FRONTIERS

First the positive. This game captures that wonderful essence of games from days gone by - it has that sense of wonder and really makes you want to explore the world and see what is out there. The graphics fall somewhere between Morrowind and Skyrim - certainly serviceable. I read another review that said the game is unplayable on mid-level machines. My PC is the embodiment of mid-level and it ran fine, although the frame rates need to be improved a bit - other wise I had no problems. Now for the downside. I know that this is a survival game but if I eat a loaf of bread, a sausage and a banana, should I really be starting to get hungry less than five minutes later? Honestly, I don't mind foraging for food but in all these types of games, your character must be an insatiable, gluttonous hog-demon for all the food and water that they need. Also, by all appearances it seemed to be mild weather outside with people milling about, yet I am freezing to death in a matter of minutes and need ...

Lars. Lars.....Lars....LARS! Frontiers is dead....DEAD. Stop talking like there's ever going to be a functional game...because there isn't. Stop with the business plan and charts and graphs and lawyer goobledy-gook. When I see you writing about VR and see you in pictures with a VR set on your head....I know this game is dead. You've moved on already in your heart. I recommend you let the game go and remove it from Steam. It's actually been almost a year and you've done nothing major on it. It languishes. The game, and the excuses, make you look bad...even if your explanations are honestly given. The absolute right thing to do is take it down so that noone else spends any of their money on it. Chalk this one up to a learning experience, Amigo, and let it go at that. Now go forth and make better games!

Update: 1/22/2020 "The Final Update". This should still not be for sale on Steam. I have been trying to give it a fair go and experience the world the dev crafted over 6 years, but this version of the game seems to actually be WORSE than the version I played 3+ years ago. It looks bad, plays bad, runs bad, and is riddled with bugs. I've restarted the game from the beginning three times trying to get past bugs but it's becoming too much of a pain to be worth it. I really want to like this game and I am really sad how this all turned out. I think the dev entered the project with the best intentions but they clearly weren't up for the task. They should have passed the project to someone else. Giving up, stopping support, and still offering this "game" for sale at $15 is extremely poor taste. I'd give this two thumbs down if I could. Original 11/16/2016 review follows: This should not still be for sale on Steam. It's essentially a dead Early Access product. The dev is still working on i...

A game like Frontiers is the reason Early Access exists--to give independant game developers the time, money, and resources to develop great tailored games at an affordable price without having to rely on compromising with the big name developers. Unfortunately Early Access is riddled with so many games whose developers do not honor the implied code of the privelage they have been granted with infrequent updates, total lack of communication, and their own closed vision of a game that is not open to input from the community who paid to develop it. Frontiers is not one of those games. This is an outstanding example of how an early access game should be. The game, although buggy, is still enjoyable and playable. This alone does not make this a great Early Access game; what does is that the developer is in CONSTANT contact with the community regarding what he is doing and asking for input with what he should do and he is fixing problems as fast as they are being discovered all-the-whi...

A game that gets my enthusiasm juices running again. Fantastic what I have played so far (I walked out of the university building thingy lecturehall after the intro and fell into the unrendered village and got a bit...lost) Felt a pang of emotion having to tell characters they weren't cut out for the expedition, which instantly made me think that this game has huuuuuge potential. I love the RPG feel of the game without the spending numbers to invest in your anti-flame death to get screwed over by the pointy-spear death monster 2/3 of the way in and feel like you just wasted your life -_-. It captures the feeling of exploration in a kind of Jules-Verne Journey to the Centre of the Earth (or Atlantis' frankenstein amalgomation of the above and 20'000 leagues) kind of way and is very relaxing to wander the world and see what mysteries contront you. It's like the perfect blend of Morrowind meets Myst without the tedium of either. It is also refreshing to show off that games don't alw...

I want to love this game, I really do. The concept is great, the dev is passionate and invested in making it... ...but it's a hot mess. It's loaded with game breaking bugs, AI pathfinding issues, the controls feel swimmy and loose, the menus are confusing and hard to navigate, combat is servicable at best. It really feels like the dev should have started with a smalled area, gotten the engine hammered out and functional, then worried about story and content after. As it stands, it's pretty unplayable, and despite several updates, not much ever really changes. Getting the world working should be the priority before deciding how players should buy things. All in all, worth a follow, and maybe a causious purchase to support the dev as he really does seem dedicated to making his game happen, but if you're looking for something to play, you may want to hold off. Can't recommend it for now, but will keep checking back on it.

I'll try to make this as brief and accurate as possible. I will try and highlight what little the game has to offer if anything and the seemingly insurmountable amount of work that will need to go into this game before being a legitmate title worth money. Pros: -Landscape is massive. -Fast traveling is useful to go back and forth. -As of now death is impossible. Cons: -Death is impossible to achieve. -Npc's will not attack you no matter how hard you try or how many people you murder in front of them. -Bought every item in the game for under 20 gold. (I seemingly started with over 150 gold.) -Upon reaching one of the six wonders of the world I was delighted to see that absolutely nothing was there and that the whole are in general was not even complete as most of the enviroment was floating in mid air. -The game's formatting is among the worst in recent time. Your computer will not be able to run this game properly no matter what GPU you have. i.e. NVIDIA, AMD. -Aimless explorat...

No updates, no communication whatsoever = no purchase for anyone reading this...

(I will update this review from time to time, as I make it further though the game.) Ever since I booted up Morrowind for the first time over a decade ago, I've been looking for a game to help me recapture that since of wonder and fulfillment I felt while exploring the island of Vvardenfell. I bought Frontiers hoping that it finally might be that game. I crashed shortly after finishing the Prologue. Well, that was mightily disappointing! But I'm still plugging away at the game, optimizing and prodding game settings until I can finally manage struggle past the post-prologue. Until then, I'll leave off by saying that this is one of the few games I've purchased since last year that has given me hope for another classic experience akin to the early Elder Scrolls games. cannot give the development team enough of my support and wish them the best in making this extremely ambitiously promising game! UPDATE! So I made it out the area immediately after the prologue! Hooray!!! Without spo...

The game is really good as far as concept and being really fun and interesting. The bad stuff currently outweighs the good. So am I saying that you should not buy this? No thats not my verdict at this time. I say if you are a patient person and dont mind waiting a while for a polished experience and want to support the games development then buy now. The game is packed full of content and lots of areas to explore and systems to learn. Only problem with that is that half the time you have no idea where you are going or even why you are going there. This is mainly because of the map being bugged, buildings and towns dissappearing, yes thats right! locations gone and nothing there but good ol terrain. If you are lucky and the buildings are there then the quest item or person is missing. I have been playing this game for what feels like forever. I backed the game and been with it since the very first build was released. The game has improved over time but honestly I really dont think a gam...