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Announcement: Public Demo of Pioneers of Pagonia

[h3]The wait is almost over[/h3]

Mark your calendars!
The public demo of Pioneers of Pagonia will be available on Monday, 2nd October 2023, on Steam!

We are so excited that everyone can explore Pagonia very soon! If you like to tell us about your game experience, please do! We would love to hear what you think!



Additionally, we would like to thank all of our Alpha Testers for the helpful feedback we have received from you! Thank you very much for your constructive criticism and your kind words. At the moment we are evaluating all of your feedback and discussing what will be implemented in future versions.

We also hurried up to add road deconstruction in the upcoming demo version! So everyone will be able to demolish roads. This will definitely help with planning your village in Pagonia. Here is a sneak peak:



We can't wait for everyone to experience the game! Have fun playing the demo! :)


Localization Announcement

[h3]Dear Pioneers,[/h3]

Exciting news! We can confirm that Pioneers of Pagonia will be available in six languages for Early Access!



Thanks so much for all the additional localization offers we have received from our community.
We hope to make Pioneers of Pagonia accessible to a lot more countries and add more languages in the future.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Dev Blog #004: Gamescom Recap, Closed Alpha and more!

[h2]Dear Pioneers,[/h2]

our Closed Alpha has already started and we are very busy reading all your feedback! Thanks to everyone who is participating! The playtest continues until Monday, 25th September. If you have not received a key yet, please don't be sad. Our public demo is just around the corner, so everyone gets a chance to play very soon. :)



[h2]Gamescom 2023[/h2]

We were so happy to showcase Pioneers of Pagonia in collaboration with Indie Arena Booth at this year's gamescom! We were truly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of people waiting in line to play the game for the first time! Receiving all your positive feedback and seeing the happy faces of our community really made this whole experience very special. We could not have asked for a better first gamescom! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth, played and wishlisted the game and keeps following us on our journey. :)



[h2]Gamescom Award Nomination : Most Wholesome[/h2]

We were over the moon to be nominated with so many other amazing devs for a gamescom award in the category "Most Wholesome". Even though we did not win, we appreciate being nominated and recognized for our cozy vibes!



[h2]Bandits & Thieves[/h2]

Some of our playtesters asked us, if there are more challenges in our game than building a village and exploring the island. And, of course, there are! Not everything is calm and peaceful in Pagonia.



Thieves sneakily try to steal goods lying around within your territory and return them to their base. This is where your guards come in! If they catch a thief red-handed, your guards will chase them away. In this case stolen goods are dropped immediately.

Guards will only protect your own land, but soldiers are able to patrol outside your territory, which is necessary to defeat these masked fellows: Bandits! They are roaming the lands of Pagonia and are a lot less subtle than thieves. They will attack your carriers or traders, chase them away and plunder carried goods.

The only way to protect your units from being robbed is by sending your soldiers to defeat the bandits in combat. If your soldiers manage to take down a bandit camp, they will be able to retrieve some of the stolen goods. On the other hand, bandits will increase in numbers, if plundering goes successfully.

Both bandits and thieves scan their environment searching for interesting goods and are more likely to steal silver coins instead of roast venison.

Closed Alpha Start Date 14th of September!


Dear Pioneers,

We are thrilled to announce the start date for our first closed alpha!
We will be starting on September 14th, which is just around the corner.

If you have not already signed up for our newsletter and would like to participate in the closed alpha, please sign up NOW.

Participants will be randomly selected from our newsletter subscribers. Each participant in the first group will receive a Steam Key via email on September 14th. In this mail we will also inform you about our guidelines and a few explanations on how to play the game. For example, there will be no streaming or taking pictures allowed, as we are trying to work together with you to make a good game, and the closed alpha will show a lot of work in progress material that is intended for this stage of the game's development, but not for the upcoming Early Access launch.
Depending on how the closed alpha goes, we may invite additional groups in the coming days.

The Closed Alpha is coming soon and we look forward to seeing you playing our game!