You might find out what exactly the planet’s previous inhabitants were up to, or simply make sure that you and the rest of your community have everything they need to flourish. This means that the story will not take away from your farming experience, but instead can be followed at your own pace.
As nice as just soaking up the atmosphere can be, on top of farming and crafting, Limit Break wants to make your exploration worthwhile with a “mystery-driven, but unintrusive narrative”. Everything is painted in bold colours reminiscent of games like Astroneer and No Man’s Sky. This is where the game really shines – what we’ve seen of the planet so far looks extremely lush and inviting, from sun-dappled meadows to dense jungles. None of Lightyear Frontier would work without an intriguing environment. The game offers both a third-person and first-person perspective – in the former you can move around and enjoy both your mech and the planet’s environments, while tasks such as harvesting materials automatically drop you into first-person view so it’s easier to see what you’re doing. Your mech may dash through meadows, for example, before seamlessly resuming its two-legged amble, and you can customise it with different dyes in your mech garage, a space to lovingly gaze at the finished product. Since you’ll be spending so much time in one, the mech also comes with a host of customisation options, from the colour right down to the movement system, in order to help every player fulfil their “personal mech fantasy”.
“We really wanted something you could do anything with,” CEO Joakim Hedström explains. For Swedish developer Frame Break – whose debut project popped up in the Xbox and Bethesda showcase at the weekend – the mech became the perfect multi-tool early on: something that would fit the theme of exploring an alien world, be fun to use, and give the farming game genre a modern twist.
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