OF MICE AND SAND -REVISED-

This was originally a 3ds eshop game, so I'm glad it was ported over, I would've never known it existed otherwise. This game goes on sale often! Usually it goes down to 3 usd, but I snagged it for 1! I find the 10$ price probably worth it though considering how much time I got out of it. Other reviews are right, it is very micromanagey, but I found that it toed the line between annoying and engaging personally. The only other game with automation that I've played is Rimworld; this is nothing like Rimworld, it's very simplified. I loved seeing new sights across the desert and slowly upgrading my ship. It was annoying that all your room upgrades disappear when you get a new ship, so keep that in mind. I did enjoy it a little as a challenge, building yourself back up and coming back stronger than before. Also autosaving! I love you autosaving <3 it's easy to savescum with it, which you'll probably want to do eventually! (note: events are determined when you leave a location, which is incidentally when your game saves) >:) Things I didn't like: The game crashes on nearly every achievement. Your mice sometimes will not prioritize driving and that ends up getting you sent back to the start + lose half your money. When sleepy + hungry, mice will go back and forth between food and bed before settling on food (I think this hurts their hp), sometimes they'll get stuck going to the infirmary repeatedly instead. Mice will eat rare food items that are very hard to obtain if you run out of normal food (seeds + natural cheese + canned food). They also appear to eat larvae and cotton? I'm trying to do the 128 mice achievement but my resources keep disappearing... Two tips I have are: I thought I had to manually heal each mouse individually, it can actually be automated like other tasks. If you decide to fight them, you want to go overkill for the "bosses," use the best ammo you can afford, upgrade as much as you can and use what space you can (until you get the biggest ship in the epilogue). Mice only seem to breed when multiple are sleeping in the same bedroom, this is important for the 128 mice achievement. You need to make them tired if you want more.