Build a homestead, grow crops, collect resources – but all with a mech! At first it doesn't sound particularly appropriate to roam the area with a large robot in a farm simulation. But Lightyear Frontier, which has recently been in early access, offers you exactly this unusual mix.
The farm simulation focuses primarily on relaxation and is almost entirely stress-free. We set off into the colorful open world and saw what the quiet life on an exofarm feels like.
A new home, light years away
At the beginning you are looking for a new home because the earth is no longer suitable for it. You arrive on your new home planet with a crash landing and have to put your mech back together before the adventure really starts.
From then on, your mission is: Build a new home and take it easy. Because although the individual days go by quickly, as the day display shows you again and again every new morning, there is no time pressure.
There is no such thing as exhaustion, so sleeping is optional, and hunger and thirst are also foreign concepts. So you can explore the planet to your heart's content, collect materials and continue to expand your small but beautiful farm. Your new home also looks really chic, not least because of the planets in the sky, which you can admire from unusual close up.
In addition, there are such beautiful, romantic sunsets almost every day that we often found ourselves stopping and simply enjoying the atmosphere. Apart from the controls being a bit tricky at times, especially with the 'Mech, we didn't have any major problems with the technology.
Source: Amplifier Studios, FRAME BREAK The open game world is divided into several areas that you have to gradually discover and clear of toxic slime and weeds. But that's not all possible right from the start, as you first have to improve your mech's tools in order to deal with the stubborn environmental pollution.
So you first have to make do with your immediate surroundings and explore the flora and fauna there… or rather: mine the resources regardless of losses.
If you have grazed too much, you can replenish them by supplying the nests of the cute animals that live on the planet with food. You can even plant new trees yourself so that the environment doesn't go completely out of control.
Source: Amplifier Studios, FRAME BREAK Theoretically, you can also go out on foot and collect a few things, but it's much easier and more fun with your mech. Not only does it have significantly more tools, it also moves faster and is a enormous support in everyday farm life.
In each of the areas there are different raw materials to discover that you need for your progress. So it's worth thoroughly exploring the manageable open game world. You can choose whether you want to experience it from the first or third person perspective, which you can switch between at any time in the mech.
Relaxed, more relaxed, bored?
You can customize the robot over the course of the game with various components. There is nothing to be done about your character, but you can only see it in photo mode anyway.
Instead, the focus is clearly on the design of the farm. Your makeshift camp, which initially only consists of a tiny tent, soon becomes a real small farm with various useful machines. To make it, you first need the appropriate materials.
Once you have taken care of this, you can create new items. You need these in turn to create new machines – typical farm simulation, you know the cycle. Lightyear Frontier is deliberately designed for a comfortable experience. And really comfortable.
The only thing that has occasionally raised our pulse slightly above its resting value is the morning incidents. Occasionally, after sunrise, there will be an event where weeds or poisonous bubbles will appear in your fields and you must destroy them before they ruin your crops.
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