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Sandwalkers

Goblinz Studio · Goblinz Publishing · 2025-04-08

SteamGOG

RPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 19, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 08, 2025 (Linux), Apr 08, 2025 (Mac), TBD (Nintendo Switch)

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 an RPG, Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 558 reviews).

7
playing now
75%
positive of 558 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 21:00 UTC (census sample)

Every decade, the Mka tribe sends caravans of adventurers into the Phithi, the meteorological chaos that keeps the Uwando tribes isolated from each other and makes life outside the refuges almost impossible. Their mission: to establish diplomatic and trade relations, to explore and reclaim the lands left to the mercy of monsters and pirates, and, most importantly, to plant a new tree city that can become a refuge for the Mka and their allies. Regardless of the success or failure of their mission, the caravans must send the memories they have gained back to the capital, using the crystospheres(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 60 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 14,318 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 11k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 558 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.13 at IndieGala Store (2026-07-24) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 112 of 164 observed days · $16.86 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10010020242026Week of 2024-06-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1602026-09-16 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 11 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 6 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 6 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 12 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 7 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 14 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 8 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 10 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 6 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 5 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 21:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
913Jun 2024Aug 2026Jun 2024 — avg 91 · peak 195Jul 2024 — avg 21 · peak 71Aug 2024 — avg 10 · peak 34Sep 2024 — avg 8 · peak 30Oct 2024 — avg 20 · peak 71Nov 2024 — avg 8 · peak 32Dec 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Jan 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2025 — avg 6 · peak 15Apr 2025 — avg 45 · peak 198May 2025 — avg 7 · peak 20Jun 2025 — avg 6 · peak 30Jul 2025 — avg 8 · peak 23Aug 2025 — avg 6 · peak 32Sep 2025 — avg 9 · peak 27Oct 2025 — avg 8 · peak 22Nov 2025 — avg 4 · peak 16Dec 2025 — avg 7 · peak 22Jan 2026 — avg 8 · peak 24Feb 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Mar 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Apr 2026 — avg 7 · peak 22May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 22Jun 2026 — avg 6 · peak 21Jul 2026 — avg 5 · peak 18Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$99.99$3.132023-10-252026-10-162023-10-25 — best price $99.992024-07-18 — best price $15.982024-08-15 — best price $19.992024-09-07 — best price $16.642024-10-16 — best price $17.982024-11-11 — best price $17.982024-12-02 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $18.992025-02-02 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $12.592025-04-04 — best price $11.252025-05-14 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-09-09 — best price $19.992025-10-01 — best price $8.392025-10-18 — best price $19.992025-11-11 — best price $19.392025-12-02 — best price $9.992025-12-19 — best price $9.992026-01-13 — best price $19.392026-02-20 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $7.992026-04-16 — best price $7.992026-05-07 — best price $19.992026-05-28 — best price $7.992026-06-11 — best price $7.802026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-24 — best price $3.132026-08-09 — best price $7.992026-08-24 — best price $7.212026-09-03 — best price $7.992026-09-11 — best price $7.992026-09-19 — best price $7.992026-09-27 — best price $7.992026-10-05 — best price $7.992026-10-13 — best price $19.992026-10-16 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
56%
earned "Tale of the 7th"
15.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-04-08 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1343%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

LootHex GridSurvivalTacticalBoard GameRogue-likeRogue-liteTurn-BasedExplorationSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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