Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.
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A hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.
Core Features
Realistic FPS mechanics
Physics-based loot
Hostile AI's & factions
Map-to-Map travel
Permadeath zone
Shelter customization
Trading & Tasks
Day & Night cycle
Dynamic weather
Dynamic events
Summer & Winter
Area 05
Your road begins in Area 05, an evacuated zone located in the southeastern part of Finland. In Area 05, you will find shelters, traders, tasks, and starting loot for initial survival.
Your peaceful life in Area 05 is often interrupted by hostile Bandits, an anarchist group taking advantage of the lack of authority in the area.
Once you have gathered enough loot and equipment, your road continues toward the east, where you will find the Border Zone, a guarded border line between Finland and Russia.
Border Zone
Each Border Zone map has a crossing point with different challenges. Some crossing points may include mines or physical obstacles, while others require using waterways with boats.
On top of these challenges, the Border Zone is guarded by a group called Guards. These foreign border guards are armed, corrupt, and often rely on air support to prevent people from crossing the border.
Vostok
If you manage to cross the Border Zone, you will enter Vostok. Located in Russia, Vostok is a high-risk, high-reward zone and holds the most valuable loot in the game.
Every Vostok map is a permadeath map. If you die in Area 05 or Border Zone, you only lose the equipment and loot you're carrying, but if you die in Vostok, you lose everything.
Vostok is controlled by the Military, an armed troop with heavy weaponry and the ability to use armored vehicles. The Military faction is the most dangerous faction in the game, and they have one objective: to push you back where you came from.
Time of Day
The game uses a 24-hour day & night simulation where lighting conditions change dynamically with sun and moon cycles. You can manipulate game time by sleeping, but most of the time, you will need to prepare for darkness when roaming through the game world.
Weather
The game has randomized weather states that vary from sunny to dark skies with thunder and everything in between. If you are lucky, you may even see northern lights on a clear night sky.
Seasons
If you survive long enough, the game world will shift from summer to winter, and you will start facing issues related to snow and cold. You can also choose constant summer or winter modes for your playthrough.
Events
On top of the changing lighting conditions and weather, dynamic events occur every now and then in the game world. These events vary from small ambient sounds to aerial events, like airdrops and crash sites, to faction-based special events.
Scavenge
Every playthrough is a different experience where loot and luck are core components of game progression. Scavenge, trade, and craft hundreds of unique items based on real-world parameters and progressive loot tiers.
Loot Systems
The game uses physically-based loot and loot containers, where loot never spawns in the same places. You can find hundreds of loot items in each map, and anything that logically looks like storage for loot is an interactable loot container. You can find consumables, clothing, medical items, tools, electronics, weapons, attachments, and much more.
UI & Inventories
Handling loot and items is done through tetris-style inventories with dynamic icons, item combining, item stacking, and quick actions to make the looting experience seamless part of the game.
In-game Traders
You can trade items with in-game trader characters using an intuitive bartering system. Each trader is specialized in certain themes, like tools, medical supplies, weapons, and furniture.
Bartering
The trading system doesn’t use money and is purely based on bartering. All items are valued based on their post-apocalyptic usage value, where items like medical supplies, food, and even toilet paper might hold high value.
Tasks & Services
Traders can be used for tasks and services like medical care or weapon maintenance. The task system is based on trader levels, and through tasks, you can obtain rare items, unlock new shelters, and get clues to lore-based questions.
Safe Place to Save
Shelters are safe zones and places to store loot. Shelters are the only way to save your game, and you often need to utilize multiple shelters when traveling toward the east.
Multiple Homes
All shelters are different from each other in terms of size and customization possibilities. One shelter may be a small cabin, while another might be a large concrete bunker. Certain shelters are unlocked by default, but some are only available through keys that you need to earn through trader tasks.
Shelter Customization
All shelters have a default template in terms of furniture, but everything is customizable through a decoration mode. This mode can be activated inside the shelter and gives you the ability to modify all furniture-related elements. You can catalog, move, and rotate all existing furniture however you want, and you can acquire new furniture through crafting or trading.
Item Placement
Once you have your preferred shelter layout ready, you are ready to start placing items for storage. You can use furniture containers for storage, but you also have the ability to place individual items wherever you want. All items are physics-based, and once you place them, their positions save automatically when you exit the shelter.
Your Road, Your Character
Road to Vostok is a hardcore survival game, but it doesn’t force you into specific playstyles. You are not forced to enter the permadeath zone, you don’t have to care about the lore, and your character isn’t tied to any specific role or theme.
In some playthroughs, you can be a combat-oriented character with military gear, and in the next, you can be a lonely fisherman playing the harmonica on a remote island.
You create the story, the game provides you the tools.
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Stats
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Languages: English
Engagement
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Reviews
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Reviews
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Ive been playing since some of the earlier demos road to vostok is extremely fun. If your a fan of the STALKER tarkov or and games of the sort you will love Road to Vostok no doubt about it.
great game love the enviroment needs alot of fine tuning but as for fps survival games this one is amazing not gonna lie i almost gave up on it took me a minute to to figure it out but now i cant stop best 20 bucks ive spent on a game in decades
Погнали. Ты думаешь, что хардкор — это когда в Dark Souls босс бьет тебя три раза? Ха! Садись, расскажу. Road to Vostok — это финский постапокалипсис, который сделал один бывший военный. Один. Человек. Видимо, он настолько скучал по армии, что решил воссоздать её в цифре, чтобы страдали все остальные. Ты просыпаешься. Ты — главный герой. Кто ты? Бомж. Натуральный финский бомж, у которого нет еды, нет оружия, нет нормальной одежды, а из инвентаря — только чувство собственного ничтожества. Твоя цель? Дойти до «Востока». Звучит как эпическое путешествие. На деле — это просто «дойти до следующего дома, чтобы там умереть, но уже с комфортом». Геймплей: «Смерть — это не баг, это фича». Заходишь в первый дом. Тишина. Только ветер воет, и у тебя в животе урчит от голода. Находишь старую винтовку Мосина. Чувствуешь себя Рэмбо. Выглядываешь в окно — БАХ! Автоматная очередь. Ты умер. Окей, второй заход. Ты уже умный. Крадешься как ниндзя. Заходишь в другой дом, тихонько лутаешь шкафы. Вдруг с улицы доносится звук шагов. Ты забиваешься на кухню, зажигаешь маленькую свечку (серьёзно, свечку!) и молишься всем богам. Враг врывается в дом, даже не спрашивая «кто тут», и всаживает в тебя заряд из дробовика. Ты снова умер. И так каждый раз. Road to Vostok — это игра, где каждая встреча с врагом — это либо ты, либо он. Но он — ИИ, у которого нет чувства самосохранения, и он стреляет с точностью снайпера из любого положения. А ты — просто человек с Мосиным и тремором рук. Шансы? 50 на 50. Ну, ладно, 10 на 90. Кстати о пермадэте. Да, смерть здесь не просто «перезагрузись на чекпоинте». Ты умираешь — всё, игра начинается заново. Это как в реальной жизни, только в реальной жизни хотя бы можно пересмотреть сериал. Фишки, от которых плачут даже хардкорщики: Отсутствие подсказок. Игра не говорит тебе, что делать. Вообще. Она просто выбрасывает тебя в лес и говорит: «Выживай, лох». Ты как тот парень, который приехал в другую страну без карты, денег и знания языка. Только здесь тебя ещё и убивают. Реализм, блин. Ты голоден? Твои показатели падают. Ты ранен? Нужны бинты. Но бинтов нет, потому что ты их не нашёл, потому что ты бомж. А враги на тебя орут по-русски, создавая полный эффект погружения. Ты чувствуешь себя не в игре, а в зоне боевых действий, где тебя просто забыли предупредить. Закрывай двери! Да, если ты зашёл в дом и не закрыл за собой дверь — можешь считать, что подписал себе смертный приговор. Потому что враги не дураки, они зайдут. И убьют. Будешь потом знать, как хлопать дверьми. Графика на Godot. Игра сделана на движке Godot. Для инди — выглядит отлично. Но это всё равно как смотреть на красиво нарисованный ад. Ад, в котором ты горишь. Итог: Road to Vostok — это идеальный способ проверить, насколько сильно ты любишь себя. Если ты ценишь свою психику — проходи мимо. Если ты мазохист, который наиграл 1000 часов в Tarkov и думал: «Эх, не хватает одиночества и пермадэта» — эта игра для тебя. Разработчик честно предупреждает: игра будет в раннем доступе 2–4 года. То есть ты будешь умирать не только в игре, но и морально, ожидая обновлений. Но знаешь что? Когда ты после сотой смерти наконец-то добираешься до следующей локации, чувствуешь себя богом. А потом сразу умираешь. И всё по новой. Оценка: 10/10 — за то, что заставляет тебя ценить каждый вдох. И 0/10 — за то, что эти вдохи в игре длятся около 5 секунд.
Its definitely early access theres really not a lot of anything to do yet besides kill random npcs and run around. Was fun for the couple hours of running in circles through the like 4-5 zones I found I would say dont pay more than $10 for it though.
Amazing game ...really hardcore !
I need to be up for a dentist appointment today, i should be sleeping, instead im losing my sanity on this game 10/10
Even at this games release build, its great and I can see it only improve as time goes on. Really a project that's worth supporting and waiting for development even further
It's been a little bit since I've played (will explain in a bit) but this game definitely deserves a positive review. I played the demo for a little over 10 hours, did all the quests, got my shelter set up and it was great. Don't do this. I came to find out the demo progress and gear does not transfer over to the game. Was a little bummed but it is what it is. Just buy the game. Well worth the asking price. I came from Tarkov and I am a loot gremlin so this game vibed with me. The AI in this game is fine imo, perhaps minor tweaks but I find them fair and manageable. This game requires methodical play. Going through a house, clearing corners and constantly listening. It's atmospheric and I love it. You can't just full sprint through a map, take your time and embrace the tension. I've only gone as far as Apartments so far. The guns are great, looting could be better and the atmosphere is fantastic. So now to why I stopped....the Cat. Far too much micro. I want to pet the cat and have it at my place and not have to stop every 5 minutes to feed it. This is an exaggeration but having to stop my runs all the time to bring it tuna is a little annoying. I recall seeing that something was in the works to address this. Hopefully this changes soon or has already happened. Also, I don't like being shot at while fishing. Just why? I don't want to stop fishing to deal with some bandit taking pot shots at me from across the map. Let me fish in peace please. My other beef with this game is the loot. I'm not asking to be handed something top tier every run, especially in the earlier zones, but something about what you can or can't find is lacking. I want to push farther for better loot but again...the cat. The RNG of it all just seems..off. NOD's also last all of 3 seconds. Haven't found a single battery for them. This level of realism isn't necessary. Maybe I'll push into Vostok one of these days but the whole permadeath thing puts me off a little. The prospect of spending 50 hours on getting your shelters all nice, hoarding a bunch of crap and then losing it to a dude who was squatting behind a door that mag dumps you isn't particularly thrilling. I'm not against the Mechanic necessarily but I also don't see the incentive to even go there. Like I said, I'm a loot goblin so this aspect isn't really for me. In Tarkov, if I want to wipe I can choose to do so. This game deleting the whole save is just a tad off putting personally but I understand the appeal to some. Overall the Dev is doing great. The road map looks promising, the atmosphere is fantastic and the game runs very well. If you like looter shooters I think this has a lot of potential and is definitely worth the price.
no me gusto la jugabilidad, prefiero el uso fluido de los mandos
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