My Time at Portia's sequel surpassed its first Kickstarter goal in just 19 hours

By Heidi Nicholas,

The My Time at Portia sequel was announced, had its first trailer, and surpassed its first Kickstarter goal, all in the same day. My Time at Sandrock is planned to launch for consoles in 2022.

Developer Pathea Games says My Time at Sandrock reached its Kickstarter goal in just 19 hours, while it took 26 days to reach the same figure with My Time at Portia. If you check out the Kickstarter page, you can see £82,014 has already been pledged of the £76,723 goal.

My Time at Sandrock is also set in a post-apocalyptic world, around the same time as Portia. You arrive at the frontier town of Sandrock, located in the Eufaula desert within the Alliance of Free Cities, as a new builder ready to improve your workshop and rebuild Sandrock. Every contribution you've made to the town will be visible as a permanent improvement, showing you how Sandrock is regrowing. Since it's so close to Portia, the devs say you'll see a few familiar NPCs in your town. My Time at Sandrock will also have a new AI system for NPCs, making them interact with each other and behave in a more realistic fashion.

My Time at Sandrock also has a new combat system with melee and third-person shooting, where you fight against outlaws, bandits, monsters, and robots. There is also a new dungeon type. First up are the Abandoned Ruins where it's safer to go looking for minerals and relics, then the Hazardous Ruins, where you're likely to run into enemies and a bit of platforming, and lastly the Half-Explored Ruins, where you'll find a mixture of both. Pathea Games is also working on co-op multiplayer for up to four players in a separate open-world map.

Along with fighting and dungeon-diving, you'll be farming — with more uses for your crops than in Portia — as well as taking care of animals, gathering resources — wood and water are scarce in Sandrock — and making friends with the townspeople. Improving your relationships with the townspeople unlocks more missions, stat boosts, discounts, and more. Sandrock will also feature new mingames like sand racing, sand fishing, and gun fighting.

Pathea Games plans to launch My Time at Sandrock first on Steam Early Access in March 2021 with a full release in Spring 2022, followed by a console release — both for PS4 and next-gen — in Summer 2022.

Written by Heidi Nicholas

Hey, I'm Heidi! I've just finished studying a Masters in English Literature, but I've been obsessed with gaming since long before then. I began on the PS2 with Spyro, before graduating to the Xbox 360 and disappearing into Skyrim. I'm now a loyal RPG fan, but I still like to explore other genres — when I'm not playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey, or being lured back into Red Dead Redemption 2 or The Witcher 3!