Farthest Frontier

Protect and nurture your settlers as they carve out a thriving town from the wilderness in Farthest Frontier, a town-building simulation game developed and published by Crate Entertainment. Set at the edge of the known world, this immersive title challenges players to guide their villagers through the harsh realities of survival, combining resource management, crafting, farming, and combat. Whether you choose a tranquil pacifist mode or confront raiders and environmental threats head-on, Farthest Frontier lets you shape a dynamic settlement while balancing prosperity and survival.

Forge a Thriving Settlement from Untamed Wilderness

At the heart of Farthest Frontier lies the challenge of transforming a fledgling settlement into a bustling town. Players harvest vital resources like wood, stone, clay, and precious metal ores while gathering wild herbs and honey to sustain their people. The game’s multi-tiered economy allows for the production of 32 crafted items, including tools, clothing, and weapons, which villagers can trade, consume, or use for defense. Hunting, fishing, and farming are essential to survival, with 19 food types ranging from forage items to specialized crops. As your town expands, over 190 different buildings can be constructed, evolving through multiple tiers to reflect growing prosperity and technological advancements.

Master the Most Detailed Farming System

Farming in Farthest Frontier introduces players to a level of depth rarely seen in simulation games. With 12 crops to choose from, each featuring unique growing characteristics, players can configure crop rotations to optimize soil fertility, avoid weather damage, and combat diseases. Soil management plays a critical role, with fields requiring cultivation to remove weeds and rocks, adjust soil mixtures, and raise fertility for maximum yield. Strategic decisions about field placement and crop types ensure your growing population remains well-fed while minimizing risks of famine.

Watch Villagers Live Dynamic, Real-Time Lives

Villagers in Farthest Frontier actively perform their jobs in real time, contributing to the intricate simulation of town life. Transporting goods from remote work sites to storage and crafting areas is a vital aspect of the economy, with roads, wagons, and upgraded storage methods ensuring efficiency. Food and crafted items are delivered to homes or stored for future use, creating a living, breathing community that evolves as your town progresses. This advanced simulation highlights the interconnectedness of resources, production, and infrastructure in your settlement.

Conquer Randomly Generated Maps with Unique Challenges

No two playthroughs are ever the same in Farthest Frontier, thanks to its randomly generated maps. Featuring distinct biomes and map themes, each terrain offers different resource distributions, creating unique opportunities and challenges. Players can customize their map preferences, adjusting the presence of mountains, water, and specific resources to shape their gameplay experience. Extreme maps test your survival skills, while tranquil settings offer a more relaxed town-building journey.

Customize Difficulty for an Idyllic or Brutal Experience

Tailor the challenge level to suit your preference with Farthest Frontier’s customizable difficulty options. Players can toggle features like invaders and diseases for a peaceful, tranquil experience or ramp up the difficulty to push their strategic skills to the limit. Whether you prefer a laid-back approach or a grueling test of survival, the game’s options allow you to create the ideal experience for your town-building adventure.

Defend Your Town Against Raiders and Invaders

For those who embrace combat, Farthest Frontier offers robust defense mechanics to protect your town from external threats. As your settlement flourishes, raiders and armies seek to plunder your resources, forcing you to fortify your town with wood palisades, stone walls, towers, and barracks. Recruit and equip soldiers to fend off attackers, using crafted weapons and armor to strengthen your defenses. Alternatively, pacifist mode allows players to avoid combat entirely, focusing solely on town-building and resource management.

Manage Environmental Risks and Natural Interactions

The wilderness is both a source of opportunity and danger in Farthest Frontier. Players must balance clearing land for agriculture with preserving vital natural resources such as medicinal plants and forage items. Fencing keeps deer out of crops, while bears are deterred from raiding food stores. Tree cover management prevents underground water supplies from drying up, ensuring long-term sustainability. Adapting your economy to local resources and trading for needed goods adds further complexity to the survival strategy.

Confront Historic Diseases and Ensure Villager Health

Survival in Farthest Frontier involves more than just resource management—it demands vigilance against old-timey diseases. Players must ensure clean water supplies to prevent outbreaks of dysentery and cholera, while a balanced diet helps ward off scurvy. Proper clothing and shoes reduce the risk of frostbite, tetanus, and rabies, while healer’s houses provide quarantine and treatment for the infected. Managing waste, securing food storage, and employing rat catchers are essential to avoiding the feared bubonic plague, adding another layer of strategy to town-building.

Engage with Steam Workshop Modding Tools

Farthest Frontier embraces creativity with full modding support through Steam Workshop and Unity development tools. Players can expand upon the game’s foundation, creating custom content and reinventing gameplay to suit their wildest ideas. Modding ensures endless replayability and allows the community to shape the future of Farthest Frontier, making it a flexible and dynamic experience.

A Legacy from Crate Entertainment

Developed by Crate Entertainment, the creators of the critically acclaimed action-RPG Grim Dawn, Farthest Frontier showcases the studio’s commitment to delivering high-quality, deeply engaging gameplay. As a fully independent developer located near Boston, MA, Crate Entertainment invites players to join their community, participate in discussions, and contribute to shaping the future of their games.