Sandustry Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-14
- Highly addictive and fun gameplay
- Full game surpasses demo
- Great value for the price
- Satisfying sand and automation mechanics
- Game is too short
- Frequent crashes and instability
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 334
- Positive
- 32898.2%
- Negative
- 61.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 22,032
- Estimated revenue
- $330,260
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 41.34%
- Estimated copies lost
- 264
- Estimated revenue lost
- $3,957
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 51.7% Avg playtime 1.1h | 5418.1% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 10.3% Avg playtime 3.6h | 23979.9% Avg playtime 6.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 487.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 10 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 0.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
299 total
Organic purchasers28595.3%
Voted up: 98%
Key activations144.68%
Voted up: 100%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
299 total
First impression0-2h11137.1%
Voted up: 95%
Mid game2-10h17859.5%
Voted up: 99%
Late game10-20h72.34%
Voted up: 100%
Endgame20h+31.00%
Voted up: 100%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 98.0%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 334 total.