While My Time at Sandrock shares quite a bit in common with its predecessor, My Time at Portia, there’s no question that in terms of design, flow, and interactions everything feels a bit more refined. This is a sim that sort of leaves you to your own devices, providing a general framework of direction initially to get you up to speed, but mostly only gently nudging you. This allows you to explore, collect, cultivate, and sort of figure out what satisfies you the most as many of these games do… just letting you make your own version of a life in a relatively small town. Aside from concerns with pacing and the pretty inherent repetition of taking on the game world one day at a time, the real concern here is with the state of the game from a technical performance standpoint on the Switch. Quite simply, at the moment it’s a bit of a rocky experience overall. The most dramatic issues are visual with pop-in being the easiest to notice, mainly because it doesn’t just happen with items in the landscape but also with pretty large buildings and sometimes at distances that feel a bit close. Not only does it shatter the illusion of the game world but it can at times make it confusing trying to get your bearings. There’s absolutely an audience for this sort of laid back and live a virtual life sim experience, but at least for the moment it seems like it would be better to seek it out on another platform.