2022's best survival city builder will let you 'customize your faith' with a new religion system
When survival city builder Farthest Frontier launched into early access in 2022, players noted a pretty big omission. City building games, especially those inspired by the medieval period, typically have religious buildings like churches or chapels that can be built near homes to provide a satisfaction or happiness bonus for citizens.
The lack of religious buildings in Farthest Frontier was deliberate. «If we ever incorporate a faith system of some kind, I think it would be best if it was a customizable system where you name the faith and decide its bonuses/features,» Crate Entertainment designer Zantai said at the time.
You can now dispel the «if» in that statement, because the new system is coming to Farthest Frontier in August, as revealed in a Twitch stream hosted by Zantai earlier today. In the 0.9 update, players will be able to build a massive temple in their city that will let you «customize your faith» by filling it with religious relics that give various bonuses (and in one case, a dangerous debuff) not just to local villagers but to the entire city.
You'll be able to find these relics by exploring the world and locating ruins (another new feature in the update) which can be excavated by workers to reveal a hidden relic. Merchants may also occasionally bring relics into your city that can be traded for at your market. Once your temple is built, you can select any two of the relics you've found to be active (or three relics if your temple is fully upgraded) and provide your city with whichever bonuses those relics generate.
During the Twitch stream we got a look at several of the relics that will be available. There's a fertility relic that makes your villagers' health and birth rates improve by 10%, and a
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