Launches 14 November · Free in your browser

FRONTIER

Lead any real country, or found your own. Push the line in a real-time war of front lines, trenches, supply and encirclement, on the real Earth or a generated continent.

Release date Saturday 14 November Free in your browser

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175Real countries to lead

7Real-world maps

∞Generated worlds

0Downloads. Play in browser

Briefing

No provinces. No tiles.
Just the line, and what's behind it.

Lead a real country with today's borders, or found your own nation on the real Earth or a fresh continent. You pick the exact point to strike, borders that hold dig in, trucks haul reinforcements down real roads, and an army that gets surrounded surrenders. It is a war you can read on the map, in real time.

01 — The attack

Strike exactly where it hurts

Click the point on the border you want to break. The stretch that will fight lights up, red where the blow lands hardest and fading to green along the flanks. Your troops mass on the border, then go in, and the push grinds forward from that one spot.

Attacks are local: you choose the place, not just the enemy
Prepared attacks hit harder; send them in early and they go in weak
Only a few offensives at once, so every one is a decision
Pause and change game speed whenever you need to think

An attack being aimed: the stretch of border that will fight glows red at the point of impact, fading to green along the flanks — Aim

02 — Real countries

Lead any real country

Pick a map, then click the country you want to lead: today's real borders, real capitals and an army to match its size. Every other country on the map is a rival with its own army. The world starts at peace and goes to war one country at a time.

Up to 175 countries on the World map, every one of them playable
Your country is your difficulty: Russia is easy, Luxembourg is not
Exclaves and islands keep their own supply, so Kaliningrad holds out

Europe with today's real borders: Germany, marked as the player's country, between France, Poland, Czechia and Austria, every country showing its army — Real countries

03 — The real world

Fight over the real Earth

Play the whole planet or a single continent: Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America or Oceania. Real coastlines, real straits and real mountain ranges, built from elevation data. Or roll a fresh generated world every match.

Seven real-world maps, plus endless generated ones
The Alps, the Himalaya and the Andes are real walls
Islands like Britain take a sea invasion to crack

Europe at war: nations spread across France, Germany, the Balkans and Scandinavia — Europe

04 — Trenches

Dig in

A border that stands still digs trenches, up to four lines deep. Charging a dug-in front head-on costs more than twice as much and crawls. Soften it from the air, go around it, or hit where the line just moved, before it can dig in again.

Trench lines are drawn on the map, so you can see where a front is strong
Go Fortified toward a neighbour and you dig twice as fast
A defender who sees an attack massing digs in harder

Dug-in front lines drawn as dashed trench lines along the borders, with reinforcement trucks moving up — Dug in

05 — Supply

Cut them off

Supply flows from your capital and the cities you hold. Reinforcements drive to the front by truck, down real roads. Push too far past your last city and every attack slows down. Surround an enemy and the trapped army surrenders to you, troops and all.

Take cities to keep your offensives supplied
Encircled pockets count down, then surrender to whoever holds the ring
Take a capital and the whole nation capitulates
Naval landings plant a beachhead across the sea

Trucks driving reinforcements from the capital down a road to the front, beside an encircled enemy pocket counting down to surrender — Encircled

06 — Strategic

Brinkmanship

Take an airfield and call air support and paratroopers onto your attacks. Grow strong enough and the nukes unlock: ICBMs with real flight times. When someone launches at you, you have seconds to lock on and shoot it down. Miss, and the fallout lingers.

Air support that softens the ground ahead of your push
Paratroopers dropped behind the enemy line
Nukes you can see coming, and fallout that poisons the ground

A nuclear blast over an enemy nation, the ground scorched around it — Impact

Multiplayer is coming

Early access is you against the AI: up to fifteen rival nations, or every other country on the map. Next: matches against real players, where any nation could be someone plotting against you.

Generated or real

A fresh procedural continent every match, or the real Earth: the whole planet or one continent, with empty land to claim or today's real countries.

Rivals with a temper

AI nations with their own temperaments: some rush you, some dig in, some wait for you to slip. Three difficulties, from a quick 15-minute war to an hour-long grind.

Enlist

The front opens 14 November.

Frontier launches in early access, free and right in your browser at play-frontier.com: you against the world first, multiplayer next. Wishlist it to be first on the battlefield when the front opens.

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