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Lightyear Frontier cover art

Lightyear Frontier

FRAME BREAK · 2024-03-19

SteamEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

Early Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Mar 19, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), TBD (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

167
playing now
84%
positive of 4.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0/100
critic score (0 outlets, IGDB)
67/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

167 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

The following is a list of games that have been announced for release or released on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. Both were released on November 10, 2020.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 167 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,105 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~138/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 2,289 Early Access games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 94k–211k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,683 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2025-06-04) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 13 of 26 observed days · $10.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
69869820242026Week of 2024-03-01: 698 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 331 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

379792026-08-07 00:00 — 170 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 146 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 230 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 177 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 173 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 296 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 217 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 232 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 366 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 207 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 125 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 256 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 150 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 137 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 220 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 150 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 101 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 295 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 194 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 96 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 159 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 160 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 118 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 283 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 186 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 81 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 136 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 195 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 167 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$14.992024-03-192026-08-282024-03-19 — best price $19.992024-03-30 — best price $24.992024-05-06 — best price $24.992024-06-04 — best price $24.992024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-08-25 — best price $24.992024-10-08 — best price $18.742024-10-15 — best price $24.992024-12-04 — best price $24.992024-12-19 — best price $17.492025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-02-07 — best price $24.992025-02-17 — best price $24.992025-03-20 — best price $24.992025-04-08 — best price $24.992025-06-18 — best price $24.992025-07-10 — best price $24.992025-10-18 — best price $24.992025-12-01 — best price $24.992025-12-11 — best price $24.992026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-03-10 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-05-01 — best price $24.992026-05-28 — best price $24.992026-07-02 — best price $14.992026-07-12 — best price $14.992026-08-04 — best price $14.992026-08-28 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4641142026-05-30 — 188 pageviews2026-06-02 — 187 pageviews2026-06-05 — 206 pageviews2026-06-08 — 464 pageviews2026-06-11 — 266 pageviews2026-06-14 — 244 pageviews2026-06-17 — 178 pageviews2026-06-20 — 191 pageviews2026-06-23 — 229 pageviews2026-06-26 — 287 pageviews2026-06-29 — 213 pageviews2026-07-02 — 301 pageviews2026-07-05 — 263 pageviews2026-07-08 — 243 pageviews2026-07-11 — 223 pageviews2026-07-14 — 207 pageviews2026-07-17 — 184 pageviews2026-07-20 — 183 pageviews2026-07-23 — 210 pageviews2026-07-26 — 175 pageviews2026-07-29 — 156 pageviews2026-08-01 — 172 pageviews2026-08-04 — 213 pageviews2026-08-07 — 169 pageviews2026-08-10 — 168 pageviews2026-08-13 — 139 pageviews2026-08-16 — 258 pageviews2026-08-19 — 143 pageviews2026-08-22 — 134 pageviews2026-08-25 — 150 pageviews2026-08-26 — 238 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
88.1%
earned "Ballistic Agriculture"
22.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable Difficulty2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series (Xbox)13,0933%45
Steam (Steam)4,7132%45

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

MechsCasualNatureSandboxCraftingRelaxingAgricultureExplorationFarming SimEarly Access

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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