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Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.
Sands of Salzaar is a open world, rpg and strategy game
developed by 汉家松鼠Han-Squirrel Studio
and published by XD.
Released on December 15th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: Simplified Chinese and English.
It has received 22,641 reviews of which 18,556 were positive and 4,085 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.31€ on Gamivo.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 8 / Windows 10 64 bit
- Processor: 2.50GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: HD4400
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 1920x1080 屏幕分辨率
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I've bought this game many years ago, while exploring chinese single player games. Since EA I still enjoy it and replay it once in a while, despite its shortcomings. Speaking of which, most of the problems are related to the english translation, including borked quest(lines). Generally such problems can be fixed by temporally switching to chinese or following guides. Main culprit here is Spirit Witch's questline. So don't start your first playthru of the game on 'expert mode' (1 save file). It is not as bad as it may sound after reading this, but still it is better to be warned. SoS is essentially a sandbox, where you start a small guy in a land that is in a constant state of war between several factions. Comparisons to Mount and Blade series are not too farfetched here. You slowly build your character and the size and quality of your army along the way to the top, while doing unique and/or repeatable quests, exploring points of interest and all that jazz. What I find really interesting is the troop upgrade system which is similar to some old game called Disciples. Once your squad of farmers got enough exp, you can upgrade it by choosing a certain path on a troop upgrade tree, range, cavalry, support or melee branch to make it simple. Of course, the class of your character can affect your troops, for instance Spirit Witch can make ALL arcane-type or summon-type units to apply Terror on attacks. But thats not all. Besides the fact that you can equip ur character, you can also.. slot gems in your troops, sometimes drastically changing their features. Like a gem, which shields your troop once they below 50%, or the one which make them shock opponents with their skills and attacks. Keep in mind that some troops have very simple upgrade path, like dragons for example, but they are dragons so, yeah. Combat is similar to top down arpgs and MOBAs, depending on the encounter, you either fight alone (with hired heroes) or with all your troop. Of course, with experience you can easily destroy half of the enemy army yourself. Several quickcast options can be found in options, and you will need em, cause you will use your skills A LOT. Another clever thing here is the LEGACY system. Basically, you have a set of achievements you can complete on your run, no matter what mode you are playing (story, with a questline or a sandbox). Every successfull achievement will reward you with LP (legacy points), which can be spent before starting a new playthru. This way you can start with more resources, skillpoints, better reputation with factions, buy unique skills or even skill trees. The game as you can understand now have a lot of interesting and interconnected features which can be talked about forever but lets talk about DLC's for a bit. What I personally recommend as a base is a free Champions of Chaos DLC which simply makes the game better when it comes to your character or the one you hire. You can also learn the ENTIRE skilltree from the unique heroes even if u don't hire them, as long as you have a good relationship with em. Another DLC, which is kind of 'safe' to recommend is Ember saga, specifically Ember Workshop part of it. So once in a game menu, make sure to turn on Champions on Chaos and Ember Workshop. Everything else is once you've tasted the game enough. Of course, DLCs can be turned on and off, but don't do that during the playthru. As deep as the game may seem after reading all above, the world itself is sadly as deep as a puddle, not much UNIQUE stuff to explore, so mostly it is better to lean your gameplay to combat scenarious or following the main/class questline (if it has one). But that can be said about any sandbox, just find your own fun. To be fair, I didn't plan to write a review on Sands of Salzaar, but after all these years, seeing recent reviews as 'mixed' is simply made me sad. Yes, I wish bugs were fixed and all, but even with them, for this price, it is an extremely good deal. P.S. Even tho I prefer the vanilla experience, there are also mods, but most of them is porn. Bless these devoted gooners.
Sands of Salzaar is an addicting game. At first I thought it is like a generic flash game but when I played it, I was hooked. Though the biggest downside would be the bugs, lots and lots of bugs. The immersion broke for me when I got to late game. All my heros and squads are in max level, by that time the UI was so broken that I had to reset my game constantly just to continue playing the game. I still have hope though, for the devs to fix it. Hopefully they will <3
Yes, it's a Chinese game similar to Mount&Blade. Yes, the world map is smaller. Yes, the characters only have 3 equipment slots (Accesory, Armor, Weapon). Yes, there are also fewer ways to interact with the world. Yes, the combat is like in mobile games. Surprising, right? You've found a game, development cost of which was times less than Mount&Blades's. So why would you even consider playing it? Well, first of all, Sands of Salzaar doesn't try to be a Mount&Blade alternative. It's a pure sandbox with its own general storyline, which you can ignore and just wander around the world. Choose a class(some of which have unique personal storylines) or play as Nameless to create a monster that solos everyone and everything. Complete quests, progress through the skill/talent trees, capture cities, manage them. Repeat with another character on higher difficulty. Yes, there are some bugs. Yes, sometimes the game balance seems unfair. And Yes, you should try out this game.
I have played this game for a bit, and I think its very solid all around. It is a Mount and Blade Clone (and I have thousands of hours on Mount and Blade). This game is similar to one of the better mods of Mount and Blade, like Perisno. It has magic and fantasy. It has some great elements like being able to marry a female hero of your choice, and have children (and raise the children into heroes). I would give this game a 9/10 or even a 10/10. I am shocked and confused how this game can only have 50% on steam. But then I think back to other amazing titles like Pathfinder Kingmaker, which also had 50% steam approval at one point. Sometimes steam review scores just really miss the mark.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Sands of Salzaar is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
No, Sands of Salzaar is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Sands of Salzaar received 18,556 positive votes out of a total of 22,641 achieving a rating of 8.04.
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Sands of Salzaar was developed by 汉家松鼠Han-Squirrel Studio and published by XD.
Yes, Sands of Salzaar is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Sands of Salzaar is not playable on MacOS.
No, Sands of Salzaar is not playable on Linux.
Sands of Salzaar is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 5 DLCs available for Sands of Salzaar. Explore additional content available for Sands of Salzaar on Steam.
Yes, Sands of Salzaar is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
No, Sands of Salzaar does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Sands of Salzaar is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Sands of Salzaar.
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Developer
汉家松鼠Han-Squirrel Studio
Publisher
XD
Release
15 Dec 2021
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