FRONTIERS
Skip · RPG · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.4h 5.8h to 100%
- Value
- $4.41/hr
- Reviews
- 25% of 329 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3129 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
FRONTIERS blends the feel of first-person RPG classics like Daggerfall with the relaxing tempo and simplicity of a point-and-click adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX11 (shader model 3.0) capabilities, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 11 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 15 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 447 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Keplerth ($14.99, scores 67) and My Time at Portia ($5.99, scores 83) both outscore it.
The drop-off
7% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Update: 1/22/2020 "The Final Update". This should still not be for sale on Steam. I have been trying to give it a fair go and experience the world the dev crafted over 6 years, but this version of the game seems to actually be WORSE than the version I played 3+ years ago. It looks bad, plays bad, runs bad, and is riddled with bugs. I've restarted the game from the beginning three times trying to get past bugs but...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A partially completed game that is barely playable at best. More of a walking simulator than a game.
A game like Frontiers is the reason Early Access exists--to give independant game developers the time, money, and resources to develop great tailored games at an affordable price without having to rely on compromising with the big name developers. Unfortunately Early Access is riddled with so many games whose developers do not honor the implied code of the privelage they have been granted with infrequent updates...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FRONTIERS scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/293480/frontiersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.