{"id":1602220,"date":"2026-06-09T18:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gfa9uQiMyBE8CpaRip9S8n"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:53:02","slug":"one-day-before-launch-extraction-shooter-sand-gets-delayed-again-oh-and-its-an-early-access-game-now-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/one-day-before-launch-extraction-shooter-sand-gets-delayed-again-oh-and-its-an-early-access-game-now-too\/","title":{"rendered":"One day before launch, extraction shooter Sand gets delayed again\u2014oh, and it’s an early access game now, too"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welp, once again Sand: Raiders of Sophie\u2014the hotly anticipated PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and pilot big stompy mechanical bases across an alien planet\u2014has been delayed.<\/p>\n

And this time, the delay was announced a mere one day<\/em> before it was supposed to launch. Yikes.<\/p>\n

Just yesterday the global launch times and regional pricing for Sand: Raiders of Sophie were posted in the game’s Discord, seeming to indicate that the launch was a go. But this morning, another announcement said the game would be delayed until June 22\u2014and when it does launch, it’ll now be an early access game instead of a full release. Yikes, again.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time Sand has been delayed: for months, the release date was listed on Steam as “March 2026,” until in the final week of March the developer finally admitted the game wasn’t quite ready<\/a>. And here we are again.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s been a crazy few days, with SAND featuring at Summer Games Fest and the Server Slam exceeding our expectations on the number of players,” publisher TinyBuild said on Steam. “We\u2019ve welcomed tens of thousands of new smugglers into the world of SAND and it\u2019s shown us just how special what we have on our hands really is.”<\/p>\n

Noting extensive feedback (both positive and negative) from players on balancing and features, “It\u2019s clear we need to more closely involve the community in our development, and so we\u2019ve decided to release into Early Access to work towards the best possible version of SAND: Raiders of Sophie,” the publisher said.<\/p>\n

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