Sandwalkers News

Helloooo everyone!

We're keeping on patching the game thanks to your feedback during the weekend. We're starting the day with two hotfixes :

• Fixing black screens that were happenning with the Crystal Library
  
• Slowed down the rate at which the encounter bar is being filled in almost every region
  

We'll try to slide in more fixes later today ; but it's still in testing so we couldn't give then to you yet!

Thanks again for playing Sandwalkers, and for your feedback

- The Sandwalkers team

Hi everyone!

The past two days have been intense as we tackled major balancing issues. Some players were able to finish the game in a single run, defeating all enemies in just one turn — not exactly what we had in mind for Sandwalkers!
This patch focuses on restoring challenge and progression. Here’s what’s new:

[h3]Enemy Scaling & Encounters[/h3]

• Enemy scaling fixed

Enemy groups were no longer scaling with your caravan, leading to easy fights against low-level (Lv.1) enemies. This is now fixed.

• Unit encounter rework
  We’ve restructured enemy groups to make encounters more varied and challenging:
  
  • 2-enemy fights were too frequent and not engaging — most have been removed.
    
  • Stronger enemy groups have been added across all regions.
    
  • Each region now features more diverse enemy compositions.

More tweaks will follow — this is just the first step in our balancing effort.

[h3]Caravaneer Upgrades Nerfed / Roguelite Bonuses Buffed[/h3]
Sandwalkers isn’t about a single overpowered caravaneer dashing to Umama. It’s about generations building on each other’s journey.

• Caravaneer upgrades nerfed by ~30%.
  
• Cristal Library combat upgrades have been buffed to reinforce roguelite progression.

[h3]General Balance Tweaks[/h3]

• Protector
  • Gains +2 Strength/level (up from +1).
    
  • "Raise Shield" ability nerfed.

• Status Effects
  
  • Decaying Shield buffed.
    
  • Infested nerfed.
    
  • Blinded nerfed.

• Bosses & Elites
  
  • HP increased, but Strength reduced at levels 3–5.

• All enemies
  • Strength reduced at levels 3–5, but increased from level 7 onward.
    

• Merchants
  • Merchants in Cities now give more items
    

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed several attacks that dealt pure damage with no type.
  
• "Ban Hammer" Fetish now correctly targets the launcher.

[h3]Known Issues (Still Investigating)[/h3]

• Rare black screen blocking progress.
  
• Some units show the wrong sprite when stunned.
  
• Bosses can be stunned, even when they should be immune.
  
• Trade with merchants can be broken, allowing players to get insane amount of items

Thank you all for your patience and invaluable feedback — it really helped us identify and fix this core issue. There’s more to come, but this patch should make Sandwalkers feel closer to our original vision.

— The Sandwalkers Team

Hello again!

We're pushing live a fix for a blocker, along with some more minor issues that were ready to be pushed and safe to release. Thanks a lot once again for your feedback and patience!


[h3]Patch 2.0.4 - Full changes[/h3]

• Fixed a bug with the Dragonopterous not reappearing if you lost against him once, preventing you to complete the quest
  
  
  • ATTENTION, this is right now only fixed for new players doing the quest after this patch. To apply the fix on currently locked save, we need more time as it require editing the saves. We should be ready to deploy this on monday. If this happened to you, please wait monday (or alternatively you can delete your save files and start over). We're very sorry about this, but rather deploy the fix now for future players even if it is partial
• Fixed an error in Ban Hammer's fetish description
  
• Azor boss cannot be stun anymore
  
• "Shields Up!" attack :
  
  • Now give 90% of his shield to the protected person (previous value : 180%)
• Memory Overload attack :
  
  • Base ratio reduced from 1.8 and 1.5 to 1.3 and 1.3
• Fixed an upgrade that was boosting ratios AND adding another "Deal Damage"
  

Hello everyone!

It's been a few days Sandwalkers is out now, and we wanted to talk about it! We know not everyone's checking patchnotes, Steam forums and everything, so this is your place to get posted about the release!

First of all, we want to of course thank you all for playing the game, whether you just hopped on the caravan, or if you helped build it from EA and beyond. Creating a video game is always a challenge, and having feedback from people helps a lot, quite litteraly for the quality of the game, but also to make us give our everything

[h3] Bug issues[/h3]
There's been some issues in the game for the release. A vast majority of them are due to save compatibility issues between some versions of the Early Access, and the Release version.
Some really bad ones were fixed already, and some other fixes are also coming along the way (we see you Yoz Larvae).
Thanks again for reporting them here in the Steam forums, or on the Discord. Some issues are passing through our nets, and your help have been precious to correct them. We're currently still investigating and fixing issues, as well as closely monitoring the situation, so you can expect some more patches coming

[h3]Balancing[/h3]
Currently, the main problem we have is balancing. As it is right now, there's an issue with it, and we're working on it. Of course, balancing is always a touchy subject, as it is always complicated to get it just right. It would seem that on our quest to get it as fine tuned as possible, something went really wrong and detuned the balancing a lot. Still, we do not want to rush this one fix as this can be incredibly frustrating, for you, and for us too. We want to know what went wrong and make it right, obviously.
On this matter, we think we should be able to get a version live of this updated balancing, tomorrow (April 11th)

This is all we wanted to tell you for now, as we felt like it was important to keep you posted. Please stay tuned for patchnotes, and potential future Checkpoints!

Thanks for reading, and, most importantly, thanks for playing Sandwalkers

Hi again!

Yes I know, another patch. But there was just one nasty bug we wanted to fix, so here we are :D

[h3]Sandwalkers - 2.0.3 version - 09/04/2025 full patchnote [/h3]

• Fix an issue with the follower rising global experience gain instead of just combat experience
  

Cheers! :D