Road to Vostok

Support the project and wishlist now on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/1963610/Ro…

There's currently a community event going on called Shelter Competition. You can participate simply just by posting a screenshot from your shelter to the RtV Discord. At the end of April, community will vote three best shelters and those will be awarded with IRL Savotta merch.

Road to Vostok EA launch has been extremely successful in multiple ways and secured the entire development roadmap for the future: - 100,000 copies sold - Very Positive reviews - Front Page & Featured - Daily Active Users: 26,780 - Twitch Peak Viewers: 31,891 Thank you! - Antti (Developer)

The past 24 hours have been absolutely insane. Road to Vostok is currently Top Seller in many countries, front page on Steam and with Very Positive rating. I will share some launch stats when I have gathered enough data (+ some sleep), but I can already say that the launch has been extremely successful for a solo dev and secured the entire production budget for this game for years and years to come. Thank you!

Road to Vostok is now available on Steam Early Access! Launch price: 14,99€ (25% launch discount) Regional pricing: Provided by Steam Good luck with your survival! :)

Tomorrow :)

Only two more days until the Early Access launch! Containing over 220 additions, fixes and changes, here’s the full changelog for the release build [0.1.0.0] Link below ->

Three days left. Tomorrow I will put the EA build on full lockdown and publish a massive changelog of what the upcoming release will exactly contain. This changelog contains nearly 200 additions, fixes and changes compared to the demo.

Thanks to @BigfryTV & @fps_crash for having me on the show! This episode was recorded few weeks before the launch, so if you want to hear some of my "last minute" thoughts going towards this release, this is probably the best available source for that :)

@Rirage07 Unfortunately my email is totally nuked, there's some sort of bot system in place to ask for keys and such near the launch. I think I have received +1500 emails within few weeks, most of those are bots but it's totally out of control and I have to filter those after the launch.

@roadtovostok Reply to your e-mails

Five days left, developer's sleep deprivation intensifies :) Also one quick request. Recent wishlist additions have a big impact on release visibility. If you haven't wishlisted the game yet, that would help a lot!

People have played the demo on Steam Deck and I did one quick test with this release build also and it launched without issues. However, I wouldn't say it's official supported yet since I haven't had time to make it fully Steam Deck compatible, so there needs to be more work for UI scaling and usability stuff like that. I will make those usability tweaks at some point later on :)

@roadtovostok I don’t know if this was mentioned anywhere, but will it run on Steam Deck/Steam Machine?”

Exciting times ahead :)

@HackDotSlash Hi! Those current assets there are unfortunately really old (+4y) since I haven't had time to update any of those. At some point however when I have time, I will most likely release all the 3D-models that I have made over the years as CC0 and categorize them properly.

I had no idea @roadtovostok was doing this. Massive W for indie devs. Can't wait to support this game. roadtovostok.itch.io/road-to-vostok…

A few new miscellaneous items. Total number of items in Early Access (atm) = 284

Your decision to purchase early access is now sealed at the latest, because the potatoes have arrived :) A great combat snack on its own and useful for several different cooking and crafting recipes such as fish soup.

The official countdown continues :)

Just finished another playtest, where the goal was to complete some of the hardest tasks in early access (without any dev tools). Based on this playtest, I can pretty confidently say that the difficulty for some of these tasks is pretty nuts. Here's few screenshots of my favorite tasks from Doctor and Gunsmith. In total the early access has now 30 tasks, so 10 tasks per trader.

Good news. Road to Vostok just passed the Steam review process, so we are set for Early Access launch on April 7. This was the last external topic left, so now everything is up to me and I will be polishing the actual release build all the way until launch day.

Hi! Vulkan caused a lot of AMD-driver issues with the demo, so I don't want to have those at early access launch. Vulkan is still available with Steam Launch Options but the default one needs to be DirectX for this game. You can read the full explanation here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/19636…

@roadtovostok Why swichting to DirectX? I'm just curious

Hi! Just to let you know, I'm doing a "demo reset" tonight related to upcoming early access. Key points: - Switching demo from Vulkan -> DirectX - No more issues with AMD drivers - Performance / rendering parity with EA - Few additional bug fixes In order to implement this update, I unfortunately have to reset the demo entirely. This means overriding all game files, including existing demo save files. Otherwise the demo content will be the same, so just backend stuff changes.