Farthest Frontier looks like comfort-food gaming for city-builder fans

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Grim Dawn ended up hitting spot for a lot of action-RPG fans, and this year, Crate Entertainment is coming for all of the city-builders in the room. The studio’s next project is Farthest Frontier, a game about starting a town “at the edge of the known world.” We’ve seen screenshots on Steam before, but today, there’s a cozy gameplay trailer.

As the trailer footage shows, your colony will start off very small — and very vulnerable to the elements. One moment, your villagers are chopping trees, growing crops, and fishing; the next, there’s a bear attack. And a raging house fire. And a brutal winter.

That’s just the eye-catching stuff they’re showing us now, too. Think about all of the long-term threats to a quiet village life that are lurking beneath the surface, simmering.

Before you panic — admittedly, I’m starting to! — there will be options. As the Steam listing for Farthest Frontier explains, “customizable difficulty options allow players to turn off features like invaders and disease, for a more tranquil experience or max out difficulty to truly test their town-builder prowess.” I’ll avoid the latter at all costs, thanks.

Some of these bullet-points really are worth a look, whether it’s talk of avoiding “old-timey diseases,” planning out “crop rotations to maintain soil fertility,” and developing an economy with the right mix of raw materials. There’s plenty to consider beyond just which specific road should go where and who’s responsible for what duties.

If you’re curious why everyone is constantly running around, Crate Entertainment says that “villagers actively live their lives and perform their jobs in real-time.” The hustle!

Farthest Frontier will be playable on PC sometime in 2022, but it’s kicking things off