You can now play the Pioner demo for free

The annual Next Fest has started in the digital store Steam. On this occasion, developers opened access to a lot of free demos so that all gamers could evaluate them and decide on future purchases. This is what happened with the Russian MMO-action game Pioner from GFAGames studio. Within the demo you can look at the beginning of the story campaign, evaluate the starting locations, go fishing, try out several weapons, including a crossbow, and try to destroy dangerous monsters. But let's tell you about everything in order.

The developers present their work as a multiplayer shooter with a first-person view in an open world. The heroes find themselves on an island in an alternate reality, where reality is mixed with reality, and the usual laws of nature either work or not. The map features safe zones surrounded by locations with anomalies and mutants, so gamers are waiting for battles in both PvP and PvE. The total area of 50 square kilometers is available for research and battles, although in the trial version of such a huge territory, of course, no one will put such a huge area. There is only a small section of terrain open with one peaceful area and a hostile neighborhood.

Right at the start you can shoot with a crossbow, which is good at short and long distances, and at the same time see who you will have to fight with in the full version of the game. The first chapter of the story will immerse gamers in a science fiction story, interrupted by quests, shootouts, collecting artifacts and fishing. It is also worth remembering that the developers promised a comprehensive crafting system for creating equipment items, a system of factions with unique characters in each, a rich selection of mini-games and survival mechanics like hunger and fatigue accumulation.