Lightyear Frontier

Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world farming adventure on a planet at the far edge of the galaxy. Start your new home on a distant planet with up to three friends as you farm alien crops, build your own homestead, and explore the untamed wilderness of the world.

This is an Early Access Game

Early Access games are still under development and may change significantly over time. As a result, you may experience unforeseen issues or completely new gameplay elements while playing this game.You can play now to experience the game while it's being built or wait until it offers a more complete experience.

Start your interstellar homestead in this peaceful open-world farming adventure!
Build your sustainable exofarm, grow alien crops, and explore a new world full of mystery with up to three friends!

PLANT, GROW, HARVEST
Get your new life started by sowing a diverse harvest! Collect seeds of numerous plants as you explore the planet, each with their own growing patterns and conditions. Care for your fields by watering them consistently while enhancing their growth with fertilizer. Trade the harvested crops for credits or turn them into materials for buildings and upgrades.

EXPLORE A PLANET WITH A PAST
Venture out into the wilderness to discover this new world’s ancient secrets. Team up with your friendly scanner satellite to decipher clues spread across the planet’s varied environments and uncover lost knowledge.

CREATE YOUR NEW HOME
Create the exofarm of your dreams as you turn resources into buildings! Grow your presence as you expand your homestead from basic structures to a fully-fledged, retro-futuristic farm. Make your place your own with alternative color palettes and decorations.

PILOT AND UPGRADE YOUR MECH
Farm, build, and explore in a customizable tractor mech! Choose from an array of tools, research new upgrades, and personalize your mech with a variety of paint schemes and cosmetic enhancements.

RELAX ON A PEACEFUL WORLD
Live the quiet life as you take in the sights and sounds of your new home. Enjoy a low-stress, combat-free experience without the need to manage things like thirst and hunger. Just focus on farming, exploration, and discovery!

TAKE CARE OF YOUR HARVEST
Adapt to changing weather conditions through the seasons, prevent creatures from eating your crops, and carefully manage your relationship with the surrounding ecosystems. This planet has much to offer, but if its resources are exhausted, the wildlife has no choice but to eat your harvest.

FARM AND EXPLORE ALONE OR AS A GROUP
While your mech can handle anything the world throws at you, feel free to invite up to three friends to join you on this journey of settling and exploration! Pool your resources to create the perfect exofarm, and share the rewarding feeling of a good harvest with your pals!

FEATURES

  • Explore a vast new planet packed to the brim with landmarks and mysteries, complete with various biomes to discover

  • Gather and grow resources for crafting, selling, or research to unlock new buildings, tools, and upgrades

  • Customize and improve your very own mech with an assortment of unique components to increase performance and change the way your mech operates

  • Join an interplanetary neighborhood, partner up with your local scanner satellite and befriend your off-planet neighbors

  • Play solo or with up to 3 friends online, to invite them along on your adventure, or simply give a tour of your planet

  • Create a sustainable lifestyle by carefully managing your ecosystem’s resources

  • Domesticate different species of wildlife, creating your very own alien ranch

  • Endure environmental hazards and weather conditions through changing seasons and other hardships

  • Relax to a chill cosmic country soundtrack

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Lightyear Frontier Ratings & Reviews

IGN

by Jon Bolding

7 / 10

Cute and chill, homesteading in your giant mech on Lightyear Frontier’s alien world is already some good and simple fun, even if it currently stops a bit short.

GamingBolt

by Ravi Sinha

7 / 10

Lightyear Frontier impresses with its sci-fi setting, non-violent approach and nature-focused gameplay, to say nothing of the gorgeous visuals. It has a ways to go, though, and some issues to iron out.

Twinfinite

by Rowan Jones

4 / 5

Lightyear Frontier advocates living in harmony with nature, understanding that you need to help replenish natural resources if you want to continue harvesting them. I could see how some might not understand the appeal of a game without conflict or survival elements, though. We are so used to our cozy games mirroring the world we live in right now where people fight to survive. Lightyear Frontier shows us something different. Not every day has to be a battle.

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Lightyear Frontier System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

OS version

Windows 10

OS version

Windows 10 64-Bit

CPU

i5-3570 3.4 GHz 4 Core

CPU

Intel Core i5-6600K | AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Memory

8MB

Memory

16MB

GPU

GTX 770 2GB

GPU

Nvidia GeForce GTX1060 | AMD Radeon RX 580

Storage

15MB

Storage

16GB

Additional input device

Gamepad

Additional Notes

Recommended requirements may change over the course of development.

Languages Supported

  • Audio: English

  • Text: Spanish (Spain), Russian, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, English, Chinese (Simplified), German, Polish

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