"Collect berries and plant greens to avoid scurvy and ensure a healthy diet," reads the Steam description for Farthest Frontier. Yes, this is exactly what I want from a middle ages-ish citybuilder - one from the makers of action-RPG Grim Dawn. Come watch its first trailer below.
We're suckers for a good city-building game around these parts, and there's a brand new one coming to Early Access later this year. It's called Farthest Frontier, and it's a gorgeous-looking game that sees you managing a tiny band of settlers as they establish a new township in the hardscrabble wilderness.
Farthest Frontier is in the works at Crate Entertainment, the developers of the Diablo-style action RPG Grim Dawn. This is a different prospect altogether, however - Farthest Frontier promises to have the "most detailed farming system ever" in a city builder, with 10 different crops to pick from. You'll have to mind your fields by removing weeds and rocks, and plan your planting and harvesting schedules carefully to make sure you're rotating crops and preserving the soil's fertility.
It also promises highly customisable difficulty, letting you choose the type of game you want to play. Pacifist games feature a combat-free experience, but you'll still have to ward off deer and bears who come calling to feast on the bounty of your fields. However, you can also raise the stakes by enabling human raiders and hostile armies, whom you'll have to fight off by building palisades and outfitting a city watch.
It’s January, which means it’s almost time for YouTube to start serving me nothing but list videos about the most exciting citybuilders of 2021. It does this because I watch every one it recommends, every year. I’m betting Farthest Frontier will be high placed on some of those videos: it’s a middle ages-ish citybuilder about leading your people to survive harsh winters and miserable diseases, and it’s from the makers of well-liked action RPG Grim Dawn.
