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Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Build your team, traverse varied hostile environments, face countless dangers, and gain knowledge that will help you find and resurrect the Mother Tree Umama.

Sandwalkers is a singleplayer, turn-based combat and survival game developed by Goblinz Studio and published by Goblinz Publishing, H2 Interactive Co. and Ltd..
Released on April 08th 2025 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 406 reviews of which 308 were positive and 98 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.13€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Sandwalkers into these genres:

Singleplayer Turn-Based Combat Survival Loot Turn-Based Strategy Rogue-like Exploration Hex Grid Board Game Tactical Strategy RPG Dungeon Crawler Pixel Graphics Turn-Based Rogue-lite Strategy 2D Party-Based RPG Procedural Generation Fantasy

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Core i3 or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 and/or OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: Any

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.8.5
Processor: 1,3 GHz CPU
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5500
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04+
Processor: 1,3 GHz CPU
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card: DX9 (shader model 2.0) capabilities
Storage: 1 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2025

Summary: not for the faint of heart. Sandwalkers is gorgeous and has a slew of lore and story, but... man, it's hard. i can't stomach ostensibly "harmless" (their words, not mine) encounters single-shot-killing two of my party members every 15 minutes. When they're gone, they're gone - you get to go recruit another (and pay for it with the little loot you've collected in the meantime). This is a game for people who don't mind the grind of survival. It says right there in the tags "survival", but i ignored it. Not for me, but it is beautiful and i can't down-vote it for any fault of its own except that it's too difficult, and that's a problem between this keyboard and chair, not the game.

Oct. 2025

Yes, but... I have a feeling the devs are leaving some huge opportunities on the table that could make this an epic game. The primary issue is the trade system. You never have enough space. After a few hours in a playthrough none of them offer anything you actually need except for some cheap-ish stuff in the form of axes and wood that you need to gain access to certain things on the map. In essence, after a few hours, trade will just be a bothersome noose around your ability to enjoy the game. The game would also benefit from having some different quests. Right now, you have 1) go there and kill stuff, and 2) go there and get stuff. But beyond this, there's a solid turn-based strategy game with decent combat, a truly wonderful presentation and music that is reminiscent of the old Dune game (not the Westwood RTSes, the truly first one). I could just have the game run in the background while I work, just for the music! Devs, make this game what it can be!

Sept. 2025

Although a little buggy here and there, this game is tons of fun and truly addicting. I found myself opening it, blinking and realizing that while I went through 3 caravans- 5 hours had passed around me. Think of it like a simpler darkest dungeon meets Vagrus but without the walls of text. The lore is super cool, the world is pretty, and I can't wait to keep going! :D

Aug. 2025

A decent enough hex crawler exploration game through a nicely designed desert planet, but unpolished and not a particularly deep experience. Aesthetically, I like this game very much. And this look of things ties into the actual gameplay. When one thinks of a desert wasteland adventure, they might get the idea of barren featureless lands with nothing in them- Sandwalkers is more of a thriving world of deserts and oases, just with too much sun exposure and out of control weather for the populace. Your task is to revive the great tree that once brought life and shade to the world and navigate the wilderness to find fragments. These turns it into a survival simulator (at least in concept) where you need to weigh resource scavenging, plot out routes for the most efficient travel, and so on. This kind of falls off after the first few caravans (you make a new group if the old one gets wiped out, but keep progress) when you get a handle on things and unlock some perks to make the next playthrough more doable. Each character plays a role based on their species and they're all reasonably different. I don't think I found any outright bad options, although some didn't fit into my group synergies. It was also unusual to figure out who was a tank type at first. The Protector elephant was obvious, but he's slow enough to entirely miss the first round of defending against attacks. Meanwhile, the tornado casting mage had high shields and could go first, making him the better meat shield for the front line, for example. You can also load up on a few support people, including some individuals trapped in mirrors underground... who you can have multiple versions of? Actually, let's get into that. Sandwalkers is not a polished game. Items can have negative amounts and it can cost you to sell them off. Preset walking paths just cancel midway for no reason that I can determine. My bard party member would randomly gain Exalted status instead of doing damage with his weakening attack on an enemy, etc etc. These aren't breaking bugs, as the game is not that hard by the 3rd or 4th caravan run (my 4th steamrolled 75% of the remaining game) but they're a reminder that there's loose nuts and bolts banging around under the hood of the car, even if it otherwise runs. Storywise, it's so-so. There's decent world building lore to be had and world specific terms have hypertext like pop-ups that explain them- when they work and aren't spewing broken code. But much of the resolution to story events and the memory orbs you collect come off as broken abstract snippets that don't seem relevant or lack emotional weight. I kind of wish we started to bypass this aspect in modern gaming of gathering vague notes to compose the story, because they come off as scattershot or just lacking. Unfortunately, Sandwalkers has a 'vast as an ocean, shallow as a puddle' feel to the world. Sure, there's a lot of hexes to cross, resources to find, etc- but it all just repeats very fast. You'll almost never see anything out in the world you haven't seen dozens of times. Same handful of regional enemies, same generic resources, and so on. Very few times will you come across any small locations with lore, secret treasure (very samey loot throughout the game), or anything else of note. The only real exception I had to this was while walking through a stretch of the desert near the end, I was accosted with a riddle challenge from storm spirits. This was unusual and interesting. Unfortunately, even if you fail at a riddle, you just get hit with a basic enemy encounter and the sequence ultimately wasn't a big deal despite how out of left field it came. I'm not going to say I didn't enjoy my time playing, but most of the game is on an endless repeat of whatever you saw in the first few hours. Even the end game itself is very linear and to the point. This is a very 6/10 type of experience that could have been so much more.

April 2025

I will give a positive review because the developers seem to really care about the game and after 1.0 they drop fixing every weeks for bug etc. the ambient and the story are very intriguing and also the gameplay is fun (but needs more content in the future) buy it on sale and enjoy it

Frequently Asked Questions

Sandwalkers is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Sandwalkers is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Sandwalkers received 308 positive votes out of a total of 406 achieving a rating of 7.16.

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Sandwalkers was developed by Goblinz Studio and published by Goblinz Publishing, H2 Interactive Co. and Ltd..

Sandwalkers is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Sandwalkers is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Sandwalkers is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Sandwalkers is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Sandwalkers. Explore additional content available for Sandwalkers on Steam.

Sandwalkers does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Sandwalkers does not support Steam Remote Play.

Sandwalkers 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 Sandwalkers.

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