Start with just your best friend, Buddy(), and a survival pod to build your way to huge colonies on alien worlds. Find ways to survive by using surrounding resources, hunt local wildlife to sustain health and stamina, and research ways of expanding the colony. With a lot of determination, you can even build a ship to transport surviving colonists to other planets with different ecosystems, biomes, and secrets to discover.

You can play alone or with friends in multiplayer mode, which supports up to 32 people on a server. Move seamlessly from PvP to co-operative, existing between groups online using a dynamic faction system. Peril lurks around every corner, as randomly generated monsters can attack at a moment's notice and the more your base grows, the more you’ll make yourself the target for raiders. Prepare for attack by finding and mining raw materials, and outfitting survivors with the best protective gear and weaponry. There are also plenty of gizmos to be discovered by research and leveling up skill trees to increase productivity.

Experience scenic landscapes on a 2D scrolling canvas that keeps adventurers hungry for more. A pixelated color palette that ranges from dark hues and vivid colors provides a contrast that makes sprites and different environments pop on screen with many different biomes like sand-swept deserts, forest terrains, and frosty plains inhabited by manseals. Oh, and don’t forget to keep an eye out for the adorable dog companion Weenie.

And Remember

Your ship may be in ruins, your ammunition running low, and your teammates scattered across the surface, but remember this:

You’re more than just another adventurous spirit.

You’re a Farworld Pioneer.

“Farworld Pioneers is a combination of many different genres and mechanics,” said Rho Watson, Founder and Developer, Igloosoft. “We’ve combined a sandbox experience with AI colonists and base-building mechanics to give players a reason to always be expanding and improving their colony.” 

A recently updated playable demo featuring the first planet game is available now on Steam.

Key Features:

• Play with friends co-operatively or form hostile factions: In this open-world galactic sandbox, how you play is up to you! Bring your friends into the frontier in your own private server, or make new friends (and enemies) in large public multiplayer servers. Play peacefully in co-op, or use the dynamic multiplayer faction system to band together and split apart dynamically as allegiances change
• Build ships from scratch and travel to new planets: Your first planet is where you’ll learn to survive, but that’s just the start. Build your very own starship and use it to colonise new worlds. It won’t be easy, and only the most successful colonies will be able to pool the resources and knowledge necessary to break orbit. Once you launch, the stars hold brand-new planets, new biomes, bosses and challenges.
• Craft, research, loot and exploit your environment : You’ll need to prepare to take on this hostile part of the galaxy. Get mining, farming, growing, developing, researching, and building hundreds of different items, from winter combat gear to advanced laboratories. Find something you can’t work out for yourself. Strap on your handcrafted laser rifle and venture out into the unknown to explore dungeons, procedural bases, NPC stores and much more.
• Defend what you’ve built, or take on the galaxy: Defend your colony with fast-paced combat that utilizes physics like bullet drop, projectile speed and spread. Thwart enemy raids on your base with your stock of handcrafted grenades. Tired of just defending? Lay waste to enemy bases with destructible terrain as you wield everything from rusty old carbines to nuke launchers and energy weapons that harness the power of lightning!
• Develop and construct advanced bases for protection : Grow from a tiny outpost into an advanced, nuclear-powered fortress. Manage resources carefully and choose research paths based on the items and challenges you encounter on each planet. Watch out, though: the bigger your colony gets, the more of a target it becomes for raiders (and jealous friends).
• Automate work and train up a team : Even out here, you’re not alone. Save AI survivors and build a colony together. A range of unique stats, perks and flaws mean every colonist has something different to contribute. As your AI colonists complete tasks they’ll level up and get smarter, stronger and faster. Best of all, you can assign tasks and orders to NPCs to do the grunt work for you and prioritize their roles based on those skills. Want to take a break from mining to destroy an underground alien nest? Let your colonists handle that for you!

Farworld Pioneer is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (as well as Xbox GamePass), and PC (Steam) on May 30, 2023.