Farthest Frontier

Farthest Frontier is a town-building game about guiding a small group of settlers as they establish a town in untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. You gather resources, hunt, fish and farm to sustain the growing settlement, while producing goods for villagers to trade, use and equip. You can play in pacifist mode to avoid combat, or defend the town against outside threats.

Build and advance your town

Construct over 190 buildings as your settlement grows into a city. The town center and housing advance through multiple tiers as prosperity, desirability and progress in the 140+ point Tech Tree increase. Upgrading production buildings improves their efficiency and unlocks more advanced goods. You can also build a temple and shape your people’s faith using relics you discover.

The economy includes 16 raw materials, from wood, stone and clay to metal ores, wild herbs and honey. Villagers can grow 12 food crops with different characteristics, while the wider food supply includes 19 types of food, including forage, fish and game. Production chains turn these resources into 32 crafted items and materials for trade, consumption, equipment and other uses.

Farm and manage resources

Choose from 12 crops with distinct growing characteristics and plan crop rotations to maintain soil fertility, limit heat and frost damage, and prevent disease from building up. Over time, you can clear weeds and rocks, improve fertility and adjust the soil mixture to increase yields and feed the growing population.

The surrounding environment shapes your economy and requires careful management. Make goods from abundant local resources and trade for what you lack. Fences keep deer away from fields and bears from food stores, while managing tree cover helps prevent underground water supplies from drying up. Clearing land for farming also means weighing the value of wild medicinal plants and forage.

Villagers and town life

Villagers live and work in real time, carrying goods from remote work sites to be processed into materials and crafted items. They deliver food and goods to homes and the trade post, or place them in storage. Roads, transport wagons and better storage help move goods through town efficiently and prevent spoilage.

Disease prevention involves maintaining clean water to reduce dysentery and cholera, and providing berries and greens to help prevent scurvy. Proper shoes and clothing reduce the risk of tetanus, rabies and frostbite. A healer’s house can quarantine infected villagers and provide herbs and medicine, while collecting waste, storing food securely and employing rat catchers helps control rodents and prevent bubonic plague.

Maps and difficulty

Each map has randomized terrain and resource distribution, with distinct biomes, map themes and extreme settings that bring different challenges. You can adjust the amount of water and mountains, and specify which resources can appear.

Difficulty options let you turn off features such as invaders and disease for a more peaceful settlement, or raise the challenge. Custom game options allow further adjustments to the experience.

Defend your settlement

If you choose to face invaders, you can set the raider difficulty and prepare for raids and foreign armies drawn by your town’s growing prosperity. Develop defenses from wooden palisades to stone walls, build towers and barracks, and recruit and equip soldiers.

Modding

The game supports modding through freely available Unity development tools and Steam Workshop.