An independent studio building hard, persistent worlds. Our first game is VASTATED: an open-world full-loot PvP survival shooter where nothing resets and everything you build can be taken.
A large island after the collapse. You arrive with nothing. Everything worth having is on the ground, in the buildings, or on someone else, and when you die you drop all of it. No lobbies, no raid timers, no way to bank your loot. The world is persistent: the base you build stays, the wall you breach stays breached, and the server remembers.
Bases, boxes, claims, beds and clans survive a restart. Log out and your body stays for 15 seconds. Servers hold 10 to 15 players today and are built to grow to 100.
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Full loot, real stakes
Death costs you your gear. Loot is scarce by design, placed by place and rarer the better it is. Zombies carry loot too, and a few of the best things in the world exist once.
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Build, claim, defend
Base Plans, a build ring and stability, wood to stone to metal. Claims, perimeter walls with barbed wire, gates you drive through, code locks. Only C4 damages a base.
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An island to cross
A 64 square kilometre island of rivers, bridges and highways with a city of enterable buildings, a castle and village, a mall, a military base with a bunker, and the farm town of Crossroads. A two-hour day, dark nights and storms.
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Vehicles with passengers
Eight kinds of car with seats, storage, code locks and damage. Armed passengers, hopping kerbs, rolling over, flooding in deep water, flipped back with a push.
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Built for the fight
Hit registration checked against what the shooter saw, tested under lag. Bullets pass through glass. Armour absorbs whole hits and breaks. 46 melee weapons, bows, grenades and bolt snipers.
64 km²Island
10–15Players per server today
100Target server size
46Melee weapons
In engine
From the build
The city in mistCastle and villageMilitary baseOver the shoulderSights upSuburbs
Captured in engine, interface removed, from builds before the map rework. The reworked island gets its own showcase. Nothing shown is final.
Where it actually is
VASTATED roadmap
Written the way a build log is written. The order is real; a calendar would not be, so there are no dates.
Building, claims, beds, code locks, clans and ranks
Crafting, cooking, smelting, tools you make
Zombies, swimming, grenades, 46 melee weapons
Chat, map markers, emotes, rebindable keys
Day, night and weather; raiding with C4
Saves, a launcher, and small live playtests
In progress
A world to play in, and proof it holds together
City interiors, building by building
The island: castle, mall, military base, Crossroads
Eight vehicles; fuel is next
Performance for big crowds and the whole city
Player-hosted servers; dedicated servers later
Animation, sound, and a rare one-shot sniper
Next
The playtest, and what it shows us
A build in a small group's hands, and fixing what they find
The build menu's last pieces
Shotgun tuning
Hit feedback you can see
The loot pass, once interiors are done
After that
Getting across the island, and more people on it
More vehicles
Servers toward 100 players
World events: airdrops with guards, then patrols
The rest of the island, every place built out
First-person arms for everything
Maintained by hand, and the first page to go stale: if it disagrees with the build you are playing, the build is right. Numbers will still move. The full log is on vastated.com.
About
The studio
Systems that hold up under pressure.
Ravenous Development, usually shortened to RGD, is an independent studio in the United States and the maker of VASTATED. We build in Unreal Engine 5 with a bias toward persistence, server authority, and worlds that keep their consequences.
We work in the open with the people who play. Playtests are small, feedback goes straight into the build, and the roadmap changes when the game tells us it should.
If you are a developer, artist or audio designer who likes this kind of game, get in touch. For press, there is a press kit.
