Usually talking, if you’re speaking about “mechs,” you are speaking about huge machines of warfare 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 method: It is a farming sim, and your mechs are farm machines—the fusion-powered, bipedal tractors of the longer term. Autocannons are out, irrigation hoses are in.
The gameplay reveal (opens in new tab) on the 2022 Future Video games Present regarded promising, however immediately developer Body Break introduced that it has determined to delay the early access launch (opens in new tab) that was deliberate for this spring. A brand new launch goal has not been set.
“With Lightyear Frontier, we need to just be sure you really feel highly effective and engaged within the mech whereas beginning your individual homestead, developing quite a lot of buildings, farming unique alien crops, and exploring on a vibrant and unfamiliar world,” the studio stated.
“Not solely can we need 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 neighborhood within the course of.”
The Lightyear Frontier Steam 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 stated that it “cannot decide to a launch window proper now,” however will announce one as quickly as potential.
Regardless of that open-ended delay, the response to the delay announcement was broadly upbeat: Steam person Manji (opens in new tab) could have captured the temper most aptly, writing, “Higher a late begin than a nasty begin.”
