Sandship: Crafting Factory

Name: Sandship: Crafting Factory
Rating: 4.7 (8419 reviews)
Author: Rockbite Games

By: Rockbite Games

Control an alien factory!

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Features & Capabilities

From the developers of Deep Town, Sandship is a free-to-play sci-fi factory management game set aboard a gigantic, AI-powered sandship. Roam a post-apocalyptic desert planet, craft everything from copper wires to ancient technology, and automate production with conveyor belts. Trade your creations for credits, XP, and ancient crates that unlock powerful new abilities as you rebuild a fading civilization and defend against a ruthless cult.

Meet Harvey, your cyborg mentor, and complete quests to meet allies, uncover lost histories, and discover the planet’s secrets. Build and tinker in puzzle-driven factory floors and a sandbox to prototype layouts, mine with the underwell, and defend your sandship against extraterrestrial enemies as the universe expands and new features arrive. Share your optimized setups with the community.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

Rockbite Games

Rating:

4.70

(8,419) 11 new ratings

Version:

2.18.7 Last updated: 2023-04-06

Version code:

855809715

Creation date:

2020-05-06

Compatible devices:

Size:

345.27MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-06

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 19,658 ▼ 17

Other rankings

#74 in resource keyword 28 ▲ 18

Other platforms

Sandship: Crafting Factory (v0.18.10)

3,524,705 4.51

(189,300)

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Developed by:

Rockbite Games

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sandship-crafting-factory/id1440385758

Website:

http://sandship.com

User Reviews

Sandship: Crafting Factory offers a fun, accessible factory-building experience with strong visuals and a satisfying layout puzzle. The core loop on mobile is appealing, but players frequently cite slow pacing, grind, and repetitive endgame tasks. Technical issues (bugs, audio glitches, occasional freezes) and less-polished controls dampen the experience. Overall, it’s a solid concept with room for deeper progression and stability improvements.

Pros

Engaging and addictive gameplay that many players find fun
Visually polished with smooth graphics and pleasing ambience
Satisfying factory-building mechanics, including intuitive machine placement and compact layouts
Easy to learn and accessible for newcomers

Cons

Time-gated progression with long waits and grindy pacing
Controls and UI feel unintuitive or fiddly
Bugs and performance issues (audio glitches, freezes, lag, load problems)
Limited progression depth after early levels and repetitive endgame tasks

Recent reviews

This is one of those games you click on where the hand is pointing until you eventually click on some sort of in-store purchase and micro transactions. You don’t get to actually build the factory you just click on what they say to do and you hope you stumble the store to buy diamonds or gold or whatever BS they’re selling

by Th*****, 2026-05-08

Not the worst factory game I’ve played, but not the best. Not the biggest fan of time gated idle farming. Gotta wait 2 hours to fulfill some arbitrary contract, and even after putting phone down for four hours, come back to it saying 10 minutes left, but I can spend the premium gems to speed it up? No thank you. Other than that, the actual factory UI is neat. Picking up and moving the machines around is simple, and it’s fun to look for ways to shrink down and squeeze all your fabrication areas into one building. The puzzle rooms are a little simple, but that might be because I haven’t done more than 3 as of this review. Hoping they get more difficult.