Sands of Salzaar combines large- and small-scale action and strategy with epic battles, a fantastic story, and vast environments brought to life with unique hand-drawn visuals.

The Old Empire has fallen, and now rival factions compete for control of an exotic desert world filled with a variety of characters, quests and secrets. Sands of Salzaar features innovative strategy elements that offer tons of tactical and resource management choices. Recruit a mighty army up from a single unit, train them with a range of active and passive abilities, and lead them into battle against opposing cities and factions in real-time combat.

Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours

Your progression is up to you, and every playthrough offers new challenges and experiences. Customize your hero with an array of skills, pick your soldiers, and choose which factions to make your ally -- and which to make your enemy.

Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.

A massive new update earlier this fall introduced full English language support to make the game even more accessible to players in North America and Europe, and now the team is back with a new development roadmap outlining new content and enhancements planned for the game over the next phase of early access.

Coming in November, Sands of Salzaar’s next major update will continue to improve multiplayer combat, as well as further develop the game’s quest system and map variety to make progression in the open world even more satisfying. The update will also feature new community modding tool optimizations. Additional updates over the coming months will introduce controller support, a new official PvP map, new player character and storylines, improvements to AI and siege gameplay, and more.

There are now over 500 mods for Sands of Salzaar in Steam Workshop, featuring custom characters, maps, challenges, multiplayer options, and even completely reimagined gameplay and story overhauls. Since the launch of the game’s English localization, English language modders have already begun developing and releasing new creations to the community, while many of the most popular existing mods have been steadily rolling out their own English language updates.

Sands of Salzaar is now available through Steam Early Access.

Key Features:

• Epic Battles & Strategy: Recruit and train your soldiers for both large and small-scale battles and sieges. Customize your hero’s skills and become a martial arts master, powerful archmage and more. Upgrade your troops with a range of active and passive abilit ies from branching skill trees, manage your resources to keep them fed, and command them in real time to win. Ally with different factions, or create your own, bu t beware -- hostile factions will be on the hunt for you.
• Explore a Dynamic Open World: Meet a variety of characters, take on quests, defeat deadly enemies and bosses for loot, and discover tons of secrets around the map.
• A New Adventure Every Time You Play: Become stronger with each playthrough, unlocking bonus characters, abilities, items, and challenges for a new experience every run.
• Full Modding Support: Expand your world with a full set of Steam Workshop development tools. Discover hundreds of community mods already available featuring custom maps, multiplayer modes (including co-op), characters, themes, perks and more!