Sandmason

[h1] Exploration inside the caves. Dig holes using special gun or shoot balls of dirt to make bridges above pits and so on. Unintuitive gameplay sometimes. You might stumble across small puzzle solving where you place bouncing plane to make huge ball fall into designated place. A bit tedious to play. Better play DRG. [/h1]

This game feels like one of those you would buy at the supermarket in 2007 its really fun though its like that hidden gem people will overlook.

Sandmason is an older game from 2015. It's a venerable 10 years old at the time of this review. It's a unique concept, leaning heavily on destructible terrain mechanics most popular in games like Deep Rock Galactic and Red Faction. The idea is that you're a space miner, and you use mining tools to destroy terrain and harvest material, which you can then use to build structure... and that core element of gameplay is required to solve the various puzzle levels, thus completing the game loop. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. This feels like both a game before it's time, and yet for 2015, feels dated out of the box (remember, 2015 gave us games like The Witcher 3, Cities Skylines and Just Cause 3... this is not at all in the same league). I think if this had a lot more polish and much higher production value it could have been a great success. The poor quality of this game is reflected by ho…

Actually good

not for me.

is good