Mobile
Strategy
Dune and Ghibli collide in Steam Next Fest's strangest strategy game, where you drive steampunk war-crabs across an interplanetary Austro-Hungarian empire
Ten minutes into the demo for Sand, and I'm wrestling with about six different controls on the roof of an armored two-storey shack. Stomping about an alien desert on four mechanised feet while the engine behind me belches smoke into the air, piloting a mobile base this big is more art than science. I wince as I try to parallel park it into the dock for a city outpost, hearing the screech of metal scraping on granite as I pull too close to the pier. I play demos from the Steam Next Fest to relax, not be reminded of my first driving test.