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Sandwalkers

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2025

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Quick resume

Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Build your team, traverse varied hostile environments, face countless dangers, and gain knowledge that will help you find and resurrect the Mother Tree Umama.

Global score

75/100

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Tactical

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If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Escapism

    Nowhere Prophet
  • Cooperation

    Dust to the End
  • Competition

    Grow Home

Pros

  • Engaging exploration and resource management
  • Unique post-apocalyptic fantasy setting and lore
  • Challenging and rewarding combat system
  • Meaningful meta progression and legacy system
  • Immersive audiovisual atmosphere

Cons

  • Early access bugs and technical issues
  • Steep difficulty curve and punishing mechanics
  • Limited character and item variety
  • Some ui and readability problems
  • Performance issues and memory leaks reported

Analysis

Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Violence, Survival, Cooperation. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation.

How to use the graph
Similar games map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: the game you are viewing on this page.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
  • Hover a dot for a quick preview; click to compare it in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

Motivations

  • Autonomy
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Competence
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Competition

    Game with the same Competition vibe

    -4

    "Focus is on personal exploration and progression without player-vs-player or leaderboard competition."

    Capsule for Grow Home Grow Home

    "Focus is on personal progression and exploration without player-vs-player or leaderboard competition."

  • Continuation
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Cooperation

    Game with the same Cooperation vibe

    -3

    "Gameplay centers on managing own caravan and bases; multiplayer or cooperative play is not mentioned."

    Capsule for Dust to the End Dust to the End

    "Gameplay centers on managing a small caravan independently; no multiplayer or team-based cooperation."

  • Creativity
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Domination

    Game with the same Domination vibe

    -5

    "Interactions are individual and balanced with no evidence of exerting control or superiority over others."

    Capsule for Tower Dominion Tower Dominion

    "Interactions are balanced with no evidence of exerting control or superiority over others."

  • Escapism

    Game with the same Escapism vibe

    4

    "Immersive post-apocalyptic world and engaging gameplay provide strong escape from real life."

    Capsule for Nowhere Prophet Nowhere Prophet

    "The immersive post-apocalyptic fantasy world and challenging gameplay provide strong escape from real life."

  • Expectation
    -4

    No nearest game available

  • Experimenting
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Exploration
    5

    No nearest game available

  • Expression
    -2

    No nearest game available

  • Fantasy
    5

    No nearest game available

  • Fellowship
    -4

    No nearest game available

  • Growth
    4

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  • Health
    -4

    No nearest game available

  • Idle
    -3

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  • Intimacy
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Leadership
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Progression
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Relaxation
    -2

    No nearest game available

  • Sensation
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Status
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Story
    4

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  • Strategy
    4

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  • Thrill
    3

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  • Value
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Violence
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Survival
    5

    No nearest game available

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Last update: 23/05/2026