Bonus: It’s made in Godot and the dev has an interesting dev blog where he shows off how the game works.
Comment on Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found?
Goodeye8@piefed.social 21 hours ago
I haven’t tried the Next Fest demo yet but I’m going to shout out Road to Vostok. It’s kind of like a single player version of Escape From Tarkov. You have a hideout/shelter, you go out to looting and then you get to come back and improve your hideout. The hideout customization is excellent. Outside you have to deal with enemies, environment, food, hydration, energy etc. and if you die outside you lose what you had on you.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 20 hours ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Oooh. Grabbing.
But one major nitpick
It’s kind of like a single player version of Escape From Tarkov.
Yeah. That is called STALKER. Especially since, based on the store page, this is more of a zoned open world than an instanced extraction shooter?
Goodeye8@piefed.social 14 hours ago
The game is somewhere between Stalker and Tarkov but I’d say it’s more Tarkov than Stalker. Stalker is more focused around mutants, anomalies and artifacts, none of which are in this game. The only things that separate this game from Tarkov is the lack of online component and no map timer. Tarkov is also moving towards a zoned open-world so I think the comparison with Tarkov is perfectly fine.
And the developer has mentioned both as inspiration:
In terms of other games, Road to Vostok takes inspiration from titles Stalker Anomaly, DayZ, Project Zomboid and Escape from Tarkov.
Katana314@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Just tried it out. I’m unfamiliar with the extraction shooter genre, but it was interesting, I’m not necessarily opposed to tactical complexity for its own sake. I died to a minefield, and then on the next go didn’t have a weapon; so some of the mechanics come across a little bit unclear.