Lightyear Frontier Reviews

Open world casual crafting adventures game. There's no survival element except for common sense, dont jump into the lake with your mech!. Doesn't have threat level to be aware off or hp nor hungry bar. Dev doens't tag survival or mention survival in store page. So dont expect survival game!. Is a FARM SIMULATOR game, you have the chance to make your own farm on a new planet. Go wild!. Yes it have a progressive zone and upgrade to access the next level. Dont worry bout it. Just go with your own pace. . It INDIE EARLY ACCESS, so dont expect full on gameplay for days as there aint much content to mess around.

Love this game it is a lay back and enjoy game and totally away from my usual games I play.

it is fun for a short time . You run out of things to do but I had fun

Probably one of the most pleasant and relaxing games I've ever played in my life.. I don't mind that the game is somewhat linear (what gather/upgrade/build game isn't?) and that there's an end, if anything it's nice that it's pretty straightforward in everything you need to do to acquire everything you'd like. Story is kind of whatever but I mostly signed up for the farming in a mech.

Very peaceful game, I love how simple it is. I would like to see more area's added to the game and more intricate things to craft and build. It has a lot of potential. I love the AI guide, great choice in accent and the comments are refreshing. A road map would be great. My biggest comment would be on the farmers customisation. Not too bothered about having a face etc but the body shape or changing the pick axe colour and cloth accents would be good to match the other painted items etc.

This is a cozy game, fun to just wander around, discover new things, build your farm, enjoy the interaction of mech + human. It doesn't have danger past falling into deep water, and that just sets you back up on land. I like this game and it's a great chance to just enjoy something without worrying about it.

Fun little game but for the current content and state of the game I would say its worth around 10-20 $/€. I understand that the game is in early access and that devs are working hard to make new content but the price should reflect current content, not content to come.

very beautiful, visuals are amazing, you have to explore places in order to progress which I really don't mind in doing. It is a very cozy space farming game with some challenges. Made me spazzy cause I love space, and farming that has some cute animals. if you have adhd you will lose focus on what you are doin since there are many things for you to do in the game, with all the exploring you need to do.

This is an early access review. I play Open World Survival Crafting games. [i]Lightyear Frontier[/i] is a farming simulator which is outside my normal genre. But a lot of great OWSC games include farming elements ([I]Valheim, Subnautica, Raft[/i]). With everything else the trailer showed, I figured there would be enough points of commonality to be worth a shot. [i]Lightyear Frontier[/i] turned out to be an excellent little cozy time-waster. I was able to sink into it and lose hours of my life in a very pretty (if not very deep) world where I was constantly engaged but never stressed. I loved the world design and the lush, colorful environments. The resources and tech trees are simple but still fun to pursue. I rarely had to seek an answer to something online, and I never encountered a bug. I am not a fan of the folksy farming aesthetic that I should expect from a farming game. But here it was offset by the sci-fi trappings. For example: the AI in the orbiting satellite has a southern drawl and uses words like [i]skedaddle.[/i] I appreciated the lack of Survival mechanics. In every OWSC game, those quickly become tedious. Once you beat hunger and thirst, constantly being pulled away from the fun stuff to deal with them becomes a chore I wish I could turn off. Sure, part of me missed being able to use my crops (like [i]Valheim, Nightengale[/i] and [i]Raft[/i]) to make ever fancier foods, with my character eating far better than I do in real life. But it was a good trade. I love base building and decoration. In [i]Lightyear Frontier[/i], you don't design your base but you do decorate it, with increasing coziness levels that offer very nice perks. I really appreciated some of the choices. For example: I usually don't like animal husbandry in games because caring for animals becomes a chore and I hate the feeling that pets will starve to death if I spend too much time doing the parts of the game I enjoy. So I loved that the game provides an "animal sanctuary" where you can store your animals in an NPC's care if you just don't want to deal with them for a while. The story... is? Maybe? Not really. But in this game, I'm strangely okay with that. My character came here to homestead, not pursue some epic quest. One note: I have severe problems with motion sickness in games. [i]Lightyear Frontier[/i] is designed with accessibility in mind, including multiple FOV sliders. But beyond a certain point, those create bad fishbowling. I cannot play this game first person. However, I've been able to play for hours on end in third person without any trouble.

Really linear gameplay. While nice to look at there really isn't a lot of substance besides grinding to get upgrades and clear the different areas. There really aren't any "mysteries" to speak of. Trailer looks cooler than the actual game is.