Farthest Frontier — Steam Gift

Farthest Frontier: a medieval town from nothing

Farthest Frontier is a city-building survival sim by the American studio Crate Entertainment, the team behind the cult action-RPG Grim Dawn. This is no cozy sandbox where houses build themselves: you take a handful of settlers, drop them in raw wilderness, and try to grow a tent camp into a fortified medieval town while hunger, disease, wildlife and raiders do everything to stop you. The game left Early Access and hit its 1.0 release on October 23, 2025 — it sold over 1.2 million copies during EA and is most often compared to Manor Lords and Banished.

Buying from us, you get the full version of the game as a Steam gift straight into your library — no third-party launchers, the license lives on your Steam account.

Why Farthest Frontier hooks you

The core appeal is its honest, almost demanding simulation. You can't endlessly sow the same field: soil depletes, and without crop rotation and fallow time your harvests collapse. Water can grow contaminated and bring cholera, garbage and animal corpses breed disease and rats, and in winter your food stores melt away fast. Every villager is an individual with health, needs and a job, and the logistics of who carries what and from where becomes a real puzzle.

• 16 raw materials and 19 crops with real agronomy — rotation, fertilizing, weeds and pests.
• Over 190 buildings and a multi-tier tech tree: from dugouts and campfires to stone walls, a town hall and complex crafting.
• Randomly generated maps and flexible difficulty — from a peaceful, enemy-free mode to brutal survival with regular raids.
• Disease, water purity, citizen lifespan — all of it must be managed, or your town quietly dies off.

How a playthrough unfolds

The start is always tense: the first winter creeps up fast, and the whole early game is a race for warm dugouts, firewood and any food stores at all. Mid-game you finally exhale — proper houses, a market, wells and your first artisans appear, but that's exactly when real logistics begin: storehouses in the right spots, roads so haulers don't waste hours, fields under rotation. The late game is already a stone city with curtain walls, healers, a school and complex production chains where raw goods pass through three or four stages before becoming finished products. And the whole time you must keep an eye on clean water, garbage and citizen lifespan.

Enemies and defense

If you're not playing in peaceful mode, sooner or later something will come for your prosperous town — wildlife, bandits, and on higher difficulty organized raids. Defense isn't a separate mini-game but an extension of city-building: where to place a palisade, then a stone wall, gates and towers, how to keep civilian districts apart from the defensive line. You can switch enemies off entirely and build at your leisure, or crank up brutal difficulty and see whether your economy survives a siege.

Who it's for

If you love it when a town isn't scenery but a living organism you have to feed, heal and defend, Farthest Frontier will grip you for dozens of hours. It's a game about planning years ahead, about “will the grain last the winter,” and about small wins like your first stone house. Manor Lords fans will feel right at home — the same focus on medieval life and logistics, but with even deeper economy and survival.

What you get

This is the full base game, version 1.0 — not cut down, not Early Access. The separate “Cats and Dogs” DLC is not part of this gift; you can add it later on Steam if you want. The gift is delivered to your account via a bot: it adds itself as a friend, sends the gift and leaves — the whole process usually takes a couple of minutes.

Region and delivery terms

This is a gift for a set of 47 regions. For Steam to accept it, your account region must be within that set, and the game must not already be in your library — Steam won't let you accept a gift for a game you already own, and that's the №1 cause of failed delivery. Steam Guard is not required; you just need friend requests allowed in your profile settings. If you're unsure about your region, simply enter it in the order field and we'll check before sending.

Platform

Farthest Frontier is Windows-only (64-bit). It isn't officially supported on macOS or Linux and isn't Steam Deck Verified, so for a handheld it's worth checking Proton compatibility in advance.

Similar games in our catalog

If you're building a collection of city-building survival games, also check out Manor Lords — its closest rival with a medieval-life focus, the frozen city-state Frostpunk with its harsh moral choices, and the medieval survival builder Going Medieval, where you can build down into the earth and up into the sky.