Pioneers of Pagonia News

[h3]Dear Pioneers,[/h3]

We are very excited to announce that Pioneers of Pagonia will be part of Steam Next Fest which takes place from 09th - 16th October 2023.

There will be two live streams during Next Fest here on Steam. Each showing a different map!

Join the second stream on Thursday, 12th October, @ 7 pm (UTC+2), We will go live for about an hour and show the first public demo of Pioneers of Pagonia. If you always wanted to watch our Creative Director Volker Wertich start a map from the beginning, here is your chance! Maybe you will get some tips and tricks along the way. :)

You are more than welcome to join our chat and ask questions about the game!
We try to answer as many of them as possible.

[h3]Dear Pioneers,[/h3]

We are very excited to announce that Pioneers of Pagonia will be part of Steam Next Fest which takes place from 09th - 16th October 2023.

There will be two live streams during Next Fest here on Steam. Each showing a different map!

Join the first stream on Tuesday, 10th October, @ 7 pm (UTC+2), We will go live for about an hour and show the first demo of Pioneers of Pagonia. If you always wanted to watch our Creative Director Volker Wertich start a map from the beginning, here is your chance! Maybe you will receive some tips and tricks along the way. :)

You are more than welcome to join our chat and ask questions about the game! We try to answer as many of them as possible.

[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! :)

[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!

[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.