Lightyear Frontier review – Stardew Valley with robots

Lightyear Frontier – a cosy future (Frame Break)

The latest cosy farming game forgoes the usual twee fantasy world for a giant mech on an alien world.

Like mobile games featuring cats, cosy games currently seem to be staging a takeover, their numbers increasing at an alarming rate. Not that all of them are bad, but their tendency towards forced whimsy and tweeness often makes them mildly emetic, their milquetoast subject matters matched by dull mechanics and an absence of real challenge. It’s an ecosystem where every Stardew Valley is accompanied by dozens of lacklustre Graveyard Keeper 2 style disappointme...