Aeon of Sands - The Trail

Released: Dec 4, 2018
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Last updated: 09 Sep 2026, 23:20 GMT

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22 Dec 2022Developer post
4 Years Birthday + Steam SALE!
Neighbors invited to the party. Yes, Aeon of Sands is 4 years old! To stave off the unforgiving cold of northern hemisphere, we are inviting you in the scorched desert of AoS; celebrate their birthday with us by taking advantage of a 75% OFF sale on Steam, check it out here: In a

26 Jun 2020Developer post

"Aeon of Sands" v1.5 released! - "New Game+" & 2 new Companions!

After 1.5 years, this is the release of Aeon of Sands patch v1.5! If you've finished the game at least once by reaching one of the three possible endings and start the game all over again, you can now skip the Tutorial Dungeon (the Underroots) and experience a new start to the ad

20 Apr 2020Developer post
Aeon of Sands updated to build v1.0.831
Aeon of Sands updated to build v1.0.831. This is a small service patch to fix two issues and to add the chosen difficulty to the end game statistics. - bug: crash reported in maze ( "P#ntel!a - De5p Und%rroots", "#4n/e*#a - %5e9 Un#6rr00ts" ) - fixed! - bug: inaccessible lever in
14 Apr 2020Developer post
The DEMO for Aeon of Sands is out now!
Aeon of Sands – The Trail is a roleplaying game set in a post-apocalyptic desert world. It combines real-time exploration gameplay with classic gamebooks where you create your very own non-linear story adventure. Think Legend of Grimrock meets Dune meets Mad Max ! Try now the fre
29 Dec 2019Developer post
Aeon of Sands does not endorse Climate Change!
During the Steam Winter Sale, Aeon of Sands , a game that inhabited the 2010's at length, is being ushered out for good with the terminal discount of 75% off , to welcome a new decade! Disclaimer: - Aeon of Sands (AoS) does not endorse Climate Change! - No lizards or leeches have
During the Steam Winter Sale, Aeon of Sands, a game that inhabited the 2010's at length, is being ushered out for good with the terminal discount of 75% off, to welcome a new decade!
Disclaimer:
- Aeon of Sands (AoS) does not endorse Climate Change!
- No lizards or leeches have been purposely harmed to create AoS!
- AoS ranked #1 on RPGCodex, as the game that everybody love to hate and misunderstand in 2019!
You probably will be able to like it, if you:

don't stress over "winning"
don't care about "completing"
like to read in games, and/or be punished by texts, just because you exist
You probably will be prevented to like it, if - non exclusively - you:

are a hoarder
you want to keep everything under control
You detest the color orange ;)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/907820/Aeon_of_Sands__The_Trail/
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29 Oct 2019Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Patchnotes Version 1.0.8.3 & Sale
Bugfix patch "double-mouse-click" changed to hold 'v' + left-mouse-click (configurable!) weapons targetting multiple enemies targetted them too much during one attack phase directional facing of wall inscriptions fixed when an enemy dies, there is now a dead description in textbo
Bugfix patch

"double-mouse-click" changed to hold 'v' + left-mouse-click (configurable!)
weapons targetting multiple enemies targetted them too much during one attack phase
directional facing of wall inscriptions fixed
when an enemy dies, there is now a dead description in textbox log
Nomad Traders dialogue fix (items are now correct checked and removed)
manabar bug fixed (when no mana class was assigned there was an unusual color when in inventory)
when Setrani was the only partycharacter and at 0 hp ... a large dead dialogue was triggered when going back to worldmap (fixed)
description of a hole fixed, when hole is closed
tutorial fixed
typos
+ some minor stuff
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13 Mar 2019Developer post
100 Days of "Aeon of Sands" - Special Promotion Sale
To mark 100 days from the Aeon of Sands release, we’re doing a special promotion sale! The game is at 30% discount from today until Monday 10am (US Pacific)! Thanks to our wonderful community, in 100 days Aeon of Sands has become 100% better ! Here’s what we did: 6 patches releas
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To mark 100 days from the Aeon of Sands release, we’re doing a special promotion sale! The game is at 30% discount from today until Monday 10am (US Pacific)!
Thanks to our wonderful community, in 100 days Aeon of Sands has become 100% better!
Here’s what we did:

6 patches released since December 4, 2018!
improved bosses after feedback from players
enhanced range combat and projectiles
improved hard mode
added the active-pause ability to beginner mode
game difficulty can be changed on the fly
AoS is now available on 5+ operating systems:

Windows 7, 10
macOS (10.12+)
Linux (Ubuntu LTS, SteamOS)
We remixed the sound of Aeon and released the Soundtrack with 22 amazing tracks.
Marco created a 100 pages Art Book about the intriguing style of “Aeon of Sands”, together with lots of information about the influences, the story and the development
Yet, still 8 (of 24) achievements in the game have not been discovered!
This means that a lot of branching story paths are still unrevealed in AoS!
This is a perfect time to join us in Aeon of Sands land, at a 30% discount!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/907820/Aeon_of_Sands__The_Trail/
So what can you expect in the next 100 days (give or take)?
Here’s our roadmap!

new game modes like Iron Man, Survival
New Game+
More gameplay stats
Search for "The missing maze"
make community translations possible (long term goal)
…
Thank you for your feedback, help and support!
Marco & Florian
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06 Mar 2019Developer post
Interview about the influences, the origin, the development of "Aeon of Sands - The Trail"
Check out our indepth interview with lostlevels about the influences, the origin, the development of Aeon of Sands - The Trail (german only, but you can turn on funny auto-translated subtitles).
27 Feb 2019Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Linux version is live!
We are happy to announce the release of the Linux version of "Aeon of Sands" . SteamOS + Linux Steam supported Ubuntu 12.04 LTS/SteamOS and we could successfully test the game on it. other distributions: Furthermore, we and some users have successfully tested the game on other Li
07 Feb 2019Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Deluxe Version (Soundtrack and Art Book) is live!
Aeon of Sands - launches its DELUXE VERSION on Steam: Get the soundtrack and art book in the Deluxe version, as an upgrade or as a separate DLC. Art Book The game's 100-page art book, brimful of cool artworks, including game production art and final illustration, in high resoluti
04 Feb 2019Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Huge Update (Version 1.0.8)
Version 1.0.8 1. Bosses improved with new abilities! 2. Charges now shown on Icon! 3. Improved range weapons and projectiles! 'smallstone' 8 dmg + 'unmoveable' effect duration 0.1 + trait mod 'bolt' 14 dmg + 'unmoveable' effect duration 0.4 + trait mod 'flechette' 12 dmg + 'unmov
Version 1.0.8
1. Bosses improved with new abilities!
2. Charges now shown on Icon!
3. Improved range weapons and projectiles!
'smallstone' 8 dmg + 'unmoveable' effect duration 0.1 + trait mod 'bolt' 14 dmg + 'unmoveable' effect duration 0.4 + trait mod 'flechette' 12 dmg + 'unmoveable' effect duration 0.3 + trait mod 'pellet' 20 dmg + 'unmoveable' effect duration 0.2 + trait mod 'stone' 3 dmg + 'unmoveable' effect duration 0.1 + trait mod 'splinteredstone' 6 dmg + 'unmoveable' effect duration 0.2 + trait mod
4. The game's difficulty can now be changed on the fly during play!
5. Improved hard mode! Combat dance and hit&run is now much more difficult.
6. Traits have levels now (just like in DM). They are shown in the character stats panel!
'Novice' 0-15% 'Beginner' 16-25% 'Competent' 26-45% 'Proficient' 46-65 'Expert' 66-85% 'Master' 86-100%
7. Improved normal enemies. Resistances & Abilities added.
Skeletons - invulnerable auran & elemental magic damage CyberAnts - invulnerable auran damage Rogue Thug - invulnerable auran damage +Enemies that cast hide spell are now also permeable (no physical damage!) and a lot more..!
... and much more!
New Features:

60 - visible 'charges' on Inventory Item Icons
1212 - change difficulty on the fly
1190 - PauseMode added to Beginner Mode (press Space to activate)
1433 - Ant Queen fight reworked & improved
1431 - improve hard mode (better AI, faster turning, better usage of Magic, and a lot more improvements!)
1427 - improve Bosses independant from difficulty modes (new abilities)
1456 - trait levels names added to stats panel
1465 - disable tutorial button added to every Tutorial Screen
1357 - rising of a traits is now better written in textbox (blue)
1459 - textbox comment added for spike damage, to better protect the feets
1440 - improve range weapons (cooldown reduced; and stun effect added to projectiles to make range combat more fun!)
Corrections:
1421 - Route on Worldmap from Valley to Fallen Dome disabled
1416 - Dialogue fix: COMOR OF THE LOST AND FOUNDS 2
1422 - Dialogue fix: Valley 1 - Link1.1b
1423 - Dialogue fix: A desert camp
1425 - Dialogue fix: A RUIN_Screen
1467 - A Pit Dialogue wrong image adjusted
1419 - GATE SCENE D: when choosing Harro in marketplace, unneeded bronce helmet removed
1411 - "sluggish" fade in / out of LargeMap fixed
1441 - blocker in maze 6_4 removed
1442 - correct damagetypes for green_spit, god_spit, green_spit_pool, acid_spit, reddust defined
1430 - Flamethrower shouldn't stack; damageoutput lowered a bit; fixed
1446 - Fix that break attack was not recognised by rangeattacks and static_enemies where affected by LOVE & UNMOVEABLE spell effects
1439 - Combat difficulty: improved normal enemies by using Flags to add resistances
1454 - ammo for crossbow/sling in random market added
1458 - Peculiar stone bug fixed; stone is now accepted as well aas other stones
1435 - more corpses added to the branchways (because of the Story)
1078 - maze 4_2 stone puzzle small bug fixed
1461 - bug in range combat targetting of NPCs fixed
1413 - Tutorial fixed: large_map_3
1412 - Tutorial fixed: character_stats_2
1415 - Tutorial fixed: wrong shieldhand -> lefthand + doubled sentences
1432 - maze 21_e_1 fix the start; more mobs at the start suiting the story
1402 - rename button "Character States" to "Character Stats"
1414 - Music-Loop 'fallen_branchways' fixed
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30 Jan 2019Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Art Book | Soundtrack and support plan 2019
During the last month, we have been hard at work on the next patch for Aeon of Sands, which will introduce a number of fixes and improvements to the gameplay. We will also add some premium content to complete the package of the game. Soundtrack You can expect 22 tracks for 35 min
During the last month, we have been hard at work on the next patch for Aeon of Sands, which will introduce a number of fixes and improvements to the gameplay. We will also add some premium content to complete the package of the game.
Soundtrack
You can expect 22 tracks for 35 minutes of great ambient and theme music. It's a direct, to the point collection, combining the exotic feelings of the desert of Aeon of Sands with those of a tense movie out of the 80’s.
Art Book
Along with it, there will come a 100 pages Art Book of the game, brimful of cool artworks, including game production art and final illustration, in high resolution, complete with a bit of behind-the-scenes information, and an in detail article about the game inspiration.
All of the above is coming early February!
Upcoming combat improvements:

NEW ability to change the difficulty of the game on the fly
NEW easy/beginner mode gets an active pause (freezing time, but allowing you to consume health salves and reagents)
Hard mode will be significantly harder, with quicker opponents and more difficult combat dance
NEW “stun” effect added to projectiles (range combat)
NEW strategies to bosses, making them more challenging
Updates stats to range combat throughout all difficulty modes (range fighting is now more efficient and fun)
Some normal enemies have learned resistance (i.e. skeletons are invulnerable to magic, and more...)
There will also be improvements to other minor aspects: specific items, enemies etc. Overall, the game combat is less prone to feel mechanical and it feels more challenging and fun.
There are more things we are going to polish in our continuing support for Aeon of Sands. Suggestions are welcome!
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24 Dec 2018Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Patchnotes macOSX build v1.0.6.1
Version 1.0.6.1 New Features: macOS build now also supports achievements Sorry for the long wait! TwoBitsKid wish you all a Merry Christmas and many achievements next year !
Version 1.0.6.1
New Features:

macOS build now also supports achievements
Sorry for the long wait!
TwoBitsKid wish you all a Merry Christmas and many achievements next year !
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22 Dec 2018Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Patchnotes Version 1.0.6
Version 1.0.6 Our X-mas patch is ready! Corrections: a bug in the stash was fixed, where under certain circumstances an item can disappear two reversed results in the Skirmish were corrected Xunis progression in focus has been slightly improved non working platform in "#4n/e*#a -
Version 1.0.6
Our X-mas patch is ready!
Corrections:

a bug in the stash was fixed, where under certain circumstances an item can disappear
two reversed results in the Skirmish were corrected
Xunis progression in focus has been slightly improved
non working platform in "#4n/e*#a - %5e9 Un#6rr00ts" removed
'abs' (absorbtion) is renamed to 'prot' (protection)
'weaponhand' and 'shieldhand' renamed to 'righthand' and 'lefthand'
small visual cropping bug in titlemenu and worldmap fixed
walkable fences in Kovas Camp fixed
a couple of spelling fixes
credits updated
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18 Dec 2018Developer post
Interview: A Coffee Break with Aeon of Sands - The Trail
A Coffee Break with: Aeon of Sands - The Trail The Gazette of Independent Gaming did an in-depth interview about the development and design choices with TwoBitsKid, read it here: What impresses me with Aeon of Sands, is the amount of choices you’ve left up for the player to take,
11 Dec 2018Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Patchnotes Version 1.0.4+1.0.5
Version 1.0.5 Corrections: hotfixed the rewards at "A Skirmish" Version 1.0.4 New Features: added 4 new stats to gameplay stats screen, which is shown after the end and the credits Corrections: fixed the wrong number of all story scenes in the gameplay stats screen (we have 147)
Version 1.0.5
Corrections:

hotfixed the rewards at "A Skirmish"
Version 1.0.4
New Features:

added 4 new stats to gameplay stats screen, which is shown after the end and the credits
Corrections:

fixed the wrong number of all story scenes in the gameplay stats screen (we have 147)
fixed a bug where under certain cercumstances some enemies where not counted as kill for the result screen after a playthrough
fixed a bug where you couldn't click on the portrait anymore to access the inventory
help menu background has now the correct background when exiting a game
problem solved with Xunis tear attack (thanks to the reporter of this bug)
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09 Dec 2018Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Patchnotes Version 1.0.3
Version 1.0.3 New Features: double-click (or middle-click) on an item in the inventory to identify items (for touchpad/macOS users) hard mode is now even harder: enemy AI improved and chances to break an attack lowered the order of items in your inventory is now saved! you can no
Version 1.0.3
New Features:

double-click (or middle-click) on an item in the inventory to identify items (for touchpad/macOS users)
hard mode is now even harder: enemy AI improved and chances to break an attack lowered
the order of items in your inventory is now saved!
you can now throw items into holes
Corrections:

fixed a bug where difficulty mode was not saved into savegame and was reset to normal mode (only for new game)
added a fix to close the hole to the ant queen, when ant queen was already killed (only for new game)
small visual update of "a ruin" maze
some item locations in starting mazes and "the valley" changed
skeletons now drop 'poultice' instead of 'water skin' or 'raw meat'
'water skin' lowered to 5 hp and 5 stamina instead of 5 hp and 10 stamina
stats of shoes improved
typos fixed in "the pit", "the marketplace", "xuni", "intro", tutorials and help pages
parser fix in "skirmish" where a party of three can meet the leech
"Centipede" made a bit faster
"Pantellan Cutthroat" drop chance and items changed
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09 Dec 2018Developer post
Desktop wallpaper for Aeon of Sands - The Trail
Hello readers! For this installment of “Sleep ’till late with Marco”, I’ll guide you in the process of Aeon of Sands – The Trail official Titlescreen and desktop wallpaper creation. The first requirement to create artwork is someone who asks or forces you to do it. Usually a perv
Hello readers!
For this installment of “Sleep ’till late with Marco”, I’ll guide you in the process of Aeon of Sands – The Trail official Titlescreen and desktop wallpaper creation.
The first requirement to create artwork is someone who asks or forces you to do it. Usually a perverted creature called co-worker who ignores the fact that you already have something to do: to recover from too little sleep, to buy food and to defend yourself against garden vines that try to enter your floor uninvited. This kind of thing.
For proper illustration making, there are engagement rules to be respected.
Thumbnails ahoy
After some other unjustified jokes associated with the threat that he would add heinous features to the game that only his distorted mind could love, like, more statistics, I give up, and for the sake of reason, I’ll make a few sketches that you see above.
What I wanted to create:

a bold view of the sacred giant tree of the city of Pantella, called: Kinami
the tree: important to the story of the game, thus should show its vitality, its will to spread, and to fill up the image
the city: had to be shown growing on it, in a symbiotic relation
a figure in foreground to help me state the proportion of the scene, and most of all to give a sense of story, of a final destination reached, or of something about to happen.
I thumbnailed a dozen possibilities, and decided for the one that seemed the most clear and sharply cut: a straightforward one.
Black and white rough
At that point, I usually want to have only a couple of values; in this case that was also seconding a scene overflown by the two suns’ light. I’m mostly concerned with shape and flow until very late in illustration, in any case.
After that, I distanced the various planes a bit, and thought about the mood.
In our story there is a kind of metaphorical veil, sometimes even a real one. A warm strangulation that threatens to suffocate the main character. This sometimes leads him in situations where right and wrong are blurred and Setrani, our leading actor, cannot help but miserably move on.
So, I started playing with that idea and the tree.
Add heat
The rough was ready, and I started to work on the preparatory drawing. I don’t need such drawings to be very precise in respect to line, but I do need that in respect to masses; I need to know what goes where precisely.
I’m not the kind of visual artist that has the details fixed in mind from the start: I usually find them as I go on, as long as I have an expression, or emotion in mind, and a structure in place.
Now for instance, the placeholder figure in foreground was really lame. I needed a clear purpose for it, beyond the simple balance of the image.
So I borrowed a particular creature from the story, I covered it with a cloak, and gave it a sense of foreboding menace which fits with the general theme of the game.
Draw the skeleton out
Then I started to paint it. A lot of clone-mix brush work and pencils later, I arrived the stage of the following screenshot.
Pour the color in
And even later, after adjusting the overall hue, adding detail and trying to pursue light diffraction and more distance separation, I came to the following one.
Add detail
Then, I had to add the game title that also called for a revision of the logo used for the normal advertising screenshots.
Enter the logo
I decided not to occupy myself so much with the dome, and to suggest it only in the distance. Besides, whatever the creature in the foreground is, the dome is an obstacle that didn’t stop it: it’s already inside the city limits. ,
Now I just had to add the shadows cast by the tree and by the figure on the ground, and add a bit of detail to it: grass, maybe a bit of farming for the sustenance of the city inhabitants.
Finally I placed the logo on it, and added the finishing touches.
Floor it
That’s it!
Thank you for reading!
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04 Dec 2018Developer post
Aeon of Sands - The Trail released!
We are happy to announce the release of our game "Aeon of Sands - The Trail". After 6 years of work it's finally done! Aeon of Sands - The Trail combines a Dungeon Crawling RPG with Game Books! Extremely non-linear, replayable story with multiple endings. Out now on STEAM:
04 Dec 2018Developer post
Aeon of Sands - Patchnotes Release Version 1.0.2
Version 1.0.2 New Features: - achievements added to the Windows version of the game (macOS achievements comes later) - lock mouse cursor in video options - two new tutorial pages added - new window screen resolution added (1920x1080) - reset all options menu added Changes: - vari

	Tula, a smart and resilient scavenger, can use her technical skills to trick the magic out of the elements. So did the ancients in the tradition, but for the enormous price of their own health. But Tula can also do without it and become a formidable ranged warrior.
	Kturim, a wise Berserk warrior, can summon the power of a lost civilization with his scepter to attack from afar the ravenous beasts that plague the scorched desert. Or he can lay down his scepter and stand before Setrani and be a true shield. This works even better when he is armed ;).

Updates & announcements

Yes, Aeon of Sands is 4 years old!

Meet Tula and Kturim!

Think Legend of Grimrock meets Dune meets Mad Max!

Aeon of Sands has now a new reduced price of 12,99$ / 11,98£ / 12,98€ (etc)!

Thanks to our wonderful community, in 100 days Aeon of Sands has become 100% better!

This means that a lot of branching story paths are still unrevealed in AoS!

So what can you expect in the next 100 days (give or take)?

We are happy to announce the release of the Linux version of "Aeon of Sands".

SteamOS + Linux

other distributions:

Steam Play/Proton

Window & macOS

Aeon of Sands - launches its DELUXE VERSION on Steam:

Art Book

Soundtrack

From February 4 to February 11, the game is on sale on Steam!

Version 1.0.8

1. Bosses improved with new abilities!

2. Charges now shown on Icon!

3. Improved range weapons and projectiles!

4. The game's difficulty can now be changed on the fly during play!

5. Improved hard mode! Combat dance and hit&run is now much more difficult.

6. Traits have levels now (just like in DM). They are shown in the character stats panel!

7. Improved normal enemies. Resistances & Abilities added.

... and much more!

New Features:

Corrections:

Soundtrack

Art Book

Upcoming combat improvements:

Version 1.0.6.1

New Features:

Version 1.0.6

Corrections:

Version 1.0.5

Corrections:

Version 1.0.4

New Features:

Corrections:

Version 1.0.3

New Features:

Corrections:

Hello readers!

What I wanted to create:

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Version 1.0.2

New Features:

Changes: