Castles in the Sand
A cozy beach-building game with real water. Shape wet sand into castles with one finger, plant your flag, and let the tide in. No accounts, no sign-in, and it plays offline. The phone versions show an ad between levels, and one purchase removes them for good.
Contact
Bug reports, questions and suggestions: support@hexmonger.com. Please say which device you are on and, if it helps, what you were doing when it happened.
Questions about privacy: privacy@hexmonger.com.
Common questions
- How do I play?
- One finger works the sand: drag to scoop, tap to pat, press and hold to drip a spire, or drag a bucket off the shelf onto the sand to stamp it. Two fingers move the camera: drag to pan, pinch to zoom, twist to rotate. The main menu's How to Play walks through all of it on a real beach.
- The tide button is grayed out.
- On flag levels the sea won't come in until you have planted the flag — drag the flag off the shelf and let go on the sand where you want it to stand.
- How is the score worked out?
- It counts how much sand you moved. Less is better: the best builds do the least, and the three star thresholds are shown on each level.
- Can I reset my progress?
- Yes — Settings → Reset progress. It asks you to confirm. Your volume and quality settings are kept.
- The game is slow on my phone.
- Try a lower quality preset in Settings. The simulation itself runs at the same detail on every setting; the preset only changes the rendering.
- How do I get rid of the ads?
- Settings → Remove Ads — a one-time purchase that turns off every ad in the game permanently. If you have bought it before, on this device or another, Restore Purchase on the same screen brings it back at no charge.
- Where do ads appear?
- Never during a round. A full-screen ad can appear when you leave a finished level, at most once every twenty minutes. Separately, if the tide takes your flag you are offered an ad you can watch to save the level — that one is always a button you press, and declining it costs nothing.
- Does the game need the internet?
- Only for the ads. The game itself plays entirely offline — the beach, your progress and your settings never leave the device. The phone versions fetch ads from Google, which needs a connection; buy Remove Ads in Settings and it stops asking. The web version has no ads at all. See the privacy policy.