Developer Ice Code Games announced Nightmare Frontier, the first-ever tactical extraction looter that pits players against fears made manifest: the Dreadweavers. The game is slated to arrive in Q2, 2025.
It is up to you to lead a band of scavenger roughnecks into a devastated boom town of the alternative 1900s. Get in, face the monsters, grab what you can carry and get out. Alive. For those brave enough to make the best of it, the opportunities are now… supernatural!
The developers expect the game to remain in Early Access for 6-8 months, with the full version planned for Q1, 2026. EA allows the development roadmap to remain flexible, while the developers are exploring numerous ways of evolving features and gameplay improvements. By involving players and their feedback early, the team can better understand what aspects of the game are enjoyed the most and what needs changing.
This will also be the time to significantly expand the content and gameplay possibilities within it. This includes adding new items to introduce fresh tactical options, new monsters to provide unique strategic challenges, and additional levels for greater variety and difficulty.
Nightmare Frontier – Key Features
- Tactical Gun ‘n’ Slash – The next evolution of tactical combat is here: rain lead on enemies by chaining trick shots and overcoming dread. Then get in their midst and rearrange the odds by pushing, countering and combining attacks.
- American Dream turned American Nightmare – The city will never be the same but you can work with it: lead the counterattack against the Dreadweavers and push ever deeper into the Nightmare. Taking back city quarters will bring you face to face with fresh horrors and into new paths forward.
- Tactical Extraction Looter – Cowardice rarely pays the bills but you can’t enjoy your gains when you’re dead. Push your luck and the danger you face while maximizing the loot you can grab and live to fight another day. Limitless raids lure you deeper into the Nightmare and making the most profitable calls is why you, the Ringleader, pay yourself the big bucks!
- They Are What You Fear – Face off against monsters born from your band’s deepest fears: push the challenge and raise the Nightmare Level for things to get more deadly and more interesting quickly. Learn to game the system of fear and courage to choose your battles.
- Crafting and Upgrades – Harvest materials from defeated nightmares to craft and enhance increasingly insane weapons, merging early 1900s technology with supernatural alchemy. Unlock new ways to send the monsters back to the Hells they crawled out of.
- Hone Your (Ring)leadership – While you rest your aching guns and reload your muscles, manage your equipment, invest in new abilities or press some rescued fresh meat (heh, heh) into service. Just remember: their weakest points will attract the monsters like blood attracts hungry sharks.
