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Gods of Sand
Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“It is quite a fun game; I would recommend it if you like this type of game. About it being abandoned, it was true for a little while, but the developer has just come out with a new update, has taken accountability, and has released a very heartfelt apology, which is rare to see.…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“edit: As per @dev comment, after two years without an update, the game has finally left early access! As a gesture of good faith, I'm changing my review to positive since I haven't yet had time to test the state of the game after 1.0 I'm really glad this wasn't abandoned after…”
— a player, Steam review · 54 hrs played“It took the devs a long time to finish, more than promised. But the game is fine, and in the end finished as promised. So I change this negative review to positve. I feel like it is the fair thing to do. I can recommend it with good faith now!”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 18:27 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
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Gods of Sand v1.0.7 - Patch Notes
- Fixed achievement "I don't know, Rick" not being unlocked after selling a boss weapon. - Fixed a bug that happened with current selected gladiator resulting in more bugs, discovered through Sentry.
Gods of Sand v1.0.6 - Patch Notes
- Changed the Mac Steamworks library version to try to fix an issue with our current Steamworks plugin (Facepunch Steamworks), which was causing the "Pirated Game Copy" error and achievements not unlo
Gods of Sand v1.0.5 - Patch Notes
- Added a safeguard for stats that were previously Infinity/NaN; they will now automatically reset to 5. - Fixed the stat EXP calculation logic to prevent division by zero, which could result in Infin
Gods of Sand v1.0.4 - Patch Notes
- Added Sentry for easier bug tracking without relying on user reports. - Fixed an issue where "Umbra" would cause the game to soft-lock when a weapon was equipped in the consumables slot.
Gods of Sand v1.0.3 - Patch Notes
- Added support for Vulkan, OpenGLES3 and OpenGLCore for older devices. - Fixed incorrect UI scaling for the Tutorial Battle on ultrawide resolutions*. - Fixed incorrect UI scaling for loading screens
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Turn-Based · Management · Rome · Pixel Graphics · Strategy · Tactical · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Combat · Indie · Simulation · 2D · RPG (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Polish, Russian |
| Achievements | 17 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://t.co/vxiLllwYFP?amp=1 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 3D Accelerated Card Storage: 300 MB available space Sound Card: Yes