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Sandustry is now live with a 35% launch discount. 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. Check out the new release day trailer. Steam Reviews: Your Feedback MattersHi everyone! If you’ve spent some time with Sandustry, please consider leaving a Steam review and sharing your thoughts, feedback, or whatever else comes to mind. Every review is read, and that feedback helps show what you’re enjoying, what you’d like to see more of, and what could be worth focusing on in future patches and updates. Community Guides and ResourcesIf you’re getting started with Sandustry, there are a few resources available to help. The Beginner’s Guide covers the basics and some useful tips for getting your factory up and running. You can also visit the Official Wiki for more detailed information about the game. The wiki is still growing, and we’re looking for more community contributors, so if you’d like to help out, stop by the Discord and let us know in the #wiki channel. Join the Sandustry Commun

Driven witless by the UK heatwave, I throw open my email inbox and search desperately for videogames about waterfalls, canopies of thick palm leaves, and the sibilant settling of ice in the bellies of the largest, most enduring glaciers. Instead, I am challenged to excavate a world of sand. Hooded Horse and Lantto Games have announced an early access release date for Sandustry, their 2D factory-building game in which resources break down into pixels with individual physics. It's out in early access via Steam, GOG, and the Microsoft Store on August 13th. Please be careful when watching the below trailer. It may absorb whatever body fluids you have left. Read more

Sandustry launches into Early Access on August 13, 2026. In Sandustry, you will explore and mine fully destructible worlds. To succeed, you will need to 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. Check out the release day announcement trailer down below! Join the Sandustry Community If you'd like to talk directly with the developer, keep up with updates, or connect with other players, check out the Sandustry community through the links below! Discord | Twitter | BlueSky | YouTube | Reddit | Website |

I never expected the demo to blow up like this. My plan was to release it without much fanfare and just keep working on the game while slowly building an audience. Instead, the demo brought: Hundreds of YouTube videos An amazing community with world-class QA 6k new faces in the Discord server: A mind-blowing modding scene with over 50 mods and custom maps 60k wishlists (go wishlist if you haven’t yet!) Some unreal demo stats: nearly 100k players averaging over 6 hours of playtime (median: 3 hours) 1,784 concurrent Steam players at peak The #1 spot on Trending Free 33k plays on itch.io A 97% "Overwhelmingly Positive" score from over 800 reviews A #3 ranking for highest-rated demo of 2025 (and 12th of all time!) as per the SteamDB rating Lots of publishers reaching out A couple of cool press mentions: “Palworld dev endorses this sand-powered sim that looks like Terraria with automation” - GamesRadar+ “Noita meets Factorio in an oddly intriguing pixel-physics factory game” - PC Gamer Absolutely crazy. Thank you all so much! ❤️ Development After deploying 8 patches for the demo I felt it was time to start focusing on the target: Early Access release. Having validated the game