New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers
- June 7, 2017
- Arc System Works
Get on Steam"New Frontier Days ~Founding Pioneers~" is a town-building simulation game, where you command your pioneers to colonize a new land.
Nintendo Switch
PC
Steam Deck
Windows
Reviews
- It launches without major issues.
- Some players feel they got their money's worth despite the game's flaws.
- The game has potential for a niche audience who enjoy low-quality games.
- The game is poorly optimized, running too fast on high FPS and causing control issues.
- The user interface is clunky and not user-friendly, leading to frequent glitches.
- Overall gameplay is boring and lacks depth, with minimal updates since release.
- optimization2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The game is widely criticized for its poor optimization, with multiple users reporting that it fails to run smoothly.
- gameplay2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The gameplay has been criticized as a poorly executed port from mobile and Nintendo Switch, lacking any meaningful improvements in user interface or user experience, leading to a frustrating experience for players.
“This is just a mobile (Nintendo Switch) garbage ported to Windows with no effort put into improving the UI/UX or the asinine gameplay.”
- graphics2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- -50 % neutral mentions
- 150 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game have been criticized for their low quality, featuring blurry visuals that appear poorly scaled from a 720p resolution, and subpar mobile animations. Overall, the visual presentation detracts significantly from the gaming experience, contributing to a sense of frustration among players.
“The graphics are a mess, with blurry visuals that seem to be designed for 720p but are scaled up poorly, making everything look awful.”
“The mobile animations are garbage, contributing to an overall lack of polish in the game's visual presentation.”
“The combination of low-quality graphics and poor animation really detracts from the overall experience, making it hard to enjoy the game.”
- music2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- -50 % neutral mentions
- 150 % negative mentions
The music in the game has been widely criticized, described as "awful" and failing to enhance the overall experience. Reviewers feel it detracts from the gameplay, which is already marred by poor visuals and tedious mechanics.
“The music is just awful, contributing to the overall negative experience of the game.”
“The sound design is terrible, making the gameplay feel even more frustrating.”
“The audio quality is subpar, which detracts from the immersion and enjoyment of the game.”
- story2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- -50 % neutral mentions
- 150 % negative mentions
The story is criticized for its generic JRPG dialogue that feels excessive and unengaging, alongside poorly integrated tycoon elements that require tedious resource collection. Additionally, the overall presentation suffers from low-quality visuals and sound, detracting from the narrative experience.
“The story is filled with asinine dialogue where characters just keep rambling generic JRPG lines and won't stop talking. The tycoon elements are equally frustrating, as characters spend hours collecting resources like one log, which apparently counts as many logs, or one fish. The mobile animations are garbage, the visuals are blurry and designed for 720p but scaled up, and the music and sounds are awful.”
“The story is a mess, with characters delivering generic JRPG dialogue that feels endless and pointless. The tycoon mechanics are tedious, requiring players to collect resources in a way that feels overly simplistic and frustrating. The overall presentation suffers from poor animations and blurry visuals, making the experience even less enjoyable.”
“The narrative is poorly executed, with characters engaging in endless, generic dialogue that detracts from the experience. The resource collection mechanics are tedious and unengaging, and the overall visual and audio quality is subpar, making it hard to stay immersed in the game.”
- stability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game suffers from significant stability issues, with frequent user interface jams and glitches that often require players to restart the game multiple times. Overall, these problems hinder the overall user experience.
“The user interface jams up a lot and is not easy to use; it has some glitches. I had to restart the game three times because of that.”
