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Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
Sands of Aura is a action rpg, souls-like and dungeon crawler game
developed by Chashu Entertainment
and published by indie.io.
Released on October 27th 2023 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 592 reviews of which 456 were positive and 136 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.19€ on Steam with a 60% discount, but you can find it for 0.86€ on Eneba.
The Steam community has classified Sands of Aura into these genres:
Action RPG
Souls-like
Dungeon Crawler
Dark Fantasy
Stylized
Exploration
Difficult
Indie
Post-apocalyptic
Isometric
Hack and Slash
Action
RPG
Open World
Crafting
PvE
Singleplayer
Adventure
Action-Adventure
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| Portuguese - Brazil |
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel i5-4440 / AMD FX-8370
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 960 / AMD R9 285
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 22 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 11 sound device
- Additional Notes: These requirements may change during early access period.
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Sands of Aura - 100% Completion Review Score: 7.5/10 Sands of Aura is a Souls Like with a unique dark and melancholy style of art that focuses on a world turned to Sand due to corruption and the Remnant Knight who must find a way to stop it, after fully completing the game i'll give some pro's, neutrals and cons. PRO'S: -Character creation, male/female, face, skin, hair etc. -Good music -Good story with plenty of twists and turns, though it can get a bit convoluted at times if your not reading every item description and quest log update -Tons of lore, item descriptions that give lore, lore about places you visit etc. -Fully voice acted with good voice acting -Good characters that are well written and designed -Good environments with a good attention to detail -Has a sand boat that you can use to sail around the sand sea discovering new places, similar to Wind Waker if you ever played that but with sand instead of water -Tons of armor sets to find that each have their own unique passive abilities encouraging experimentation -Talismans you can find through out the game give helpful passive bonuses that make the game a bit easier -Npcs you find throughout the game will move to the main hub city and populate it, tavern musicians, armor smiths, shop keepers etc. that give you a reason to explore the world -Weapons, instead of traditionally being found in chests, are crafted and fully customized to be anything from a simple sword, to a dagger, glaive, axe, pole arm or a mix of multiple, different pommels that each give different effects, spells books to make them do even more, lots of customization to make the weapon exactly how you want it to be -Weapons and armor can be upgraded with runes to make them or yourself stronger -No cheap deaths, it's fair and doesn't pull any shenanigans that other souls like to do -Good performance, no lag or crashes NEUTRAL'S: "No Score Change From These" -Time for 100% full completion about 30 hours -Difficulty is above average simply due to how heavily the game relies on weapon and armor upgrades, not the hardest souls like mind you, but up there CON'S: -Camera on wind boat makes it difficult to see, too zoomed in and no overhead or way to adjust the camera making it difficult to see where your going -It can be difficult to find new islands on the sand sea due the bad camera angle and icons for new places not showing up unless you get close enough, there really needed to be some kind of way to help guide players to find islands easier -True ending can break if you go to ruined settlement which is near the end of the sea map before you reach the final ending part of the game, the person who is supposed to show up to tell you about it never does and the character who is at that island isn't there locking you out of the true ending, learned this one the hard way and had to watch it online, so fair warning to anyone who reads this review on that, this is pretty game breaking if you don't know about it before hand Overall Sands of Aura was a pretty solid souls like, it has a rough and slow start due to some of the game mechanics having to be learned by trial and error but gets better as you play, once you hit the mid game and you have more armor sets and talismans it becomes a pretty enjoyable souls like, so if your like souls likes then you will no doubt like this game just fine, but as always, It's.. Up.. To.. You and i'll leave it at that. (^_−).
Sands of Aura is a surprisingly charming game. The art style and world immediately stand out, and the semi–open world structure (more dungeon-based than fully open) makes exploration genuinely fun. Dungeon design is well thought out, with good use of verticality, hidden paths, and backtracking that never feels like a chore. Even without a minimap, the game somehow manages to guide you naturally, though I did get lost more than once. I personally liked the free camera instead of a fixed one. It won’t be everyone’s preference, but for me it made exploration more engaging and immersive. Combat scratches that Soulslike itch nicely. It’s simple, smooth, and mostly free of jank. Parrying and shielding take some getting used to, but once it clicks, fights feel satisfying. Weapon variety is solid, and each weapon supports a different playstyle, which kept combat from getting stale. One of the highlights is the progression system. There’s no traditional stat leveling but, instead progression comes from gear. Armor sets, weapon crafting, and talismans offer a good amount of build variety. Upgrading doesn’t feel grindy at all; I went through most of the game with minimal grinding, maxed my weapon, and finished the game comfortably. Since weapons can be modified into different stat paths, you can even carry your starting weapon into the endgame (moveset aside), which I really appreciated. Overall, Sands of Aura is a solid 7/10 for me. My main complaint is that some parts feel unfinished, like quests or story buildup that don’t fully pay off. The main story is serviceable, but I wish the side stories carried more weight and helped flesh out the world further. The dialogue is okay although a bit too lengthy for my taste but some of the characters are very well written. Still, it’s a fun, well-designed indie Soulslike that’s absolutely worth checking out if you enjoy exploration-focused action RPGs.
Despite my positive reviews, I do hope that potential buyers read this first and that the devs also read it. This is a game with a lot of promise and has (or had) the potential to be a great game, but even if I *want* to play it more, i don't even know if I should. We'll start with pros and cons and then explain them all: For anyone starting the game, upgrade your gear. There's no XP. Just upgrade your armor to slot more runes upgraded to give more stats. And upgrade your spells when possible *PROS* Interesting story: I haven't completed the game yet, but the story does have a mix of elements that show its influences in an intriguing way. Some of this showed potential to develop into even more interesting concepts like a changing open world or eldritch horror or choice-based character development. The idea of what it could be is really exciting.... Satisfying open world gameplay: Again, pulling from its influences and turning it into a great mix, whether sailling around like Wind Waker or delving into molten megaliths reminiscent of major souls-like games, I loved exploring. Simplified gameplay loop shows a lot of promise: Combat elements were actually great except for a few details (discussed more below). Streamlining the gear, upgrades, enhancements, etc, was a good choice. I think the overall gameplay loop showed promise for something truly addicting. Sound: The soundtrack is great and the voice acting is really well done. *CONS* PERFORMANCE: This is the biggest con by far. This is the reason I'm not sure I can keep playing this game. I run Linux Steam on a 9070XT (i.e. the latest and greatest from AMD) and this game runs HOT. The only other games trying to melt my GPU this fast are Cyberpunk 2077 (with settings cranked up) and one other poorly optimized indie game. At one point my PSU entered a failstate with all the power draw. From reviews I've seen on the SteamDeck, it seems this has been a problem for a while. I think the benchmark is simple: If you are on PC and can't get it running well on a Steam deck, you need to look at your game. Since Steam is only breaking the console market open further with its upcoming hardware, I think any developer should worry about how their game runs on Linux/Proton on AMD hardware. Support: Following the previous point, I don't have any expectations that the previous con will get better when players are noticing that the game hasn't gotten any patching in a long time. In fact, I could hardly tell that the dev team still existed. They hadn't updated their webpage since Aura 1.0 dropped, although they still have a Youtube page with non-featured videos to see their video devlogs about a new project. If you are on the devteam, please, save a little bit of hours to consider polishing this gem more. It has the bones of something great. At the very least, for the foreseeable future, it is the calling card for your brand. Don't abandon it. Gameplay hiccups: There are quest issues and there are mechanical issues. I know they've been working on these since the early access days. First the quest stuff, I know other people talked about how vague the quest hints are. But even small changes like, including names _and_ specific locations in the description can help a lot (where applicable). Also, Radix... I can't be the only one that went to the wrong entrance, didn't get any dialogue indicating "you're in the wrong entrance" or "you can't do this side of the island yet" and felt stuck because the gameplay triggers for clearing the entrance could've gone just a bit further as I scouted the entire way around the island. (not the only example of quest confusion, but the most memorable since I almost dropped the game here) Now the mechanical stuff... Clipping was an issue. There were times where I'd get stuck in the air indefinitely trying to jump on something (waiting to either get killed or force quit the game). There seemed to be invisible barriers on the smooth ground, especially when walking slowly. Random types of enemy projectiles could travel through walls. It's not the end of the world, but it does add to jankiness. Now for a topic that the devteam has worried over for some time.... This long section is really aimed at the devs for friendly, constructive criticism. This is by no means "terrible". I only bring this up in the hopes this gem can be polished a bit more...... Floatiness. I'm glad the devs have looked at this but, even after reading their dev notes, i think they missed an important piece: Timing with animations. The way an arm moves, its articulation in space along with any sound it may make, gives it the perception of weight and momentum. This is what tricks us into a sense of tactile presence within the world. The movement of the character is actually decent. I like the way the player-character feels when swinging and rolling. The problem is the other creatures.... Every time I play a souls-like, if it has a parry-mechanic, best believe i'm wasting some lives just trying to master the timing of it. But I'm not just mastering the timing of when a parry activates for my player character, but also the timing of when to activate it against the enemy, measuring my response time between recognizing an enemy's particular move, when I should register the parry and when the parry will activate. To help this point with a segue, imagine your character is walking (and I know the devs have worked this; just starting at an understandable analog). If your character's feet don't match the speed of the ground? Floaty. If the sound of your footsteps don't match the expected touch to the ground (or are nonexistant)? Floaty. A similar set of constraints (or actually more constraints) apply to what makes combat, and specifically parrying, floaty. Is the delay time for parry too long? trying to be weighty, sure, but maybe floaty (this has to be very, very fine tuned with the expectation of weight in the world). Is the windup for an enemy's attack too long? Also floaty. Does the enemy have an extremely slow attack windup and then a quick, unexpected release? Floaty. Does the enemy attack animation show inconsistent inertia? Floaty. Even after way too much time wasted on mastering the parry. I found that dodging was usually the only meaningful choice. Most of the time, I only got parries when I was consciously trying to block and the parry happened to hit. This means how my brain inputs the inertia of my character versus the inertia of my enemy's attack results in nothing meaningful. Whenever I tried to memorize a boss' attack timing for parry, I wasn't looking at their animation; I was registering a brain timer arbitrary to the game and testing it, trying a different timer, testing it with eyes glazing over. (Actually, this is kinda like the drinking game at the festival: no idea what may indicate the right combination, so I have to try them all blindly until brute-forcing my way thru.) Obviously, this starts to seriously disconnect me from the gameplay loop and the world it's in. Outside of performance, this is the biggest hinderance to people continue to play the game. I know it seems like a never-ending slog, but this is the *core* of your gameplay loop. If I don't want to dodge, parry and swing I won't want to play the game, no matter how great the other aspects are. I didn't expect to like the great parts of this game so much. I know this game had a rocky road to its 1.0 release. I read the dev notes. I wish this game could've been a great redemption arc like No Man's Sky but with game elements reminiscent of Zelda or Bloodborne or God of War combined into something special and unique. I'd say it still could be special, but I'm just not sure how the devs think of it at this point. I know they're working on a Lethal-Company-esque game in the deep sea....and that's a cool concept.... But this game also has a cool concept and some good bones. I don't want to see the meat on it go emaciated and whither....
Sands of Aura has a little bit of jank, but nothing glaring or obstructive to gameplay. Take a half a cup of Torchlight, 1 quarter cup of Dark Souls, and 2 tablespoons of LOZ:Windwaker and you get Sands of Aura. If the above sounds like a fun game, buy it. You won't regret it. Fully voice-acted (very high quality) beautiful and charming worlds, and an art-style somewhat like Little Nightmares (without the horror.)
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Sands of Aura is currently priced at 9.19€ on Steam.
Yes, Sands of Aura is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 9.19€ on Steam.
Yes, Sands of Aura received 456 positive votes out of a total of 592 achieving a rating of 7.31.
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Sands of Aura was developed by Chashu Entertainment and published by indie.io.
Yes, Sands of Aura is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Sands of Aura is not playable on MacOS.
No, Sands of Aura is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Sands of Aura is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Sands of Aura is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Sands of Aura does not support VR.
Sands of Aura is a single-player game.
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No, Sands of Aura does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Sands of Aura is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Chashu Entertainment
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indie.io
Release
27 Oct 2023
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