Sandustry Steam: Store, Price & Features

Sandustry is on Steam. The Sandustry Steam store page (app 2764460) lists the game as an Early Access title, released August 13, 2026, developed by Lantto Games and published by Hooded Horse, with Windows, macOS, and Linux/SteamOS system requirements. At our last check the review summary read "Overwhelmingly Positive" — 97% positive across 709 user reviews, with 20 curators on record.

Sandustry Steam price (dated snapshot)

As of August 15, 2026, the Sandustry Steam price is NT$194 after a 35% launch discount (list NT$299). The store flags this as an introductory offer ending August 27, 2026, so treat it as a snapshot rather than a permanent price — verify on the store page before you buy. Steam pricing is regional, so your storefront may show a different currency and discount depth.

The same page lists two official bundles at capture time:

• Hooded Horse Builder Bundle — three items: Sandustry, Blacksmith Master, and Heart Of The Machine, priced at NT$989 at capture time.
• Hooded Horse Publisher Bundle — 29 Hooded Horse games — Manor Lords, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Against the Storm, and 26 more — at NT$7,872, a 55% bundle discount.

One more pricing note from the developers' own Early Access FAQ: they say the price could go up over the course of Early Access, as new content and features arrive. That makes the launch window the cheapest confirmed entry point so far on any Sandustry Steam listing.

What the Sandustry Steam version includes

The Sandustry Steam build is single-player and ships with the platform's standard feature set: 16 Steam Achievements (Flux It Up, Critter Catcher, Heliodyne Tycoon, and Promotion Protocol among them), Trading Cards, Steam Workshop for mods and custom maps, Steam Cloud saves, and Family Sharing. Fourteen Points Shop items (emotes and profile backgrounds) are available. A "Demo Available" block on the page links the free demo — covered in detail on our demo page.

Workshop deserves a special mention because of the game's history: the 2025 demo grew a large community modding scene built on reverse-engineering, and the Early Access release replaced that with official modding tools plus Workshop distribution. Our mods page tracks the current state of both scenes.

Review sentiment and press quotes

The Sandustry Steam review section is the fastest trust signal the page offers. Beyond the 97% positive summary, the detailed breakdown at capture time showed 717 positive reviews against 15 negative across all review types, two days after launch. Launch-day reviewers repeatedly mention coming from the demo, calling the full release an easy purchase after dozens of free hours.

The store page also carries three press quotes: PCGamesN frames the game as Factorio-style automation inside a 2D pixel world in the Terraria mold, Rock, Paper, Shotgun compares it to a factory sim dropped into Noita's labyrinths, and GamesRadar contributes a Star Wars sand joke. Community scores and press framing together say the same thing: the physics are the attraction, and they deliver.

Languages on Steam

The store lists 23 supported languages. English gets the complete package — interface, full audio, and subtitles — while the remaining 22 carry interface and subtitles only. Those 22 are: French, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. If the game starts in the wrong language, see the language settings page.

Sandustry Steam system requirements

• Windows minimum — 64-bit Windows 10; an Intel i5-4670K (or AMD's FX-8100), both quad-core; 4 GB of RAM; a GTX 550 Ti or Radeon HD 7750, each with 1 GB VRAM; DirectX 11; 1 GB of storage, SSD recommended.
• Windows recommended — 64-bit Windows 10; an Intel i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 1600, both hexa-core; 8 GB of RAM; a GTX 960 or RX 570 with 4 GB VRAM; DirectX 12; 1 GB of storage, SSD recommended.
• macOS — macOS 12 (Monterey) or later, with the same CPU and GPU classes as the Windows tiers.
• SteamOS + Linux — the same hardware tiers, with no OS-version note on the store page.

In short: a decade-old mid-range PC clears the bar. Linux coverage ahead of launch stressed that the Linux version is native rather than Proton-dependent, while noting that Steam Deck verification, controller details, and performance targets had not been announced — as of August 15, 2026 that has not changed, so Deck owners should treat the Sandustry Steam Deck situation as unconfirmed.

Early Access notes from the developers

The store's Early Access section answers the usual questions directly. The team plans to stay in Early Access for about a year, while warning the timeline can shift with player feedback. The current build is described as fully playable with all content and features shown on the store page, and the full version is planned to introduce new buildings, biomes, quests, resources, production chains, and technologies, alongside more refined procedural generation. The developers say they read the Steam forums and Discord and actively welcome bug reports and suggestions.

Recent Sandustry Steam updates

The first post-launch hotfix, v0.5.3, shipped on August 15, 2026 and shows how the Sandustry Steam news feed works in practice. Its notes cover diagnostics and logging improvements, a memory reduction for the clouds that form when steam condenses into rain, a fix so instructional videos unload correctly instead of exhausting the decoder, and clearer messaging when an objective blocks a factory tier (with translations pending). It also adds a launch option, --sandustry-no-overlay-gpu-flags, set under Steam > Sandustry > Properties > Launch Options, which may prevent some crashes at the likely cost of the Steam overlay; achievements still work.

The announcement names the log file locations for bug reports — under sandustry/logs/main.log in the per-OS config directory — and says a larger patch targeting reported crashes is in progress. The developers also thank reviewers directly and say every review is read, which matches the Early Access FAQ's community-involvement promise. Expect the Sandustry Steam news feed to stay busy: a game two days into a year-long Early Access run patches often.

Steam, GOG, or the Microsoft Store?

The Sandustry Steam version is the most feature-complete listing — achievements, Workshop, trading cards, and the demo button all live here — but it is not the only official one. GOG received the game the same day (August 13, 2026) with Windows, macOS, and native Linux builds, which suits players who prefer DRM-free installs. The Microsoft Store sells the Game Preview build for $14.99 and includes it with PC Game Pass and Ultimate; the Game Pass page tracks that status. For install steps on every channel, see the download guide.

How to verify Sandustry Steam facts yourself

Treat this page as a dated snapshot of the Sandustry Steam listing: accurate when captured on August 15, 2026, and worth re-checking on the store itself whenever a discount deadline or a new patch is in play. The store page itself is always the final authority.