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

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
Steam          https://store.steampowered.com/app/5220800/Sandkeeper/
Trailer        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV4_yFRwb2M
Website        https://portiaplays.com/sandkeeper/
Press kit      https://portiaplays.com/sandkeeper/press/
Press contact  hello@portiaplays.com

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

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.

Everything in this folder is free to use in coverage of Sandkeeper. Screenshots are 1920 by 1080, straight from the game.
Sandkeeper (c) 2026 Portias Publishing LLC.
