Dev Update (15/10/2025)

Hi!

Here's a little dev update and some Final Demo / Next Fest behind-the-scenes stats if you're interested.

• Final Demo YT video has now been out little over a day = 71,000 views

• Road to Vostok is in all top Next Fest charts (Popular/Trending/Top Demos)

• Daily player counts +6000-7000

• Daily wishlist additions +3000-4000

• There's a lot of videos, streams and news articles about the Final Demo

• General feedback seems to be fairly positive and demo can easily provide multiple hours of playable content

• Hardware issues are the main problem but more and more people are finding solutions through those driver updates

Then when it comes to that next upcoming hotfix, I should have that ready by end of this week.

However, I do have pretty major challenges of handling with all the emails and other "solo-dev time issues" since I'm the only person who can answer to certain things and that takes a big chunk of my daily development time at the moment.

This current situation is also really good training for me related to the early access launch, meaning how much information flood there is and how I should prioritize and manage multiple things at once.

Currently it's still somewhat manageable but it's quite obvious that I should not try to launch the game totally on my own, meaning some level of help is definitely needed with things like bug reports, emails and stuff like that.

Thanks for all the support here on Patreon!

Once this Next Fest starts to calm down, I will transition back to early access development and there will be multiple Patreon dev builds in line related to testing those upcoming early access maps that haven't been part of this Final Demo.

ps. Here's also some links related to the demo exposure / news if you're interested:
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest?tab=23

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/road-to-vostok-finally-has-a-playable-demo-on-steam-and-its-the-most-terrified-ive-ever-been-of-getting-shot-at-in-a-videogame/

https://80.lv/articles/post-apocalyptic-survival-fps-set-in-harsh-north-received-a-final-demo

https://gameoneer.com/highly-anticipated-road-to-vostok-launches-final-demo/

- Antti (Developer)