![]() On Saturdays you can volunteer to rate and review items built by other workshops, which is effectively a 3D game of spot the difference as you rotate watering cans and cabinets in search of imperfections. Some features, like the ability to grow and maintain crops, keep animals and cook food, could be a game by themselves. ![]() It’s a relentlessly busy game if you try to take on too much. There’s just a whole lot going on all of the time in My Time At Sandrock. There are light RPG and combat elements, seeing you descend through dungeon levels to fight mutant lizards, level up your skills and discover rare loot and resources. You can mine a handful of different types of metal ore and collect machinery scraps from the desert, which can be smelted into more useful items and used as components in more elaborate machinery and advanced tools. Seasons pass, special events unfold, and residents appear convincingly human through the simple act of just wandering around as if they’ve got to be somewhere. The town ticks along in a fast-moving day-night cycle. Pretty much every feature and idea from every successful town simulator has come along for the ride. In My Time At Sandrock you play the folksy frontier town’s new builder, tasked with taking on various commissions to build machinery, tools and equipment for anyone who asks. ![]() My relationships with real humans fade into the background, to be replaced by an altogether more fulfilling kind of relationship, one based entirely on gifting the same jar of honey to a cartoon character over and over again until they admit that they love me. When fully in the grips of My Time At Sandrock, my little made-up computer game life is all I can think about. Very sorry to anybody who knows me in the real world, but I’m never happier than when I’m playing a town simulator. From: Steam, GOG, Humble, Epic Games Store. ![]() My Time At Sandrock takes every life sim feature under the sun and rolls them into a winning package. ![]()
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