Pioneers of Pagonia: Modernization brings hunters, larger camps and improved technology

It's been over three months since Pioneers of Pagonia went into Early Access. Now, with the economic update, and after a few smaller patches, the first batch of new content has made its way to the final release of the game.

Fish and larger warehouses for the Pagonians

This brings, among other things, a fishing hut with new goods, a new food source, a larger warehouse and detailed economy and army statistics. There are also technical improvements: shadow quality has been improved, and a new level of detail (LOD) setting aims to boost performance. Pioneers of Pagonia also now requires less graphics memory and players should be able to zoom out further, according to independent developer Envision Entertainment. Furthermore, the map generator has been modified to make coastlines and NPC settlement paths more visually appealing. Furthermore, some major and minor bug fixes are part of the update.

In fact, Envision Entertainment has already announced an economic update for the construction game's release on the roadmap for February 2024. At the end of last month, a last-minute patch was released – but only in early access for beta program participants. Today it has been officially released to everyone. An explanation of the new features and a list of all changes can be found in the patch notes on Steam. The developers also presented the innovations of the economic update in a one-hour live broadcast on YouTube.

The game that Ubisoft just didn't want

With only a small independent development team and funding aided by the now-stretched Federal Ministry of Economy's gaming funding, Volker Wertich was able to achieve success with Pioneers of Pagonia that was never given to the Last Settlers branch of Ubisoft. In Germany, the strategy game reached number one in the best-selling game on Steam when it was released and more than 100,000 copies were sold worldwide within the first week after publication. Nearly 2,500 reviews on Steam are now left.”Very positive“evaluation.

According to the old roadmap, the next step towards the game's 1.0 release is a mining update. In a current press release, Envision Entertainment says that the co-op mode, additional units and buildings as well as the revised combat system “In the following months“It should open. The official roadmap will be updated soon to take this into account.