My Time At Portia

Look, My Time at Portia is a perfectly nice, pretty game, but it suffers from a severe case of "Older Sibling Syndrome." It walked so its sequel could sprint. If you are a die-hard cozy game fanatic who needs to inject every single crafting simulator directly into your veins, buy it. You’ll have a lovely time. But i…

There seriously need to fix the optimization issues. It crashes constantly and you lose your progress because you can only save by sleeping in your bed... For a game that makes you grind to progress, this is really frustrating...

this game has me so hooked. the gameplay loop is addictive, and it's nice to play a "farming sim"-type game where farming isn't at all the main focus. it's got some jank here and there and a lot of the voice acting is... not good, but overall a good time, especially when it's bought on sale. my only real issue is un…

A simple, classic game to play. You might encounter some weird bugs, like NPC mouths moving when other characters talk or missing dialogue. The combat is okay, but nothing too big, and the same goes for the dating system. It has minor relationship and dating features with your partner. The game is relaxing and fun t…

Make sure you try both the demos for Portia and Sandrock. Sandrock does have quality-of-life improvements over Portia, but I like the forest and green environments of Portia. The gameplay loop of Portia is also good. If you do play Portia, it'll be better if you put some effort into organizing your storage and knowi…

My Time at Porta: 7/10 This game was more nuanced than expected, despite from my assessment it was mostly a learning experience for developers. There were times I was unable to play it despite having an appropriate graphics card, but once I upgraded to a GTX graphics card I completed 80% of the storyline. Therefore,…