Nightmare Frontier

What started off as a fun little turn based game quickly became revealed as a poorly designed, tedious grind-fest with significant balance issues. Each run starts to feel like work and it takes a lot of runs to feel like you're making any meaningful progress and every battle starts to feel the same and rapidly descends into boredom. Squad and inventory management is a pain and there are no skills or abilities for you to use on your characters outside of some very rudimentary abilities granted by equipment, which relies on RNG to acquire in the first place, meaning you have to grind runs even more. All of the zones look the same so there isn't even any sense of atmosphere as you're "progressing" through different zones. The environments are boring and incredibly basic and there's no interesting ways to interact with terrain other than bumping people into it. There's also now way to gain cover or concealment beyond binary "you're in line of sight or you're not" (which is wonky to begin with) so you will regularly get hit automatically from the other side of the map. The nightmare system is also a poorly designed, un-fun mess. The difficulty scaling is such that you can go from dominating one minute with no real challenge to an instant snowball effect that makes it impossible for you to win, at which point you've just wasted 15-20 minutes (or more) on your run with no reasonable way to respond to the situation.

More of a puzzle than a tactical game. Maps are too small. Controls are unreliable for some reason.

Very fun game, but they recently added a launcher that just presents you ads for other games and that seems to be it's only purpose. It's an ad and the play button to actually launch the game.

Y'know, I'm not sure if the AI thing was declared back at EA launch, or if I simply wasn't diligent enough in looking into things, but frankly it's a no-go for me. I'd refund if I could. I understand that clarifications have been made on the role and prominence of generative AI in development, and they are insufficient to sway my sentiments. Anything less than complete rejection of Silicon Valley's latest crime against humanity is unacceptable to me.

После Hard West 2 (и даже 1) это ОГРОМНЫЙ шаг назад, а то и все 10! Деградация и даунгрейд в асболютно каждом аспекте, кроме разве что количества шмота, что можно на себя надеть. Ощущение, что эта игра вышла года на 4 раньше, а не наоборот. Отдельный минус за одну из худшиу ру-локализаций, что я видел в 20-ых.

这家公司之前的那个海盗打翻了，这个呢 ，就是换皮 呵呵

Wonderful game, I really enjoyed it. It definitely satisfies Tactical-Extraction-Looter. I have 22 hours of playing this game--I've made it to floor 103+, and it honestly gets pretty repetitive starting after around 50-60 floors/rooms. Haven't played it in about a month because of a bug or glitch that doesn't allow me to extract/return to city/end my run, and since I still haven't gotten any response from anyone on their discord. Overall, great game (will probably play again once they iron out the bugs and/or hit full release).

+ Atmospheric western-gothic visuals, smooth mechanics, fantastic creature design + Solid amount of content for an EA game (20 hrs of main story so far, demo included) + Looter turn-based tactics: a novel format for me, personally, and very fun/addictive + Very customizable experience (difficulty, pace, team comp, etc) I basically burned through all the content by playing continuously as soon as I bought it; can't wait to see what the devs have planned next! :)

Nightmare Frontier is a tactical extraction-looter RPG where you lead a ragtag squad into a nightmarish boom town overrun by fear-made-creatures called Dreadweavers. Each raid is a tense dance of looting, fighting, and managing the escalating dread that amplifies the threats. Between missions, you upgrade gear, balance supplies, and decide if you’re ready to go deeper—or live to fight another day. Pros ✔ Smart tactical design — Pushing, trick shots, chain kills—when it clicks, planning your team’s moves and watching them land feels sharp. ✔ Tactically diverse squad — Each character brings something different to the fight, so mixing and matching your crew really matters. ✔ Roguelite paths add oomph — Choosing to push deeper for more loot—but also more danger? Feels risky and worth every moment. Cons ❌ Roster balance is rough — Some members just outshine the rest, which ends up making choices feel obvious instead of fun. ❌ The Dreadweaver shift can be jarring — The leap from normal combat to nightmarescale threats sometimes lands too hard. ❌ Still feels early — The world, the systems—they’re interesting, but it’s clear the game needs more polish to feel fully complete. Conclusion Nightmare Frontier is one of those rare games where I walked away thinking, “Yeah, I want to keep refining my approach.” Some booty runs ended poorly, but that tension—where one bad call wipes your progress—kept me itching to do better. It’s rough around the edges, sure, but it’s that kind of scrappy confidence that promises something bold if it keeps building on itself. Ice Code Games is on to something here. Score: 7/10 Frontier Flagshipped Not flawless yet, but the teeth are sharp—and I’m ready to sink in deeper.

The best game they have made yet ... ok maybe not the best maybe equal to hard west 1 & 2 but those where REALLY good. I got to admit when I started the pirate one I thought I didn't like it but after I while I got quite addicted to it. This one takes the good ideas from that and does them better. Need to be able to save mid run & better descriptions of how diffrent character types are diffrent.