I should go back and finish My Time at Portia. Got burnt out on the game and dropped it but it's not a bad game. Just had enough of it for the moment was all.
Its a fun 60-80 hour story game but the devs decisions on post story content is absurdly questionable >lets fill this town with generic NPCs and custom NPCs with no unique dialogue and no friendship or quests
I cant even play the game post story, I cant bring myself to because half the town are copy paste nonsense with zero depth.
Thanks for the review op.
Is it 'Portia but better"? Because I hope it's Portia but better. I liked Portia, but lost all motivation as soon as I married - turns out I didn't care about the fate of the town, just the wife.
I never played Portia. I'm having a great time so far. Stort is good and I feel like I gotta plan each day a little bit. Every character is good and has unique interactions. It's funny that you have to unlock actual farming through a quest line, and it's expensive because water is scarce. Instead you mostly go out into the desert to harvest junk piles, tumble the junk, then sort it out for useful things.
Haven’t personally come across any bugs. The game seems to struggle loading in assets especially after a save (easy to notice if you save during an event) but it all eventually pops in and seems to work
it is literally portia but better in every single way, except the setting. desert and prairie ar just not comfy. hope the third game will take place in a mountainous region
If I had to guess, the next game will take place in an arctic/frozen setting. I don't know how they'll gate progress to the cold the same way they gated progress with the heat in this one. Maybe "fire stones" or something to keep your machines from freezing over.
i think so too. that's hy i think mountains would work great. if the war breaks out it would make sense for you to play as regugees who just decide to fuck off from all the fighting and set up their own town in the mountains with blackjack and hookers where it would be hard to find. It would also allow to incorporate town building mechanic to a greater extent
This is the sequel that's in EA, but the real question is why are people talking about this when the devs are confirmed rice israelites who haven't been paying any of their voice actors or any 3rd party devs.
Just chop the ball cacti until you get the next tier axe that allows you to chop down dead trees.
Alternatively you can buy your wood, but I've never done that myself.
>its all white women
It really is over. Thank god AI companionship is getting better.
Women are way more likely to be morally leftist. They believe in the whole "you can be whatever you want to be", "everyone is equal", "the savage is noble", "people are totally fungible" bullshit as a basis in their personal philosophy. There has been a distinct dereliction of duty of fathers passing down good morals like "life in a state of nature is nasty, brutish, and short", "innocence is the greatest virtue", and "cheaters never prosper".
Those axioms represent the greatest divide between left and right. It's not merely politics, but philosophy, and women are inherently coddled and taught weaker egalitarian philosophy rather than stoic or conservative philosophy. How many siblings have you seen where the brother has to work after school to save up and buy a car while the sister is gifted a car for her birthday? Women are protected by their fathers from the cruelties of the world while men are tossed in. This is why men, on average, develop a more conservative and moderate philosophy while women are far more egalitarian.
>Stop being this fucking dishonest >It only appeals to muttmericans
This is how every joke on Ganker should be: subtle, succinct, and satirizing, because you just KNOW there are thousands of thirdie retards here who honestly believe shit like this. But this smart anon knows it’s just comedy, right?
I was looking at this game to play with my girlfriend, then it turns out the co-op is bullshit and isn't the main game, it is just some co-op sandbox mode with no story or anything. Not sure if the reviewers are retarded or what but that is fucking lame.
She has "little girl" personality. Same as jasmine.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
no
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
I will fight you over this
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
jasmine has a peronality by virtue of having gorillion more scenes and lines of dialogue. And no, your pedo fanfiction mod does not count
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
quantity does not mean personality, they both basically act the same >your pedo fanfiction mod
Oh come on you were literally just talking about how sad it was sandrock won't have mods in the context of modding her, which would only really mean one thing
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>quantity does not mean personality, they both basically act the same
try playing the game next time
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
jasmine is a genki girl. jas is an amorphous blob
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>quantity does not mean personality, they both basically act the same
try playing the game next time
Jas opens up and becomes more outgoing the closer you get to her. The only difference is she acts more distanced at the start. They're both basic little girl archetypes
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Anonymous
>Jas opens up and becomes more outgoing the closer you get to her
and still remains an amorphous blob with no personality in sight
Pen the sociopath terrorist and murderer is still a love interest with a hundred+ girls he strung along according to his backstory? I kind of assumed he would be out.
Yea, not sure how that post content will play out.
also from my reading so far, all women who play this game and all homos are going either for Fang or Logan
I mean of the decent guys, I’d say Fang or Logan are basically it. Maybe Justice too. The rest are basically just yeah? Miguel is another questionable why is this old 50+ year old a dateable option for a max early 20s character.
>Miguel is another questionable why is this old 50+ year old a dateable option for a max early 20s character.
for girls with daddy issues who wrote professor snape smut in college
Pen the sociopath terrorist and murderer is still a love interest with a hundred+ girls he strung along according to his backstory? I kind of assumed he would be out.
chinks know their target audience. 99% of players for this game are gonna be women, and women love himbos and psychopaths
Amirah: Alright but going for her means you get Arvio as a brother in law.
Arvio: Idiot Manchild
Burgess: Naive guy that just follows what he’s told
Catori: Has a kid, obsessed with get rich schemes
Elsie: Wants to be an adventurer, doesn’t have a brain in her head
Ernest: Woe is me, my life is so hard but I’m rich and famous
Fang: Actually decent but mute
Grace: Actually a secret agent, still a failed waitress though
Heidi: Best Architect ever, no really, trust us
Jane: Fucking who?
Justice: Incompetent cop
Logan: Decent guy but you can’t even talk to the guy until pretty much end of the game
Mi-an: Alright but has massive inferiority complex because she’s compared to you
Miguel: 50+ year old pastor who is a nihilist
Nia: Childhood friend that goes to college far away, totally not cheating on you or anything
Owen: Definitely gay and bad at hiding it
Pablo: Gay and not even trying to hide it
Pen: Sociopath and Murderer
Qi: Autist Scientist also gay, has a thing for giant pilotable robots though
Unsuur: Autist and idiot, one of the quests with him involves helping him sort his rock collection, unless you choose the dialogue options to escape
Venti: Fucking who?
Unsuur literally hides in a closet during one of his sidequests
I really hate gays for all the degeneracy that otherwise soulful games like this ~~*need*~~ to have now
I really liked portia. It sucked so much hitting the build limit I lost a lot of interest. Still bought it twice because it was cheap and I like what it did. Super comfy game.
Just bought this one and I'm waiting to jump this afternoon.
Is there a build limit on xbox x?
I forgot this came out of EA. I loved Portia, it scratched an itch that no other building/crafting game has. Despite obviously the chinkshit knockoff, I enjoyed it more than Rune Factory.
Some of them are way more fleshed out than others. I think only three of them have actual quests tied to their romance. The sexy nurse won't marry you until you build a second town, the girl who runs the farm takes like three in-game years to marry, and the girl with lupus will die if you don't marry her.
they patched in a way to save Ginger since so many people bitched about it. Originally they refused to change it so instead they made it so you have to do a quest every single month to get her treatment and if you miss it she dies.
They eventually went back and added more romance quests. I think the black scientist lady is the only one left without her own quest. There are still clear developer favourites like Mint and the sick girl though.
it only counts as cheating, when you change the relationship from good friend /bff to "girlfriend".
you can technically date ALL girls at the same time
The first game locked some relationship perks behind lover status so you had to cheat on everyone to get them, doesn't seem to be the case in Sandrock tho
Really? I don't remember that. I know the game locked perks behind relationship stars/hearts, but you could still fill up the relationship meter to max without romancing them.
and the reason all the characters look ugly and retarded is because the creator is a retarded chink woman and the simp slaves just try to fix the shitty chink drawings without upsetting the dumb cunt.
True, but in this instance it seems you can largely sidestep the Black folks if you want to in this game. If you can go out of your way to demean them, then that'd be even cooler.
>you can largely sidestep the Black folks if you want to in this game
justice, the cover Black can't really be sidestepped, neither can heidi since they are involved in several main quests being the town's sheriff and engineer/architect respectedly. vivi and hugo can though. No, you can not bully them
I liked portia but i will never forget them for this, this is how Nora looked in the beta before they fully changed her model. We could have a nice looking big titty nun girl but nah, worse part the game is not much moddable so cant add that back.
So... the insulated bag Grace asked me to make wasn't for carrying food to the poor families at all, was it? It was to carry food for logan's gang, right?
I don't think there is a single person on Ganker who unironically likes Coral Island. I'm 99.9% sure that it's just people trying to get a rise out of others.
I can see both men and women in the roster, including white ones, that fit pretty much into the epitome of beauty standards like Alice & Scott, or even the kpop bait homo
If anything it's still the HM clone with most sexualized characters.
I suppose a lot of fags here loathe brown/non whites, despite the fact the game literally takes place in notIndonesia, and these brown characters are still vastly more sexualized than most western games
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Anonymous
have you played the game, anon? It's soulless. the writing is soulless. i don't have a problem with brownies and naggers inhabiting the not-indonesian tropical island. I do however have a problem with everything feeling artifical and every character being the same super-friendly stepford smiler with crazy "i'm gonna follow you home and murder you with an axe" eyes
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Anonymous
I have played some of the early access, and it feels most of the complaints are just mindbroken people over non white characters despite the fact once again, it's the most sexualized non whites ever out of any other HM game.
Or complaints about the Disney artstyle when it's extremely palatable to anyone outside of Ganker, as in the actual audience of the game
>I do however have a problem with everything feeling artifical and every character being the same super-friendly stepford smiler
I don't get it.
Literally every farm game has the same style of characters who are mostly friendly to the player with some exceptions, and you do have them in the game as well like Jin, Mark, Semeru.
And I do enjoy the extra mile they're going with seasonal outfits by default and also festival exclusive ones for most characters, even some randoms have swimsuits.
As far as features it seems on the norm of the newer SD clones, with the addition of underwater but it seems underwater farming is only going to be added later.
Still vastly better than nu Story of Seasons as far as features, but then again that is the case for most SD clones what with how Marvellous has fallen.
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>Literally every farm game has the same style of characters who are mostly friendly to the player with some exceptions
People shit themselves all the time over the characters in Stardew being cunts, and that's because it's true. Most of them do start out as cunts.
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>Disney artstyle
nta but that is NOT disney artstyle. not even nu disney. That is the kind of soulless art you see from vapid artists on twitter, or in employee profiles on websites for quirky alt businesses.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>most of the complaints are just mindbroken people over non white characters
that's a very convenient way to handwave all criticism about the game while giving no counter-argument. not even gonna bother reading the rest of your post
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Except literally all comments here besides one and in most other Ganker threads are about the game having non whites, so by all means, go on.
It’s buggy and unfinished and the devs are israelites selling random clothing and mounts dlc for more than the game costs. Also no gender choice for character.
what, is there any indication of that, or is that solely based on art, hair and chin
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Anonymous
nta but her full body portrait looks weird compared to other females. so i don't know if that anon is bullshitting or what, but at least he's not basing that bullshit on nothing
I would like it more if it had cute black girls that acted normal and not like the typical loud and obnoxious black women. Also diverse = big black guy most of the time only.
Pastel colors, loose shading, no real form, proportions are on the gross gray area of caricature-based realism and some sort of chibi-esqe attempt you'd see on tumblr years ago. Aforementioned pastel coloring, 'tumblr' clown noses, faux-anime eyes but are fully connected (because we in the west just do) and anatomy that doesn't know if it's chibi, a saturday morning cartoon and the two are very stark in appearance.
So you end up with washed out, not whacky, stiff, in the middle potato nosed caricatures of what could be cute, realistic or even uniquely stylistic. Anime has so many variations aside from surface level conventions, but I feel those surface level conventions are what people (execs) think will sell in a mostly post-toonami pro-anime western society.
It's self evident in shows that pay homage(any CN show made after 2011), reference or apes anime-like styles (Castlevania, Voltron, pretty much any 2D Netflix wank) and in games made today that the people who grew up being fringe weebs and obsessed over what they like are now conflated with cringe weebs (secondaries) out in the open with no restraint or nuance.
Rune Factory 5 is the worst out of all the RFs gameplay-wise and has the jankiest social interactions, but I'd still pick it over those weird shit.
Characters and design matters (also Hina is made for impregnating mating press)
>full stamina >literally wasted the entire day sitting in front of a furnace watching bars smelt instead of multitasking and going out to mine, fish, or anything else really >blames the devs
Holy fuck you're retarded.
Seems to be a lot less experimental. Combat is better, but still not that good either. Graphics and artstyle are a definite improvement over the first one. Kids actually grow up to a certain point instead of just remaining babies. Building stuff require water for cooling now, which is mostly an issue during the not winter seasons. The game drowns you in fuel items, you won't be hunting down wood to power your machines anytime soon.
Character writing is surprisingly great. Don't know if I should praise the localization team or the original chink team.
you mean there was a planned coop story that was separate and now both players just help the host do the story? Or that the story is completely disabled while in MP
sorry for gay questions I'm just trying to decide if I should convince a friend to play with me
not sure what you mean by time limiting?
most of the money you make in the game is from commissions to make items for villagers. the daily commissions all have a time limit of a few days mimimum and some sidequests have time limits
the story quests aren't limited though
game is set up around building things rather than farming but i like how much the town changes throughout the game as you build new things and make improvements
yes extremely well
there is even a quality system for most items and later in the game you can improve items to get even more money for the commissions
there's still a certain amount of autism that games like this will trigger, compelling you to run like a madman trying to be efficient but I find it's nowhere near as bad as modern weeb HM/RF games or SDV
Amirah: Alright but going for her means you get Arvio as a brother in law.
Arvio: Idiot Manchild
Burgess: Naive guy that just follows what he’s told
Catori: Has a kid, obsessed with get rich schemes
Elsie: Wants to be an adventurer, doesn’t have a brain in her head
Ernest: Woe is me, my life is so hard but I’m rich and famous
Fang: Actually decent but mute
Grace: Actually a secret agent, still a failed waitress though
Heidi: Best Architect ever, no really, trust us
Jane: Fucking who?
Justice: Incompetent cop
Logan: Decent guy but you can’t even talk to the guy until pretty much end of the game
Mi-an: Alright but has massive inferiority complex because she’s compared to you
Miguel: 50+ year old pastor who is a nihilist
Nia: Childhood friend that goes to college far away, totally not cheating on you or anything
Owen: Definitely gay and bad at hiding it
Pablo: Gay and not even trying to hide it
Pen: Sociopath and Murderer
Qi: Autist Scientist also gay, has a thing for giant pilotable robots though
Unsuur: Autist and idiot, one of the quests with him involves helping him sort his rock collection, unless you choose the dialogue options to escape
Venti: Fucking who?
i agree. only thing i see as a negative is how much waiting for tomorrow or x number of days the main story has on it. portia's main story didn't progress as slow as this.
definitely one of the better logistics, time and life management games out there. it's so comfy and has that 'just one more' day tendency to play for extended play sessions. i'm neglecting my real life playing this shit
***THREADLY REMINDER***
A heterosexual male playing a videogame as a female character is the most cucked way to play a videogame. Think about it rationally.
A player can design a videogame female (or "waifu") that will cater to his desires and fantasies in every way. He can devote many hundreds of hours further into training her to be strong or intelligent or athletic or wise, he is directly responsible for her health, wealth and success within her world. However, whatever sexual desires the man feels for his "waifu" can never be acted out. At best, he can instruct the videogame avatar and masturbate to her movements and undulations in private. He can never personally bring her pleasure, or her to him. The only entities that can interact with the female are, in fact, other entities within her world. Thus, the cuck is left watching as his waifu gets excited by, is attracted to and ultimately pleasured by fictional video game males who are nevertheless superior to him.
In many sad cases, the cuck will modify his videogame to enhance the ability of other digital males to use his "waifu" by fucking her in all her holes and generally using said "waifu" to enhance their own ficitional pleasure. The ONLY pleasure that the cuck can experience is associated with the humiliation of knowing that the character he has invested so much time and effort into will look to others to give and receive pleasure.
It is the ultimate and final cuck for the straight male gamer.
I made a female without knowing the game is also a life sim, now I regret it. I don't want to get married and knocked up, but I also don't want to be gay. I messed up big time bros.
>Homo stuffing flirty letters in my mail box >Catch him in the act >Follow him back to his house >He wants me to play some gay game of detective with him >Just walk out >Game lets me >QUEST COMPLETE
I'm glad the game is cool with me just telling NPCs to fuck off sometimes.
Wasn't interested in another Early Access crafting game, but since this is one of the rare ones to get a real release I'm a bit interested. If I really liked the Dragon Quest Builders games, is this worth getting? It looks closer to that than something like Stardew Valley.
It's nothing like DQ Builders 2.
Feel free to pirate the GOG version of My Time at Portia, the previous game in this series, to give you an idea of what kind of game these are.
>If I really liked the Dragon Quest Builders games, is this worth getting?
DQB games are more like polished Minecraft.
There are no building blocks in Sandrock and you can't really affect the look of your enviroment all willy nilly. You can furnish your home and the yard with stuff.
Crafting is a mix of instant results and waiting days for materials to be processed. It can take 4 ingame hours for your furnace to process a SINGLE bar of a more advanced metal. Better get multiple furnaces, saws and grinders to expedite your material gains.
I wish we had more games where you can build a village for NPCs, block by block. And the NPCs will actually live there and work there, not just park their asses in one spot of their home and never move.
Is there even anything similar to DQB in that department?
character design is too ugly
speak for yourself
he kinda did
Damn I didn't know Hitler had a brother, Green Hitler
you looks like you have moss growing in your hair, anon
it's israeli blood. he uses it as hair gel.
he looks like he molests kids
>combat
Pass.
I should go back and finish My Time at Portia. Got burnt out on the game and dropped it but it's not a bad game. Just had enough of it for the moment was all.
I sunk so much fucking time into that game. I have no idea how far away I was from the ending.
>developed by the Chinese
Checks out
Its a fun 60-80 hour story game but the devs decisions on post story content is absurdly questionable
>lets fill this town with generic NPCs and custom NPCs with no unique dialogue and no friendship or quests
I cant even play the game post story, I cant bring myself to because half the town are copy paste nonsense with zero depth.
Hes a based black man, not a nagger.
coach started dieting?
No such thing. a monkey wearing a suit is still a monkey in the end.
Thanks for the review op.
Is it 'Portia but better"? Because I hope it's Portia but better. I liked Portia, but lost all motivation as soon as I married - turns out I didn't care about the fate of the town, just the wife.
I never played Portia. I'm having a great time so far. Stort is good and I feel like I gotta plan each day a little bit. Every character is good and has unique interactions. It's funny that you have to unlock actual farming through a quest line, and it's expensive because water is scarce. Instead you mostly go out into the desert to harvest junk piles, tumble the junk, then sort it out for useful things.
Yes, Portia but better imo
Haven’t personally come across any bugs. The game seems to struggle loading in assets especially after a save (easy to notice if you save during an event) but it all eventually pops in and seems to work
it is literally portia but better in every single way, except the setting. desert and prairie ar just not comfy. hope the third game will take place in a mountainous region
If I had to guess, the next game will take place in an arctic/frozen setting. I don't know how they'll gate progress to the cold the same way they gated progress with the heat in this one. Maybe "fire stones" or something to keep your machines from freezing over.
you will work in the coalmines
i think so too. that's hy i think mountains would work great. if the war breaks out it would make sense for you to play as regugees who just decide to fuck off from all the fighting and set up their own town in the mountains with blackjack and hookers where it would be hard to find. It would also allow to incorporate town building mechanic to a greater extent
my brown girls, considering Grace too
Already 10x times better than Rune Factory 5
this bitch is all my fetishes into one but her personality sucks
her tiddies are pretty ginormous too ingame
kinda bummer about her voice doe
Used goods. Divorced with a kid that lives with her mom.
still going Awooga looking at her
kid comes to live with the mom later
You guys serious? We’re talking about her manchild little brother right? I’m not surprised though if you are.
catori is shit personality-wise though. but definitely one of the better characters design-wise
What makes her personality shit?
Abandoned her kid. Obsessed with terrible get rich schemes.
Yeah but she got the best body, 2nd is Grace
obssessed with get rich fast schemes, but lacks business acumen to achieve anything. Abandoned her child. Pretty pathetic overall
Does her kid every actually show up and you have to be the step dad?
If you pursue a relationship with her yes.
>my brown girls, considering Grace too
Based choice
lainey face
I didn't know Big Heads was the default mode
it was even worse in Portia
in Sandrock it doesn't look as comical
my time at sandKUCK
Literally what I read
You can't rely on anybody these days, you gotta do everything yourself, don't we?
KINO
sandcuck?
How buggy is it?
Why are people talking about this game now? Didn't it come out like four years ago?
They had a big update the other day
different game, same universe and it came out of EA last week
This is the sequel that's in EA, but the real question is why are people talking about this when the devs are confirmed rice israelites who haven't been paying any of their voice actors or any 3rd party devs.
It came out of EA a few days ago.
>haven't been paying any of their voice actors
based. buying three copies of all their games now
>nagger
Keep it
>My Time At SandKuck
Sandkuck
My thoughts exactly
snowflakes
nagger
>can't chop down "trees"
lame
Just chop the ball cacti until you get the next tier axe that allows you to chop down dead trees.
Alternatively you can buy your wood, but I've never done that myself.
looks like mobile slop
I remember hating Portia for time limits and how fast day pass, couldn't do anything. It is better now or still the same rush-rush-rush?
you can turn down how fast time passes now.
Time limits are still a thing, but its more manageable
I still can' get over the fact that in the first game, you can romance a MILF or a DAD, as a kid.
More like, I can't get over the fact it went unnoticed.
But Mi-an is asian?
tfw can't date Dan-Bi
based asia
You can easily make a collage of Asia doing the exact opposite.
>t. poojeet
I'll consider trying it if they replaced the horrid voice acting from Portia with simlish.
>western
Stop being this fucking dishonest, mutt. It only appeals to muttmericans
>its all white women
It really is over. Thank god AI companionship is getting better.
Why are women so retarded?
Women are way more likely to be morally leftist. They believe in the whole "you can be whatever you want to be", "everyone is equal", "the savage is noble", "people are totally fungible" bullshit as a basis in their personal philosophy. There has been a distinct dereliction of duty of fathers passing down good morals like "life in a state of nature is nasty, brutish, and short", "innocence is the greatest virtue", and "cheaters never prosper".
Those axioms represent the greatest divide between left and right. It's not merely politics, but philosophy, and women are inherently coddled and taught weaker egalitarian philosophy rather than stoic or conservative philosophy. How many siblings have you seen where the brother has to work after school to save up and buy a car while the sister is gifted a car for her birthday? Women are protected by their fathers from the cruelties of the world while men are tossed in. This is why men, on average, develop a more conservative and moderate philosophy while women are far more egalitarian.
>Stop being this fucking dishonest
>It only appeals to muttmericans
This is how every joke on Ganker should be: subtle, succinct, and satirizing, because you just KNOW there are thousands of thirdie retards here who honestly believe shit like this. But this smart anon knows it’s just comedy, right?
>joke
I hope you have a nice day soon, mutt
>can't talk about video games on Ganker because people are bothered by a black character in a ficitional setting
man
>can't say nagger because he's a reddit migrant
man
I was looking at this game to play with my girlfriend, then it turns out the co-op is bullshit and isn't the main game, it is just some co-op sandbox mode with no story or anything. Not sure if the reviewers are retarded or what but that is fucking lame.
>everyone hates the factory feature implementation
>I love it, because I only use it for recycling
feels good man
Enough talk about naggers, obviously Emily was the best girl in the first game but who is it in this one?
you tell me
Nia, obviously
She looks the youngest and is blonde
she is your childhood friend
Elsie is actually the youngest, but has a drastic style change later
Elsie looks like a boy. And she mistook me for her old man during the sandfishing tutorial
pic related happens after mandatory story event
Ehh.. she gets a pass
>can have all the love interests wear bikinis
Somewhat based, at least
Is she the only one that gets a huge change?
model wise? I guess
>childhood friend
>platinium blond hair
Nia and it's not even close
Jas!
>jasmine
Heh
Jas bros! We're back.
>jas
>mine
it keeps happening
jasmine is so much better than jas it's not even funny. too bad the game won't have as robust a modding scene as sdv
>jasmine is so much better than jas it's not even funny
They're practically identical, they've got the same personality.
jas has no personality
She has "little girl" personality. Same as jasmine.
no
I will fight you over this
jasmine has a peronality by virtue of having gorillion more scenes and lines of dialogue. And no, your pedo fanfiction mod does not count
quantity does not mean personality, they both basically act the same
>your pedo fanfiction mod
Oh come on you were literally just talking about how sad it was sandrock won't have mods in the context of modding her, which would only really mean one thing
>quantity does not mean personality, they both basically act the same
try playing the game next time
jasmine is a genki girl. jas is an amorphous blob
Jas opens up and becomes more outgoing the closer you get to her. The only difference is she acts more distanced at the start. They're both basic little girl archetypes
>Jas opens up and becomes more outgoing the closer you get to her
and still remains an amorphous blob with no personality in sight
I need you to answer sincerely because it will decide if i'm buying this game or not
Can i knock up Amirah?
You can have two kids, so - yes
consider me signed on
Yeah they even grow up now now
>pink hair
Can you kill this and make another one?
No, it depends on your character and your partner
My analysis
>Burgess
>ok
Lol, are you a christcuck or something?
>Fang
>Dude
Yes. And he has a bird speak for him since he's "mute"
Grace ingame model looks much better than the portrait tbh
das true
>cleavage
*ahem*
SEXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
is Fang a dude?
Pen the sociopath terrorist and murderer is still a love interest with a hundred+ girls he strung along according to his backstory? I kind of assumed he would be out.
Yea, not sure how that post content will play out.
also from my reading so far, all women who play this game and all homos are going either for Fang or Logan
I mean of the decent guys, I’d say Fang or Logan are basically it. Maybe Justice too. The rest are basically just yeah? Miguel is another questionable why is this old 50+ year old a dateable option for a max early 20s character.
>Miguel is another questionable why is this old 50+ year old a dateable option for a max early 20s character.
for girls with daddy issues who wrote professor snape smut in college
chinks know their target audience. 99% of players for this game are gonna be women, and women love himbos and psychopaths
>Pen can be befriended and romanced but will always refuse a marriage proposal.
interdasting
Which bachelorette is actually a virgin? Seems like they're all used goods because Western values
Only Catori is canonically not a virgin (divorced with a kid that appears later on in her story).
amirah, mian and nia probably. the rest are unlikely to be.
Amirah: Alright but going for her means you get Arvio as a brother in law.
Arvio: Idiot Manchild
Burgess: Naive guy that just follows what he’s told
Catori: Has a kid, obsessed with get rich schemes
Elsie: Wants to be an adventurer, doesn’t have a brain in her head
Ernest: Woe is me, my life is so hard but I’m rich and famous
Fang: Actually decent but mute
Grace: Actually a secret agent, still a failed waitress though
Heidi: Best Architect ever, no really, trust us
Jane: Fucking who?
Justice: Incompetent cop
Logan: Decent guy but you can’t even talk to the guy until pretty much end of the game
Mi-an: Alright but has massive inferiority complex because she’s compared to you
Miguel: 50+ year old pastor who is a nihilist
Nia: Childhood friend that goes to college far away, totally not cheating on you or anything
Owen: Definitely gay and bad at hiding it
Pablo: Gay and not even trying to hide it
Pen: Sociopath and Murderer
Qi: Autist Scientist also gay, has a thing for giant pilotable robots though
Unsuur: Autist and idiot, one of the quests with him involves helping him sort his rock collection, unless you choose the dialogue options to escape
Venti: Fucking who?
>Arvio: Idiot Manchild
i thought it was impossible to make a merchant character more slimy and hateable than pierre but here we are
Unsuur literally hides in a closet during one of his sidequests
I really hate gays for all the degeneracy that otherwise soulful games like this ~~*need*~~ to have now
Unsuur is one of the funniest character in the game though.
After Cooper that is.
based and factially correct. love those two dudes
True, but he’s definitely not anything close to what one should consider a valid dating option.
>rock autist
>not a valid date option
If I were an homosexual and played as a girl, he would definitely be my top marriage candidate.
>Emily was the best girl in the first game
You mean Ginger.
I liked Alice, but it really bugged me that she abandoned her little brother if you married her.
the power of Cock
>Enough talk about naggers, obviously Emily was the best girl in the first game but who is it in this one?
I think it's spelled "Ginger" actually
Post screenshots. I want to see the game. Do you build your own house?
I really liked portia. It sucked so much hitting the build limit I lost a lot of interest. Still bought it twice because it was cheap and I like what it did. Super comfy game.
Just bought this one and I'm waiting to jump this afternoon.
Is there a build limit on xbox x?
Do they just kill the best girl again?
>still has all the same character archtypes and even appearances from planet explorers and portia
They really are one-note huh.
Isn't this game developed by a chinese studio?
I forgot this came out of EA. I loved Portia, it scratched an itch that no other building/crafting game has. Despite obviously the chinkshit knockoff, I enjoyed it more than Rune Factory.
Both games have been on my backlog a while, can I have a qrd of the girls in 1?
Some of them are way more fleshed out than others. I think only three of them have actual quests tied to their romance. The sexy nurse won't marry you until you build a second town, the girl who runs the farm takes like three in-game years to marry, and the girl with lupus will die if you don't marry her.
I remember there being a way to save Ginger without marrying her. I married Emily (best girl) but Ginger didn't die
they patched in a way to save Ginger since so many people bitched about it. Originally they refused to change it so instead they made it so you have to do a quest every single month to get her treatment and if you miss it she dies.
I bought the DLC just to give Emily the milkmaid outfit. No regrets.
Originally she’d die even if you got married. The devs are cowards for taking that out.
They eventually went back and added more romance quests. I think the black scientist lady is the only one left without her own quest. There are still clear developer favourites like Mint and the sick girl though.
>like Mint
you mean Gust, the sick girls' brother?
Did they ever add a quest for the teacher?
Half of the chicks and most of the dudes in the first game don't even have any relationship event unique to them.
>The game encourages you to cheat on your gf to get relationship bonuses
What did Pathea mean by this
it only counts as cheating, when you change the relationship from good friend /bff to "girlfriend".
you can technically date ALL girls at the same time
The first game locked some relationship perks behind lover status so you had to cheat on everyone to get them, doesn't seem to be the case in Sandrock tho
Really? I don't remember that. I know the game locked perks behind relationship stars/hearts, but you could still fill up the relationship meter to max without romancing them.
How is it on Switch? Portia fucking sucked on Switch. Loading times were awful and it crashed every 30 minutes.
better than portia but still garbage
>Westerners
>mfw I was the reason they added a word filter to the name field when starting a new game because I made a fuck naggers version of this
What went right?
>draw a boy
>add rouge
>add tits
>is now a girl
huh
True dicky is cuter than young Elsie, so I have no idea
Left is better
I like left better. Reminds me of Nami from AWL.
>Leaves for a month for adventure
>Comes back 5+ years older with stories about hanging out with older adventurer guys
hey, she only rode the cock carousel for a month. that's way less than most women
>sexual activity induces puberty
checks out.
Left is better for tomboy look and exposed belly button. Belly button always wins.
no its not, stupid chinks also made so many things outta place and cringe.
Just like korean asiatics they can't do anything right
They might as well be on a different planet as far removed as they are from the cultures they're trying to emulate in things like this
Black's name is literally "Justice".
isn't it a nickname he gave himself? I think his real name is maurice
It's still ironic and humorous.
and the reason all the characters look ugly and retarded is because the creator is a retarded chink woman and the simp slaves just try to fix the shitty chink drawings without upsetting the dumb cunt.
True, but in this instance it seems you can largely sidestep the Black folks if you want to in this game. If you can go out of your way to demean them, then that'd be even cooler.
>you can largely sidestep the Black folks if you want to in this game
justice, the cover Black can't really be sidestepped, neither can heidi since they are involved in several main quests being the town's sheriff and engineer/architect respectedly. vivi and hugo can though. No, you can not bully them
RIP. Guess I'll pass then.
Sometimes it actually does. Like, if white Western countries just ignored sub-Saharan Africa...
ignoring a problem doesnt make it go away.
Back to r*ddit, shill. Do your fucking job, jannies.
>Multiplayer is just sandbox bullshit and not the campaign
I liked portia but i will never forget them for this, this is how Nora looked in the beta before they fully changed her model. We could have a nice looking big titty nun girl but nah, worse part the game is not much moddable so cant add that back.
>Sandrock thread on Ganker
Game is definitely better than Portia. Combat is still floaty though.
Elsie and Amira are best girls.
>Elsie and Amira are best girls.
you mean Grace and Amirah, right?
Grace might have nice tits, but she's a glowie.
you can fuck that out of her though right?
For western audiences
That's nice, rabbi.
The Portia/Sandrock games are shit.
t. put 1.9 hours into Portia before refunding it
Pretty much the same. I want to like them but something about them is just so utterly soulless. Feels like a unity game in all the wrong ways.
Why wouldn't there be melamine enriched people in the desert?
/v/bros…
the nigga fucks them doesn't he?
>them
one of 'them' is you the player, but no, he doesn't.
why not?
because it's a family friendly game, not one of your blacked videos
>because it's a family friendly game
So was Rune Factory 2 and your rivals went after the girls you didn't pick.
everyone is autistic in this game. some more than others
two of the romance options married each other in Portia and had a kid so maybe he does later in the game or will in an update
The nagger is one of the dumbest character in the game and fucks literally no one, except maybe the player if you romance him.
I'd be fine with blacks in my media if it was like your pic
>He likes Niggatoro
Holy shit mah dik
So... the insulated bag Grace asked me to make wasn't for carrying food to the poor families at all, was it? It was to carry food for logan's gang, right?
Why play this shit when the real GOAT SDV-like is available?
>any farming sim thread
>cifag appears to disrupt the discussion with his bait
every goddamn time
I don't think there is a single person on Ganker who unironically likes Coral Island. I'm 99.9% sure that it's just people trying to get a rise out of others.
I do
Show me any other HM clone that actually has revealing outfits for the romances, including having even crotch out in the open, including for women
It would be fine if they weren't all hideous
I can see both men and women in the roster, including white ones, that fit pretty much into the epitome of beauty standards like Alice & Scott, or even the kpop bait homo
If anything it's still the HM clone with most sexualized characters.
I suppose a lot of fags here loathe brown/non whites, despite the fact the game literally takes place in notIndonesia, and these brown characters are still vastly more sexualized than most western games
have you played the game, anon? It's soulless. the writing is soulless. i don't have a problem with brownies and naggers inhabiting the not-indonesian tropical island. I do however have a problem with everything feeling artifical and every character being the same super-friendly stepford smiler with crazy "i'm gonna follow you home and murder you with an axe" eyes
I have played some of the early access, and it feels most of the complaints are just mindbroken people over non white characters despite the fact once again, it's the most sexualized non whites ever out of any other HM game.
Or complaints about the Disney artstyle when it's extremely palatable to anyone outside of Ganker, as in the actual audience of the game
>I do however have a problem with everything feeling artifical and every character being the same super-friendly stepford smiler
I don't get it.
Literally every farm game has the same style of characters who are mostly friendly to the player with some exceptions, and you do have them in the game as well like Jin, Mark, Semeru.
And I do enjoy the extra mile they're going with seasonal outfits by default and also festival exclusive ones for most characters, even some randoms have swimsuits.
As far as features it seems on the norm of the newer SD clones, with the addition of underwater but it seems underwater farming is only going to be added later.
Still vastly better than nu Story of Seasons as far as features, but then again that is the case for most SD clones what with how Marvellous has fallen.
>Literally every farm game has the same style of characters who are mostly friendly to the player with some exceptions
People shit themselves all the time over the characters in Stardew being cunts, and that's because it's true. Most of them do start out as cunts.
>Disney artstyle
nta but that is NOT disney artstyle. not even nu disney. That is the kind of soulless art you see from vapid artists on twitter, or in employee profiles on websites for quirky alt businesses.
>most of the complaints are just mindbroken people over non white characters
that's a very convenient way to handwave all criticism about the game while giving no counter-argument. not even gonna bother reading the rest of your post
Except literally all comments here besides one and in most other Ganker threads are about the game having non whites, so by all means, go on.
>see a neat looking farming game
>look inside
>get this
>lose interest right away
I hate how diverse just means ugly now
>Stardew Valley at home
>Play Stardew Valley
>Steam recommends the most ATROCIOUS games to you
Sun Haven is pretty good
But Moonstone Island is abominable
It’s buggy and unfinished and the devs are israelites selling random clothing and mounts dlc for more than the game costs. Also no gender choice for character.
>No Denuvo
>Buying
You stupid nagger, it's your fault. I'm consooming it FREE. I don't give a fuck
When did I say I bought it, learn to read anon.
>open character creation
>has option for DEMON WINGS (cosmetible)
Nah this shits gay as hell and I haven't even started playing it
This guy really buys games without even looking at the store page.
Buy?
The best girl is a demon too
>play garbage
>offered garbage
Wow.
You'll get a new good game one day, HM/RF bro.
Diverses are ugly
>bunch of nuDisney rejects
yeah that's a pass
why do they all look so uncanny valley?
Is this the game where one of the bachelorettes have prominent stretch marks on her in-game model.
Yes. And one of the bachelorettes is a tranny.
which one?
ah, i knew there was something odd about her. makes sense now
Him
what, is there any indication of that, or is that solely based on art, hair and chin
nta but her full body portrait looks weird compared to other females. so i don't know if that anon is bullshitting or what, but at least he's not basing that bullshit on nothing
That's Suki, if I remember correctly.
yes
>Tumblr art
that's not tumblr art, that's twitter art.
Post them stretch marks
yanks threw a temper tantrum over the lack of in portia
I would like it more if it had cute black girls that acted normal and not like the typical loud and obnoxious black women. Also diverse = big black guy most of the time only.
i-is that a nagger
How old are you?
31 and I own a computer.
Why is the artstyle so bad? How can I be expected to play this when the art is so atrocious?
halle berry lookin ass
Pastel colors, loose shading, no real form, proportions are on the gross gray area of caricature-based realism and some sort of chibi-esqe attempt you'd see on tumblr years ago. Aforementioned pastel coloring, 'tumblr' clown noses, faux-anime eyes but are fully connected (because we in the west just do) and anatomy that doesn't know if it's chibi, a saturday morning cartoon and the two are very stark in appearance.
So you end up with washed out, not whacky, stiff, in the middle potato nosed caricatures of what could be cute, realistic or even uniquely stylistic. Anime has so many variations aside from surface level conventions, but I feel those surface level conventions are what people (execs) think will sell in a mostly post-toonami pro-anime western society.
It's self evident in shows that pay homage(any CN show made after 2011), reference or apes anime-like styles (Castlevania, Voltron, pretty much any 2D Netflix wank) and in games made today that the people who grew up being fringe weebs and obsessed over what they like are now conflated with cringe weebs (secondaries) out in the open with no restraint or nuance.
tl;dr joos
>wojak
>reddit spacing
Yeah, that's gonna be a hide post from me.
the wojaks got punched and I indent for points because naggers on this board hate reading.
this but fae farm
That's hilarious AND hideous
>pick this game up on a whim
>suddenly, see a thread
I'm such a fucking trendsetter.
>anon buys a freshly released game
>freshly released game gets a thread on Ganker
wow!
The game had been in EA for at least a year and this is the first time I've seen it mentioned here. You are my follower.
is that an autism cap?
yes
maybe because it got out of EA this week? They had a banner in Steam front page and all
Rune Factory 5 is the worst out of all the RFs gameplay-wise and has the jankiest social interactions, but I'd still pick it over those weird shit.
Characters and design matters (also Hina is made for impregnating mating press)
>Gay Marriage Factory 5
Ruined by localization
Better than outright troons in OPs and other western farming sims, but still bad yea
SDV is still better
There aren’t any trans in Sandrock. LGB yes, no T.
>LGB
everyone is playersexual
>outright troons in OPs
Which on in op's pic is the troon?
none of them. anon is retarded
thought the title said my time at sanddick
>everyone treats and speaks of elise like she's a child
>you can romance her
I regret not making a male character.
She's gets an upgrade. And by that I mean bigger tits.
Such riveting gameplay
You still got stamina. Use it instead of waiting in front of the furnace, retard.
>Evening
>Still full stamina
Shiggy diggy my nagger
>full stamina
>literally wasted the entire day sitting in front of a furnace watching bars smelt instead of multitasking and going out to mine, fish, or anything else really
>blames the devs
Holy fuck you're retarded.
someone tell me where to farm shellipeads or scorpions. you need at minimum 50 bait to catch a king (and the fucking perk)
the bend. also in valley of wispers but they're super rare. scorpions are in the desert
Bro, you collection?
>no gust, logan or fang who are the most popular characters with femoids
what are they thinking?
Only males buy notFunko Pops.
no male is gonna buy owen or, god forbid, arvio
I would have sex with arvio and his sister at the same time.
>males
What discussion was going on in this thread to warrant so many deleted posts?
nagger on the cover = no buy
Something tells me this game wasn't made by westerners.
They're not going to appeal to anyone.
Isn't it made by Koreans?
its chinese
Pathea is chink
axewound sisters... i am literally about to kill myself... fall back to discord, we need to discuss our course of action
do children grow
they have baby, toddler and child stages but they don't grow into teens
>even the goat looks pozzed in this artstyle
kek
>AAH POZZED
Get help you mentally ill polnagger
Any sex mods?
>tranny jannies actually deleted it
this site is so fucking dead
yjk
That's a horse, not a dog
>he is unaware
How much improvement over the first one?
infinite. not just quality of life features, but also content, writing, characters, visuals. Also it has an actual overarching storyline now
Seems to be a lot less experimental. Combat is better, but still not that good either. Graphics and artstyle are a definite improvement over the first one. Kids actually grow up to a certain point instead of just remaining babies. Building stuff require water for cooling now, which is mostly an issue during the not winter seasons. The game drowns you in fuel items, you won't be hunting down wood to power your machines anytime soon.
Character writing is surprisingly great. Don't know if I should praise the localization team or the original chink team.
>childhood friend from your original town
>communicates through letters
>visits the town for a couple days then leaves
There it fucking is, the obligatory anime reference character.
she moves to the town later on and you can marry her
I am seriously considering restarting the game as a male character now...
I bought this game like 2 years ago and never played it. So all the characters are done now? And multiplayer works?
I guess I should reinstall
As far as I know they gimped multiplayer because they couldn’t get some features to work outside of single player.
gimped how? Isn't it just 2 players in the same world working towards the same goals?
nta but all I know of multiplayer is they removed the story they had planned.
you mean there was a planned coop story that was separate and now both players just help the host do the story? Or that the story is completely disabled while in MP
sorry for gay questions I'm just trying to decide if I should convince a friend to play with me
It's disabled/barebones, nothing to do with the singleplayer story or progression.
Multiplayer is just a sandbox.
thanks boys
they tried to add a MP coop story but couldn't make it work. now its just you and your friends reaching milestones and watch the city grow
Nope. The multiplayer takes place in the “past” of single player and thus has an extremely barebones story.
I cant decide between my yellow fever or childhood friend.
>yellow fever
Who?
probably mian, but she doesn't really look asian. the only asian character is danbi, but she's already married
I just assumed she is Korean or Chinese
is there any kind of time limiting factors in this game or will it scratch the Stardew itch in 3D
>time limiting factors
no. story quests don't have time limit
your commissions are timed when you take them like jobs in stardew but otherwise no
I haven't fixed a water supply issue in months
>I haven't fixed a water supply issue in months
This cunt is the reason I always take Bloody Mess regardless of what I play.
He was right, though.
not sure what you mean by time limiting?
most of the money you make in the game is from commissions to make items for villagers. the daily commissions all have a time limit of a few days mimimum and some sidequests have time limits
the story quests aren't limited though
game is set up around building things rather than farming but i like how much the town changes throughout the game as you build new things and make improvements
Do the commissions pay well in this game or is it like Portia where you are forced into fishing autism to get decent money?
Most of my money was from commissions last time I played.
They are the main source of money.
if you do commissions regularly, you will never run out of money unless you try to get the yard to max size, that shit costs a lot
yes
yes extremely well
there is even a quality system for most items and later in the game you can improve items to get even more money for the commissions
there's still a certain amount of autism that games like this will trigger, compelling you to run like a madman trying to be efficient but I find it's nowhere near as bad as modern weeb HM/RF games or SDV
>tomboy that becomes sexier over time
>childhood friend that sends you letters from another town
>single mom that abandoned her kid
What other gimmicks do girls have?
See
>a literal glowie
>shizoid hobo
>stronk independant woman
>serious and bookish beauty dogged by silly boys
>energetic but insecure competitor
you tried so hard to fit them into buzzwords I can't even figure out who you're talking about
Not him but it's pretty easy to know.
Grace
Venti
Heidi
Amirah
Mi-An
Game is unfortunately way too brown. Regretting that I bought it 2bh.
it's literally called sandrock
>oh... I kinda liked it!
She's the kind of mother that will demand you fuck her on her kid's bed
>special other
What else do you want her to say? Telling her son this is the man that blows her ass out every night wouldn't really be appropriate for a child.
Can you make a new kid with her?
they don't use any gendered language to refer to the player so they don't have to record seperate voice lines
i agree. only thing i see as a negative is how much waiting for tomorrow or x number of days the main story has on it. portia's main story didn't progress as slow as this.
definitely one of the better logistics, time and life management games out there. it's so comfy and has that 'just one more' day tendency to play for extended play sessions. i'm neglecting my real life playing this shit
>it's so comfy
deserts and prairies are the opposite of comfy
deserts and prairies with country violin and twang is MAXIMUM comfy.
let me guess you think forests and meadows are. how absolutely unrefined tastes in comfiness
no. snowy mountains are the comfiest. don't even need to be snowy tbh
Are they still updating it after release or are they just done and moving on?
if portia is anything to go by they're gonna keep updating after release
***THREADLY REMINDER***
A heterosexual male playing a videogame as a female character is the most cucked way to play a videogame. Think about it rationally.
A player can design a videogame female (or "waifu") that will cater to his desires and fantasies in every way. He can devote many hundreds of hours further into training her to be strong or intelligent or athletic or wise, he is directly responsible for her health, wealth and success within her world. However, whatever sexual desires the man feels for his "waifu" can never be acted out. At best, he can instruct the videogame avatar and masturbate to her movements and undulations in private. He can never personally bring her pleasure, or her to him. The only entities that can interact with the female are, in fact, other entities within her world. Thus, the cuck is left watching as his waifu gets excited by, is attracted to and ultimately pleasured by fictional video game males who are nevertheless superior to him.
In many sad cases, the cuck will modify his videogame to enhance the ability of other digital males to use his "waifu" by fucking her in all her holes and generally using said "waifu" to enhance their own ficitional pleasure. The ONLY pleasure that the cuck can experience is associated with the humiliation of knowing that the character he has invested so much time and effort into will look to others to give and receive pleasure.
It is the ultimate and final cuck for the straight male gamer.
I made a female without knowing the game is also a life sim, now I regret it. I don't want to get married and knocked up, but I also don't want to be gay. I messed up big time bros.
piss piss
coral island troons plz go and stay go. make your own fucking thread
>name romance option Venti
>she's not a dragon
>Burg-ASS
So many brown enjoyers in this thread. It warms my heart.
The people complaining about the brown had their posts deleted
>people
person
No, there were multiple of us.
homosexual lol
Mild cringe
where is mahjong?
Is Sandrock actually worth getting into if you found Portia boring?
probably not. it's more of the same but better
>Homo stuffing flirty letters in my mail box
>Catch him in the act
>Follow him back to his house
>He wants me to play some gay game of detective with him
>Just walk out
>Game lets me
>QUEST COMPLETE
I'm glad the game is cool with me just telling NPCs to fuck off sometimes.
he just wants to be best bros, anon. and maybe hold hands. You never hold hands with your best bros?
Gayboy BTFO
I really wished they had multiplayer in Portia. At least now I have what I wanted. Sucks about the setting but it's a great overall experience anyway.
>game has rat princess
>can't romance her
Good. I hate furries more than gays.
sorry, mate, she's thirsting after the cowboy man
goofy as hell
they made a mistake making her face forward because her design is clearly made with her facing slightly facing sideways
Wasn't interested in another Early Access crafting game, but since this is one of the rare ones to get a real release I'm a bit interested. If I really liked the Dragon Quest Builders games, is this worth getting? It looks closer to that than something like Stardew Valley.
It's nothing like DQ Builders 2.
Feel free to pirate the GOG version of My Time at Portia, the previous game in this series, to give you an idea of what kind of game these are.
The gog version stopped receiving updates at some point, I wouldn't pirate that one
>If I really liked the Dragon Quest Builders games, is this worth getting?
DQB games are more like polished Minecraft.
There are no building blocks in Sandrock and you can't really affect the look of your enviroment all willy nilly. You can furnish your home and the yard with stuff.
Crafting is a mix of instant results and waiting days for materials to be processed. It can take 4 ingame hours for your furnace to process a SINGLE bar of a more advanced metal. Better get multiple furnaces, saws and grinders to expedite your material gains.
I wish we had more games where you can build a village for NPCs, block by block. And the NPCs will actually live there and work there, not just park their asses in one spot of their home and never move.
Is there even anything similar to DQB in that department?
I loved Portia, one of my favourite games ever tbh.
the first game was an absolute snore fest and I put hundreds of hours in games like Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley and Rune Factory