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Rotwired Studios · Published by Rotwired Studios · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Night Frontier is a survival-management game about building a camp, preparing squads, and sending them into a dangerous and cursed wasteland. Gather resources, craft equipment, manage injuries and disease, and decide how much risk your people can survive.
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About this game
BUILD A CAMP ON THE CURSED FRONTIER
Night Frontier is a survival-management game set across a ruined frontier filled with raiders, mutated wildlife, cryptids, and stranger forces moving beneath the static.
Manage a growing camp of survivors, assign work, construct buildings, produce supplies, and prepare squads for missions into dangerous territory. Every mission is a calculated risk. The people you send may return with valuable resources, serious injuries, or strange illness. Some may not return at all.
MANAGE PEOPLE, NOT JUST RESOURCES
Your recruits are workers, explorers, fighters, doctors, and specialists. Each has different attributes, skills, equipment, and limitations.
Decide where they are most valuable:
Assign recruits to camp work and production
Equip squads for specific missions and threats
Treat injuries and manage illness
Recruit and develop specialists as the frontier becomes more dangerous
Balance immediate needs against long-term survival
Sending your best recruit may improve the odds of success, but it also leaves the camp without them.
PREPARE EVERY MISSION
The frontier is divided into locations offering resources, missions, discoveries, and threats.
Choose where to go. Select a squad and equip them for the dangers ahead. Missions may lead to combat, difficult encounters, injuries, rare salvage, and consequences that continue after the squad returns.
Preparation matters. The wrong recruits, equipment, or supplies can turn a routine mission into a serious loss.
BUILD A CAMP THAT CAN SURVIVE THE CONSEQUENCES
Construct and upgrade buildings, organize production, craft equipment, grow food, and expand the camp’s capabilities.
As the population grows, so do its demands. More recruits require more food, shelter, equipment, and medical support. A successful expedition may solve one shortage while creating several new problems.
PUSH DEEPER INTO THE FRONTIER
Explore ruined settlements, hostile camps, abandoned industrial sites, forests, mines, and corrupted regions.
Secure valuable locations, confront regional threats, and open routes into increasingly dangerous territory. Raiders, hostile creatures, and strange cryptids require stronger squads, better preparation, and specialized equipment.
SURVIVE A WORLD THAT DOES NOT STAY QUIET
Camp incidents, injuries, disease, hostile factions, and unnatural events force you to adapt.
Night Frontier is not about keeping every recruit perfectly safe. It is about deciding which risks the camp can afford and dealing with what comes back.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 300 MB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i7 or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 970 / RX 570 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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The Night Frontier Demo is Available Now
The first public demo for Night Frontier is now available on Steam!Build and manage a camp on a hostile and strange frontier. Recruit and assemble survivors into squads and send them beyond the walls to scavenge for supplies and equipment. Explore and conquer a strange land while managing threats the growing pressure of managing your camp.The demo gives you a chance to experience the core Night Frontier game loop:Build and manage your camp.Recruit, equip, and organize survivors.Assemble squads and explore the frontier.Scavenge for food, supplies and better equipment.Encounter threats, new recruits, and difficult decisions.Craft better equipment and expand your camp.Night Frontier is still in active development. This demo represents the core gameplay of what we're building, but it also gives us a chance to get feedback from players! If you run into a bug, find something confusing, or just have thoughts or suggestions about the direction of the game, we want to hear it!If you enjoy the demo, please Wishlist Night Frontier to follow development and help support the game as we continue to work towards release. Thanks for playing! RotwiredRead full article on Community Announcements (Rotwired Studios)AnnouncementsOfficial
Devlog #1: What you Do in Night Frontier
Night Frontier is a gritty camp-management survival game about building a camp, sending recruits beyond the wire, and dealing with what comes back.Your camp needs food, scrap, medicine, weapons, shelter, and people. Getting those things means taking risks. You equip recruits, send them on missions across the frontier, fight through encounters, bring back supplies, and try to keep the camp alive long enough to expand.Survive the CampThe camp is the center of Night Frontier. Recruits need food, health, morale, equipment, and somewhere useful to work. Assigning people to buildings helps the camp grow, but every assignment has an opportunity cost.A recruit working at camp is not available for a mission. A recruit sent on a mission may come back injured, sick, exhausted, or not at all.As your influence grows, new recruits arrive. More people can help you build faster, scavenge more, and survive bigger threats. They also create more pressure. But too many recruits without enough food, infrastructure, and gear can turn growth into a liability.Send Squads Beyond the WireMost progress comes from missions. You choose a destination, equip a squad, and send them into the frontier to salvage supplies, clear threats, recover resources, or push deeper into dangerous territory.A mission might bring back exactly what the camp needs. It might also trigger a fight, create new injuries, reveal a threat, or force a hard decision back at camp.The goal is simple: every trip outside camp should feel useful, risky, and a little uncomfortable.Fight, Loot, and Bring Them HomeCombat in Night Frontier is built around readable tactical pressure rather than fast reflexes. Recruits bring their gear, stats, injuries, and weaknesses into each fight. The better prepared they are, the better their odds of success.But preparation costs resources, and resources are almost always short.Winning a mission can mean food, scrap, weapons, medicine, blueprints, or new access to the map. Losing can mean injurie...Read full article on Community Announcements (mmKay)
