The post-apocalyptic single-player shooter Road to Vostok lets you try out improvements to the game and new features in a demo.
The project by a Finnish solo developer is getting a new demo on Steam. In Road to Vostok, there is a survival sandbox in the form of a first-person shooter You fight for survival alone on the Finnish-Russian border, constantly searching for loot to survive the increasingly difficult journey to Vostok.
The new demo is available to download for free on Steam from today, October 1st. An early access release is planned for 2024. The game is one of the most-requested representatives of the genre on Steam.
The new demo contains the following:
Public Demo 2 v2 (Feature list):
– AI overhaul
– Task system
– Armor system
– Crafting system
– Map upgrades
– New trader: Doctor
– Ammo types
– Area & container based loot
– New weapons
– New attachments
– New medical items
– New post-processing
– Indoor occlusion probes
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If you want to start the game from scratch, you can expect a revised tutorial to make your start easier.
The game is designed with a strong focus on realism and is being developed by a former lieutenant in the Finnish army who has been working in the gaming industry for over a decade.
The development of Road to Vostok is documented on a YouTube channel very transparently. The not-so-simple switch from Unity to the open-source engine Godot is also shown there.
In Road to Vostok, you play individual, interconnected maps that increase in difficulty. If you cross the fortified border to Vostok at the transitions, a permadeath feature kicks in. If you die in this zone, you lose everything – and we really mean the entire game save – and you have to start over from the beginning.