RecommendedSteam player
hardcore stalker/extraction shooter, and you can pause it mid game to go take care of your kids!Show moreShow less
2.2 hours at review1,819 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Road to Vostok
The dangerous push into Vostok, where death means losing everything, gives Road to Vostok a clear appeal for solo players who enjoy planning each scavenging run. It is at the currently tracked low, priced at ≈ $10.08 from 
GAMIVO. English is listed as supported, so consider whether that suits your language needs.
Player reviews are 83% positive from 9,034. That offers another point of reference alongside the distinctive survival premise and its severe loss mechanic. At $19.99 from GAMIVO, Road to Vostok is at the offer's currently recorded low; English is listed as a supported language.
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyHistorical Low~ $14.992026-04Current Low Across Stores~ $19.99Steamvs. Historical Low+33%
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01About Road to Vostok
Road to Vostok is a single-player survival game in a post-apocalyptic border region between Finland and Russia. Scavenge, barter with traders, complete tasks and prepare to cross into Vostok, where death can cost you everything. Steam player reviews: 83% positive from 9,034.
Credits
Developer
Road to Vostok Ltd.
Publisher
Road to Vostok Ltd.
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$14.992026-04-07 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | — | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20
02Before you buy
Mode and language
Road to Vostok is a single-player survival game. English is listed as a supported language on Steam.
Survival systems
The description highlights looting, trader tasks, bartering and customizable shelters as parts of survival.
03Frequently asked questions
Is Road to Vostok multiplayer?
No. It is described as a single-player survival game.
What happens when you die?
Death in Vostok costs you everything. In Area 05 and the Border Zone, you lose only the gear and loot you carry.
How do saves work?
Shelters are safe places to save, and the description says they are the only way to save your game.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
Not recommendedSteam player
First of all, if you notice this negative review, know that I do find the game entertaining, and I’m sure you can get some enjoyment out of it for the price. However… I really hoped the game would have evolved more from the demo stage to Early Access. Unfortunately, it hasn’t—at least not in a noticeable way. Some new maps have been added, but they feel unrewarding and mostly just offer a change of scenery with more “walking simulator” gameplay. A crafting system has also been introduced, but it’s largely useless in the early game. If you’re thinking about trying this game, I’d honestly recommend just playing the demo for now. Pros: Nice-looking game Intense, thrilling gameplay Some fun mechanics Has great potential Cons: Overpowered AI: Enemies feel like they have aimbot. They can spot you across the map and hit you with high accuracy, while you can barely see them as a tiny dot in the distance. Underwhelming crafting system: Many useful early-game crafting materials are rarer than the items you’re trying to craft. For example, making an improvised bandage is harder than just finding a regular one. Poor survival system: You constantly need food and water to the point where it feels excessive—you’re basically forced to eat all the time. If you don’t, you die quickly. This also applies to pets. Traveling between zones consumes these resources as well. Weird weapon balance: Weapon damage doesn’t seem to properly reflect caliber. For example, a .45 does the same damage as a 9mm, which feels unrealistic and unbalanced. Looting issues: Containers are mostly useless, and loot feels random and unreliable. The most useful items are often just lying on the ground and are hard to spot. Containers are frequently empty or contain random junk. For example, going to a shopping mall doesn’t increase your chances of finding food—you’re just as likely to find it in garbage in the starting area. This removes the risk-reward balance. Overall, these issues make it harder for me to fully enjoy the game. I do think it has strong potential, and I’m sure it will improve over time—but for now, I’d recommend waiting.Show moreShow less
12.3 hours at review516 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
After playing more than 30 shooter titles — including 10+ extraction shooters and many survival games — I can say this: Yes, the game is still early and clearly in development, but for a first Early Access version, it already feels quite complete. The graphics are incredibly good. The sound design is solid, although distances could use some improvement. Weapons, while limited in number, feel extremely authentic to handle. Weapon modding is simple and intuitive — you just find parts and attach them, without needing a complex rail system. Gun sounds are excellent, AI behavior sits around a solid 7/10, and the risk/reward balance is generally well done — except for the minefield area, which I still struggle to understand in terms of design purpose. Now, regarding permadeath: I understand the intention behind having a hardcore system, especially in the Vostok zone. However, this is still a game — and one that will include lore and missions. Realism is great, but it needs to be playable realism. The fact that dying in Vostok resets absolutely everything makes me avoid that area entirely. You lose survived days, tasks, progression, and your entire bunker — it’s essentially a full wipe. I think this system would benefit greatly from a more gradual risk approach: - Zone 05 → partial loss (some items) - Border zones → heavier penalties - Vostok → maybe full gear loss and survival days reset But losing EVERYTHING, including bunker progress and tasks, feels too extreme. Overall, I’d rate the game a solid 7.5/10. No bugs encountered and excellent performance on Ultra settings with an Nvidia GTX 5050 (8GB VRAM). To the developer: please seriously consider adding a mode where permadeath is less extreme. My motto: Realism, but playable realism. UPDATE 1 WEEK LATER: After about a week of playing, I finally found a mod that disables permadeath. It’s actually part of a mod kit that allows you to spawn items, teleport to locations, enable god mode, make the cat immortal, and much more. So far, I’ve only used it to disable permadeath and occasionally god mode to explore the maps. And honestly, the current state of the game feels quite empty and somewhat directionless. Even from a top-down/free camera perspective, the maps feel like they lack life and activity. This version is good for getting familiar with the mechanics, but not much beyond that. I’ve seen AI behaving erratically, moving without clear logic, and even in the Vostok area — which should be high-risk, high-reward — the loot feels extremely underwhelming. I’ve looted around 10 containers and found nothing but a single jar of mustard. The game urgently needs a proper quest line and a stronger focus on structured progression. Bug fixing should also be a priority, although in my case I’ve only encountered minor issues — like briefly seeing through walls when leaning against them. I’ll mention the name of the mod on my YouTube channel (@irucontratistatv — Spanish channel), as I don’t remember it right now, and I’ll try more mods in the future. These mods won’t significantly change the base difficulty of the game (aside from permadeath and possibly fast travel), but they do improve the overall experience, making it more approachable without turning it into an arcade-style game. Overall, there’s strong potential, but right now it feels more like a foundation than a fully engaging experience.Show moreShow less
19.6 hours at review674 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
I really enjoy this game, and I think it’s a great start. So why do I not recommend it? Unfortunately, the AI is extremely simple. It’s mostly just a few mindless drones patrolling back and forth through the woods, without any real purpose or noticeable behavior. They can spot you from across the map, through multiple trees, or even through a kitchen window while you’re hiding in the fridge. If you’re unlucky enough to get one of those critical injuries that can only be healed with a very rare medkit, you’re basically screwed, especially in the early game. Don’t get me wrong: if you play extremely slowly and carefully clear every corner, it is doable. I managed to do it myself. But playing like that, only to get shot in the back and critically wounded anyway, is simply not fun. Also, all the gear on your character is permanently lost when you die. Medkits and healing items are a real struggle to obtain early on, especially if you don’t know about the trader in the school. I’m almost certain that with a bit more time, and especially with improvements to the AI this game could become amazing. The moment the AI gets reworked, I’ll gladly update this review. Until then, however, fixing the AI should be the absolute highest priority.Show moreShow less
2.3 hours at review447 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
Update: 2026-04-26, after a patch my avg framerate is now around 200fps. Played on CachyOS using the Vulcan shaders. Running in 4K with avg framerate of 137 outdoors and 165 indoors. The game runs in GODOT, the graphics feel slightly downgraded from the old Unity build but the graphics are decent anyway and i rather have the fantastic open source engine performance that godot delivers. AMD Ryzen 5900x AMD 7900XTX I have spent 12+ hours in the demo and now i've seen a bit of the EA version. The game has made great process since the first demos and now it has more content and the solo developer has a promising outlook on the future of the project. In the current state the only negative i can find is that the AI viewdistance at night is a bit broken. This game is not for the Call Of Duty gamer, This is for the hardcore extraction gamer that wants to relax and have a more atmospheric experience in Finland. As someone living around the arctic circle and has relatives in Finland there are products and things that are inspired by real life Finland. Things i would want from the game: -If you die i'd like there to be something in the place where you die and the ability to maybe get some things back. -Co-opShow moreShow less
14.4 hours at review610 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
As good as this game may be, it has a huge issue which stops me and many others from being able to enjoy it. There is currently no way to save the game outside the "safe zone", meaning if you go out on an adventure and you're 1 hour away from your nearest safe zone, and you have to leave, you're sh*t out of luck. Leaving the game causes your character to "die". I see no reason why a game like this has no exit save feature. Not asking for save/load, just save on exit. Until something like this is added, I cant see myself being able to play this to the fullest. A shameShow moreShow less
4.3 hours at review408 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
Love the game so far. Just need to fix the A.I. seeing you from far away. With no scopes on their guns, and hitting you like Grade A marksmen.Show moreShow less
8.1 hours at review520 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
UPDATE: 6 hours played For context, my background in this genre: roughly 1,600 hours in Escape from Tarkov, 250 in Arc Raiders, 110 in Arena Breakout Infinite, 64 in Delta Force, plus time in Metro and Stalker. This game is mechanically competent but has almost nothing to actually do yet, and I say that as someone who genuinely wants it to succeed. The gunplay, the graphics, and the performance are all good. What is missing is a reason to engage with any of it. What's good Gunplay is excellent. Inspecting, reloading, and firing all feel high quality, the animations are smooth, and recoil makes sense. Graphics and atmosphere punch above their weight. Rain and weather effects, ambient noise, and animal sounds are all solid. Performance is great, and it runs offline on low-end hardware. This is the game's single biggest strength right now. Decent loot variety for a game this size. The core problem: nothing is worth doing Loot is flat RNG with no real location identity. A terminal should hold the rarest electronics, an outpost should be military gear, a school should be barter items. Instead you can farm the safe starter areas and pull most of what you need. So there is no real incentive to risk the permadeath Vostok zone (which is supposed to have the greatest gear, at the risk of losing your entire save). Why wager your entire save for loot that, in my experience, is not meaningfully better than what you can grab safely at spawn? That one flaw cascades into everything else: The maps feel lifeless. Roughly 80% empty, and some buildings hold zero loot at all. Most of your time is spent sprinting across them. Crossing between zones means repeated loading screens that break immersion. A single trip can be 15 to 20 minutes of running. Quests are fetch-this-item or kill-this-one-enemy. It's better than nothing, but not very rich in depth or variety. Put together, the actual gameplay loop is: Load into an area Sprint across the map Tap F on a container to check for loot. There is no Tarkov-style search (a waiting period before the item is revealed after opening the container), so looting takes a fraction of a second. This removes the best part, the fun gambling aspect of waiting to see what the item is. Repeat until your pack is full Maybe fight some AI (through bushes and trees 200+ meters away) Sprint back across several zones to your shelter or a trader Repeat The AI is rough Enemies engage from 200+ meters, shoot through bushes, and spawn in semi-random spots that make no tactical sense. They do not flank, take cover, or reposition. They just walk slowly toward you until they are in your crosshair. If you have played Tarkov, picture the Lighthouse Rogues, except that is every enemy in the game. Survival and QoL Survival systems (food, water, mental health) are barely a factor. Painkillers restore a flat 20 health, which makes no sense for a game chasing realism (this is just one example, there's a ton of unrealistic consumable effects) Injury feedback is weak and bleeds are unforgiving. It is not obvious when you have been hit, and to see your health you have to open the menu and read a number. There are no audible cues for being hurt or badly hurt, so a bleed can quietly kill you before you even register it. Carrying healing at all times is effectively mandatory. Encumbrance does work (you move slower and take penalties when overweight), but backpacks are easy to find early and the penalty is mild, so weight management is mostly trivial. Every quest has to be manually added to your notes one at a time, then manually removed when completed which is just tedious busywork. How it stacks up against the alternatives My original review said better extraction shooters exist, so here is the honest version of that. The ones worth comparing it to are Gray Zone Warfare, Delta Force, Arena Breakout Infinite, Arc Raiders, and Tarkov. PvE is not this game's unique selling point the way people assume: Tarkov and Gray Zone Warfare both have PvE modes too, and Tarkov PvE in particular beats Road to Vostok a hundred times over on content and depth. What actually sets this game apart is narrower and more real: it runs fully offline on low-end hardware for about fifteen dollars. The other games, PvE modes and all, still require you to be online. This offline, unclaimed corner of the extraction space is the one place Road to Vostok has a legitimate claim. If you specifically need offline, this is your pick. If you do not, your time is better spent elsewhere. Verdict For all of that, I want this game to succeed, and I am genuinely excited about where it could go. The foundation is real, the developer is active and communicative, and the offline niche gives it a reason to exist that nothing else is filling. But wanting it to win and telling you it is worth your time today are two different things, and right now there is simply not enough here. I do not recommend it at this point. In 1 to 2 years, after real work on the quests, UI, loot design, and AI, I expect to come back and flip this to a recommendation. "You only played 6 hours." Playtime only invalidates a review when there is content you have not seen, and here it is the reverse problem. The loop is shallow and starts repeating almost immediately, so 6 hours is enough to see everything the game currently does. With four figures of hours across this genre, I know the difference between a game I simply have not explored and a game that has already shown me all of itself, and this is the second one. There is maybe 10 to 20 hours of content at base, and the only way past that is grinding every quest or trying to collect every loot item, which is completionism, not new content. If that is your goal, you will get more time out of it. For everyone else, what you are doing in hour 6 is what you will be doing in hour 30. "It is early access, go easy on the solo dev." Early access does not make a game criticism-proof. The moment you put it on a store page and charge money for it, you are competing with everything else on that page, solo dev or not. Rooting for the developer, which I am, and being honest about the current state are not in conflict.Show moreShow less
6.1 hours at review393 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
Thank you, Antti UPDATED: Heads up to people buying the game now. The game can NOT be run on the iGPU I played it initially on. Issue came later after I put a few hours into the game. The developer is not able to test iGPUs independently. You can NOT run the game on intel integrated graphics anymore and REQUIRE a dGPU. I tried uninstalling windows and installing cachyos/bazz and playing with proton worked for me on bazz, drivers had a couple issues on cachy. There was quite a bit of stuttering, it was playable though. Firstly, the developer, Antti, is insanely dedicated, disciplined and above all, honest. Secondly, this game is beautiful. The optimization is amazing for such quality, I'm hitting about 30fps steadily. I would like to talk not about the game in this review but the pricing, I fully expected this game to be priced with direct currency conversion or at least a rounded off figure, but the pricing is INCREDIBLY reasonable. The price tag I had in mind felt 100% justified but I am so glad that it is so reasonable. This lets so many people in second and third world countries experience this without feeling like they are overpaying and put it off until a deep discount so that they can buy it or attempting to pirate it instead. To put this into perspective for other people in first world countries, I saved up two weeks for this at the current currency conversion rate and I am spending HALF of what I expected to pay. This is amazing for myself and so many other people I know. Props to you Antti, for making the culture of Road To Vostok affordable and available for so many demographics. May you, the game and the community be prosperous in abundance.Show moreShow less
11 hours at review437 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
Game does have potential but very slow to roll out patches but I can understand that. The reason for this review being negative is that the dev locks most of the news behind his patreon and as someone who already paid for the game I think it’s crazy to ask people to sub just for proper news updates.Show moreShow less
9.7 hours at review379 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
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