Mech-farming sim Lightyear Frontier has confirmed its launch for subsequent March, touchdown round a 12 months after the delayed chill area recreation was initially meant to the touch down on Planet PC.
We first noticed Lightyear Frontier again in 2021, unveiling a vibrant and serene combination of mechs and agriculture a la Stardew Valley. It was initially aiming for an early entry launch in spring 2023, which ultimately slipped again to an unsure launch window as devs Frame Break labored to complete it up.
The farming at Lightyear Frontier’s coronary heart has vibes of each Stardew – in fact, being any farming recreation in 2023 – but additionally the much less apparent comparability of PowerWash Sim within the really feel of its space-age instruments and its typically laid-back ambiance, which duties gamers with clearing up and sustaining their patch of alien planet with out a lot punishment for taking it at your individual tempo. You get a gun that may shoot seeds into the bottom, suck up water to assist them develop and different such useful instruments.
This being a mech recreation, it’s also possible to customise your mech by snapping on new components that can provide help to effectively have a tendency your land. Armoured Core this ain’t, however a delicate tackle farming sims, stomping mechs and first-person capturing (right here with seeds) it’s. Katharine was fairly taken with what she noticed earlier this 12 months, and its vivid color palette is actually a pleasant change from the black void of area and hospital-white gleam in lots of sci-fi video games.
The complete factor appears to be like and sounds charming, with the power to befriend NPCs – although not fairly to the town-wide scale of Stardew – in addition to staff up with associates for co-op farmhanding. Frame Break additionally revealed their plans for post-launch content material, alternating between mini updates that can enhance quality-of-life and accessibility options and reply to group requests, and larger updates that can look to develop the sport with the neighbourhood froendship system, skill to maintain animals, new crops and an growth to the sport’s world, together with further story components and hidden secrets and techniques.
Lightyear Frontier shall be prepared to reap subsequent March, coming to each Steam and Game Pass.
