Indie

Sandustry

97% positive of 5,198 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Known on: Steam

Made by Lantto Games. Published by Hooded Horse.

About the game

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.

What sets it apart

Automation
Open World Survival Craft
Crafting
Base Building
Sandbox
Building
Resource Management
Open World
Survival
Exploration
Simulation
Strategy

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Indie

Sandustry

97% positive of 5,198 Steam reviews

See it on Steam

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Known on: Steam

Made by Lantto Games. Published by Hooded Horse.

About the game

What sets it apart

Automation
Open World Survival Craft
Crafting
Base Building
Sandbox
Building
Resource Management
Open World
Survival
Exploration
Simulation
Strategy

What players say

Recommended
Build a production line. Notice part of the process is getting jammed up. Fix that part. Learn how to automate a new part of the process. Now a different step is getting jammed up. Feel the cold dread of doubt. Maybe I'm too stupid for this game. Make a spaghetti fix for the jam and go explore the creepy caverns. Let go of doubt. Come back to the problem and design an elegant fix. Find out you've traveled 10 hours…
16 h played when written. 14 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Fantastic game, runs really well, glad you don't have to pay for the building blocks themselves; gives you more focus on the fun parts.
13 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Comparisons to Factorio, Terraria, and Satisfactory are misguiding (but if you had to pick one, it's most like Satisfactory). The tech tree is effectively a straight line, gated up by tiers with production requirements. Many of the things you unlock have a single purpose and not much else, which limits creativity, especially when the game show and tells you "use X to do Y" with a graphic whenever you unlock…
3.7 h played when written. 6 found it helpful.
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