Crate Entertainment, makers of Grim Dawn, has announced the launch window for its next ambitious game Farthest Frontier. Players will be able to take off on their journey of discovery when it launches into Steam early access on August 9th. To celebrate the announcement of the early access launch date, developers released an all-new trailer during the PC Gaming Show earlier this week.
The game is considered a “city builder” that charges players with protecting and guiding a small group of settlers as they work to forge a new town at the end of the known world. As one would expect, players will take part in a number of survival-type activities including harvesting raw materials, finding water, hunting, fishing, and farming alongside building structures to house and grow the town. Players will need to craft items to trade, consume, and equip while fighting for survival against both the elements themselves and other threats.
Developers detailed features as follows:
- Harvest, Grow, Craft – Harvest 14 different raw materials from wood, stone, and clay, to metal ores, wild herbs, and honey. Grow 17 types of food, including forage items, fish, and game, plus 10 food crops, each with different characteristics. Produce 32 crafted items and materials in a multi-tiered economy.
- Build and Advance – Construct 50 different types of buildings as you grow your town from a fledgling settlement to a bustling city. Your town center and housing will advance through multiple building tiers as the prosperity and desirability of your town increases. Upgrade production buildings to increase efficiency and enable the production of more advanced items.
- Most Detailed Farming System Ever – Strategically select from 10 crops with unique growing characteristics and configure crop rotations to maintain soil fertility, avoid heat and frost damage, and prevent the accumulation of diseases. Cultivate your fields over time, removing weeds and rocks, raising fertility, and adjusting soil mixture to achieve maximum crop production to keep your growing population fed.
- Advanced Town Simulation – Villagers actively live their lives and perform their jobs in real-time. Watch as villagers carry goods across town from remote work sites to be processed into materials and crafted into items. See foods and goods delivered to homes, the trading post, or stored for later use. Develop roads, transport wagons, and improve storage methods to facilitate the efficient movement of goods through your town and prevent spoilage.
- Randomly Generated Maps – Farthest Frontier is highly replayable and no game is ever quite the same with beautiful, completely randomized terrain generation and resource distribution. Controls allow players to specify the amount of water or mountains they desire, with extreme maps leading to unique challenges.
- Idyllic to Brutal – Customizable difficulty options allow players to turn off features like invaders and disease, for a more tranquil experience or max out the difficulty to truly test their town-builder prowess.
- Environmental Interaction – Develop your economy based on which resources are locally abundant and produce items for trade to acquire that which you lack. Erect fencing to keep deer away from crop fields and stop bears from raiding food storage. Manage tree cover to prevent underground water supplies from drying up. Balance the need to clear land for agriculture around vital natural resources like wild-growing medicinal plants and forage items.
- All Them Old-Timey Diseases! – Ensure your villagers have clean water to stop outbreaks of dysentery and cholera. Collect berries and plant greens to avoid scurvy and ensure a healthy diet. Make sure villagers are properly shoed and clothed to reduce the chances of contracting tetanus, rabies, or frostbite. Build a healer’s house to quarantine the infected and provide herbs and medicine for treatment. Manage rodent populations by collecting waste, securely storing food, and employing rat catchers to ward off the feared bubonic plague.
- Fend Off Would-Be Invaders – Choose to play on pacifist and avoid combat altogether or engage with varying levels of raider difficulty to raise the stakes for your town’s survival. Progress from wood palisades to stone walls, build towers and barracks, and recruit and equip soldiers in the defense of your town as rising prosperity attracts the attention of raiders and foreign armies seeking plunder.
Check out the Farthest Frontier Steam page for more information and to set the game on a wishlist.
