Last updated on December 9th, 2025 at 06:09 pm
Sandship: Crafting Factory – Simulation Game Review
Sandship: Crafting Factory is a Simulation/Strategy game from Rockbite LLC, first launched in 6th May 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 8,264+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sandship: Crafting Factory Stand Out
From the developers of Deep Town, Sandship is a factory management game set in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi universe. You control the last remaining sandship: a gigantic, artificially intelligent mega-factory, which roams across the endless deserts of a far-away planet. Noranti One was a highly advanced civilization. After an accident forced your sandship into hibernation, it awoke in a world of ruins. Join us on a journey to rediscover forgotten technologies, forge a better tomorrow through crafting and trade, and fight a vicious cult hellbent on your destruction. Unlock the secrets of this cryptic land onboard your incredible sandship.
Design futuristic factories from the ground up in this free to play adventure. Place devices like synthesizers, chemical mixers, and ice guns in your sandship factory. The more devices you have, the greater your automated productivity. Connect those devices with conveyor belts to craft a wide variety of materials, from copper wires and combustion engines to ancient technology utilizing the mythic power of the overwell. Upgrade your sandship and add bigger factories to get the space you’ll need to produce more complex items. Trade the incredible stuff you make to earn credits, XP and get old crates filled with scientific research from the distant past. This ancient knowledge gives your sandship new abilities, becoming stronger, smarter, and more powerful than she’s been in a long, long time.
Your engineering mentor is Harvey, a tenacious one-eyed cyborg who needs your help to reconnect with his past. Harvey will show you the ropes of sandship engineering as you build and maintain more complex factories on a desert journey. Are you ready to voyage through a mysterious alien desert with many obstacles in your path? The planet is inhabited by an unusual assortment of robots and aliens. Some are friendly and astounded by your sandship. Others are hostile and want to see your sandship destroyed, but you’re not sure why. Complete quests to meet new characters, uncover ancient civilizations, hear campfire stories and learn how this once industrious world crumbled in the distant past.
There’s so much to discover on-board a sandship. Solve factory floor puzzles, then create your own to share with other players. Get creative in the sandbox to try out new setups without using any resources. Build an enigmatic underwell to mine precious resources, but be prepared to defend against hordes of extraterrestrial enemies to collect them. New features and places to explore are added continuously. The universe of Sandship is constantly expanding.
FEATURES
Engineered for Fun:
Free to Play
Design a futuristic assembly line for automated crafting
Produce everything from simple items to otherworldly technology
Place more devices to create increasingly complex materials
Trade what you make for credits, XP, and crates containing ancient knowledge
Upgrade your sandship’s size to mythic proportions
Maximize your credits to buy buildings, devices, and decorations
Develop holographic blueprints to get creative with your setups
Solve factory floor puzzles and share your own
Explore the World:
Help Harvey, your cyborg engineering mentor, reconnect with his past
Complete quests to earn rewards and assist the colorful inhabitants of Noranti One
Adventure through a strange planet inhabited by aliens and robots
Uncover lost civilizations and learn their secret histories
Defend your sandship against hordes of extraterrestrial enemies
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sandship: Crafting Factory is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th April 2023
Recent improvements include:
Notch fix for iOS 13+
Download & Availability
Sandship: Crafting Factory is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Sandship: Crafting Factory on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is the best game on the App Store.
Truly a gem, very nice and chill game about automation with likable characters and amazing graphics (for some reason we really like seeing our mobile fortress crawl along the never ending desert lol).
So far we wanna find out what the lore Is and 100% it.
We play satisfactory on our pc And jumped at the opportunity to have automation anywhere. We are very suprised that there are virtually no ads. Highly recommend.
Took us 2 years to find it but it is a really addictive game if you like industry tycoon like games. Would recommend.
Wait what it has an automatic review text this is epic! This game is super really fun and we like factories :D we deleted the automated review text tho haha but thats cool.
Top 10 mobile games ever, hands down.
We rlly like this game, it has a few bugs with the audio and the game freezing sometimes, but those instances are few and far between, good game :D.
Played this game years ago, just recently found it again and its still gives us the excitement as it did when we were a kid! Great game.
Is great game, makes for an interesting story.
Great game. Amazing concept. Insane execution.
Wish the tutorial ghosts would go away.
Probably the best mobile game Ive ever played.
Lots of content and fun game a shame devs dropped support.
This game is amazing in all aspects.
Been playing this since we first found it many years ago then we switched over to iOS and forgot about it. Now Im back to min maxing our buildings and pumping resources. Great game, decent grind, the only bad thing about it is theres no way to earn purple gems unless paying.
Always something new to learn and endless ways to rearrange and optimize your production lines/buildings.
Love the game. Can go at our own pace.
Three reasons why we love this game: 1. The game has zero forced ads 2. This game is so fun to just watch the factory create stuff 3. This game in our opinion is addicting, super fun, and creative.
A little bit of grinding but fun and satisfying.
So we found this game a while ago, and we 100% love everything about it, from the storyline to all the quests and the battle system, tis game has it all. We found ourselves fallong asleep to sounds of machinery and that beautiful soundtrack. 10/10 moblie game, needs more love.
No other games are able to beat this automation.
A good phone game that doesnt force adds on you.
Us gustara ms si estara en espaol aunque la verdad es muy interesante el juego y no ingls pero lo entiendo.
Best game Ive ever ever played, but they need a new way to get money it is very hard and it takes really long.
Fun game but you cant build whatever you want.
Only a few hours into play, but we truly have enjoyed this game thus far. Not too annoying with purchases and doesnt feel like it needs to be pay to play. Love the story and the artwork.
Good game just wish you can make the level cap higher.
Eventually gets pretty tricky. Good time sink.
We love this and am addicted in 10 minutes of playing recommended for ROK players and city skylines players.
Fun game. Like building factories.
The crafting is actually really good as the heat physics make it realistic and diverse from other games.
This is a great game with great sound and deep gameplay.
One of the very few iPhone games that have ever caught our attention for more than a day.
So far, great game! Havent really have any problems. Good graphics, good story, fun gameplay! The only problem was the D-word in the tutorial. Not a big problem, but it was unnecessary. But still, not a bad game, not bad at all.
We love this game, since downloading it Ive put in 8-10 hrs easy. One thing Ive noticed is the store seems to be bugged. Gems dont have prices for the packs and whenever we try to buy anything, the game crashes.
We cant leave this game alone it needs more support Eggs are cool too.
We've been playing it for almost a decade now. What else can we say.
We really enjoy this game and just wish there was more to do.
Very slow at parts but the lore and looks are amazing.
We have only played for a couple of hours but already have we been absolutely enchanted, charmed, and absorbed by this lil game. Its well designed visually; we like ol Harvey and the machines are cute and the environment, wow! Its well designed mechanically; everything builds up nicely (so far) and the materials contribute meaningfully to progression through the story, especially as youre firing up the ship. The sound design is chefs kiss delicious. We love the mix of synths and acoustic guitar giving the whole experience a gritty, futuristic feel but there are also nice little touches like how the production sounds get slightly muted when youre in a sub menu inside one of the buildings. Details, man. They go a long way. Most importantly though, that very first lore item is truly what hooked us. The story of Harvey…sheesh what a read. It really went SO far to fleshing out the atmosphere and the character who before had just been a silly pop up tutorial guide but now we know hes kinda…well, (spoiler alert) haunting the ship. What once was a cutesy Factorio cloneyea Im on to you, devs ;) suddenly elevated itself rapidly and very stylishly. Our compliments to the team and we look forward to delving deeper into the sands.
We play satisfactory and we wanted it on our phone so we found this. Runs great on our iPhone 6s so should run amazingly on newer hardware. O and the game does a great job of walking you through it. 10/10.
First glitch we experienced when we tried to place a building at was bigger on the thing. It just didnt work for no reason and we assumed it was a glitch. And thats all.
If you enjoy puzzles and you like production, this is the game for you. Ive only been playing for a few days but this game has us hooked.
This is one of the few good factory games you will find on mobile.
Love the idea of managing a giant moving Star Trek replicator rover across a sandy dyson sphere designed to create matter from a black holes energy. Nortani 1 was created to capture a black holes energy in order to create as much substance/quark gluon plasma as possible. Another thing we love is how more realistic Sandship is compared to Deep Town. Overall great game. ETC: we like to imagine substance harvesters as sending Dyson swarms to Nortanis nearby stars to collect photons. The swarms then transmit the photons through zero point energy teleportation to the harvester. Every capacitor built collects more photons and converts it to substance.
Most of it is in the title but theres one bug, in the store all the prices say 0.00 and when we click it just closes the game so can you work on that.
Buen juego Entretenido y la historia genial.
Great gameplay, good music, enjoy the story arc, and the style is fantastic.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.18.7
- Size: 345.27 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Rockbite LLC
Last updated: 6th April 2023 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Rockbite LLC