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Lead a four-person caravan across a hostile desert, manage supplies and turn-based fights, and carry discoveries into new expeditions.
Released 08 Apr 2025
Plan Supply-Saving Routes
Build a Four-Person Caravan
Survive Hostile Weather
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.
Developed by Goblinz Studio · Published by Goblinz Publishing, H2 Interactive Co., Ltd.
Lead a caravan of adventurers sent by the Mka tribe into the Phithi, a hostile region that isolates the Uwando tribes. Explore in search of allies, uncover what caused the climate chaos, and work toward finding and resurrecting the Mother Tree Umama.
Travel across a hex-based map where terrain and weather affect movement and supply use. Choose routes between settlements, resource sites, events, ruins, and encounters while managing provisions and the risks of the journey.
Build a four-character team with distinct abilities and fight in turn-based battles. When an expedition ends, pass its discoveries on to a new caravan, improve future expeditions, and make choices that can shape the world's recovery.
Players who enjoy Sandwalkers often point to its distinctive world, atmosphere, art, music, and lore, as well as the challenge of guiding a caravan through a resource-scarce landscape. Some also praise its turn-based battles and progression between expeditions. Enjoyment varies: recurring complaints describe uneven difficulty and combat balance, repetitive encounters, unclear systems, and bugs that can disrupt quests or play.
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.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 24 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
