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Chinese Frontiers is a single player open world city builder game with medieval and historical themes. It was developed by SolidGames and was released on June 19, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Plan, build, and unwind in a first-person city-builder set in medieval China. Start as a humble craftsman and, step by step, plan, produce, and raise monumental structures. Manage villagers, set up production chains, and fine-tune logistics so your village flourishes—at your own pace, without pressure, with the satisfaction of a well-designed system. Explore three distinct regions—mountain pa…

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71%Audience ScoreBased on 217 reviews
story11 positive mentions
stability29 negative mentions

  • Relaxing and satisfying building mechanics with detailed, step-by-step construction that feels rewarding and purposeful.
  • Beautiful and immersive ancient Chinese environments and architecture that create a peaceful atmosphere.
  • Engaging village and resource management focused on progressing large construction projects with a calm, chill gameplay experience.
  • Numerous bugs and technical issues including game-breaking quest bugs, crashes, inventory loss, and lag, some persisting for months without fixes.
  • Clunky and limited village management, with villagers often being ineffective and the automated systems needing improvement.
  • Lack of polish in UI, unclear tutorials, awkward controls, slow building pace, and insufficient quality of life features making some gameplay tedious and frustrating.
  • story

    113 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    10% positive mentions, 87% neutral mentions, 3% negative mentions

    The story offers an engaging main quest centered on building the Great Wall with freedom to explore and complete side quests, featuring likable characters and a slow-paced, mission-driven progression. However, it is frequently marred by numerous frustrating bugs and unclear quest objectives that can soft-lock progress, detracting from the overall experience. Despite these issues, players appreciate the sense of accomplishment from building and the narrative’s balance of simplicity and depth.

    • “The story (main quests) leads you through the game, yet lets you have a lot of freedom and does not script every step you do (which is important to me).”
    • “Very good quest lines and progression along with the ability to do anything you've unlocked when and where you want to do it.”
    • “The storyline has depth, and you feel somewhat connected to the main characters.”
    • “There are several game-breaking quest completion bugs, even just 4 hours in, that aren't addressed by devs in the community hub but are well known and reported in the Steam forums by the player base.”
    • “Secondly, there are several quests where if you don't do the objectives in exactly the order they're listed, it breaks the quest and it's unable to be completed.”
    • “One quest refuses to complete despite villagers collecting thousands of wood, blocking progress and soft-locking the game.”
  • gameplay

    43 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 60% neutral mentions, 7% negative mentions

    The gameplay is centered around building, resource gathering, and village management with engaging and detailed mechanics, offering a relaxing and addictive experience. However, it can feel slow-paced and repetitive, with some mechanics feeling underdeveloped or restrictive, and frequent bugs and NPC pathfinding issues that impact overall polish. While enjoyable for fans of builder and management games, it lacks the depth and refinement found in similar titles.

    • “A very enjoyable game with a wide range of gameplay mechanics—building structures, cooking, gathering resources, and more.”
    • “The game has some very good mechanics and a beautiful building system that will really keep you busy in a very nice way.”
    • “The building mechanics are surprisingly detailed.”
    • “The building feels more like a chore and considering it's this game's main mechanic, that's a problem.”
    • “In 90 minutes of playtime I encountered at least one major game-breaking bug (had to go back to an autosave, losing around 20 minutes of gameplay) and several minor bugs ranging from settings being reset after each restart to scaffoldings not being placeable near my construction site.”
    • “Village management mechanics also need refinement: assigning villagers to certain buildings either doesn’t work or is unclear.”
  • stability

    30 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    3% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 97% negative mentions

    The game is widely reported to be very buggy, with frequent crashes, quest-breaking glitches, audio issues, and stability problems that severely impact playability. While some players enjoy the experience despite these flaws and see potential for improvement, the current state feels unfinished and unstable, making it advisable to wait for future patches before fully committing.

    • “However, once you advance to other parts of the world, about a few hours in, the game immediately breaks with long freezes and audio cutting out.”
    • “Not the funny Bethesda kind of bug but "autosave not working", "game crashing on high GPU load", "crash randomly while in the background" or "warehouse inventory suddenly disappears" kind of buggy.”
    • “I usually can't make it more than 25 minutes without a crash and few to no logs to speak of to assist with troubleshooting.”
  • grinding

    26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding is a core element of the game, primarily tied to building and resource collection, with automation helping to reduce its tedium. While some players find the grind rewarding and enjoy the crafting and village management, others criticize it as repetitive, tedious, and occasionally frustrating due to bugs and inefficient systems. Overall, the grind is significant but manageable, appealing mainly to fans of build-heavy, grindy simulators.

    • “As it stands now, it is highly unrewarding and just feels tedious since you can't even rely on villagers.”
    • “Points where it seems just plain broken, crashes and the most tedious building system ever designed.”
    • “You work hard, save your game, come back later, saved inventory missing, start grinding again.”
  • graphics

    25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    44% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 16% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mostly positive remarks for their beautiful, immersive environments and detailed visuals, with many praising the stunning landscapes and lifelike world design. However, some users report performance issues such as lag, screen tearing, and bugs, particularly on certain hardware configurations, which diminish the overall experience. While visually impressive, the graphics feel inconsistent and somewhat rough or unfinished to a few players.

    • “Graphics are great, the world is beautiful; just walking around it provides a great environment.”
    • “The main pros of the game are visuals; it looks very nice and populated with lots of NPCs, making it feel lived in.”
    • “The visuals are stunning, and performance is now much smoother and more stable than before.”
    • “I really wanted to love this game, but even with a gaming PC and all graphics set to low, the lag, glitching, and lack of key recognition when I hit them is super frustrating.”
    • “Playing on an ultrawide monitor (2560x1440) with low graphics settings, 60 fps, and v-sync enabled, I'm still getting a choppy framerate, screen tearing, and my GPU is whirring like crazy.”
    • “The demo already had its issues with the partly rough graphics; it at least looks like a game from years ago.”
  • optimization

    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    17% positive mentions, 61% neutral mentions, 22% negative mentions

    The game's optimization is widely criticized, with many users experiencing performance issues such as lag, frame drops, and instability, especially in crowded or resource-heavy areas. While some note improvements and smoother performance in certain sections, overall the game remains poorly optimized and would benefit from further fine-tuning and updates.

    • “I'm especially hoping they work on streamlining and optimizing the performance, because it's giving my PC a workout right now.”
    • “The visuals are stunning, and performance is now much smoother and more stable than back then.”
    • “This is just a completely unoptimized game that is in need of much fine tuning.”
    • “Performance on the third and fourth map is terrible when a lot of NPCs are around.”
    • “Few bugs and bad optimization: even having a strong computer, you may have small issues such as some lag with frame drop, a few loading texture problems, and some bugs.”
  • music

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    36% positive mentions, 43% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions

    The music in the game is generally praised for being beautiful, relaxing, and calming, complementing the serene scenery well. However, some users find the soundtrack repetitive and occasionally annoying, preferring to play their own audio while gaming. Overall, it contributes positively to a chill and enjoyable atmosphere.

    • “I love crafting/grinding games and the scenery and music is beautiful and relaxing.”
    • “The scenery and the music is just amazing!”
    • “Great music that calms the nerves after a busy day.”
    • “The repeating music is too similar to one another, even if they are supposed to be different tracks.”
    • “The same Chinese music plays over and over and over.”
    • “The game music is annoying anyway.”
  • atmosphere

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 60% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's atmosphere is widely praised for its beautiful, calming, and immersive representation of traditional and medieval Chinese landscapes and architecture. It creates a peaceful and polished environment that enhances the building-focused gameplay, making for a relaxing and engaging experience.

    • “Beautiful landscapes and traditional architecture create a peaceful atmosphere.”
    • “The atmosphere, the style, the gameplay—everything feels polished and made with a lot of care.”
    • “I am impressed by the beauty and atmosphere they managed to create and the outstanding beauty of the buildings you can create when you progress further into the game.”
  • humor

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is largely unintentional, stemming from poor English voice acting and numerous bugs that are more amusing than detrimental. While some glitches add a comedic element, the serious tone of the dialogue contrasts awkwardly with these flaws.

    • “There are some bugs around quests and NPC breaking but haven't experienced them myself, most of the bugs I have experienced are more funny than game breaking.”
  • emotional

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Players experience a strong emotional connection to the game's atmosphere, especially appreciating its authentic portrayal of Chinese history, but this is marred by incomplete content and frustrating bugs that diminish their overall engagement and enjoyment.

    • “Key elements are all there, but you can see as you play further and further into the missions that it's just incomplete and it is heartbreaking.”
    • “How it is possible that some Polish people reach such a touching atmosphere that really puts you back into the Chinese history and surroundings that fit to it, I do not know, but they definitely did hit the point or, as we German people say, they did hit the nail!”
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Play Times

26h Median play time
24h Average play time
12-50h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 7 analyzed playthroughs
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Chinese Frontiers is a open world city builder game with medieval and historical themes. Common tags for Chinese Frontiers include first-person, farming, exploration, immersive sim, life sim and others.

Chinese Frontiers is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 24 hours playing Chinese Frontiers.

Chinese Frontiers was released on June 19, 2025.

Chinese Frontiers was developed by SolidGames.

Chinese Frontiers has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Chinese Frontiers for its story but disliked it for its stability.

Chinese Frontiers is a single player game.

Similar games include Sengoku Dynasty, Aska, Medieval Dynasty, Bellwright, Mirthwood and others.