My Time at Portia

A week ago I was diagnosed with a terminal illness and the doctors have given me a year at best. I'm so glad I was able to play this masterpiece before I go. I don't know how many people will see this; but I recommend to you to buy this game if you do see it. Gameplay, atmosphere, graphics, story... everything is masterfully crafted. Thank you Pathea Games for your game.

This game was wonderful and beautiful with a great story, and lots of adorable fun things for Romance. I made the mistake of playing this game AFTER the sequel My Time at Sandrock. I highly recommend that if you're going to play this game, you play it before Sandrock. 1, because the Easter Eggs in Sandrock from this game are worth it. 2. There are some things explained in Portia that are explained that are not explained in Sandrock (and strangely some vice versa). 3. The timeframe in which items craft in Portia is A LOT slower than Sandrock. If you get used to Sandrock's timeframe of being able to get resources, you will be severely disappointed when you come to Portia and it literally takes twice as a long (if not longer) to craft the same things. They definitely perfected a lot of things with Sandrock. This was a beautiful prequel, I'm glad I fell in love with the world and decided to check this game out so I could have the fully story. There's going to be more games added to the sequels, so if you want to get in the amazing story of this world, I would definitely grab Portia and try it out, then grab Sandrock, and prep yourself for Project Me (the next game that's in Alpha stages), and then whatever My Time game comes after Project me. It's worth the money and the time you put into it to fall in love with these games.

Played this game with low expectations,
And got away amazed.
Me being a long time fan of Skyrim, was surprised how much your little actions in the town actually brings it to life.
Isaac asked me to make stone table and 2 stone stool to play connect board game since he was sitting on the grass in the park and when I do it for him.
He actually set that up in the park and was sitting on that.
And fast travel is amazing since you have to build dee dee stops to fast travel even your competitors also sets few up .
The village is pretty lively af and definitely will engage you.
Definitely a recommend

It took a little bit of hours to get 100% in this game, but I guess it's a good time to give an opinion of the game.
My Time at Portia takes us to small town where we go in our father footsteps and start a career as a builder. During our time at Portia we will get to know locals, who are all very likeable, fight monsters, build new things in town, there is a lot to do here.
Building mechanics are nice, there are two main building methods:
Worktable, which is used to create tools, weapons, components for larger structures, overall smaller things. Those are instantly build once you have all required materials.
Assembly station is used to create larger structures, you have a diagram, and you are manually putting things together to create a larger item, it's quite fun.
Worktable has integration with chests, so you don't have to have an ingredient in inventory to create something, which is a nice quality of life feature. As for Assembly station, you need a puzzle piece with you, since you are manually setting it in the right place.
My only issue here is Factory, introduced later in the game. It allows us to automate a lot of tasks, but it has its own storage space which is not shared with chests. As such, it forces remodeling the entire collection of items you have in chests and put them in factory storage (otherwise factory won't recognize that you have necessary ingredient for crafting recipe).
Moving on, there is combat and dating in this game. Combat is simple, you roll and then spam attack, not much to say here. Dating and overall relationship elements are good. You have various benefits for getting to know people, for example, being friends with the mayor will make buying land for your workshop expansion a little easier on your wallet. There is also marriage and parenthood.
A story is nothing to write home about, there is some plot, but it's not something you will want to make a basis for a D&D campaign.
Before I go into cons I have with this game, I will mention briefly a fishing. It's implemented competently. You swing your rod and click a button once the fish catches a bait, then our prey will start to move around (vertical movement) and you need to follow it with a circle on screen. Pulling is done by holding the button, but there is a tension mechanic, so we need to be careful, or the line will break. Overall it's fun and thank goodness it is, because it's the most profitable way to spend time in this game. With a perk that shows you a type of fish before you catch it on the hook, you can focus on expensive ones. It makes buying upgrades much easier.
Now let's talk about the issues this game has. First thing is lipsync and overall sound. It often glitches resulting without of sync movement or no movement at all. Sure, this game is not focused on story or anything, but still it's noticeable. Soundtrack is also kinda bland, I like the autumn theme, but the rest are very forgettable. Music fits everything that is happening on the screen, but you probably won't listen to it on your way to school/work.
Other issue I have is performance. On 11th gen i5 and 3070ti it runs smoothly on everything on max besides grass and shadow which are a tad lower. Sometimes the game likes to give you a small singular stutter, mostly during aggressive camera movement, but it's barely noticeable. On good old GTX 980 and 2500K, things are worse. To have stable 60 fps, I was forced to lower settings drastically, which is weird for the style of graphics presented in the game. Overall, the game could use some improvements in optimization.
With all that in mind, the game is worth your time and I recommend giving it a chance.

This is an explorer builder game - quest driven. The social element is robust - the neighbors (calling them NPC's seems wrong) - have evolving dialogue and are very responsive to events of the day - complaining of upset stomachs to being excited about an upcoming event. ALL characters are voiced and voiced well. Different accents a nice choice.
enjoyable game but watch out for the Just one more day --
Only thing I don't like is saves are only at sleeping - auto saves - son can't leave at any point.
Has some farming - not much. Elements for animal capture, mounts. hunting that I am just exploring now.
Worth checking out.

Great game to relax with
Sure its grinding most of the time, but there are a lot of side activity's and events going one.
But if you really dislike grinding and collecting stuff, then this is not a game for you.
If you liked the sims, stardew valley and management games. Then this is really a no brainer
Only thing i really dislike in this game is sthat the colors are sometimes to dark, i really want vibrant colors in games like these.
The sequel should even be a lot better, but i'm first gonna finish the first game. Really have a lot of fun with it,

can't remember the last time i enjoyed a game this much, big fan of the PIG that says gloogloo