Farthest Frontier is a city builder simulator set in the medieval era. The game offers a typical 4x experience where you build your power from scratch and expand to get access to new land and resources.
Farthest Frontier offers impressively complex mechanics revolving around acquiring resources, growing food and protecting your town from various dangers, including forces of nature and deadly diseases. One of the nicest features in Farthest Frontier is the option to choose the difficulty setting depending on the experience each player wants to have, whether it is hardcore and intense or more relaxing and focused on slow and calm expansion. It is a fantastic choice for every strategy and city-building fan!
Explore and expand
As you build your own settlement on the edge of the known world, you must take into consideration several factors. Your people need food, and so you need to plan what kinds of crops you want to grow. Sounds simple, but here's where the game's complexity and depth start to shine.
Each crop has unique growing characteristics, and you'll need to configure crop rotations to maintain soil fertility. This will allow you to maintain soil fertility and avoid diseases. You will also need to care for the soil, removing weeds and stones, to further increase its fertility, which will lead to a better harvest and a happier, healthier population.
Your access to various resources is dependent on the map you'll find yourself in. In Farthest Frontier maps are procedurally generated and thus each game is different and offers a unique set of challenges. You'll have to determine what resources you can harvest and then use them to expand your village and advance or trade them for other materials you might need.
In Farthest Frontier you can find 14 different raw materials and grow 17 types of food which you can process and produce 32 crafted items and materials. Combined with over 50 types of buildings you can build leads to a complex and multi-levelled economy you'll have to manage to achieve prosperity!
Defend and protect
The gameplay in Farthest Frontier is extremely entertaining and engaging. Especially since you can just it to your preferred play style. You can choose a difficulty setting that will determine what you'll be focusing on during your game.
You can have an extremely brutal experience, where you'll have to deal with many real diseases such as cholera or dysentery by making sure your villagers have access to a source of clean water. On top of that, you'll have to defend your supplies and crops from wild animals and even build palisades and barracks to fend off raider attacks. This allows you to truly test your managing-under-pressure skills.
Or you can customize the difficulty and turn those features off and focus on management, expansion, and trade. It's your choice and your experience!
Key features
- Complex farming system and food production
- Over 50 buildings and 32 crafted materials and items
- Realistic town simulation with residents performing their tasks in real-time
- Randomly generated beautiful maps
- Customizable difficulty levels
