My time at portia sandrock bridge for free#
My time at portia sandrock bridge full#

Since you've already bought MTAP I would recommend that you get stardew if it's on sale, or if EGS offer it for free at some point. MTAP adds more because it was created by a developer team heavily inspired by Stardew valley. Stardew has a nostalgic feeling that MTAP can't beat in my opinion. If you want a farming focussed game where most of the story is optional and based on relationship unlocks or building certain (optional but highly recommended things) then Stardew Valley is a good game. If you want to be more industry focussed and given a storyline that is fed to you as you play the game play MTAP. MTAP borrows heavily from Stardew valley, offers 3d graphics and a few more systems. Stardew valley is basically the passion project of one guy who wanted to make a better Harvest Moon game.

I bought Sandrock and it felt 10x better and could've definitely lived without Portia if it wasn't free.I like both. Tried it out, liked it, but got bored with the hours it took you to make something and had no enjoyment in collecting the resources. I also recently came into this franchise and had Portia for free. You also don't have to play Portia to understand Sandrock. The references to Portia in Sandrock are forgettable imo, you'll enjoy them if you played Portia but it doesn't raise questions if you did not. Portia mines are pretty much empty while Sandrock is filled with stuff it wants you to explore.

Especially in the mines I felt the difference. Not to mention Sandrock is literally a sequel and a better version in most cases. If you have it for free you can check it out and see if you like the concept of the game.Įventhough Portia is technically a finished game, due to the poor graphics it felt unfinished to me. I'd personally say go straight to Sandrock unless you already have Portia for free (it was free on epic).

My time at portia sandrock bridge full#

It goes on sale quite a bit (at 4.99 I believe?) So don't pay full price, because it does have its problems and Pathea doesn't seem inclined to fix them anytime soon, but it's still a really fun game and gave me 100+ hours of enjoyment. Why are they working on multiplayer when the core game isn't even ready yet? I would rather have experienced the game for the first time once more story/character content was complete. I wish I had waited, and I feel as though I was tricked into thinking the game was more complete than it was when Pathea started working on multiplayer- which was originally a Kickstarter stretch goal. It has great gameplay and personally I think it will be better than Portia one day, as the setting is great and what is there character and story wise is compelling, but don't be fooled into thinking it's a complete game by any means. It's listed as early access on steam by is actually marked as an Alpha build in-game. Sandrock is essentially still just proof of concept. There's really only one fully fleshed out holiday, you can't adopt pets or get married the list goes on. The main story is only one third of the way complete and most character content is listed IN-GAME BY PATHEA as 'low' or 'very low'. The one thing Portia really has different is the environment - personally I liked the town and the greenery of Portia much, much better than the desert, which I find really boring. But then again, that depends if the team fully develops all the things they are hoping to do.Portia at time feels like they kind of dropped it at 80% done to move on to the next project, and so we will see if Sandrock actually delivers everything they said they would. It's really hard to say which one is 'better' since Sandrock isn't completed yet, but in a year's time when Sandrock is finished, the answer will be easily Sandrock because of all the added features (housing expansions, for example).

Portia should be played first to get a hang of the mechanics, because Sandrock is a bit harder and I really do think the learning curve for it is much, much steeper (the water aspect and the 'cut down a tree and the townspeople will hate you' come to mind).