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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.
| App ID | 350620 |
| App Type | GAME |
| Developers | Goodvole |
| Publishers | Goodvole |
| Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Multi-player, Partial Controller Support |
| Genres | Indie, Action, Adventure |
| Release Date | 4 May, 2015 |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Supported Languages | English |
32 Total Reviews
25 Positive Reviews
7 Negative Reviews
Mixed Score
Sandmason has garnered a total of 32 reviews, with 25 positive reviews and 7 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mixed’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
294 minutes
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 how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 12 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam?
Unfortunately Steam reviewers aren't presented with a "Maybe" option... if they did, that's what I'd choose. This isn't a completely bad game, but it's also not one of the best. As always, if you read my review and you can overlook the negatives I've called out, or they just aren't important to you, then by all means go ahead and buy this.
👍 : 2 |
😃 : 1
Negative
