Orion Sandbox Enhanced
2018
- role-playing (rpg)
- adventure
- indie
- action
- single player
The story
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
What it’s like
Bright pixel-art landscapes in a clean side-view frame, with day tipping into a deep blue-black night when the screen dims and the creatures come out. The palette shifts from sunlit greens and sandy browns to moody violet and cold moonlit stone, and the soundtrack stays light and percussive, with soft ambient tones that rise under the quieter daytime exploration. Building a shelter, mining a seam of ore, or stitching together a new suit of armour carries a satisfying clatter of tools and a steady sense of progress. It feels like a long afternoon of tinkering that slowly turns into a tense, lantern-lit vigil, with the rhythm set by the cycle of dawn and dusk. The intensity is moderate: fights against monsters are frequent but cartoonish, with brief hits and flashes of colour rather than gore, and there is no sexual content. Best suited to players who enjoy a patient, self-directed loop of gathering, crafting and surviving, and to anyone who wants a single-player adventure to pick up in short sessions across an evening at the PC.
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