Lightspeed Frontier

Lightspeed Frontier is a sci-fi adventure sandbox about captaining a ship on the frontier of the galaxy. You customize your ship, take on open-ended missions that can affect your surroundings, and choose how to make your way through the universe. Along the way, you can confront crime lords and space pirates, challenge corporate monopolies, influence the galactic stock market and uncover the mysteries of Lightspeed Frontier.

Build your ship

Faster-than-light travel has recently become available to ordinary middle-class travelers. You begin with a standard command pod, then expand its size and capabilities with modular parts such as engines, cannons, lasers, scanners and software.

As you add modules, your ship advances through classes, unlocking more missions and special actions. You start in a small fighter-class ship and can eventually reach the final Infinity class. Each class has different strengths and weaknesses in firepower, speed and maneuverability, while acquiring more modules opens up further opportunities.

Choose your path

The frontier offers many ways to make a living. You can invest in mining equipment to sell raw materials or outfit your ship with powerful weapons and hunt bounties. Corporations at outposts and space stations offer shipping contracts, protection work and, once you earn their trust, shadier jobs. You can also invest in their stocks or undercut their businesses.

Meet the frontier

Your travels bring you into contact with NPCs, corporations, scavengers and programmers, as well as asteroid belts and space stations. How you treat NPCs can make them allies or enemies: helping them or betraying them may lead to a bounty on your head or to more challenging, rewarding work later.

Ship parts often reflect the factions that design them. In the outer rim, rogue gangs modify old pre-warp technology, though its durability can be questionable. The Industrial Conglomerate controls the industrial belt and makes equipment for strength and tensile strength, while the United Research Alliance at the galaxy’s core produces the most advanced gear.

Fight in space

Battles are a key part of traversing the frontier. You use different weapons, maneuvering techniques and physics to destroy opposing ships, including ramming them or hurling asteroids at them.