The Frontier
The Frontier is a blend between business simulation and survival, exploration games. Starting from nothing: explore, gather resources, craft items, and try to survive your world — all while building up your business empire and great fortune.
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October 24, 2016
9 years and 284 days ago
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[Important: Please read before purchasing] Due to financial constraints, I'm currently unable to work on The Frontier full-time. I have no plans to cancel or stop working on the game; however, this will result in much slower and more inconsistent progress. If you're thinking about buying The Frontier, please bear this in mind and base your decision on how much you think you will enjoy the game in its current state.
The Frontier is a blend between business simulation and survival, exploration games. Starting from nothing: explore, gather resources, craft items, and try to survive your world — all while building up your business empire and great fortune.
Business Simulation:
Survival and Exploration:
The Frontier is a blend between business simulation and survival, exploration games. Starting from nothing: explore, gather resources, craft items, and try to survive your world — all while building up your business empire and great fortune.
Current Features
Business Simulation:
- Foreign trade markets — buy/sell bundles, manage warehouses, and make shipments
- Town populations affect supply, demand, and prices
- Workshops — hire workers to help scale your production
- Harvester Huts — hire Harvesters to automatically gather resources
- Hire Couriers to transport items in your production chain
- Specialists offer helpful services and item crafting
Survival and Exploration:
- Character experience and leveling system
- Character skill points and acquired skills
- Large, randomly generated maps to explore
- 5 different biomes to gather resources from
- Survival — the player must secure food to survive
- Permanent Death — running out of money will also result in game over
- Farming and fishing
- Resource surveys, growth and decay
