Surviving Max Difficulty | Farthest Frontier (Y1-9)

Farthest Frontier is a survival city builder game that reminds me of the old settlers games. It was created by Crate Entertainment (the makers of Grim Dawn), and got out of early access in late 2025. This is the 3rd city I'm building in this game, and I'm trying out, for the first time, the maximum difficulty level: Vanquisher. I try to explain my thought processes and the strategies I go for which are particularly crucial in the early game where increasing you population is of the utmost importance. So, I try to "speedrun" 3 of the game's goals to boost my villagers as early as possible. This video includes footage of the early-game of my settlement starting from year 1 until year 9. This playthrough will be continued in a future video. This is NOT an "ironman" run btw. I thought that "ironman" in this game meant the same as in the doom and X-COM communities (basically, no save-scumming), but in the farthest frontier community "ironman" is a specific challenge with special options that I did not activate in this game. Sorry for the confusion! Map seed: 18C8933A754 (Alpine Valleys) Farthest Frontier Wiki - Farming: https://farthestfrontier.wiki/wiki/Fa... Farthest Frontier on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/10... Written, narrated, edited, and performed by Coincident. No generative AI was used in the making of this content. Music from various human authors. Thanks to the patrons who watch my videos in early-access: AgileJackson, Billabob, Bitcore, bububerto, chillieboo, dalias, Dżozef, HexElix, hido, Investigator Sozhran, Jonathan Cole, Jordan Musson, Leak, Magnus Lindelöf, Matthew Gower, mEEt_ek, Nils, Ole, Phoenix, rajjdolf, Shawn Grant, ShuffleCat, SirLethbridgeStewart, Spectere, the hellridden Baron, Tsunami State, Vytaan, and Zom-B! Join us on Patreon:   / coincident   Become a supporter on Patreon:   / coincident   Catch me live on Twitch:   / coincident   Catch me live on Youtube:    / @coincidenttv   Join the community on Discord:   / discord   2nd YT channel for clips:    / @coincidentclips   Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:07:03 Year 01 (10 pop) 00:54:57 Year 02 (18 pop) 02:05:42 Year 03 (29 pop) 03:28:41 Year 04 (39 pop) 04:39:44 Year 05 (61 pop) 05:56:54 Year 06 (70 pop) 07:06:11 Year 07 (78 pop) 08:25:24 Year 08 (83 pop) 09:49:47 Year 09 (110 pop) Tags: #farthestfrontier #twitch #playthrough