Road to Vostok's hot start on Steam has "secured the entire production budget" the Finnish survival shooter needs for "years to come", dev says

The travel on its aboriginal entree road's going good frankincense far

As noted successful this week's Maw, the burgeoning genre of endurance shooter which impact a batch of crouch-walking successful fields got a caller summation connected Tuesday. Road to Vostok, a azygous subordinate Tarkov-ish field-croucher solo developed by an ex-Finnish service serviceman arrived successful aboriginal entree pursuing immoderate fashionable demos. According to that erstwhile armyman, the aboriginal returns connected its merchandise person already helped acceptable up the currency reserves its improvement volition request for "years to come".

"The past 24 hours person been perfectly insane," developer Antti Leionen posted precocious yesterday. "Road to Vostok is presently Top Seller successful galore countries, beforehand leafage connected Steam and with [a] precise affirmative rating. I volition stock immoderate motorboat stats erstwhile I person gathered capable information (+ immoderate sleep), but I tin already accidental that the motorboat has been highly palmy for a solo dev and secured the full accumulation fund for this crippled for years and years to come."

As of writing, Steam's planetary apical sellers database has Road to Vostok astatine 15, not acold down chap caller merchandise Samson, portion besides nestled straight betwixt Arc Raiders and the Resident Evil 4 remake. SteamDB, meanwhile, has it astatine 13, close down Samson and conscionable supra GTA 5's enhanced edition. Perhaps unsurprisingly fixed wherever it's set, the game's each the mode up astatine fig 2 successful Finland's apical sellers list, trailing lone perennial juggernaut Counter-Strike 2, portion up of some PUBG: Battlegrounds and Crimson Desert.

That's immoderate bully aboriginal momentum, and it'll beryllium absorbing to spot whether Leionen tin support it for the "approximately 2–4 years" helium presently reckons the crippled astir looting and shooting adjacent the borderline betwixt Finland and Russia volition beryllium successful aboriginal entree for. There's already an in-game roadmap you tin cheque retired via Road to Vostok's main paper oregon connected its website if you're keen to spot the sorts of additions presently successful Leionen's plans.

For now, you commencement disconnected successful Area 05 - a spot of southeastern Finland plagued by bandits. Once you've got your endurance oversea legs there, things get tougher and much risky arsenic you propulsion crossed the borderline into Russia, wherever the "high-risk, high-reward zone" of Vostok awaits and permadeath kicks in. Leionen's aiming to person the afloat merchandise incorporate astir doubly arsenic overmuch worldly arsenic the archetypal aboriginal entree version. More maps, traders, tasks, and weapons are each connected the docket, arsenic good arsenic much "complex" undertakings similar shelters you tin stock and mod support.

If you're keen to springiness Road to Vostok a go, it has a demo retired connected Steam.