Sandmason

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.

[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]

I'm very impressed with the game so far. Interesting, fun game play and soundtracks are great as well. This game is easily worth 4 dollars. Was a ABSOLUTE bargain for .79 cents... go on....BUY IT !

I expected more of a linear progression, especially since that is what the tutorial gives you. Instead you have a network of caves that interconnect to form the level select screen. You free roam within each cave hoping to find whatever objects are hidden behind massive walls of dirt. Ultimately this means you spend 90% of the game just holding the mouse button to mine dirt, which is simply not fun. The few puzzles the game does offer are a joke, all revolving around placing a force field on the ground and digging a tunnel for a power sphere to role down.

Very fun and good game to play with friends, worth the price for some good entertainment

FPS puzzle adventure, about diggin caves, building bridges, ramps etc... Got it cheap 0,79€, worth easily full price or even more.. Demo available if u r not sure about it.

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.