphics, art style, and animation
“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
+1.08
Not enough data — only 3% of reviews mention this.
Community+2.67· Who you play with — how many, and how friendly
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Pricing & Fairness
+1.47
Pricing+3.09· Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge
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Tech & Support
+1.26
Developer support+2.14· Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
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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
Aug 13, 2026Sep 17, 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,336 reviews, peak 187/day
Aug 21Sep 18
per week · 4,815 reviews, peak 2,230/week
Aug 13, 2026Sep 10, 2026
per week · 4,815 reviews, peak 2,230/week
Aug 13, 2026Sep 10, 2026
per week · 4,815 reviews, peak 2,230/week
Aug 13, 2026Sep 10, 2026
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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