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Road to Vostok

Simple, Immersive, Impressive.

By JirasuPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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According to the steam page, 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 your way across the Border Zone and enter the Vostok. And immediately, just from a few seconds in the game, the feel and vibe of what the developer is going for speaks volumes. Now this game was referred to me from a friend I was playing Tarkov with a few nights ago, and upon downloading it and giving a try, I can already see the potential of what this game could be. Now, since this is just a demo; a very small piece of the pie, there isn’t a ton to offer. A small shooting range/tutorial, followed by a transition into a lush forest scape with some buildings to explore. It’s small, but what that allows this demo to show off, are the fundamentals of the game, and how you can expect Road to Vostok to feel in your hands. It's slow, deliberate, heavy. You’re not very nimble and that’s fine. When you turn on the AI and get to practice shooting, the guns feel good. Recoil isn’t crazy, the scopes and optics on offer execute exactly as you would need them to. And the AI aren’t hit scanning cheaters either so, that’s a huge win. For what this is going for, feeling more grounded in the world helps evoke the feelings I think the developer is going for. Which, I can’t speak for them, but if I had to guess the emotions might be, somber, serene, and stressful. Since this definitely feels like it’s going for some kind of a more immersive, hardcore style game. Made in Unity, it’s very graphically impressive. And there are a bunch of different options at your disposal for you to mess around with. Time of day, weather, and a host of graphical options to mess around with. And as you can see, framerate is very solid. I did try turning V-sync on for the latter half of my time with the build, which locked me to 60fps, and I think for my setup it looked and felt a little bit better. But your milage may vary if you decide to try this out. And you should; it’s a demo, so it’s free, and it’s small, only about a 2GB download. So, it’s worth at least 30 minutes of your time, if not more. This video is most likely going to be on the shorter end, just because I was immediately impressed by what I saw, and wanted to share it with people who may have not heard of it. There is a roadmap in the game as well the developer left in so we could see where things are going. And from the looks of it, they’re in it for the long haul. A more vertical slice of the game will be out next year, which is fine, please take all the time you need to get this game exactly where you want it to be. We will wait. I don’t want to see something this impressive be rushed out. The only big questions I have are, since this is single-player, what will our journey look like? What kind of locations or points of interest will we stumble across in our travels? Will we always be alone? I am excited to hopefully see these get answered as time goes on. So, if you’re curious about the game, it’s free to download in steam, go and check it out, it’s small, short, but very cool and again, really impressive for what there is to show off.

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Jirasu

Scripts about the things I find interesting. Most are for videos on my YouTube channel.

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