Starsand

Starsand

Tunnel Vision Studio · 2022 · Open World Survival Craft, Survival, Open World, Realistic, 3D

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About Starsand

✦ AI summary

Survive alone in a massive desert filled with alien mysteries, deadly creatures, and extreme weather by hunting, building shelter, and solving ancient puzzles. This VR survival game challenges you to master resource management and combat while uncovering what happened to a lost civilization under a sky with two moons.

Your day started as planned. Motivated and full of ambition you started the marathon of your life in the middle of the desert. The months of hard training should finally bear fruit. Suddenly, you were caught in a monstrous sandstorm and now you find yourself alone in an inhospitable, hot environment. Deserted and merciless, an ocean of sand stretches to the horizon.

You feel the scorching heat on your skin, sand blowing right at your face, far and wide only vast desert ... but wait, what is that? Something is moving in the far distance. What happened?

Your first thought: Survival.
Your second thought: Rescue will surely come.
The bitter realization: No one will come, you are completely on your own.
The big question: Where are you and why are there two moons in the night sky?
Find shade, find water, find life. Use your energy wisely, avoid too much effort in the heat, keep warm in the coldest nights. You must keep your wits to survive.
Starsand is THE desert survival game. Dangers, mysteries, and puzzles await you! Find out what exactly happened, where you are and what connects you to the history of an extinct civilization. Will you manage to survive in the inhospitable environment, find answers and find your way back to your old life?
Hunt for food, make weapons, build a shelter. Secure your shelter - the dunes are teeming with scary creatures.
Find your way in the vast and lonely desert, orient yourself in sandstorms and mark your path. Thirst and heat become an invincible enemy during the day - cold endangers you during the night. Learn to live with adversity, see the beauty that the world holds, and learn from the animals and nature!
In this desert you are both a hunter and prey. Insect-like predators come out of their dark nests, always looking for food. Protect yourself with fire, blow up enemies with explosive coconut grenades, secure your base and do whatever it takes to survive.
We, Tunnel Vision Studio, are a small creative team ready to conquer the world with RAM sticks, dressed in GPU-coated armor and wearing a VR visor as a helmet. We are a handful of brave geeks based in Rome, not ready to give in to the temptations of countries with fiber broadband and unhealthy food. We make a living doing what we love: everything related to virtual reality and video games.

Features:

  • Large open game world in an exciting desert setting with an area of over 64 km².
  • The lovingly designed world, far away from civilization, holds many impressive monuments, artifacts, and creatures of the past, as well as modern times.
  • Survival action par excellence! Weather and desert capers as well as terrestrial and extra-terrestrial enemies awaken the pure survival instinct!
  • Gather, build, secure - for protection against heat, cold, and the unknown enemy.
  • Dynamic weather and day/night changes demand good planning, wise action, and a large portion of courage, especially in the desert.
  • A mystical, thrilling story and the solving of numerous puzzles answer many open questions during the exciting journey into the unknown.

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended May 13, 2026
The tutorial and the game itself are very basic. If you diverge from it and you do it in a different way, it is not updated, so you fcked. It could be the desert version of The Long Dark, but it failed in every way
7 found this helpful
Not recommended May 18, 2026
This could have been such an amazing game but it feels like the creators started with this amazing idea and then got bored 30% into the creation and then just crammed getting anything else done would not recommend
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 14, 2026
It's different but decent
Recommended Jun 25, 2026
remeber to save
Not recommended Jun 23, 2026
TERRIBLE
Recommended May 7, 2026
This is a great game but I don't like that I cannot save it.

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