Hilarious emergent chaos
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“decided to play a piano in public to pay my taxes and immediately got my head smashed in with a rock by a guard for not playing good enough.”
Steam review · 13.2 h played ↗
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Very Positive · 93%Very Positive · 93%Lafrontier2024Roguelike · JRPG · RPG
$19.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 6 h ago
The verdict
A huge, absurd, addictive sandbox of farming, crafting, base-building and dungeon crawling that rewards patience and wiki-reading. Skip it if you want a guided RPG, a polished UI or content free of questionable themes.
Great for
Players who love grindy, systems-heavy sandboxes like Kenshi, Elona or Qud and enjoy setting their own goals
Main risk
Forced base-building, taxes and endless grinding with little guidance, plus child-sexualized content many find offensive
What changed in the last 30 days
38 recent reviews
Recent thumbs-down reviews cite the forced cloning system in the endgame, weak combat, confusing progression and the lack of real RPG leveling. No single patch or bug stands out, so the cause is uncertain.
38 recent reviews
What players love
Enormous depth and content
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“It offers so much that you can pretty much do your own thing in a sandbox world and still have things to learn, builds to try and entire systems to tackle after 500 hours.”
Steam review · 489.8 h played ↗
Near-limitless freedom to play your way
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“You can literally do ANYTHING in this game, for better or worse.”
Steam review · 59.7 h played ↗
Extremely addictive time sink
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“This game is like crack but the grind becomes very real later in the game”
Steam review · 39.9 h played ↗
Great mod and workshop support
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“It's really easy to mod the game which can help tune the game just the way you want it.”
Steam review · 341.9 h played ↗
Developer updates constantly
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“the dev is constantly updating the game.”
Steam review · 58.1 h played ↗
What players complain about
Steep learning curve and poor tutorials
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“The new player experience is terrible. You have to spend too much time looking at guides online.”
Steam review · 10.7 h played ↗
Shallow, unfinished systems and weak combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“A bunch of different features that have almost no depth to them.”
Steam review · 37.3 h played ↗
Forced base-building and taxes, not a true sandbox
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“The game just tries too hard to be more like a farming/ base sim than a open-world roguelike RPG”
Steam review · 41.5 h played ↗
Child-sexualizing content and 13-forever options
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“the 'little sister' content just gets more and more overtly pedophilic the further you get into this game”
Steam review · 372.4 h played ↗
Extreme grind with slow progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Insanely grindy, no real goals or anything to work towards except grinding out stats and skills forever.”
Steam review · 29.6 h played ↗
Clunky UI and controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“The controls are wildly unintuitive, and unnecessarily complicated. The UI is abysmal.”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable2 GB
Minimum
OSwindows 8
ProcessorPentium Core i-5
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsIntel HD Graphics 615
Storage2 GB available space
OSwindows 8
ProcessorPentium Core i-5
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsIntel HD Graphics 615
Storage2 GB available space
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