Lightyear Frontier

Honestly, the premise of the game is so cool. The application of it, piss poor. The gameplay loop and balance is just bad. Its unreasonably grindy, for no reason. They discourage automation by locking it behind the very endgame, and discourage exploration by enforcing very strict weight restrictions. The balance doesn't make sense at all, and the game progression doesn't actually do anything beneficial. By the time you unlock new mechs, you can't use them due to power restrictions, so you're always a tier or two behind. Movement sucks; the mech physics are unfun, you trip on pebbles constantly, can't run through forests, and running uphill makes you fall. Overall, don't recommend. I stuck it out for 17 hours HOPING it would get better. It does not.

The first hour of gameplay never really changes the games wants this big automated farm idea but by time you get it you have burnt out onc ore gameplay loop

VERY FUN

Noticed that almost every "not recommended " had less than 24 hours of gametime, that being said, play the game the long way. Play the game NOT with the intent to finish it right away, and you can have so much fun. On startup it says " this game is in testing" so why people are complaining about it not being done bewilders me. Lightyear Frontier is fun, colorful, creative, and expanding more with every update. I would describe it as "the cozy version of Satisfactory", with over 300 hrs on both games mentioned, lightyear Frontier has been a fun game to play around my SO because shes constantly saying things like "awh, the cows (Mox) are so cute" or "the crops you farm are so pretty". I like farming sim, I like building factories, I like not having pressure but still get challenged, I like resource management, so I love Lightyear Frontier.

This is the best game I have ever played! i so recommend this game.

I absolutely adored this game when it first came out. It was small and cozy. The map may have been a little small but it was hand crafted and well planned out. The goal was to make a farm and slowly clean out a noxious slime to uncover more secrets about the previous civilisation. It wasnt too complex and grindy to find a goal and slowly chip away at it or just take some time off to improve the farm and put some decorations up. I came back to it a year later when some more updates came out and it was completely different. I couldnt even play for 20 minutes before getting bored. Been waiting on 1.0 to see if it got fixed. I have tried the 1.0 beta and it was not any better, worse even. So read up some of the notes of the changes. The map is 9 times bigger but its so much worse in everyway. There are just so many areas that are just sheer cliffs and are massive. As in run for 5 - 10 minutes to run around these circle sheer cliffs until you find the one road up. Take the road up and it just more flat bland areas to explore with more cliffs. Previously it was fun to explore and find areas that were locked off and you would farm and meet new frontiersmen that would help you ad…