Genshin Impact vs My Time at Portia
Genshin Impact
Genshin Impact is an open-world RPG where players get to play as the Traveler, taking the form of either Aether and Lumine, in the massive world known as Teyvat. It’s a free-to-play single-player title with optional co-op, and players are treated to a journey like no other.Featuring stories from across various regions, it follows a gripping, anime-like tale of the Traveler trying to reunite with their sibling while performing quests for the locals. You can collect treasures, use many weapons, and create a team of characters wielding different weapon types and varying elemental affinities to challenge and defeat bosses. There are seven elements in total, and it’s a must to build a formidable roster to have an easier time with the Abyss Order, Fatui, and bosses like Dyvalin and Azhdaha.
Genshin Impact has a large selection of events and story quests for players, yielding a plethora of in-game rewards. Activities range from designing your home domain, gliding challenges, exciting co-op battles, and time-attack challenges. As of today, it’s still a game in progress, and there are more planned events and content in the future.
If you’re looking for a top-notch action RPG with an astonishingly beautiful world and a cast of outstanding characters, Genshin Impact is your best bet.
My Time at Portia
My Time at Portia is a charming fantasy-themed adventure RPG that is set on a gorgeous, revitalized world after a post-apocalyptic event wiped out the previous technologically-advanced civilization. In this game, you play as an up-and-coming Builder, a respected role in society, whose sole purpose is to help solve the town's problems by engineering a solution.With a gameplay which may fondly remind you of games like Harvest Moon, My Time at Portia may be grindy in an RPG sort of way (think repeated dungeon runs or resource-harvesting), but the game has a nice relaxing pace, where its quests (both main and side quests) are slowly revealed as you progress. Being a Builder, you can also complete a commission request daily to collect some cash. The game also features an elaborate gifting/relationship-building system, fun ruin-diving areas, tons of interesting characters to meet, and challenging dungeons. You can even romance and eventually marry an NPC (not all though) you like!
The best part of the game is definitely its in-depth crafting system. There are tons of machines you can build to help you generate a wide variety of materials to build other stuff. You can also unlock new machine technologies via the Research Center.
My Time at Portia feels a lot like an adorable MMORPG minus the MMO part. It has the grind, the dungeon runs... but of course, this game places a lot more emphasis on its resource-collecting, as well as crafting and building aspects. Sounds like a game you'd like to play? Well, despite still being in early access, the first chapter of the game is already ready and bugs-free, so if you do buy the game, know that you can at least get a good 40 hours or so out of it.