My Time at Sandrock

♥♥♥♥ this game its a slog to beat

Juego cozy que te atrapa la historia principal, Es un no parar y puedes pasar horas y horas jugando,

Nach diesem Spiel kann ich nur sagen: Ich freue mich tierisch auf Evershine. Für jeden Lore Liebhaber ein Diamant der, wie ich hoffe, im dritten Teil auf Glanz poliert wird. Und ich kenne nur wenige Spiele in denen ich 150 Std für meinen ersten Playthrough gebraucht und nicht einmal alles entdeckt habe.

This Game Is so good.

“My Time at Sandrock” does a lot well and for the most part I have enjoyed my time in it, but it also stumbles more often than I'd like. There are logic issues, pacing issues, morality issues and more, but none of the downsides fully detract from the fun that can be had. (5/10) First and foremost, there are gamified systems everywhere and these make it harder to maintain immersion. Inconsistent internal logic does not help either. A big point is made of water scarcity and rationing. Fine, but then why are you using water to cool machines that don’t need it? A furnace would crack or explode if you tried that. And if water is truly scarce, juicy berries should logically be valuable gifts, yet they’re not. In the main story, you’re hired to create machines and items for the town. Fair enough, that’s your job. But then you have to pay to learn each individual component, pay for the water to keep your machines cool, pay for fuel and materials. That’s fine under normal circumstances, but not when the story insists the town urgently needs the structure in question. If the town needs it, perhaps don’t make the builder jump through so many hoops? You would get the machine much sooner. Reasoning like this is great for gameplay purposes, but not for the logic the world exists inside. Dialogue sometimes makes little sense as well. Amirah says many people complain about the heat in Sandrock, but she is from Barnarock and doesn’t notice it. That’s not how weather works. You still notice heat; you are just used to it. And then, almost in the same breath, she asks you for sunscreen because the sun is getting to her. The latter is presumably randomized, but it highlights how inconsistent the dialogue can be. It would also be a massive quality-of-life improvement if neutral gifts could be tracked alongside loved, liked, disliked, and hated items. Most items fall into the neutral category, making them unnecessarily tedious to remember. Early on, setting up an artificial rivalry with a fellow builder felt misplaced. Mi-an is lovely once you get to know her, but the mechanical pressure doesn’t feel great when you’re trying to learn the game and are buried in tutorials. While the timer is implied and you can take all the time you want, it doesn’t feel like that. It would have been more logical if Mi-an also needed time to read her proverbial tutorials. The ability to modify the timescale to 0.6 was a nice addition, though. Another curious choice is how you can earn many people’s trust by sparring with them. That makes sense for a few select characters, but not the vast majority who would not enjoy being beaten into the pavement. Yet here, they thank you for it and ask for more. It’s not a bad system exactly, just applied too broadly. The game is also centered around imposed monogamy. Even the dating aspect, despite no commitment being agreed to or even discussed, is exclusive. Dating is supposed to be about finding out if you’re compatible. You cannot know that on vibes alone. Instead, if you’re seen by another person you are dating, each of your now former partners hates your guts. That would make sense if you had agreed to exclusivity and then broke that trust. But here, the option to talk is withheld entirely. Gamifying dating into soft-marriage where your only goal is to farm heart points toward true-marriage is a cynical way to handle it and kills much of the romantic spark. Framed this way, it comes across as a judgment call on whether open relationships are acceptable rather than a limitation of the system. Then after your partners break up with you, they call you a liar, even though you said no lie, agreed to no terms and were not deceitful. Exclusivity is conflated with morality, when the two are entirely unrelated. Trust, mutual understanding and agreed-upon boundaries are what make a good relationship. If you don’t have those, the relationship has already failed. And the trigger for this outrage? Things like playing carnival games. Eating lunch. Sitting on a park bench and talking. By tying the jealousy trigger strictly to the binary Play/Date state rather than overt romantic gestures, Pathea inadvertently coded a town filled with hyper-controlling, surveillance-minded partners. It creates a toxic narrative loop grounded in controlling, red-flag behavior. The loot tables introduce a similar break in tone, such as retrieving manure from hunting wild animals. Whether the creature was so frightened it relieved itself at the moment of death or you are extracting it afterward with a sharp tool, neither interpretation fits the cozy aesthetic. Not all animals drop meat either, so I can only assume some must be undead skeletons. It’s a very MMO-like way to handle loot at the expense of world logic. Another negative is the presence of items on store shelves that link to Amazon for real-life purchases. In a single-player game you already paid for, this is unnecessary. You’re already pressured to buy every DLC, and the first time you open the game after buying it, you are recommended the upcoming title. It treats the game world not as a self-contained fiction but as an interactive storefront trying to monetize you on multiple levels. It feels like sitting inside a live-service ecosystem designed to upsell you on real-world plushies and extra digital content while you are trying to enjoy the game you bought. This alone detracts a point or two. As for the art style, it's pretty and clearly intentional. It does what it sets out to do, but it also makes the protagonist and much of the cast look like teenagers. It's hard to envision hardened veterans or parents making a go at life in a new place when almost none of them look their age. Despite these flaws, “My Time at Sandrock” does not deserve a negative score. The developers' creative intent is clear, and the core gameplay loop remains fun for the most part. I will continue playing and can conditionally recommend it, even if it falls short of the glowing acclaim found in other reviews. (5/10)

3d星露谷，就是剧情有点低幼，其他还行

I played Portia before Sandrock, and I think Sandrock improved on a lot of things. The world feels bigger, the characters are more interesting, and the story is much more engaging. I also really like the crafting and workshop system, and there’s always something to work toward. Portia was already fun, but Sandrock feels more polished and has a lot more going on. Definitely worth playing if you enjoyed Portia. Will also play Evershine once it comes out.