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Another round of updates! Next patch is live! Fixed item loss, duplication, and blocked slots when moving loot or reloading storage. Fixed Omnigear recovery and items getting stuck during identification. Fixed crafting recipe mismatches, excess material charges, refunds, and mod
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 resour
This update addresses a number of user reported crashes. Thank you everyone who played and reported these! Fixed crashes when entering derelicts or loading saves tied to derelict maps. Fixed several crashes during Iddy's fishing quests. Fixed a crash when rearranging weapons and
This hotfix resolves crashes that could occur during room transitions or when removing gear from Smith's forge. Thank you for your reports!
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
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
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
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, an