Typically talking, once you’re speaking about “mechs,” you are speaking about huge machines of struggle in video games like Battletech (opens in new tab) or Iron Harvest (opens in new tab). Lightyear Frontier (opens in new tab) is an uncommon however fun-looking twist on that system: It is a farming sim, and your mechs are farm machines—the fusion-powered, bipedal tractors of the long run. Autocannons are out, irrigation hoses are in.
The gameplay reveal (opens in new tab) on the 2022 Future Video games Present appeared promising, however in the present day developer Body Break introduced that it has determined to delay the early entry launch (opens in new tab) that was deliberate for this spring. A brand new launch goal has not been set.
“With Lightyear Frontier, we wish to just be sure you really feel highly effective and engaged within the mech whereas beginning your individual homestead, setting up quite a lot of buildings, farming unique alien crops, and exploring on a vibrant and unfamiliar world,” the studio mentioned.
“Not solely can we wish to design the sport to be enjoyable, but additionally well-balanced with every facet of the sport intertwining with each other, and we stay dedicated to constructing a thoughtfully-designed expertise and persevering with the dialog along with your group within the course of.”
The Lightyear Frontier Steam web page (opens in new tab) had beforehand indicated that an early entry launch was deliberate for 2023, nevertheless it now states merely “coming quickly.” Developer Body Break mentioned that it “cannot decide to a launch window proper now,” however will announce one as quickly as doable.
Regardless of that open-ended delay, the response to the delay announcement was extensively upbeat: Steam person Manji (opens in new tab) might have captured the temper most aptly, writing, “Higher a late begin than a foul begin.”
