Sandwalkers

Sandwalkers

Released Apr 2025

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.

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All announced content has been released
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Evaluation

Sandwalkers launched into Early Access and graduated to its full 1.0 release on April 8, 2025, with version 2.0 delivering the complete game including the endgame, new maps, questlines, monsters, and all content leading to the finale. The developer followed up with additional polish and balancing updates throughout 2025, including a significant content update (v2.1.0) on May 28, 2025 that added new enemies, reworked enemy groups, and weather improvements. The most decisive signal comes from the developer's own words in the November 19, 2025 patch notes for Update 2.2.2: "It is probably the last major patch on Sandwalkers: thanks a lot for your feedback and support during the last few years! We can't wait to show you what will come next :)" This statement strongly signals that the team considers Sandwalkers' development complete and is moving on to a new project. The phrase "what will come next" refers to their next game, not future Sandwalkers content. After that November 2025 post, the developer shipped one additional maintenance update (2.2.6 on April 27, 2026) focused on performance optimization and balancing tweaks — consistent with wrapping up support rather than ongoing content development. No new content, DLC, or roadmap has been announced since the 1.0 launch content cycle concluded. The only DLC listed is a soundtrack pack that released alongside the game on April 8, 2025, and no unreleased DLC exists in the store listing. The November 19, 2025 date is used as the completion date, as that is when the developer explicitly communicated that major content development was finished.
Evidence
Update 2.2.2 patch notes state: 'It is probably the last major patch on Sandwalkers: thanks a lot for your feedback and support during the last few years! We can't wait to show you what will come next :)' — the developer signals they consider the game's major update cycle complete and are moving on.
news post · Nov 19, 2025 source development ending
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Full 1.0 release (v2.0) launched, delivering the complete game including the endgame, new maps, questlines, and all content leading to the story conclusion.
news post · Apr 8, 2025 source content shipped
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Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Released
Apr 2025

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Goblinz Publishing
Achievements
24
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

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 carried by traveling beetles.

  • Guide a caravan of adventurers through varied landscapes.

  • Fight hordes of pirates, wizards and monsters, and survive acid rain, storms and heat waves.

  • Rescue refugees, seek allies to support you and stir up the past in search of the causes of Phithi.

  • Keep hope: in this hostile desert, the caravaneers' faith in their mission is all that protects them from certain death.

  • Progress by passing on your knowledge to a new caravan.

  • Make choices that will affect your future expeditions.

  • Each character has different powers. It's up to you to explore lost ruins as an archaeologist or to track down massive creatures as a hunter.

  • Don't underestimate the weather! It conditions the movements of caravanners and the outcome of confrontations.

  • Repair the broken climate, and put an end to centuries of wandering.

Last evaluated Jun 23, 2026
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