LIGHTYEAR FRONTIER

Standby for Titanfarm

Or Armored Corn, if you prefer. Farming with mechs is an instantly appealing pitch, even before you see what Swedish developer Frame Break has done with the idea: think of how many farming games have you painstakingly watering individual grid squares of crops, taking up a sizeable chunk of each working day, and then imagine hopping into the cockpit of a vehicle with a spray attachment that lets you hose the entire patch within seconds. “We call it a ‘farming power fantasy’,” CEO Joakim Hedström says. “Giving the player all these mighty abilities to work on a larger scale.”