Farthest Frontier
A city-builder focused on survival, farming, and defense in the wilderness.
Farthest Frontier is a city-building and survival management game from Crate Entertainment, the independent studio behind the 2016 action RPG *Grim Dawn*. It launched in early access for Windows on August 9, 2022, and challenges players to build, grow, and defend a settlement in a harsh, untamed wilderness. The game left early access with its 1.0 update on October 23, 2025, after three years of updates.
Players start with a small group of settlers and must gather raw materials, construct shelters, and secure a stable food supply to survive the environment. The farming system is highly detailed, requiring players to manage soil fertility, rotate crops, clear rocks, and control weeds to keep harvests productive. The economy relies on multi-tiered production chains, with dozens of building types and craftable items.
Villagers are assigned professions like farming, foraging, mining, and manufacturing. The simulation includes historical diseases such as cholera, scurvy, dysentery, and bubonic plague, which players must counter by providing clean water, varied diets, and medical facilities. Defensive mechanics involve building walls, towers, and barracks to fend off raiders and wildlife.
Crate Entertainment announced the game in early 2021, marking a genre shift from their previous work. Upon release, *Farthest Frontier* received positive coverage from gaming outlets. *Rock Paper Shotgun* praised the agricultural simulation, calling the multi-year crop rotation and soil management an "unexpected joy," though it noted that late-game town management lacked the early survival stages' appeal. *PC Gamer* commended the complex production chains and crop rotation as highly satisfying, despite a slow early-game pace. *Eurogamer* highlighted the organic and difficult initial settlement building, capturing the genre's best elements. *IGN* praised the historical survival aspects and realistic food preservation but pointed out early performance issues and minor economic quirks. By its 1.0 launch in late 2025, the game had sold over 1.2 million copies.
Quick Facts
- Title
- Farthest Frontier
- Developer
- Crate Entertainment
- Engine
- Unity
- Genre
- City-building, survival
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows
- Release
- October 23, 2025
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Lore & Background
Farthest Frontier was developed by Crate Entertainment, an independent studio known for the 2016 action role-playing game Grim Dawn. The game represents a genre pivot for the studio. Crate Entertainment announced the game in early 2021 and released it into early access on Steam on August 9, 2022. Following three years of updates, the game exited early access with its 1.0 update on October 23, 2025.
Players begin with a small group of settlers and must gather raw materials, construct shelters, and establish stable food sources to survive environmental conditions. The game features a granular farming system where players manage soil fertility, crop rotation, rock removal, and weed control to maintain crop yields. The economic system includes a multi-tiered production chain featuring craftable items and dozens of building types.
Players manage villager logistics by assigning professions such as farming, foraging, mining, and manufacturing. The simulation includes historical disease mechanics; players must secure clean water supplies, provide varied diets, and build medical facilities to prevent outbreaks of cholera, scurvy, dysentery, and bubonic plague. Combat mechanics require players to build walls, towers, and barracks to defend the settlement against waves of raiders and wildlife.
Reader's Guide
During its development and upon release, Farthest Frontier received positive coverage from gaming publications. Rock Paper Shotgun highlighted the game's agricultural simulation, describing the multi-year crop rotation and soil management requirements as an 'unexpected joy,' though noting that the late-game town management lacked the immediate appeal of the early survival stages. PC Gamer similarly commended the complex production chains and intricate crop rotation mechanics, calling them highly satisfying despite a sluggish early game pace while waiting for town expansions. Eurogamer praised the organic and difficult nature of the initial settlement building, noting that it captured the most appealing elements of the city-builder genre. IGN commended the title's historical survival aspects and realistic food preservation mechanics, but pointed out early performance optimization issues and minor economic quirks. The game sold over 1.2 million copies by the time of its 1.0 launch in late 2025.
Did You Know?
- Farthest Frontier was developed by Crate Entertainment, the studio behind the 2016 action role-playing game Grim Dawn.
- The game includes historical disease mechanics for cholera, scurvy, dysentery, and bubonic plague.
- The game exited early access on October 23, 2025, after three years of updates.
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