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As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!

Border Pioneer is a tower defense, strategy and city builder game developed by Yahzj Games and published by Yogscast Games and Gamersky Games.
Released on February 06th 2025 is available on Windows and MacOS in 11 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 1,165 reviews of which 1,026 were positive and 139 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.02€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Border Pioneer into these genres:

Tower Defense Strategy City Builder Base-Building Medieval Action RTS Pixel Graphics Fantasy Combat Rogue-lite Wargame Singleplayer 2D Colorful Card Game Top-Down Turn-Based Strategy Resource Management Deckbuilding

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 4440
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS Catalina 10.15
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM

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Feb. 2025
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Was this Review helpful? Yes No
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Feb. 2025
Don't be deceived, this isn't your normal defense city builder, the protagonist is actually a necromancer. So many more of the mechanics make sense that way. Unavailable units that full heal after returning to base? Necromancy. Buildings regenerating at no cost at the end of the wave? Necromancy using the corpses of your foes as building material. No knowledge of spell casting or mediums but able to cast large scale offensive and defensive spells? You're a high level necromancer. You're just working for the king as a cover for your powers. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Onto the review of the game play, this is quite the unique game. The mechanics allow for interesting wave defense, sacrificing your production buildings as a form of defense as a possibility. I didn't do it that much on my runs but at higher difficulties it is another strategy to use. There's a strong emphasis on macro game play but micro does allow you to punch above your weight really well. The card system allows for runs to be unique, allowing you to pivot based on what cards happen to get synergies or buffs this run. There's some mention of difficulty spikes which is true but on normal if you full greed productions and transition to battle, there shouldn't be too many issues. The latter difficulties should be left after you finish the game on normal once, gaining a few skill points. It's the latter ones that get interesting, involving both macro and micro game play to get by. There's a lot of repeatability here with the various characters but I wouldn't say one is more viable than the other. I played through with the default character which is a bit weaker than the others but totally doable. They have interesting difference in play style. Overall, recommend the game and it's fun.
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Feb. 2025
I am enjoying the game and I haven't found any bugs. I do think that the scaling can be more punishing than it currently is. I know you can change the difficulty but I'm not talking about that, each wave doesn't feel like its periodically getting harder to beat than the one before.
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Feb. 2025
Much love, devs! I was already going to buy and be content based off the demo last year, but this exceeded my expectations. It's not that I recognize something new in the genre, but it's done well: like comfort food, but made by someone who really knows what they're doing. My wish is that you could do something in support of these old eyes. It's a nice enough font, but too small and I have to guess at what the text says sometimes.
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Feb. 2025
Great base building, tower defence hybrid. Gets much better the more you play as everything begins to unlock and bigger maps come into play.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Border Pioneer is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

Border Pioneer is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

Border Pioneer received 1,026 positive votes out of a total of 1,165 achieving a rating of 8.35.
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Border Pioneer was developed by Yahzj Games and published by Yogscast Games and Gamersky Games.

Border Pioneer is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Border Pioneer is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Border Pioneer is not playable on Linux.

Border Pioneer is a single-player game.

Border Pioneer does not currently offer any DLC.

Border Pioneer is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Border Pioneer does not support Steam Remote Play.

Border Pioneer is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Border Pioneer
14.79€ -80% 14.79€ 3.02€ -53% 14.79€ 6.96€
8.4
1,026
139
Game modes
Features
Online players
19
Developer
Yahzj Games
Publisher
Yogscast Games, Gamersky Games
Release 06 Feb 2025
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