A couple of weeks after the early access launch, the steampunk-mech desert project Sand: Raiders of Sophie has been picking up momentum, though not without a few rough edges. Pub. TinyBuild says 300,000 copies have sold — a notable result for an indie release, even if it's still early to draw long-term conclusions. A second update ran into problems and had to be rolled back; frantic troubleshooting combined with a fortuitous weekend window pushed the Steam peak past 40,000 players. Those spikes helped the title stay prominently visible on the platform, but the team knows the situation can shift fast. The devs are already working on more patches and are mining community reports to guide fixes and tweaks.