Sandmason
GoodVole · 2015 · Indie, Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Building
PC
Mostly Positive73% · 44
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About Sandmason
You are a mine worker, stuck deep in an underground cave system. All you have are your hi-tech mining tools. In order to get out of the caves, you will have to shape the dynamic environment to your advantage. You can also create force fields for different purposes. Roast enemies with the laser field or jump higher with the bouncy field, for example.
The game contains many puzzles, deadly traps, and bloodthirsty monsters. You will have to use clever and unconventional ways to get past them.
By finding treasure you can boost your abilities, making your quest for freedom and a well-earned vacation slightly easier to achieve. Get a scanner to see through walls or a scifi version of the good old ninja rope to be the king of the rock jungle!
And of course there's a story! Something weird is going on in the mines. Your employer isn't what it looks like, you are hearing strange voices, and there's some maniac running around in the mines and sabotaging things. What's your role in all of it? Find out!
There's also multi-player! Whereas the single-player mode is more about adventuring and solving puzzling problems, the multi-player mode is all about fast-paced action and destruction! The dynamic environment and many different weapons, tools, and tricks allow endless tactical possibilities to beat your enemies.
The game contains many puzzles, deadly traps, and bloodthirsty monsters. You will have to use clever and unconventional ways to get past them.
By finding treasure you can boost your abilities, making your quest for freedom and a well-earned vacation slightly easier to achieve. Get a scanner to see through walls or a scifi version of the good old ninja rope to be the king of the rock jungle!
And of course there's a story! Something weird is going on in the mines. Your employer isn't what it looks like, you are hearing strange voices, and there's some maniac running around in the mines and sabotaging things. What's your role in all of it? Find out!
There's also multi-player! Whereas the single-player mode is more about adventuring and solving puzzling problems, the multi-player mode is all about fast-paced action and destruction! The dynamic environment and many different weapons, tools, and tricks allow endless tactical possibilities to beat your enemies.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate Sandmason's unique destructible terrain mechanics and genuine creative effort, with some finding it a charming hidden gem despite its age. However, many find the gameplay unintuitive and tedious, with comparisons to Deep Rock Galactic suggesting players might prefer similar games with more polished execution.
[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]5 found this helpful
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.5 found this helpful
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…2 found this helpful
Is okay.1 found this helpful
not for me.
is good
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