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.

Public builds
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Counted once we have watched for 90 days (since 21 Oct 2026)
Distinct builds deployed to a game's public (default) Steam branch, as Steam's client network describes them.
Checked within minutes of each Steam change. Observed since 21 Oct 2026.
Source: Steam client network (PICS), App info, public branch. Full methodology
Latest public build
Build 26115827
Update posts
6 postsPosts announcing an update, tagged or not
Posts in a game's official Steam news feed that announce an update: tagged as patch notes by the developer, or plainly about a patch or a released update.
Source: Steam Web API, ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp. Full methodology
Typical gap between builds
38 daysMiddle gap across the last 3 builds we saw
| Build | Went live | Patch notes |
|---|---|---|
| 26115827 | Update #5 - Orbital Delivery, Snow Biome and Silica Extraction | |
| 26115812 | None posted | |
| 25294123 | Update #4 - Replumbed Pipes, Unstalled Buildings and Various Fixes |
From Steam’s client network, last checked . Builds before 21 Oct 2026, when we started watching, aren't listed. Patch notes are the developer’s update post from an hour before to a day after the build. Not every build gets one. How we count
| Posted | Update |
|---|---|
| 14 Sept 2026 | Update #4 - Replumbed Pipes, Unstalled Buildings and Various Fixes Update |
| 3 Sept 2026 | Update #3 - Happier Critters, Hungrier Lava and Assorted Improvements Update |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Update #2 - Stability Improvements, Quality-of-Life and Bug Fixes Update |
| 16 Aug 2026 | Update #1 - Better Filter Editing, Tier 5 Softlock Fixes and Red Block Removal Update |
| 14 Aug 2026 | Hotfix - Better Logging, Memory Optimizations & Clearer Objectives Update |
| App | Players now | Latest build |
|---|---|---|
| Sandustry Playtest · App 3446790 | No count | 23445630 · |
Separate Steam apps for test, staging and playtest versions of Sandustry. They have no store page, so they aren’t counted as games or releases. Builds come from Steam’s client network, players from the Steam Web API every few hours. Steam gives no count for an app nobody can launch. How we count
| 12 Feb 2025 | Demo Hotfix 7 is out! Update |
| 8 Feb 2025 | A bunch of Demo Hotfixes Patch notes |
| 2 Feb 2025 | Demo Hotfix Patch notes |
Steam keeps no record of past build numbers, so before 21 Oct 2026 a game’s update history comes from its own Steam news: posts tagged as patch notes, and untagged posts that plainly announce a patch or a released update. Older posts are still being read in, most played games first. How we count