For as much as I love Escape From Tarkov in theory, the risk of other players with far more hours than me halting an entire night’s progress in its tracks can be off-putting. I’ve therefore been watching Road to Vostok with great interest, admiring the ways it condenses that knife-edge fight for survival into a single-player FPS game. Gathering loot and planning your way through its realistic day-night cycle, everything builds to the climactic moment where you take your steps into the eponymous restricted zone, risking everything you’ve earned for the most valuable prizes.

 Road to Vostok is out now in Steam Early Access, and combines hardcore FPS survival with punishing, Escape From Tarkov style permadeath.  PCGamesN