# Sandship: Crafting Factory — user reviews

> 2,094 indexed App Store user reviews of Sandship by Rockbite Games, rated 4.70/5 from 8,471 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sandship-crafting-factory/id1440385758/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sandship-crafting-factory/id1440385758.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 7,092 · 4★ 667 · 3★ 249 · 2★ 112 · 1★ 351

## What do users think of Sandship?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 👍 No ads
- 👍 Interesting lore and story
- 🚀 Satisfying factory building
- 👍 Charming visuals and sound design
- 👍 Minimal pay-to-win elements

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Production issues and glitches
- 🐛 Laggy performance on some devices
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 💰 Grindy progression and monetization

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Factories not producing correctly
- Inventory and resource tracking issues
- Crashes during loading and transitions
- UI bugs and glitches
- Syncing and save data problems

**Most requested features**

- More developer-made puzzles
- Ability to control input of importers
- Confirmation prompt for using gems
- Offline play mode
- Clearer tutorials and explanations

## Newest reviews (14 of 2,094)

### 3/5 — Shame about the glitching

*2026-09-06, version 2.18.7*

Really well designed game, lots of potential. Unfortunately it glitches, freezes, and crashes regularly, making it very frustrating to play

### 4/5 — 4.5 stars <3

*2026-08-31, version 2.18.7*

Very amazing soundtrack, great graphics, fun story, my only real complaint is how you kinda need a good device to run it, but that’s more a limitation of the mobile platform

### 3/5 — It gets tedious

*2026-07-27, version 2.18.7*

Like the review said, the game just gets tedious after a short while. There’s no exciting developments, no real change to the gameplay, just a lot of ads and micro transactions just to get higher levels of the same basic stuff.

### 4/5 — I sux

*2026-07-22, version 2.18.7*

Tutorial is non-existent but it’s kinda fun.

### 4/5 — 4 stars because it's discontinued

*2026-06-18, version 2.18.7*

I love this game, but I really want it to be continued. I might make a fangame of this years later but with more stuff, but right now, I can't.

### 4/5 — Its going good

*2026-06-03, version 2.18.7*

I like the idea, the way it works, maybe the intro goes a bit too fast “lore” wise, but its ok, the thing is I’d really like to be able to see recipes in the machines when placing them down or when tapping, it only shows what it has inside for now when it uses is, but u can’t plan ahead, at least not where I’m at

### 2/5 — User data issue

*2026-05-30, version 2.18.7*

Every time I open Sandship, I have to bypass a user data issue. That doesn’t let me tap any buttons. Every time I open the app gets stuck at 89 or 100% and does not complete loading.

### 5/5 — Mini lag issues

*2026-05-19, version 2.18.7*

Dear devs, I kinda keep getting small game freeze so can you guys fix it. It’s kinda annoying lol.

### 5/5 — 120fps

*2026-05-18, version 2.18.7*

love the game been playing since release! i know it doesn't make a lot of sense for this type of game specifically but it would b amazing if you guys could add a 120 fps option/toggle !

### 5/5 — Interesante

*2026-05-17, version 2.18.7*

Lo jugué poco pero me atrapó, es entretenido y sin tantos dramas. Buena estética y jugabilidad, no sé si tenga pvp o algo pero es como cuidar una granja de acero jaja

### 5/5 — Nice game

*2026-05-13, version 2.18.7*

Like your game it’s fun and extremely easy to play

### 4/5 — IDเดียว สองเครื่องได้ไหม

*2026-05-12, version 2.18.7*

สามารถเล่นidเดียว สลับเล่นipadกับiphoneได้หรือไม่

### 5/5 — Jogo muito bom

*2026-05-11, version 2.18.7*

Criativo e legal 🤩

### 3/5 — It works

*2026-05-06, version 2.18.7*

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.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — I won’t play because monetization strategy

*2026-09-03, version 2.18.7*

I have no problem playing full price for a game, but I will never be roped into a game that has wait timers I can pay money to skip.  If there is 20 hours of playtime, how does that translate to the cost of the game?  I can’t tell, and these timers have a way of getting more expensive the longer you play, and the devs end up in a loop where they add more of the same just to keep the ruse going on longer.

### 1/5 — Time gated

*2026-08-06, version 2.18.7*

“Wait 30min for the quest to complete” 😒

### 1/5 — hand hold much

*2026-07-11, version 2.18.7*

ive been playing for 2 hours and i have to play the game the way the game wants, its just a long tutorial.

heavy bore

### 1/5 — App crashed

*2026-06-08, version 2.18.7*

Good app but it crashes at 90% after first uses, avoid game

### 1/5 — Таймер ради таймера

*2026-05-25, version 2.18.7*

В игре сделано все, чтобы вы донатили на глупейшие таймеры. По сути игра не изобрела чего-то нового или революционного. Но даже так я устал смотреть на то, как меня поливают таймерами и иконкой купить кристаллы.

Лучше бы она была платная, но без этой донатной системы.

### 1/5 — This is not a factory game

*2026-05-08, version 2.18.7*

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

### 1/5 — На 60 процентов стопорится загрузка

*2026-04-26, version 2.18.7*

На 60 процентов стопорится у меня 16 айфон обнова на айфоне самая новая

### 1/5 — .

*2026-04-24, version 2.18.7*

Игра зависает на 90% при загрузки

### 1/5 — Fuvck game

*2026-04-08, version 2.18.7*

Too expensive!

### 1/5 — Chờ nv quá lâu

*2026-03-19, version 2.18.7*

Game chỉ đợi tg làm nv mà lại mất quá lâu. Vật phẩm tạo ra thì ko bán ko làm gì đc mất động lực tạo sản phẩm

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — It is great

*2026-09-02, version 2.18.7*

I only just started playing and this game has me hooked line and sinker. I chose it because I was looking for a good easy game and this popped up on google AI mode, so I tried it out. It is absolutely addicting I only got of to write this review. I just don’t like the fact that there is such a short tutorial but other than that, it is GREAT

### 5/5 — Good for engineers

*2026-08-17, version 2.18.7*

Good

### 5/5 — Idk

*2026-07-21, version 2.18.7*

Good game and it takes me back on my younger years

### 5/5 — Nice chill builder / puzzle game

*2026-07-18, version 2.18.7*

I’ve come back to this game several times over the past few years. It’s chill. It scratches that base building / factory / puzzle game itch.

### 5/5 — Best

*2026-07-14, version 2.18.7*

This is the best long term game with simple puzzle factory game

### 5/5 — Amazing!

*2026-07-13, version 2.18.7*

I’ve been playing this game for years! If you like games like this, this game is great with a very immersive story line. I highly recommend this game!

### 5/5 — :)

*2026-07-02, version 2.18.7*

Игра отличная с вайбом стимпанка, но я бы отнёс эту игру к головоломкам с сюжетом

### 5/5 — Pretty good.

*2026-06-28, version 2.18.7*

Decent play cycle, over all pretty good game.

### 5/5 — Best game

*2026-06-24, version 2.18.7*

This game is a chill and relaxing game about a factory and it has no ads unless you try to get rewards and stuff like that

### 5/5 — Perfeito

*2026-05-24, version 2.18.7*

Jogo incrível

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