Hi! Hotfix 3 for Next Fest Press Preview is now available on Steam.
You can force the hotfix download:
Choose Road to Vostok Demo -> Right Mouse -> Properties
Installed Files -> Verify integrity of demo files
You know that you have the latest version installed when the main menu has RTV_Demo_HF3 on the bottom...
Hi! Hotfix 2 for Next Fest Press Preview is now available on Steam.
You can force the hotfix download:
Choose Road to Vostok Demo -> Right Mouse -> Properties
Installed Files -> Verify integrity of demo files
You know that you have the latest version installed when the main menu has RTV_Demo_HF2 on the bottom...
Hi!
Here's a quick dev update.
It's been quite a busy few days with the Next Fest Press Preview but everything seems to be going mostly alright in terms of demo stability and I'm quite hopeful that with all this important feedback there will be much stable when version of the Final Demo when the actual Next Fest starts.
I'm cu...
2025-10-07 04:49:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi! Hotfix 1 for Next Fest Press Preview is now available on Steam.
You can force the hotfix download:
Choose Road to Vostok Demo -> Right Mouse -> Properties,
Installed Files -> Verify integrity of demo files
You have the latest version installed when the main menu has RTV_Demo_HF1 o...
2025-10-04 18:45:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Here's a hotfix list that will be added to the Press Preview build within few days:
[ADDED] Special crates are added to Vostok area with guaranteed high-rarity loot
[ADDED] Special crates have random spawn changes and locations
[ADDED] NVG has goggle separation and upgraded visual look
[ADDED] Auto-stacking for ammo...
Road to Vostok Final Demo (Next Fest Press Preview) is now available on Steam.
If you have the "legacy" demo installed, you might wanna do a clean uninstall first and download the latest build after that.
Good luck with your survival!
ps. Tutorial is highly recommended :)
- Antti (Developer)
Hi!
Here's some extra behind the scenes updates related to the final demo.
I have been working really long days recently to make sure I can polish the build as much as possible before the Next Fest. On top of this every day has included around 1-2h of playtesting and I'm now at point that all the obvious bugs have been fixed, so I ha...
2025-09-30 20:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! Here's some additional information related to upcoming events and final demo.
Oct 2. - Next Fest Press Preview (Build 1)
I will participate for press preview related to upcoming Steam Next Fest event. This press preview is optional and requires a public build of the demo, so I will share an "early release" final ...
Hi!
I think I already referred this few posts ago but here's the latest info related to final demo release:
TLDR:
October 2th
Long answer:
Since this Next Fest participation has an optional Press Preview deadline October 2th, I'm going to submit the final demo build to that which means...
Hi!
Here's a quick dev update.
I have now done a second round of playtesting and the end result was that I found only few new "must-fix" bugs and then some additional lighting tweaks were needed for night time.
I'm currently fixing these new bugs and double checking that the world simulation stays on track no matter what your f...
2025-09-24 17:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Just a quick info that I have now updated the tooltip functionality which displays all kinds of necessary and previously unknown info about the game.
Even though most of this stuff isn't available in the final demo (and some not even in early access), I wanted to highlight these so people can connect the dots on some upcoming t...
2025-09-21 20:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Hope you're having a great weekend, here's a quick dev updated related to the final demo bug fixing and testing.
I'm now pretty much done with bugs that I gathered from the first longer playtest that I did with the final demo build.
This being said, I think now is good time for me to do another longer playtest and also test...
2025-09-21 15:24:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Here's a new tutorial for both final demo and early access.
This tutorial will cover all the new mechanics and is highly recommended for players who have even tested the existing demos.
I also tried to reduce non-necessary text from these billboards and only focus on topics that are important and phrased some feature elem...
2025-09-19 15:50:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Here's another thing that I decided to grab from the commercial branch to the upcoming final demo.
Previously the grid size for the containers were static, meaning no matter what the container was the interface always displayed a full grid size and only limiting factor was the weight calculation.
This container weight ca...
2025-09-17 14:08:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Here's a quick dev update.
First few water / fishing related topics.
I decided to grab the "auto-swim" detection from the commercial branch to the upcoming final demo, so now the character can enter/exit swim mode seamlessly without a need of any specific swim buttons.
On top of this, the new Village map has now thos...
2025-09-15 14:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Here's another dev update related to the Final Demo bug fixing.
In the last post, I mentioned that I started with 173 "must-fix" bugs in my list and I mentioned that I manage to reduce that number to 41.
Today I'm at the number 11, so there's finally light at the end of tunnel :)
Now most of the shelter customizatio...
Hi! Just a quick update related to voice acting.
For this final demo and upcoming early access, I decided to switch the both Bandit and Military faction voice lines a while ago in order to make them more authentic.
The reason for these switches was that Bandit voices sounded too friendly (compared to the upcoming Nomads which will...
2025-09-09 12:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi! Just a little heads-up that I decided to activate the Mental stat from the commercial branch to this final demo.
This vital is a new one and it's linked to medical condition called Insanity. The decrease of this specific vital is pretty slow, so it's not something that you should constantly keep worrying about.
This vital stat ...
2025-09-09 09:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Here's a quick dev update related to the Final Demo bug fixing.
Like mentioned few post ago I was a bit surprised how many edge-cases and "abstract" bugs there were lurking with these new commercial branch system.
When I started this bug fixing process the "must-fix" bug count in my list was 173 and now there are "only" 41 ...
2025-09-09 06:08:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!
Here's a feature list chart for the upcoming final demo and early access.
This chart is related to the "experience gap" dilemma which I have talked about few posts ago between the final demo and early access features.
I think this feature separation is quite a good "middle-ground" solution where the final demo will provi...
Hi!
I'm currently still bug fixing some of these new systems for the final demo but while I was doing some AI stuff I realized that I haven't never shown these AI improvements which are part of the commercial branch.
One of these improvements is a new behavior called Shift.
This behavior is relatively simple but it provides qui...
2025-09-04 22:05:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!
I wanted to quickly mentioned few things about Steam wishlists.
Like most of you probably know, wishlists are the main "commercial potential" metric for most indie devs like myself and they provide multiple benefits:
Wishlists highlight that people are potentially interested about your game and this creates a hug...
2025-09-04 15:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!
Here's a some initial preview for the new Border Zone 2.0.
The main differences compared to the previous one are:
- Modular segments which can be added along with the development.
- Each segment has a different game mechanic for crossing
- Visual style is much more "depressing" and should stand out from the normal Area 0...
Hi!
Here's another dev update as we go towards September and few topics related to that final demo.
First of all the early access trailer production is going really well. I attached a small behind-the-scenes video clip from the music production and there's all kinds of other things like custom voice acting and specific "surprise feat...
2025-08-31 18:48:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!
Today I did some initial playtesting for the upcoming final demo + here's also some of those close-up screenshots from the overhauled Village map.
I think this initial playtest provided few important things:
Hi!
Here's a quick dev update.
I'm currently working on the Border Zone map and trying to figure out a solid way to integrate this redesigned part of the game world as part of the upcoming demo.
This "Border Zone 2.0" is designed around a large vertical strip idea where I can insert modular map segments for each specific crossi...
2025-08-27 13:36:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi!, here's a little info about the "final demo" and few events around that.
I just registered on two events (more coming later) which are:
Finnish Gaming Week: Steam Event (Oct. 6 - Oct. 10) https://www.finnishgamesweek.com/steam
Steam Next Fes...
Hi!
Here's a quick dev update.
I'm currently finishing up the registration for the Steam Next Fest which involves a bunch of small tasks like taking new screenshots, updating the demo video clips on store page etc.
This process is quite annoying in a way since I have so much cool commercial branch content that I would like to sh...
Hi!
Here's now a game-ready layout of the new Village map.
A lot of secondary details gets culled from rendering at this distance (when showcasing the layout from far above) so it looks a bit weird and empty (optimization reasons) but anyways the size and complexity difference related to the demo is definitely improved.
I will ...
2025-08-21 16:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post