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.

X.D. Network and Han-Squirrel Studio have announced that the English language launch of Sands of Salzaar will arrive on Sept. 22, 2020, via Steam Early Access, making it fully accessible for players in North America and Europe for the first time.

To bring Sands of Salzaar to English-speaking audiences, the development team has worked to translate a massive script of nearly 500,000 words. The update will also feature new story content with 30 additional quest lines. What's more, the game includes full mod support via Steam Workshop, with hundreds of mods delivering new characters, custom maps, multiplayer maps, bonus difficulty modes and more available on September 22.

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!