If there's one thing I love in videogames, it's completing little tasks—it may not seem like much, but it's honest work. So when it came to Lightyear Frontier, I couldn't wait to roll up my mech's metaphorical sleeves and get to work on fixing up a deserted alien planet with nothing but time on my hands and a rigorous checklist.
After catapulting a couple of stones into the woods and mending a broken mech, I got to work building my base camp. Furnished with all the latest luxuries like a clothesline, tent, a few planting plots, and even a garden shed, everything was looking livable and I was ready to finally explore the strange world in which I found myself. But as I started to make my way through the green meadows, more and more tasks began to litter the upper left corner of my screen—harvest polyberrys, build a merchant dock, feed animals, make an oil presser—it was at this point that I realised even my love of checklists has limits.
