Toxic Frontier blends roguelike strategy with hexagonal city building

Toxic Frontier is a card-based roguelike that combines city building with hexagonal grid strategy. The game was revealed at the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct.

Players draw cards representing villages, forests, sheep, mountains, lakes, and other terrain features, then arrange them on a hexagonal grid to build settlements and expand into a toxic wasteland. The hexagonal layout creates comparisons to Settlers of Catan, though Toxic Frontier focuses on single-player strategy rather than multiplayer negotiation.

Card combinations form the core mechanic. Surrounding a village with other villages transforms the central card into a town, which can be upgraded further to a city. The process grows more complex as players discover terrain hidden beneath fog, including hazards like wandering mutants and polluted wastelands that need cleansing.

The roguelike structure assigns semi-randomised objectives to each level, with players working under strict card limitations. Each placed card generates points needed to unlock additional cards. More complex and larger combos yield higher point rewards, encouraging experimentation with available resources.

Toxic Frontier has no release date yet. Players can wishlist the game on Steam to receive updates.