Farthest Frontier

I'm a sucker for a decent "Banished" like, and there's no point in pretending this is anything other than that. Problem is, what Banished already "solved", this game decides to try and complicate and call it innovating. Having to move your forager work areas CONSTANTLY to chase nodes? Locking content behind an aggressively time consuming research system? Requiring staggering amounts of gold to keep anything running AND to upgrade? A decoration system that has ♥♥♥♥ all to do with whether it looks nice to you, the player, and everything to do with whether it will somehow satisfy your villagers enough to make their shelters into a house? Sure, you can speed things up, make people run like little ants. Not much, but some. Of course if you make meaningful progress, then raids kick in. And soldiers? Verrrrry expensive. And you better believe the AI can't accomplish anything on its own. Be ready to micro those solidiers like it's starcraft, because they'll walk right by anything dangerous to all attack the one dude you clicked otherwise. It's kind of pretty, the music is rather good, but it's not a fun loop, and these are all such solved issues, it's hard to see why this game exists. Then I see they wanna charge for adding cats and dogs, and that's when it makes "sense".

Reminds me too much of early stages of Manor Lords.. Completly unbalanced and way too costly to counter anything that will attack you. A single bear will wreack havoc on your entire settlement just because your settlers are too STUPID to do anything. And having any sort of soldier is way too f***ing expensive. Ohhh, and that was until I found ON REDDIT that you can command settlers. So select ALL of them and attack the f***ing bear. Tutorial is SHAIT, the game is slow as hell. Want to get more people? Yeah, you better settle down and wait for about 1-2 hours! And WHY does both this game (and Manor Lords) INSIST on having the 2 most IMPORTANT JOBS, the ones gathering wood for building, and actual builders being the UNEMPLOYED!?! Let me build a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ carpenter and a woodsman! Let me set my 5-10 people to work WITH THSI! Not have to balance all the other f***ing jobs to remember to keep 5-10 of them UNEMPLYED! Do with that as you will.

I started playing this in early access before the tech tree was added and it was/is a good game, it was a slow-paced, chill little colony builder. The reason I don't recommend the game though is that when i came back to this after full release and the tech-tree was added, it's made an already slow-paced game into a -painfully- slow trudge of a game. There's not really much to do once you are well enough established and i feel like the tech-tree was added to slow the player down from getting to that end-game stage. It's a good game if you have the patience to sink HOURS into it at a time, it's very pretty, well optimised, but overall it can get boring waiting for enough knowledge points to advance to the next age.

It's not a bad game but everytime I play it, I wish I was playing something else instead (usually Banished). The UI is unclear and oddly sized, there is a severe lack of hotkeys, it's unintuitive to play and the tutorials aren't helpful. It's a pretty game, and it's got some interesting ideas. I do not like the combat systems. It's a fine game. I personally would rather play other games in the genre. Maybe get it on sale if you really want it. Get the Keep Clarity mod for hotkeys (launch the game in mono mode).

Game is tedious, slow-paced, confusing, frustrating, buggy, unintuitive. It's nonsensical even in many cases - like needing a resource to build a building that produces that exact resource but you don't get that resource until you build that building - ??? The chain of requirements for construction of buildings, along with things that are locked behind tech trees just seems very out of order and chaotic which completely detracts from the game and just adds noise and frustration. Can't build this because you need this, cant build that because you need this other thing, cant get that other thing because you need this tech researched, can't research that tech because its way down the tech tree even though it shouldn't be, and on and on and on. Progression is slow and non-intuitive, and again, chaotic to manage. Not a fun builder/city management game AT ALL.

그래픽이 디게 옛날 게임 감성인데 낭만있음. 디아? 녹스? 그런류쪽 갬성임 뭐 일하다 포식동물한테 물려죽고 천둥때매 건물 불타고 침략자 쳐들어오고 역경이 많음 재밌음 도시건설 게임 유명한건 거의 다 해본거같은데 죄다 운영위주라 역경이 부족해서 경제만 대충 안정화 시키고나면 후반에 무조건 방치형에 꾸미기 위주라 지루했단말임. 근데 이 게임은 주민들을 림월드처럼 드래그해서 징집시키고 컨트롤해서 전투를 함. 진짜 중세처럼 비누없으면 전염병 돌고 울타리 안치면 늑대한테 물려죽고 겨울에 장작가지러 가다 얼어죽고 껄껄 진짜 플레이방면에선 너무 재밌는데 딱 한가지 단점이라면 보는맛이 좀 모지람. 애들이 죄다 뚝딱이야 생활애니메이션이 없음. 도시건설게임류는 운영하면서 마을 주민들 관찰하는 재미가 좀 크잖슴. 근데 애들이 너무 레고임. 근데 게임 자체가 방대하다보니 그런 애니메이션까지 넣었으면 프레임이 무지하게 갈려나갔을거같기도하고 두마리 토끼를 동시에 잡기엔 좀 욕심인 거 같긴함. 그래서 딱히 이벤트가 없을땐 초반에 너무 지루하다. 그것만 빼면 재밌음 ++ 적당히 번영하고나서 매판 느끼는건데 진짜 불편한점 몇개만 좀 개선해줬으면 좋겠음 벽울타리 곡선,원형툴기능 건물 드래그해서 프리셋붙여넣기하면 한번에 전부 적용기능 건물 더블클릭하면 동일건물들 선택기능 바닥재깔기 기능 저장소건물 저장우선순위기능 저장품목 초과수량 교역소로 이동기능 건물 인터페이스 열때마다 살짝 거슬리는 버벅임있는데 후반가면 건물 하나 누르고나서 2초정도 늘어진단말임. 근데 무슨 길 한땀 한땀 클릭해서 업그레이드 해줘야하고, 저장소 프리셋 복사 붙여넣기하는데 한땀 한땀 지정해줘야하고 진짜 이점이 제일 불쾌함. 버벅임 보기 싫으면 정착지 폭파하고 새게임하는게 제일 맘편한데 정착지 새로파면 복사붙여넣기업그레이드 또 그짓거리 할 생각에 성질부터남. 제발 만들어"줘"

*Farthest Frontier* is another mediocre game that could have been great in and of itself, but instead is only made tolerable by the work of modders. I’m tired of giving games a pass by reviewing them as though community fixes are part of the product I paid for. To be fair, if you're into mods and don't mind curating them, working on them, and keeping them up to date, then most of my criticisms are moot and you might want to give it a shot. The balance is a mess, the management tools are inadequate, and the AI constantly creates problems that shouldn’t exist. Workers prioritize nonsense, villagers wander into danger, and basic tasks require far more micromanagement than they should. Raids are the worst part. They’re repetitive, exhausting, and less about strategy than learning how the raid AI behaves and exploiting it. Instead of managing a settlement, you spend your time fighting the game’s systems and babysitting suicidal villagers. Once you understand how it works, it doesn’t become satisfying, just boring. There may be a decent game underneath all of this, but I shouldn’t need mods to reach it. Can’t recommend.

This is my Banished replacement. Though it's more than that obviously. Raiders are a thing and it also includes some RTS elements in there. There's crop rotations and different jobs for your villagers to get the whole industrial and logistical flow going. There's a pretty wide tech tree and it unlocks some bonuses, new buildings, or policies. There's a desirability factor on whether your villagers can upgrade their houses and eventually contribute more money to you. Late game is mostly just keeping the village running and going for one of the monuments. That part felt a bit slow, basically waiting for the resources (and it needs a lot) to get built. The raiders do try to attack every 2-4 years but once you have enough walls and barracks, you eventually figure out that they kinda work like villagers, beelining towards their target unless they get attacked. I wish there's more graphical settings because it does look a little too detailed, even though I think it looks nice. My computer started to chug a little when I got to 1500 population. I also had an issue with glassmakers saying there's no tools when the building already has tools equipped. I also wish I can actually point laborers to store something like iron at a storehouse near a foundry, for example. Currently it's a bit of a mouse and cat game of finding where the heck the resources are and then setting a limit or disabling it so it hopefully moves elsewhere. Aside from that, I like there's many map generation settings with varying resources. Music is also good but I hoped there's a bigger soundtrack. It's already pretty solid. I'm going to play it again eventually when I want a better challenge with harsher environments.