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A time-displaced resistance fighter gathers resources, crafts gear, builds defenses, and battles mutants and hostile factions.
Released 30 Oct 2025
Build Trap Mazes
Assemble Combat Vehicles
Recruit NPC Followers
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Developed by Samar Studio · Published by Samar Studio
You play as a resistance fighter sent back in time on a mission to stop a tyrannical empire. The game unfolds in a post-apocalyptic open world of mutants, hostile factions, and dangerous environments.
Explore forests, deserts, swamps, and other regions to collect materials, loot structures, and find blueprints. Use resources to craft weapons and equipment, build shelters, and grow crops or prepare meals.
Develop your base with building pieces, traps, and circuits that can automate defenses against enemy waves. Recruit NPC followers to help in combat and at workbenches, and build vehicles—including trucks, tanks, and helicopters—for travel and combat. Character levels, technology, and blueprints support progression.
Some reviewers enjoy the survival-crafting loop, especially gathering and building with friends, defending bases with traps, exploring for loot, and working toward vehicles. A few describe the PvE content and combination of survival and tower defense as engaging. These positives appear alongside frequent criticism of bugs, performance, enemy behavior, and a lack of meaningful updates.
The Front takes place in a post-apocalyptic sandbox world populated by mutants and hostile factions. On this war-torn land, players will engage tyrannical imperial forces, exiles, thugs, and rebels in an epic battle that will determine the fate of humanity. Team up with your friends, explore ruins and enemy areas, craft weapons and equipment, build bases and defend them with tower defense-style traps, upgrade tech, pilot tanks and helicopters, battle the elements, and contend with fearsome foes!
The Vehicle Assembly system is now live! From chassis and frame to engines, weapons, and armor modules — mix and match parts freely to craft your custom combat vehicle from the ground up.
Build a high-speed assault rig, a heavy firepower beast, or a bizarre machine fueled by pure imagination — it’s all in your hands. Assemble, modify, upgrade — you’re in full control. Performance, looks, and tactical style all come together to define your war machine.
And this is only the beginning. In the future, we’ll be adding mechanical claws, flying vehicles, and customization options like paint jobs and graffiti. Your war machine won’t just be powerful — it’ll be uniquely yours.
Construct bases using hundreds of different building components to protect your resources and shelter yourself from this merciless world. The only limit is your imagination!
Strategically route monsters through a brutal crucible of traps designed to slaughter explosive beasts, invisible assassins, flying soldiers, and other catastrophically powerful invaders.
Craft and pilot over 20 types of functional vehicles, including pickup trucks, logging trucks, mining trucks, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, attack helicopters, and more. In the future, The Front will also feature modifiable base vehicles, allowing players to build mobile steel behemoths.
Use monitoring devices such as pressure plates and infrared sensors along with complete circuits to construct automated defense systems.
Arm yourself with a variety of melee weapons, firearms, explosives, and even tanks and helicopters, then use these tools of war to raid the bases of other players, or simply protect your own territory.
Use Jammers to subdue NPCs you come across in the world. In addition to helping you in combat, these NPCs will also put their talents to use at workbenches to help you improve the efficiency of your operation and produce resources more quickly.
Craft water-powered equipment, then use it to develop your own agricultural system including spraying and planting. Choose from dozens of recipes to cook delicious meals.
Trek across deserts, forests, snowlands, swamps, and more to find unexplored and treacherous areas such as underground research institutes and restricted military bases. Along your way, you will loot structures, collect blueprints, and claim airdrops, all in the name of making yourself a force to be reckoned with.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | 1–80 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports single-player and online multiplayer. Official store features list MMO, Online PvP, and Online Co-op. Reviews describe PvP and PvE servers, official servers, dedicated servers, private/custom servers, and solo play. PvP includes base raiding and raid windows; co-op is supported through playing with friends on shared servers. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Reviews mention no Steam Workshop mod support at one point, and one review mentions mods for dedicated servers. Mod impact on multiplayer is not otherwise described. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 12 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
