After a year in Early Access, Nightmare Frontier launches on July 22nd.
After an incredible journey through Early Access, Nightmare Frontier is officially launching on July 22nd.
For anyone hearing about it for the first time, Nightmare Frontier is a turn-based tactical extraction game from the creators of Hard West 2 and Rogue Waters. You lead a crew of scavengers into a boom town of the alternative 1900s that got swallowed by a living Nightmare, and the monsters you fight are grown from your own recruits' fears. Every raid is a bet. You can extract early with a light bag, or push your luck while the Nightmare Level climbs and the loot gets better.
Early Access changed this game more than we expected when we launched in June 2025. A lot of that came directly from player feedback, including things we were sure about and turned out to be wrong about.
So before we lock the final patch, one question for people who play tactics games: what is the one thing a game like this has to nail at full release? Difficulty balance, enemy variety, the extraction economy, something else? We are reading everything.