Farthest Frontier

I rarely, if ever write reviews, but here goes. This game is still in early access so take what I post with a grain of salt. To start, the game in it's current form, as of August of 2025, is a solid game in concept and it plays fairly smoothly. Pros: 1. It saves automatically quite often. I cannot express to you how absolutely useful and user friendly this is for gamers. Many games that should have auto save capability do not have it, and it's always a big reason why players lose interest once that first big mistake happens and they then lose hours, or sometimes an entire play through. 2. Buildings in this game can be moved instead of having to tear them down and reconstruct them. Many city builders seem to think that it is in the best interest of the game play to force players to lose resources AND time in tearing buildings down, only to then make them use more to build new ones. This is especially aggravating when it comes to upgraded buildings that require fully upg...

Game Loop: 1. Pause 2. Move work circles 3. Unpause Wash rinse repeat every five minutes. The farmers have no issue finding fields to do work, so why do we have to constantly micromanage every herbalist, hunter, etc. work area so much? This kills the game. Let them just auto harvest or go to harvest marked resources. Disease notifications are pointless since they're every few minutes, and it doesn't matter whether typhoid, cholera, etc hits since you don't do anything about it. Crop rotations are mystifying. Raiders don't drop anything. You can build an armory and ore mine before you unlock the tier giving you iron bars to connect the two. Trading is unbalanced. The game is beautifully complex otherwise, but in it's current state, it just devolves into tedium. Of all the medieval city managers this one has a chance of winning out, but honestly, this early access bun needs to bake in the oven a bit longer before it's truly enjoyable.

Banished once defined the genre, but Farthest Frontier surpasses it in every way. With unmatched polish, depth, and completeness, Farthest Frontier has become the new gold standard for city-builders. Yes it is still in early access. Yes there is a 1.0 open beta and there are bugs to fixed, kinks to be worked out, and features still to be added. Farthest Frontier is very much playable The developer. Crate, has done a top-notch job with their other title, Grim Dawn, that is 10 years post release and they are still adding new content to that gem. Crate will make Farthest Frontier the best it can be.

So stoked about this game! I'm only 10 hours in so I'm sure there are still quirks to find but so far this has been a great experience reminiscent of games like Banished. If I had one main criticism it would be that more info on game play needs to be available without alt tabbing out to use a wiki. That being said a little bit of research smooths out a lot of the learning curve and I highly recommend bookmarking the wiki. 20 Hour Update: %$#@ yea! This is the game I've been waiting for! I have 1k hours in Banshied because there hasn't been anything else that scratches that itch until now. Unless they shoot themselves in the foot this is going to be a great game.

Worth it, I'll buy anything these guys make. They simply make the best games in whatever genre they do. So far it's just two, but that's a 100% track record.

I did enjoy the game and would have recommended it, but this latest update has rendered it unplayable. Went to find support and all they have is a third rate forum. Getting the game working just feels like more work than a game is worth. It was an excellent game in pacifist mode until then. Oh well, guess I won't be able to play the death spiral of the new tech tree. Wish I had spent my money elsewhere now. Can I have the last build back?

This game is amazing! It may not be for everyone as there is some prevalent micromanagement to the game, but it is for the serious city builder. It took me a little bit of practice to optimize the satisfaction factor of my residential areas. Probably a early common mistake, a lack of foresight in planning. Once you really begin to understand the building mechanics and how everything interconnects, you will get batter at it. I am focusing on this aspect of the game in my review because I have noticed that the achievements have very low percentage rates for many that should be relatively common achievements. The game has been out for a while now, so, I expected those percentage rates to be higher. The one that has me scratching my head the most is the "Founded a Village" achievement. That is the very beginning of the game, yet only 14.0% of players completed the starting play??? So, I'm not sure as to the accuracy of the numbers. That tells me that not many buyers have been wiling to get...

Predators and raiders now spawn inside my city limits since 1.0.0p6 ... they constantly adjust raiders to be more illogical and unfair instead of fixing how buggy they behave. Also, getting nothing out of defeating them is not fun at all, just pointless tedium.

The game looks great and there are many mechanics involved which I like. The problem is there is very little instructions on how to play. There is no walk through guide like most games have to get you started. There is no way to tell your villager to go do this or that. You can move them around, but they don't do anything beyond that. I kept getting a message to build a soap shop, but I see an option to build one. Nor does the game tell you how to get your villagers to do that. Within a very short time my villagers were unhappy and idled. So if you don't know how to play, you have a very very small window on being successful before your villagers become unhappy and idled. If you don't make it in time to make your villagers happy, then you might as well start another game which makes you waste your time. I'm glad I did not pay for this. It doesn't seem like a game that is being actively worked on since it's been in early access for many years. If it is, then there's little m...

Unfortunately, this game just isn't up to scratch for a number of reasons. Firstly, it looks like a game from 2005, with an ugly colour palette, low poly models, weird aliasing.. (and the list goes on). It has some serious performance issues, making my (very above specs) PC sound like a jet engine the whole time when playing. Simply moving the camera around is choppy/stuttery for no reason at all, even with high frame-rates, making the entire experience feel off. Building your city and collecting resources is unnecessarily frustrating: at the beginning, you have to pick a spot where to start your main base to then expand from. However, you'll almost never find a position that has all materials needed, so if you pick a wrong spot you might find out later on to have NO ACCESS to vital resources. The solution is to either just restart the game and find a better spot, or to build another settlement far from your main one, which adds a lot of annoying travel time. The cost of buildings i...