Lightyear Frontier Roadmap – Preparing for 1.0

October 4, 2024
| Tags: Features
| Author David Hollingsworth

Learn everything about the Lightyear Frontier Roadmap. See where FRAME BREAK’s title is going next during its early access.

Lightyear Frontier is now out and is starting its early access journey throughout the start. And while the current release of the game is more than solid, fans are already hungering for more content from the space-farmin’ sim.

But worry not fellow enjoyers of good vibes, we have a roadmap that roughly lays out what is still to come to FRAME BREAK’s rural space adventure.

Lightyear Frontier Roadmap – Update October 2024
It’s been nearly 6 months since the game came out, so it seems like a fair time to update this as a few things on the Roadmap have now come out. We’ve now had the Neighbors and Animals update, so we just have “future updates” to come of this initial wave. Crucially, the future means a new progression of the story and the expansion of the world. We also have the more vague new features and much more.

Looking at chatter online, we expect to get an updated Roadmap “soon” we suspect one that will lead into what the 1.0 plans start to look like as the game takes shape.

Everything below this point is from the original article posted in March 2024 and written by Timo.

Lightyear Frontier Roadmap
Just ahead of its launch, Lightyear Frontier creator FRAME BREAK released a nebulous outline of what is to come after the Early Access goes live. If you’re already deep in the weeds, most of these updates will feel sensible and just provide what we already mentioned in our first impression of the game, more content.

Image: FRAME BREAK
After its launch, you can expect a bunch of new features as well as at least 2 more major content updates before the team goes on to plan the event. Keep in mind that as of writing, there is no official timeline yet so make sure to check out FRAME BREAK’s socials as well as the game’s official discord server.

First up we expect to see minor bug fixes as well as some additions to the accessibility options and a few quality-of-life updates along the way.

Once that is out of the way, the game receives its first major update which is entirely focused on adding new content and features to the base game. A more robust system regarding the various animals you meet, which you will be able to keep at your farm at some point.

The Roadmap also promises a “Neighbor friendship system” which could either mean you can take on requests by fellow farmers or something that broadens the game’s online systems.

The developers will also be taking community feedback into account and will implement smaller features that were requested by the community. So it pays off to be vocal about the additions you want to see.

Image: FRAME BREAK
The next scheduled update will finally expand on the base game, and add a new zone that comes with new resources, animals, and upgrades as well as a new chapter for the game’s story.

But that’s not all, the future of Lightyear Frontier promises to be bright as the developers want to add a lot more of what is previously mentioned. We’d like to reiterate that there is no timeframe for any of this. This could be the next year or so of development or a few years. We’ll of course keep you updated as more information becomes available.

For more on Lightyear Frontier, make sure to check out our guides here.

Lightyear Frontier was Released on March 19, 2024, into Early Access and is available for Xbox Series X|S and on the Xbox Game Pass as well as PC via Steam.

David has written for games media outlets for the last ten years. With his first major esports role being with Esports News UK covering mostly UK League of Legends. David is also a member of the British Esports Association and is an advisor to them on World of Warcraft Esports. More recently David has worked for Esports Insider and Red Bull as an esports journalist.
David later became Editor at ESTNN and now leads the current team.