Farthest Frontier

Farthest Frontier

Released Oct 2025

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

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Evaluation

Farthest Frontier officially launched out of Early Access as v1.0 on October 23, 2025, after roughly three years of Early Access development with Crate Entertainment. Since launch, the game has received a steady stream of new content. On April 9, 2026, Crate shipped v1.1 — the first major free post-launch update — introducing a gridless build mode, a guided journey for new players, and quality-of-life improvements. On May 14, 2026, they released the first paid DLC, "Cats and Dogs," adding animal companions, new buildings, new threats like groundhogs and foxes, and decorative items. Most significantly, on August 21, 2026, Crate posted a development update explicitly confirming that "at least two major free content updates and a massive expansion" are currently in development. V1.2 is described as nearly ready, with playtesting expected this Fall 2026 and a full content preview coming within about a month. V1.3 is targeted for early 2027. The expansion is also described as actively in progress. This is a direct, recent developer statement about a concrete pipeline of upcoming content — there is no ambiguity about whether more content is coming.
Evidence
Developer confirms at least two major free updates (v1.2 and v1.3) and a paid expansion are in active development. V1.2 is nearly ready with playtesting expected Fall 2026; v1.3 targets early 2027; expansion described as in progress.
news post · Aug 21, 2026 source content planned
high
Cats and Dogs DLC launched; developer states the team is hard at work on future free updates and the game's first expansion.
news post · May 14, 2026 source content planned
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Crate Entertainment
Achievements
74
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Protect and guide your small band of settlers to forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to sustain your advancing town. Produce crafted items for villagers to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats (pacifist mode available for players who do not want to engage in combat).

Key Features

  • Harvest, Grow, Craft - Harvest 16 different raw materials from wood, stone and clay, to metal ores, wild herbs, and honey. Grow 19 types of food, including forage items, fish and game, plus 12 food crops, each with different characteristics. Produce 32 crafted items and materials in a multi-tiered economy.

  • Build and Advance - Construct over 190 different buildings as you grow your town from a fledgling settlement to a bustling city. Your town center and housing will advance through multiple building tiers as the prosperity and desirability of your town increases and advancements are made in a vast 140+ point Tech Tree. Upgrade production buildings to increase efficiency and enable production of more advanced items. Construct a temple and customize your people’s faith with discoverable relics.

  • Most Detailed Farming System Ever - Strategically select from 12 crops with unique growing characteristics and configure crop rotations to maintain soil fertility, avoid heat and frost damage, and prevent the accumulation of diseases. Cultivate your fields over time, removing weeds and rocks, raising fertility and adjusting soil mixture to achieve maximum crop production to keep your growing population fed.

  • Advanced Town Simulation - Villagers actively live their lives and perform their jobs in real time. Watch as villagers carry goods across town from remote work-sites to be processed into materials and crafted into items. See foods and goods delivered to homes, the trade post or stored for later use. Develop roads, transport wagons and improve storage methods to facilitate the efficient movement of goods through your town and prevent spoilage.

  • Randomly Generated Maps - No game is ever quite the same with beautiful, completely randomized terrain generation and resource distribution. Unique biomes and map themes increase replayability, with extreme maps leading to unique challenges. Controls allow players to specify the amount of water or mountains they desire, even down to which resources can generate on the map.

  • Idyllic to Brutal - Customizable difficulty options allow players to turn off features like invaders and disease, for a more tranquil experience or max out difficulty to truly test their town-builder prowess. Enable custom game options to cater the experience to your desires.

  • Environmental Interaction - Develop your economy based on which resources are locally abundant and produce items for trade to acquire that which you lack. Erect fencing to keep deer away from crop fields and stop bears from raiding food storage. Manage tree cover to prevent underground water supplies from drying up. Balance the need to clear land for agriculture around vital natural resources like wild growing medicinal plants and forage items.

  • All Them Old-Timey Diseases! - Ensure your villagers have clean water to stop outbreaks of dysentery and cholera. Collect berries and plant greens to avoid scurvy and ensure a healthy diet. Make sure villagers are properly shoed and clothed to reduce chances of contracting tetanus, rabies or frostbite. Build a healer’s house to quarantine the infected and provide herbs and medicine for treatment. Manage rodent populations by collecting waste, securely storing food and employing rat catchers to ward off the feared bubonic plague.

  • Fend Off Would-Be Invaders - Choose to play on pacifist and avoid combat altogether or engage with varying levels of raider difficulty to raise the stakes for your town’s survival. Progress from wood palisades to stone walls, build towers and barracks, recruit and equip soldiers in the defense of your town as rising prosperity attracts the attention of raiders and foreign armies seeking plunder.

  • Steam Workshop Integration - With full support for modding through the freely available Unity development tools and Steam Workshop, players have the power to take the game's strong foundation and build upon and reinvent it to their wildest desires.

Crate Entertainment is a fully independent developer and publisher located outside Boston, MA. Crate is best known for the critically-acclaimed action-RPG, Grim Dawn. Join the Crate community and help shape the future of development of our games and be among the first to receive news about Farthest Frontier by participating in polls and discussions on our forum.

Last evaluated Aug 22, 2026
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