
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
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Settle your interstellar homestead in this open-world mech farming adventure!
Build your farm, customize your mech, grow alien crops, and explore a vast new world full of promise with up to three friends!

Farm, build, and explore in a customizable mech! Craft new parts and mod chips to tweak your mech's performance to your specifications. Choose from an array of options to build your trusty all-purpose vehicle.

Settle on a verdant exoplanet in the Lightyear Frontier, a cluster of habitable worlds in the far reaches of the galaxy. Overcome its environmental challenges in order to thrive on your new home.

Take farming to a new level with the power of the mech. Use its mighty tools to plant, water, and harvest vast fields of alien crops with ease. Mastering crop rotation is key to optimize your yield!

Create the exofarm of your dreams! Make your mark on the world as you build your homestead piece by piece into a handcrafted retro-futuristic farm. Make your place your own with alternative color palettes and decorations.

Send resources to remote colonies, befriend interplanetary neighbors, and build a stable of alien livestock. Use the bounty of your harvest to benefit those around you and create a better tomorrow.
While your mech can handle anything the world throws at you, feel free to invite up to three friends to join you on this journey of settling and exploration! Pool your resources to create the perfect homestead, and share the rewarding feeling of a good harvest with your pals!
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese*languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 79 reviews with recorded playtime.
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chill, fun whit friend or whitout
Не додуманная до ума игра наскучивает быстро делать в ней нечего, у робота постоянный перегруз, мир пустой практически, а перелезти через ограду на вопросы на карте ты не можешь, сама по себе ферма не интересная не сколько, максимально дибильный интерфейс в котором сразу так не разберёшься.
[i]Lightyear Frontier is an absolute breath of fresh air for the cozy farming genre, proving that piloting a massive, high-tech mech is the ultimate way to live a quiet country life.[/i] [h1]⭐Stats[/h1] [list] [*] [b]Graphics & Atmosphere:[/b] ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ☆(The game is stunning. Exploring this colorful, vibrant alien world from inside your detailed cockpit feels incredibly immersive and relaxing.) [*] [b]Frustration Factor:[/b] 💀☆☆☆☆ (With zero combat, zero hunger bars, and absolutely no pressure, the frustration factor is practically nonexistent. It's the perfect 'unwind' game.) [*] [b]Co-Op & Multiplayer Fun:[/b] 🤝🤝🤝🤝☆ (Playing with friends makes the resource gathering and base building a blast. It’s seamlessly integrated and highly satisfying.) [*] [b]Grind-Factor:[/b] ⛏️⛏️⛏️☆☆ (The loop of harvesting resources, upgrading your mech, and building your base is satisfying, but never feels like a chore or a second job.) [/list] [h1]👍 What I Absolutely Love:[/h1] [b]Reinventing the Farming Loop:[/b] Watering your alien crops with a water cannon and vacuuming up seeds with your mech’s arm is a genius gameplay twist that never gets old. [b]Pure Relaxation (No Stress):[/b] There are no monsters destroying your base at night and no harsh penalties. If you fall off a cliff, your mech just landing with a satisfying thud. [b]Satisfying Mech Customization:[/b] Upgrading your engines, vacuum power, and cosmetic parts feels genuinely rewarding and turns your machine into a beast of agriculture. [b]Great Steam Deck Performance:[/b] It is the ultimate couch game. Perfect to play while watching a show or listening to a podcast. [h1]👎 What Annoys Me / Areas for Improvement:[/h1] [b]Endgame Sandbox Depth:[/b] Once you fully upgrade your mech and complete the current world exploration, there could be a bit more variety in base building and automation to keep you hooked for 100+ hours. [b]Cockpit View Visibility:[/b] While the cockpit view is super immersive, it can sometimes feel a bit restricted when trying to target tiny resources. (But you can easily switch to 3rd person!) [h1]⚖️ Verdict & Buying Advice[/h1] [b]Who is this game for?[/b] If you love Stardew Valley, Slime Rancher, or building cozy homesteads, but want a completely fresh Sci-Fi aesthetic, this is a must-buy. It is an absolute masterpiece of stress-free gaming. Grabbing it on sale makes it a complete no-brainer! [b]📊 FINAL VERDICT:[/b] [b]8.3 / 10 Water Cannons[/b] [i]Liked this review? Follow our curator page for more honest, raw, and detailed reviews of challenging and cozy games alike![/i]
good game, cozy farming game where your most trusted tool is your mech wich you upgrade as you progress the game <3
I love mecha games and i love cozy games so being able to get both in one makes me extremely happy and i highly recommend it
Near perfect for its genre, and it isn't even finished yet. STATE: STILL PLAYING, ~14 hours, two-player co-op, Steam Deck. Early Access, so this judges the current state (as of July 2026). DESIGN INTENT A cozy alien-frontier fantasy: settle a distant planet, build a homestead, and do all your farming and exploring from inside a mech. Relaxed by design, no real threat. WHAT WORKS This is the rare farming sim that made progression actually feel like progression, and it won over someone who doesn't usually like the genre. You start hand-planting, and soon you're seeding hundreds of crops across huge fields in seconds. The loop of crops to money to materials to more capability is clean and the payoff is felt, not just told. Presentation carries it further: art, world, and especially the music. An evening theme kicks in at dusk so you know night is close, a diegetic timer that never nags. In co-op the roles split naturally (one farms, one gathers), and two players dividing labor beats going solo. It never once made us argue. Coming from Satisfactory, Stardew Valley, and Sun Haven, this belongs in that conversation, and it's too little known for how good it is. WHAT BREAKS Nothing actually breaks, which is worth stating for an Early Access game. The one soft spot is exploration: materials are scattered across biomes with no guidance, so gathering (the co-op partner's job) is the least exciting stretch. The bigger inventory helps (stock up, head home), but the pull to explore is weak, and the lore sits disconnected from progression. To be clear, this is a preference, not a design failure. The game does exactly what it sets out to do. WHAT I'D CHANGE Thread the existing lore into exploration as light guidance, ideally through combat-free puzzle spaces that use the mech's own tools (irrigator, vacuum, seed-shooter) to gate rare mods and reveal what happened to the previous civilization. That turns the weakest loop, aimless gathering, into the most distinctive one. VERDICT Buy it if you liked Satisfactory-style building or cozy sims but want progression with spine, not just vibes. At its current price it already earns the money in Early Access, and it shines in co-op on Steam Deck. Skip it if you want survival tension or danger: there is none by design. Story and exploration guidance are still thin, but this is one to play now, not just wishlist.
najlepsza gra w jaką grałem polecam może kosztyje ponad 5 dych ale opyala sie
Overall, the game already feels very polished. The devs have clearly worked on or played other base building/simulator games before, and applied the lessons learned here
juegazo, lo recomendo al 100%
progression is abit slow but and gameplay is abit mind numbing but otherwise good game
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