Portia Plays

Press kit

Sandkeeper

Pour colored sand into glass bottles, one grain at a time, and keep what you make. Everything on this page is free to use in coverage of the game.

Download everything (zip) hello@portiaplays.com

Screenshots, logo, key art, icon and a fact sheet. About 5 MB.

Fact sheet

Developer
Portia Plays, a two-person studio
Publisher
Portias Publishing LLC
Release
Q4 2026
Platforms
Steam, for Windows and macOS
Price
To be announced
Players
Single player
Language
English

About the game

In one line

Pour colored sand into glass bottles, one grain at a time, and keep what you make.

Short

Your grandfather left you his cottage and a book of forty eight places. Pour a bottle of sand for each one, grain by grain, and fill the cottage with them. Sandkeeper is a cozy sand art game with no score, no timer, and nothing that can fail.

Longer

Sandkeeper is a game about pouring colored sand into glass bottles, a grain at a time, and keeping what you make. Lean the bottle and the layers slope. Poke the stick in and the layers follow it down. Tap the glass and the sand settles. Drop in a shell, a pebble, a piece of sea glass. When it looks right, cork it and name it.

Your grandfather filled his time with sand: a book of forty eight places, and a bottle for every one of them. You inherit the cottage, the book, and the pages he never got to. Every page is a place drawn live at its own hour, with the sands it calls for and three lines in his hand.

Finish a page and something comes home from it: an oar, a paper lantern, a jar of wildflowers, a carved loon. The cottage fills as you go, and it is yours to arrange, from the wallpaper to the rug you can slide across the floor. Any bottle can be photographed at the bench, or sent to a friend as a code, with no account and no server. And the cottage has one more room to show you.

Features

  • Real sand, simulated grain by grain: pour, lean, tap and poke, and watch it settle
  • Forty eight pages of his book, each a place drawn live at its own hour
  • Thirty sand colors, with shells, pebbles, sea glass and coal to drop in
  • Fifty two keepsakes that come home to a cottage you decorate
  • A photograph bench, and bottles you can send to a friend as a code
  • Sand boards to peel and pour, and a sand tray to draw on
  • Thirty quiet achievements; no score, no timer, nothing to buy

Trailer

One minute, all of it filmed in the game, with the game's own music. For the full quality file, write to hello@portiaplays.com.

Screenshots

1920 by 1080, straight from the game. Select one to open it at full size.

A bottle of white, blue and pink sand in front of the white houses and blue domes of Oia.Blue Domes, Oia A pale blue bottle with a burst of red and gold at its neck, on a beach at sunset.Trade Wind, Hanalei Bay A round bottle of green and violet sand under the northern lights.Filament, Tromsø A round bottle of gold, green and orange hills of sand over a pumpkin field under a full moon.Harvest Moon, Half Moon Bay The cottage's front room at dawn, bottles along the sill and keepsakes on the walls.The cottage at dawn The front room at night under starry wallpaper, the lamps lit.The cottage at night The porch over the sea in daylight, with two chairs, a table and the stove.The porch A letter from someone in the village, open on the porch.Letters from the village A page of his book open in the cottage.A page of his book The Green Hour bottle on a white instant print at the photograph bench.The photograph bench A banded round bottle with Saturn behind it, in a black frame at the bench.Planet Hour, at the bench The round sand tray, with a flower drawn in it by the wheel, six fold and mirrored.The sand tray The title screen: the name poured in sand over a beach and the sea.The title screen

Logo and key art

The Sandkeeper logo on a transparent background.Logo, transparent1280 by 390, PNG Key art: the logo over the beach and the sea.Key art, wide1232 by 706 Header art: the logo over the beach.Header920 by 430 Key art, tall: the name in two lines over the beach.Key art, tall748 by 896 A wide banner of the beach, the sea and the lighthouse, with no words.Banner, no words3840 by 1240 The game's icon: a corked bottle of sand on a window sill.Icon1024 by 1024 An animation of sand pouring into bottles at three places.Pouring, animatedGIF, 616 by 360

The studio

Portia Plays is a two-person studio making quiet games with a story in them. Sandkeeper is our second game. Our first, Stellar Nursery, comes to Steam in November 2026.

Every picture in Sandkeeper is drawn by the game while you watch, a line and a grain at a time, and every sound is made as it plays.

Contact

Press, streamers
hello@portiaplays.com
Keys
Steam keys for press and streamers go out closer to launch. Write to us to be on the list.