Farthest Frontier Forges Ahead: Roadmap Revealed!

[June 25th. 2024] - Farthest Frontier, the survival city-builder from Crate Entertainment, has shared a roadmap leading up to its full release. Since launching into Early Access, the game has sold over 1 million copies, amassed over 1.5 million wishlists, and garnered thousands of Very Positive reviews on Steam. This roadmap outlines the exciting major features players can expect on the path to its 1.0 launch. During the Steam Summer Sale, there will be a 20% discount on Farthest Frontier, so there’s never been a better time to jump into the game before it heads out of Early Access.

Farthest Frontier is currently in Early Access, and the developers have revealed a brand new roadmap to give players an idea of the major features and improvements still planned for the game’s 1.0 launch. These updates include significant performance gains, new mechanics, balance adjustments, and quality-of-life enhancements.


Roadmap Notes:

• v0.9.3: Expect significantly improved performance in the game's first (but not last) optimization update!

  • Major optimization improvements, with internal tests showing up to 100% improved framerates in settlements with over 2,000 villagers 

  • Rebalanced the pace of the game for a more relaxed experience at 1x speed.

  • Increased desirability and entertainment radius for more flexible town planning

  • New combat controls, including easier military company selection, improved archer AI, and a new Retreat to Garrison button.

• v0.9.4: Reach new heights in the tier 5 housing update!

  • Upgrade your Shelters to awe-inspiring manors and elevate your town's grandeur.

  • Upgrade the bakery to a prestigious pastry shop and fulfill your people's desires for new luxuries.

• v0.9.5: Expand your horizons in the gameplay and quality-of-life update!

  • Navigate your settlement and the surrounding wilderness as you prepare for incoming raiders with the new minimap.

  • Expertly manage your farms with a dedicated Crop Summary window.

  • Be rewarded for exploration by exploiting lost salvage sites.

• v0.9.6: Take control of the game and bring your town to life in the simulation update!

  • Villagers will have voice lines and spend their well-deserved downtime relaxing and interacting with your town, making it feel more alive. Say goodbye to mindless wandering!

  • Craft your ideal gameplay experience with an overhauled custom game mode, where you get to decide exactly how you want to play!

• v1.0: Achieve ultimate victory in the Tech Tree update!

  • The Tech Tree will vastly expand your options when tailoring your settlement however you desire, allowing you to optimize your production, agriculture, and military as you see fit. 
  • Become the victor with new (optional) victory conditions. Leave your mark on the frontier with magnificent monuments!

In Farthest Frontier, you forge a town in an untamed wilderness as you harvest resources, hunt, fish, farm, and craft for trade, defense, and your people's survival. With a vast array of materials and crops to harvest, dozens of unique buildings to expand your town, and a deep farming system - right down to soil fertility and seasonal rotations - the depth of Farthest Frontier is vast. Provide for your people's needs with numerous basic and luxury goods, beautiful decor, and customizable religions. Keep the settlement secure behind formidable fortifications and an army you assemble and maintain as you fend off invaders eager to plunder your wealth with deadly cavalry and catapults.

Farthest Frontier is available now in Steam Early Access ($29.99). To learn more about the game, you can visit its official website. 
 

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Key Features

• Build and Advance in Random Generated Maps: Construct over 140 different types of buildings as you grow your town from a fledgling settlement to a bustling city. Upgrade production buildings to increase efficiency and enable production of more advanced items. No game is ever quite the same with beautiful, completely randomized terrain generation and resource distribution.

• Most Detailed Farming System Ever: Strategically select from 12 crops with unique growing characteristics and configure crop rotations to maintain soil fertility, avoid heat and frost damage, and prevent the accumulation of diseases. Cultivate your fields over time by removing weeds and rocks, raising fertility, and adjusting soil mixture to achieve maximum crop production to keep your growing population fed.

• Idyllic to Brutal: Customizable difficulty options allow you to turn off features like invaders, disease, and combat for a more tranquil experience or to max out the difficulty to truly test their town-builder prowess. 

• Advanced Town Simulation: Villagers actively live out their lives and perform their jobs in real-time. Develop roads, construct transport wagons, and set production and storage limits to reduce spoilage and facilitate the efficient movement of goods throughout your settlement.

• All Them Old-Timey Diseases!: Clean drinking water, proper waste disposal, healthy diets for your villagers, and even proper clothing will help combat the variety of diseases and ailments that plagued the medieval era.

• Fend Off Would-Be Invaders: Progress from wood palisades to stone walls, build towers, barracks and stables, and recruit and equip soldiers in the defense of your town as rising prosperity attracts the attention of raiders and foreign armies seeking plunder.

About Crate Entertainment

Crate Entertainment was founded in 2008 to create the kinds of games and experiences that they love to play, with deep gameplay and compelling worlds. The team's first game, the action RPG Grim Dawn, was successfully funded through Kickstarter in 2012 and released in 2016 to critical acclaim. The game sits at a 93% score on Steam, with over 5 million copies sold and 5.2 million copies of DLCs.

Farthest Frontier is Crate's second game. Since its Early Access debut in Q3 2022, it has sold over 1 million copies.