Farthest Frontier will finally be leaving Early Access this October, after enjoying a long stint with over 1.2 million sales since 2022. Developer Crate Entertainment revealed plans to go 1.0 last year, but it’s only this year when it will eventually happen.
The 1.0 release of Farthest Frontier will come with a 142-point Tech Tree—the developers of action-RPG Grim Dawn can’t get away from their roots it looks like. The game will also launch with a dozen of new buildings, the ability to build bridges, a new policy system, updated animations and more.
For the uninitiated, Farthest Frontier is set in the late medieval times where you form a new colony in the farthest frontier. The city-builder has a survival aspect to it as resources are scarce, bad planning can lead to a death spiral and it has one of the most incredibly detailed farming system in a city-builder.
For the city-builder oldheads, Farthest Frontier plays a lot like Banished, as our Early Access impressions make not of. And it’s no mere coincidence based on this quote by CEO & Creative Director Arthur Bruno:
“Farthest Frontier started out as sort of a self-indulgent passion project, to take a break from ARPGs and make the kind of town-builder game I’d dreamed of making in college, when I was playing games like Settlers 2, Caesar 3 and Ultimate Domain. When we started development I was not sure how much demand there was for town-builders anymore, but Banished came out of nowhere and proved there was still a good-sized audience for the right kind of game.
Farthest Frontier contains a lot of the depth and ideas I’d always wanted to see in the genre, like more robust farming and an intricate, fully-simulated economy where villagers are actually carrying resources and items back and forth. It’s been a huge challenge, especially since we’ve never had more than 8 people on it at a time but Farthest Frontier turned out bigger and better than I had imagined and I am incredibly proud of the team and what we’ve built.”
Farthest Frontier leaves Early Access and goes 1.0 on October 23. The game is currently available on PC (Steam).