Road to Vostok, the hardcore survival shooter, is moving away from the Unity engine to Godot.
Road to Vostok is a single-player game, developed by a solo developer by the name of Antti, and it is set in a post-apocalyptic world taking place in an abandoned border zone between Finland and Russia. It will have you playing as the protagonist, trying to survive and make it from one side over to the other.
With no news of when the game is set to release, there is, however, a new public demo, much like the old public demo, with the developer calling it public demo 1 version 3. Though with one big change that seems to have been for the better, the switch from Unity engine to the Godot engine.
The game version requirements are quite advanced, requiring fast 3D rendering and strong physics engines, which means the game’s underlying engine is of great importance, hence the change over to the Godot engine.
The solo developer, Antti, addressed this by saying in a video update, “About three months ago I… decided to switch to another game engine,” further stating in a video update that the Road to Vostok “project is now 100% ported, which took a total of 615 hours of development time. You might ask if these 615 hours were worth it. I believe they were. With this amount of work, I got myself a platform that minimizes the risks that I was worried about, which has a lot of potential for the future, and above all, is fun to work with.”
However, Antti is only one of many other solo developers who seem to be switching to Godot after Unity triggered an exodus earlier last year with attempted changes to the fee structures, which resulted in solo-game developers not being too happy to hear about it and jumping ship.
Road to Vostok got tons of attention earlier last year during a big debut, with over 400,000 players jumping into the game’s first public test, teaming players up in its run-down post-apocalyptic environments, Call of Duty vibes, and about the kinds of scenarios that doomsday preppers would be planning out for.
Overall, with the survival genre receiving new blood and the new blood switching to better engines, players wait with bated breath for the release of Road to Vostok.
