Fun cooperative game with lots of interesting activities, but it's not always clear how to open new ones.

This game is by far one of my favorite games. I was so so on Portia but this game is bank. So the single player and multiplayer both have such great things about them. The multiplayer its about building up a town together and can be such a nice thing to do with friends or partner to bring you closer together. You get to see the whole world and not confined within just the story but team work in general. As for the story I have yet to finish it but so far so good, enjoying all aspects of this game. I have had no issues with game crashes or any glitches and i have over 40 hrs in this game.

Overall id give this an 8/10, you can spend a lot of time on this game, ill keep it simple and state what i liked and didn't like.
- Value for money, lots of game to play
- Many different romance opportunities and a variety of types of love.
- Decent story with some twists and turns
- Improved connection with your stored loot (there is a lot of different items in the game)
- Pacing of the game feels better than the last game.
- Good voicing of most of the characters
- Ability to change the game speed up and down
- Pets save some of the tediousness of grinding materials
- House building is ok

What I didn't like as much.

- Slow character movement speed, after awhile it gets very tedious
- Some glitches, like being stuck or frozen, enemies not responding etc.
- Gets a bit same old as time goes on, new area same thing
- The face of the characters can feel a bit vacant when talking about important subjects
- Long game, it goes on and on
- Sometimes some of the NPC's just don't fit what they are going for. Its not easy to be exact, but like one character you can see has some quirks but then flips at times to someone opposite and then someone extreme in behaviour. It just doesn't match all the time.
- Jack of all trades type game, there is so much, like you would expect from these games but nothing overly super fun. The games in the arcade are just ok, the monthly events I liked though, The fishing is meh etc. There is a lot which can be good but id almost prefer this to be narrowed down and whats left is improved. Maybe the next title they are creating will have that.

Overall worth a look if you like these types of games.

My Time at Sandrock.... where to start...

My Time at Sandrock is a cozy openworld farming game with a Post-Apolocalyptic story arch.
The game starts off with you (the builder) entering this cozy little town of Sandrock filled with very interesting and diverse characters. From there you get to meet the townsfolk and start your little farm.

From my personal time at Sandrock, I had very few negatives to point out, but I will start here with the positives:
The relationship and romance progression in this game is slow and I really like it. It's not like Stardew where you can just keep gifting and get married to someone after a few weeks. Relationships are built so much slower and have interesting questlines and special quests and cutscenes that really just feel so right and lovely. It just feels like the world is so alive, not like some games where you feel there is just stale npcs. It feels like these characters each have personality, charm and I love that about this game the most!
Another positive is that the story so far is awesome, very intruiging and definetely not your usual post-apocolyptic game, even though the genre is overdone. It has its own little quirks and charm.
Another amazing thing is the house customisation and pet system. I love the idea of pets, and being able to customise your house, make it larger and larger.... and even larger... so cool. I love customisation in games and that really made me enjoy creating my farm into my dream house. Pets are nice, they add a lot of value early on, like fetching things, going out on dispatch missions and you can even get them as followers to help you fight. So COOOL might I add.

So... now moving to some of the negatives.
The grind, for sure is there, but what bothers me more than the grind is early on, they throw you in with the sharks to find out the hard way... where you can get ingredients is not clear, there is a guide but it doesn't help too much if you don't know the difference between gravel and hard rock and what does what and where to get what.... So wiki is the best guide here but this game has a learning curve... it might not be bad for all because sure it's a challenge but for some... it might be a horrible introduction to the farming game.
Now, the only other negative I have is that they did Arvio dirty. IMO best romancable character and they didn't even give him a dlc outfit. Everyone got an outfit except for him. Which is sad tbh. I feel he of all the other candidates is the most warm, cheerful and sweet of the romancables. Sadly though you won't be able to upgrade him into fancy gears.
Other than that I say buy the game. You can also play multiplayer which makes this awesome!

To summarise, the game is awesome and I look forward to playing it every day. I am 30 btw so no this doesn't only have to be for kids or teenagers. This game is wholesome even with the weird looking characters at first. You actually do end up falling in love with all the characters you meet along the journey. I can imagine this game becoming very very long. I am 20 hours in and just got my first crops...

So is it worth the money? YES! (and I'd say the dlc are cute too if you are considering those - especially the gecko is so damn useful early on). This is my first long review like this but I felt this game deserves it. I hope the next game - My time at Evershine is just as awesome, if not better.

Stilted animations, broken jump animation, awful writing. Voice acting is directed badly, even if the actors are talented. I stopped playing after an NPC threatened another NPC with physical violence and then the game expected me to be happy about doing a job for the person who instigated the violence. The options were "Yes" and "Enthusiastically Yes." I chose the third option: Alt+F4.

Entertaining.

gud gaem ;)

OK

What a gem. It's providing a lot of fun.