Shout out to our awesome players for reporting issues. Next patch is live! · Fixed inventory items sometimes disappearing until an item was moved. · Fixed the camera getting stuck in some derelicts. · Fixed overlapping Sandclaw and Priest quest markers. · Fixed the Smith consuming resources when players attempted to skip Omnigear upgrade tiers. · Fixed the Wide Band Scanner showing incomplete i…
WHAT IS SHIFTING SANDS? Shifting Sands is about a weird bad patch of universe that pulls ships in from all over, strands them there, chews them up in the storm, and spits them back out across the desert for scrappers to dig through. That premise is the game. It is a wreckyard, a graveyard, a scavenger town, a mystery, and a pile of sci fi things that probably should not fit together but somehow…
Next Fest is over... here's what the numbers and your feedback told us, and what we're doing next. Thousands of you played the demo. Average run: right in the sweet spot (~40 min). And the share of you who wishlisted after playing blew past the usual benchmark... so when you sat down with it, the loop landed. That's the signal we needed. Thank you. Seriously. If you streamed or made content abo…
The Desert Just Got Bigger. Demo Updated for Next Fest. Sand in your lungs. Scrap in your pack. Storm at your back. Shifting Sands is an isometric pixel-art roguelite where the desert resets every night. You leave the safety of the Nexus, move across a board-like overworld, enter dangerous zones in real time, scavenge what you can carry, and try to return before the storm erases the day. What y…
Shifting Sands will be featured in Steam Next Fest, with a playable demo available during the event. Shifting Sands is a pixel art sci-fi roguelite built around a daily world reset cycle. Each in-game day, massive sandstorms reshape the desert, uncovering new wreckage, routes, and dangers. Players venture out from the Nexus to scavenge valuable resources before the storm returns and erases the…
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