Built on the blockchain, EVE Frontier is a space survival game defined by freedom, challenge, and consequence. You awake from stasis as the last relic of humanity from a brighter age. Civilization has decayed in the ruin of its ambition; feral drone swarms scour its wastes, and survivors fight to gain control over its resources.

In the shadow of the Trinary, who will you become?

In EVE Frontier, CCP Games is creating a deep player-driven sandbox for a new era. Cast into a cruel and brutal cosmos, you have been lost to time and lost to light. To survive, you will need to explore, exploit and expand in the face of perpetual annihilation. The Frontier is a shattered region of space, warped by the presence of supermassive black holes gravitationally bound in a macabre dance. Rogue AI infests its depths; corrupting and consuming the remnants of what still stands.

With all players on one single-shard server, death and opportunity lurk in equal measure. Awareness is power: your skill as a pilot and strategic choices determine the outcome of every encounter, whether you favor hit-and-run tactics, stealth, or all-out warfare. Exploit the Frontier’s natural resources to upgrade your ship with vital technology and acquire new capabilities. Obtain fuel, the lifeblood of your journey, to power your travel as you overcome its dangers. A community-driven and dynamic economy allows you to create custom currencies, establish markets, and trade assets, services, and reputation in a truly open environment.

Rebuild civilization from its ashes by using Smart Assemblies, an open-ended platform, to construct and program infrastructure within space. Expand your influence through defenses, trading posts and multiple types of functionality, each imbued with a programmable layer that links the world of the Frontier to the real world outside of it. Develop your own ideas or address the needs of others: from mission systems to private economies, Smart Assemblies unlocks third-party development with a toolkit for creators to build beyond a virtual world.

Games announced that EVE Frontier enters Cycle 5 of Founder Access, beginning Wednesday, March 11. Titled Shroud of Fear, Cycle 5 marks another step toward CCP Games’ long-term vision for EVE Frontier as a hardcore space survival experience.

Shroud of Fear introduces Shell industry: allowing players to manufacture the clone bodies they inhabit, taking direct control over their production, storage, and enhancement. With the introduction of the Nursery manufacturing facility and the Nest storage facility, players can create new Shells and manage their equipped skills through Crowns - specialized memory constructs - to shape their capabilities and progression. If a Shell is destroyed, the skills and memory imprinted on that body are lost with it, demanding preparation and adaptability to survive the Frontier’s unforgiving nature.

The galaxy also evolves. Orbital Zones now replace dungeons, introducing distinct, persistent ecosystems across solar systems and distributing resources, NPCs and loot naturalistically. Feral AI now patrol and move dynamically between points of interest, reacting to their surroundings, analyzing and defending key locations. Two new types of rifts and crude matter are available across almost every star system, allowing players earlier and more frequent access to crude industry.

Base building continues to deepen. Construction Sites at owned Network Nodes allow players to collaboratively deliver materials before structures come online. At L-Points, multiple players can now establish a base, increasing opportunities for cooperation and conflict. Defensive infrastructure has also been overhauled with the introduction of three specialized turrets: the Autocannon Turret, built to shred smaller ships; the Plasma Turret, designed to counter mid-sized threats; and the heavy Railgun Turret, engineered to engage larger combat vessels.

Traversal and combat have been refined, redefining how ships travel, fight and manage risk. Combat has been rebalanced to clearly distinguish between light and heavy ships. Lighter hulls now accelerate faster and carve tighter flight paths, with slot layouts that emphasize active defenses. Heavier ships trade angular agility for greater mass, higher top speeds, and passive durability. A powerful new Exclave frigate can also be manufactured, offering a focused, high-mobility option for pilots who favor precision. Traversal systems have also been updated. Fuel now carries new properties that impact active consumption and interstellar travel, while passive scanning allows players to detect signatures in space and monitor their surrounding environment before committing movement or engagement.

With Shroud of Fear, EVE Frontier migrates from Ethereum to the Sui blockchain. Launching the same day, the 2026 Frontier Hackathon features an $80,000 prize pool, inviting builders to develop mods that extend the Frontier both inside and outside the game world.

Players can purchase Founder Access at www.evefrontier.com/founderaccess. A new game access-only tier for Founder Access will be available for a limited time (11-31 March) for $19.99. Register for the 2026 Hackathon at https://www.deepsurge.xyz/evefrontier2026.

Players can construct infrastructure such as storage facilities, trading posts, defenses and more. Think of it as enhanced base-building. Through each structure having a programmable layer, EVE Frontier allows for greater moddability and player expression on top of each "base item". Constructing infrastructure and deploying it on the Frontier does not require it to be programmed.

For example, a Smart Storage Unit (SSU) is a structure anchored in space, which acts as smart storage, holding and dispensing any form of inventory players choose to load it with (currencies, items etc.). With Smart Assemblies, this structure can be coded to serve as a marketplace, a quest giver, a bounty hunter system, an arcade machine etc. The programmable interface can be coded to be anything that results in an in-game output relevant to each piece of infrastructure.

In EVE Frontier, you own your items and all transactions between players are permitted. CCP Games will not prohibit transactions outside of, and inside of the game.

To support this, EVE Frontier will have a range of in-game currencies available, all of which are built on ERC-20 token standards.

1. EVE Token: a utility token that can be exchanged as a means of external value. The EVE Token will exist in a test environment until it has undergone rigorous testing and meets CCP's standards for game & economy design, usage, performance, security and transaction speed.
2. LUX: used only for in-game transactions. For example, LUX can be used to purchase items from in-game markets, to acquire station services, used for trades between players etc.

These enable:

• The ability to trade currency and therefore in-game value outside of EVE Frontier.
• The de-incentivizing of secondary markets.
• The ability for players to create, exchange and use their own currencies (for example alliance-specific currency) with the same utility.
• A means to reward and support the builders of programmed infrastructure (Smart Assemblies) and the operation of its maintenance (e.g. maintaining external development environments).

Key Features:

• Intense Survival: Explore, upgrade, and survive in the face of perpetual annihilation. The Frontier is danger incarnate, filled with feral swarms of AI and other players. 
• Open Economic Sandbox: A fully community-driven and open in-game economy. Create custom currencies, establish markets, and trade assets, services, and reputation in a truly open environment.
• Strategic Gameplay Navigate your ship to dodge incoming fire, use celestial bodies as cover, or execute precision maneuvers to outflank your opponents.
• Ship Upgrades: Upgrade your ship with vital technology to access new capabilities and skills that open up new playstyles.
• Player Agency: Harness Smart Assemblies to configure and add additional functionality. A programmable layer enables limitless creativity for builders and mastery over the game world.