Frontier Town

A prairie town-building strategy game. Place farms, mills, quarries, barracks, towers and walls on a grid, then hold off bandit raids led by a boss who scouts your weakest edge and torches your farms.

Frontier Town is a grid-based town builder with a defense twist, set on a dusty prairie. You start with a Town Hall, a farm and a house, and every tile you build on matters. Farms feed your settlers, houses raise the population limit, mills turn into wood, and quarries placed on rock tiles produce the stone you need for towers and upgrades. Settlers eat constantly, so growth and food have to stay in balance.

Every half minute or so a bandit raid arrives, and the bandit boss that leads it is not random. It studies your town and heads for the edge with the fewest towers, barracks, walls and soldiers, and from the fourth raid it may split its force and hit two edges at once. Raiders route around walls when they can, archers shoot your soldiers and buildings from range, torch bearers set farms, houses and mills on fire, and every second raid brings a heavily armoured boss. Scouts flag the incoming edge with a red strip about fifteen seconds ahead, which is your cue to wall it, raise a tower and train soldiers in a barracks. Between raids you can hold fast-forward to speed up calm stretches.

It suits fans of city builders and tower defense who enjoy planning a layout. Tip: do not build everything near one side, keep at least one quarry running early for upgrades, and place cheap walls to buy your towers time.

How to play

Pick a building card (keys 1-7), then click or tap a tile to place it. Quarries must go on rock tiles. Upgrade (8) spends stone to strengthen towers, walls, farms and barracks, and Demolish (9) refunds half the cost. Watch the red edge strip and the scout message to see where the next raid will land. Hold Space or the Fast Forward card during calm moments. Score grows with settlers, days survived and bandits beaten; the run ends if the Town Hall is destroyed.

Controls

1-7 / tap a card: Choose farm, house, mill, quarry, barracks, tower or wall
8 / 9: Upgrade tool / demolish tool
Click / tap a tile: Build, upgrade or demolish there
Hold Space / Fast Fwd: Speed up time while no raid is active
P / Esc, M, R: Pause, mute, restart

Category: Strategy games

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