In a world of countless islands populated with scattered villages, you travel and lead your people as a visionary to forge alliances with the inhabitants, after helping each other and gaining their trust. Send out your pioneers to discover untouched soil, find hidden resources and explore secret places.

Enjoy the fantastical and inviting world of Pagonia, where your carefully considered decisions cause thousands of bustling inhabitants to satisfy your orders. Every transport of goods, manufacturing process and discovery your people make is comprehensible and presented with lovely animations in this ultimate game world simulation.

Use your creativity to build up your road network and economy, which offers an enormous depth of play with over 40 building types, more than 70 different goods and widely branched production chains. Protect your population from hostile animals, plundering bandits and mythical creatures. Explore the infinite variations of the procedurally generated maps, which offer new challenges every time.

A new era is dawning in Pioneers of Pagonia as indie studio Envision Entertainment has released its Shared Co-Op mode, which is now available to all pioneers. Up to four players can enjoy the world of Pagonia together.

In addition, Envision Entertainment's revised roadmap provides an overview of content updates and new features planned for the medieval-fantasy city builder with the biggest “wuselfaktor” of all time in the near future.

The highlight of the brand new Shared Co-op mode is that all players play the same faction to explore the island together and build up their settlement with branching production chains and thousands of units. Fellow players can simply be invited via Steam or can join a session that has already been running for some time. Thanks to the extensive map generator with procedurally generated maps, the level of difficulty can be individually adapted to each player group and mood. From peaceful pioneer work for a relaxed session, which is also perfect for a game with younger children, a medium level of difficulty among friends to an extreme challenge for experienced strategy players. If you have to leave a session prematurely, you will automatically receive a save game to continue the game at this point with the same group or other pioneers.

As part of Early Access, further game content is added at regular intervals in addition to the constant Quality of Life updates, which are often based on and implement community requests. The Shared Co-op mode will be followed by three major updates this year, including the mining update with new resources, monuments and the improved combat system. New units and enemies as well as mod support, additional buildings and decorations await players in the Magic Update.

Pioneers Of Pagonia is available on Steam Early Access at 29.99 EUR / 29.99 USD / 26.99 GBP in 17 languages.

Patch Notes 0.5.0

New Feature: Co-op Mode

Shared Co-op is our first multiplayer mode. It means that up to four players can play one faction together without limitations. Any team member may place buildings, paths, send commands or change settings at any time for that one faction.

To team up, there are 3 ways:

• You can join a Steam friend currently playing Pioneers of Pagonia anytime, if that player has set their game to “open for friends” and not to “private”.
• While you are running a game, you can also invite Steam friends to join your game via the Steam friend invite overlay.
• You can also copy a game ID of your current match and share it with other people to allow them to join. This is helpful if you want someone to join who is not on your Steam friend-list or if you want to make sure that only specific players who received the code can enter. To that end, players who have your current game ID can join even if your game is set to “private”, so no random friends can join in who just happen to see you play in Steam.

Multiplayer saves:

• Any player participating can save multiplayer games, any player participating can continue the saved games. Other players can join until the player limit, currently 4 players, is reached. While the player who sets up the map is defined as the host, anyone else can take over that role in a restart when loading a save game. They can also continue alone later if they want to, so savegames can be used both for single player and shared co-op gameplay.

Interface features:

• You can see a list of all participating players and their connection quality.
• Each player receives an individual player color, which is used to differentiate the players in the user interface. The color is visible on the player's name list for easy recognition.
• You can see where other players currently plan to place a building with an outline of their player color.
• You can see the camera position of other team members on the overview map in their player color.
• You and your team members can “ping” locations in the world (even multiple ones at a time) to mark points of interest, and those are both shown on the overview map and the world view in the respective player color.
• If one or more players select a building, this is also visualized in the game world view with an outline border of their player color.

Playing together:

• The host can pause the game by entering the game menu (ESC key)
• The host can change the game speed
• If commands of team members conflict, they get automatically resolved. E.g. if one interaction turns another one invalid, e.g. because there is no longer enough room for a building, the first command stays valid.
• The UI feedback (e.g. you see if another player currently selects a building, probably to change settings) helps to avoid simultaneous actions unless intended. But parallel actions are still allowed whenever possible, e.g. multiple players can adjust settings, in the same building simultaneously.

Improvements

• Audio mixing
• Better logging for specific classes of errors
• Improved diagnostics for some crash types

Fixes

• Fixed: When cycling through buildings with the TAB key, it no longer jumps to invalid positions
• Fixed: Sometimes an error message was shown that a guildhall was missing even if there was one
• Fixed: Some buildings were showing smoke during construction preview
• Fixed: The enable guidance checkbox in the start new game flow was sometimes missing
• Fixed: Fixed issues where POIs could not be reached with roads
• Fixed: Fixed several crashes during map generation
• Fixed: Fixed several minor issues to improve map generation
• Fixed: Tavern tables no longer count as building for the Build Buildings objective
• Fixed: Builders and diggers will now finish their current work step when the building is paused during construction before leaving the building
• Fixed: Upon changing the language not all texts were updated to the new language until the game was restarted
• Fixed: Changed display of meal quality statistics to better reflect actual data
• Fixed: Boars' selection window now explains that they scare civilians
• Fixed: Non-fighting units do no longer display their combat strength

Key Features:

• A deep economic system with over 40 buildings and 70 wares, including unique units such as the haven
• Deep infrastructure mechanics including building roads, store hubs, and organizing long-distance transportation
• A fabulous medieval game world that differs from many contemporaries
• An emphasis on unification rather than war, which leads to unique endgame goals
• Procedurally generated maps, allowing for endless gameplay opportunities

Pioneers Of Pagonia is in development for PC (Steam), scheduled for 2024.