Lightyear Frontier invites you to grow a cornucopia of cosmic resources and use your fresh harvest to improve your mech equipment. As you become a seasoned farmer with a souped-up mech, you’ll soon be able to grow rare plants and further explore previously inaccessible environments… and maybe uncover a mystery on this new planet. 

Blending farming features with crafting, resource management, and base building, Lightyear Frontier’s alien planet is yours to transform and mould. While you’ll be safe on this new planet (thanks to the advice of PIP-3R, your trusty scanner satellite), your crops will need all the help they can get: from dealing with the ever-changing weather to keeping the local wildlife away, you will need to take a few precautions to safeguard your home on this new frontier.

Play 1-4 players in online co-op, discover and grow alien plants, domesticate wildlife, endure the elements and build your new home away from home.

Make use of the environment to craft and build your farm.  Find and grow new resources on your own.  Cultivate your crops with farming mechanics like you’ve never seen before. Use your harvest to improve your mech and venture further into the planet’s exotic ecosystem.

Lightyear Frontier expands into a fully reimagined, mech-powered experience today with the launch of the Shifting Gears update. With a new planet ready for cultivation, alongside overhauled progression, deeper farming systems, and fully customisable mechs, the Shifting Gears update offers a bold new beginning where Lightyear Frontier veterans and newcomers alike can let their mechs, farms, and creativity take centre stage.

With the Shifting Gears update, players touch down on a freshly discovered world, leaving behind their previous homesteads to embrace new challenges, environments, and opportunities. With expanded landscapes, modular building, and enhanced survival elements, Lightyear Frontier has evolved into a richer, more rewarding farming adventure.

What’s New in Shifting Gears

• Mega Mech Upgrades & Customization: Mechs are now bigger, bolder, and entirely customizable. Equip mod chips, swap body parts, and fine-tune your loadout with the all-new Power Limit system – encouraging strategic builds that make your mech feel like a true extension of yourself.
• Design Your Dream Homestead: Craft a custom base using modular construction, and utilise Americana-inspired decor to build a space that’s as functional as it is beautiful.
• Farming, Reinvented: The farming system has been overhauled for scale and depth, with larger fields, crop mutations, and a more intuitive fertilizer system - powered by animals - creating a more immersive and rewarding agricultural loop.
• Automated Watering & Smarter Tools: Say goodbye to micromanagement! New watering drones and improved Irrigation Hose abilities help streamline large-scale farming so you can grow more with less stress.
• Survival with a Symbiotic Twist: Your mech and Exofarmer are both vulnerable to rogue weather and alien threats. A revamped fuel system adds strategic depth; survival means taking care of each other.
• New Progression & Interstellar Trade: With farming at the heart of progression, players grow and ship their crops across the stars, unlocking new lore as they explore ancient alien ruins.
• Polished to Perfection: Shifting Gears brings sweeping quality-of-life updates to improve performance, controls, UI, and overall playability, making Lightyear Frontier more accessible and enjoyable than ever before.

Players who completed the pre-update mission can access the exclusive FM-04 Wireframe mech skin via in-game mail. For Steam players, the Legacy version of the game will also remain available as a public opt-in "legacy" branch - perfect for those who wish to revisit their old homestead just as they left it prior to the update.

“With Shifting Gears, we wanted to completely reimagine what Lightyear Frontier could be — a world that feels more alive, more customizable, and more deeply connected to players,” says Lightyear Frontier’s Creative Director, Wilmer Tjernberg. “It’s not just an update; it’s a new beginning. We’re incredibly excited to see players dive in, build their dream homesteads, and truly make this new frontier their own.”

Lightyear Frontier is available via Xbox Game Preview on Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam), and with Game Pass at $24.99/ £20.99/€24,99

Key Features:

• Venture into the unknown, discover ancient ruins, and uncover the secrets of your planet to decipher a message that has waited for eons to be heard.
• Customize and improve your very own tractor mech with an assortment of unique mech parts to overcome the planet’s obstacles and maintain your exofarm.
• Play solo or with up to 3 friends with online crossplay, making it easy to build your exofarm together or simply give a tour of your planet.
• Discover and cultivate a wide range of exotic plants to grow your own resources and create a sustainable lifestyle.
• Domesticate different species of alien wildlife with a complete breeding and genetics system.
• You are free to build anywhere and customize your farm to your liking. A plethora of constructs and cosmetic tools allow you to build the exofarm of your dreams. Don’t forget to take a break between exploration and farmwork.
• Endure a multitude of weather conditions and other environmental hazards through four distinct seasons and take the necessary precautions to save your harvest. 
• Join an interstellar neighborhood, partner up with your local scanner satellite and befriend your off-planet neighbors.
• Follow a mystery-driven narrative and explore ruins left behind by unknown entities.
• Relax to a chill cosmic country soundtrack with just the right mix of space and country vibes to immerse yourself in the exploration of the Lightyear Frontier.

Lightyear Frontier is in development for Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam).