Pioneers of Pagonia, text logo, all in white

From the creator
of the original "The Settlers"
- Volker Wertich

About the game

In a world of countless islands populated with scattered tribes, you build up and manage a thriving community of thousands of inhabitants. Send out your Pioneers to explore untouched soil, find hidden resources and defend your settlement from life-threatening enemies hiding in the mysterious fog.

Features
  • EXPERIENCE HOW THOUSANDS OF INHABITANTS scurry around to execute your orders and build your village and claim your territory.
  • BUILD A THRIVING COMMUNITY with over 60 buildings, more than 100 different goods and widely branched production chains.
  • EXPLORE THE INFINITE VARIATIONS of procedurally generated maps and face ever new challenges.
  • PROTECT YOUR POPULATION from hostile scavengers competing for your territory and resources, plundering bandits and mythical creatures.
  • TRADE WITH SCATTERED TRIBES and befriend them by fulfilling their most important desires.
  • PLAY TOGETHER with your friends! Up to 4 players can manage one economy in a shared co-op mode.
Wuselfaktor

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.

Production Chains

Use your creativity and strategic skills to build a thriving economy! Watch your Pagonians water fields, harvest crops and produce excellent meals for your population. The more food and housing you provide, the more you increase the number of diligent workers. They will boost your production by working as miners, woodcutters, armor- and weaponsmiths and many more!

Procedural Maps

Procedural maps provide endless possibilities and a vast variety of game experiences. Choose your playstyle and create unique islands! Adjust the number of neutral factions, the structure of terrain types and the difficulty of enemies. If you prefer to fully focus on building a village with no enemies at all, simply generate a map without them!

Shareed Co-ops

Build up your village with your friends. 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. Thanks to procedurally generated maps, the level of difficulty can be adapted to each player group and mood. Multiplayer games can be saved and continued by any player in your team. Enjoy exploring Pagonia together!.

Dangerous Enemies

Defend your carefully constructed village from threatening enemies. If you get too close to their border, they will attack you! Plundering Bandits are crafty swordsmen and Scavs compete for your resources and territory! Mythical creatures such as werewolves and ghosts also lurk in the shadows. Send strong military units to defeat werewolves, otherwise they will bite your Pagonians and turn them into one of their own! With a powerful economy, you will be able to defeat the dangers that lie in wait for you.

Exploration & Encounters

Set out into the mysterious fog and expand your territory to find scattered tribes, new land, and hidden secrets of Pagonia! Your mission is to help neutral tribes by trading valuable resources, discovering mythical artifacts, and finding your lost people. You have reached your goal once you explored the whole island, defeated enemies, and united everyone who was lost.

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FAQ

Early Access

Please note that our game is currently in Early Access, it is not a finished game yet. Since Early Access Release, we have added many new features, fixed bugs, added Quality of Life updates and more. We are continuously extending and improving the gameplay experience.

Game & Backstory

What is the backstory of the game?

Once upon a time, the many tribes of Pagonia lived together peacefully and built up a harmonious society that extended over the whole continent. But then the great calamity came over them. An impervious magical fog rose from the fissures between worlds and Pagonia broke into countless islands.

The tribes were isolated for years in this new world. They had to face unfamiliar threats. Bandits raided their villages, and the fog called forth cursed creatures that made the once beautiful lands their own.

But now the Pioneers set sail. Guided by magical compasses, their ships defy the fog to recover the lost tribes. Their lamps’ glow sends a bright signal: The light of hope shines anew!

What is the role of the player?

You are a Pioneer, a daring leader looking for the scattered islands to give their inhabitants support, protection and hope. Your tribe created magical marvels that allow your ships to reach the unknown shores.

Many adventures and threats await you on your journeys.

Is there magic in your world?

Pagonia is a world filled with magic and mysteries. Magic flows through the lands and calls forth marvels and frights. Once they were limited to the dark corners of the world, but the fog has urged them towards every island.

The Pagonians learned to tame part of this magic. They forge it into powerful tools and deadly weapons. Some even studied the arcane arts of casting spells.

Technical Information

Do I need an internet connection to play Pioneers of Pagonia?

You only need an internet connection to download the game and its updates, and to play the co-op mode. To play the predefined maps, as well as to generate endless maps of your own and play them, you don’t need an active internet connection.

Where are my saved games stored?

  • If you have Steam Cloud enabled, you can find your saves games in the Steam installation folder:
    SteamFolder\userdata\SteamUSERID\2155180\remote
    Please refer to the Steam documentation for more information.
  • If you do not have Steam Cloud enabled, your saved games are stored in "C:\users\\Saved Games\Pioneers of Pagonia".

What is the minimum specification for Pioneers of Pagonia?

The latest minimum and recommended specifications are always shown on our Steam store page. Please note that the game could run on configurations not listed or below the minimum specification, but we currently only test for the specified setups.

Is Steam Deck supported?

Currently, Steam Deck is not supported.

Is Linux supported?

Currently, Linux is not officially supported.

Is Pioneers of Pagonia available on GeForce Now?

Yes.

I bought the Supporter Edition and cannot find the wallpapers

You need to download the DLC and then open the folder containing the wallpapers. To do that please follow the steps below.

  1. Open the Steam App.
  2. Navigate to “Library” and select “Pioneers of Pagonia”.
  3. On the right side you’ll see the DLC section. Click “Manage My 1 DLC”.
  4. Make sure that the DLC called “Pioneers of Pagonia Wallpaper” has a blue checkmark. If not, click the select box and wait until the download has completed.
  5. Close that window and right-click the game in your library.
  6. From the context menu click “Manage” -> “Browse local files”.
  7. A Windows Explorer will open and you should find a folder named “Supporter Edition Wallpaper”.
  8. This folder contains all wallpapers.

Roadmap

Please refer to our roadmap to learn more about our plans for the future of Pagonia. You can find it on our Steam store page.

Localization

Please note that there could be issues in localized text, like missing translations. We will continue to improve all localized languages during Early Access.

You can suggest improvements to the localized texts on our Discord server in the channel loca-feedback channel.

Conflict & Combat

If you want, combat can be a challenge, but it is not mandatory to have enemies on the map.

You can define which military units occupy territory buildings as well as where they extend your territory or which location they patrol to protect your people, secure a trade route or search for enemies.

While patrolling or attacking, your units will scout for valid targets and engage them in combat if they spot them nearby. The combat power of fighting units defines the chance to win a fight, and most unit types are effective against specific enemy factions or have special abilities available.

Quality of Life Issues

The patch notes for 0.10.0 mention new tutorial videos, but the game doesn’t show me any

The tutorial videos are about different aspects of the game, like controls, basic and advanced gameplay. They are triggered to appear during corresponding gameplay situations. If you are an advanced player, you might have to reset them to see them. To do so, please go to the in-game settings, navigate to the “Tutorials” tab and select which videos you are interested in, or reset them all.

If I have multiple recruitment buildings of the same type, can I redirect equipment from one location to another?

Tools and equipment get delivered equally to multiple recruitment buildings of the same type.

If you want to force transfer of equipment from one building to another, you can disable one of the recruitment buildings for a short time.

If I want to recruit multiple unit types in a recruitment building, in which order will they be recruited?

Currently, if equipment is available, one unit type is preferred until all orders for this unit type are executed.

If I own fewer military units than assigned to my guard towers and garrisons, how can I ensure they move to a specific location?

You can reduce the number of units in other locations or disable them to make sure the important one is occupied immediately.

You can also assign specific unit types and ranks to best plan your defence.

Can I tell my guards to stop claiming territory?

Yes, you can pause the claiming of territory with the corresponding button in the territory building interface.

Wealth

Items of value (among them Jewelry, Precious Artifacts and Coins) can be stored in the Treasury to count towards your wealth. Your total wealth is the total value of all items stored in all your treasuries.

Wealth increases your military and adventurer units’ combat power.

Food and Population

How do I feed the miners?

  • The quarries and all mining buildings need nutritious meals to keep working.
  • Each meal has a nutrition value, and a miner uses up 1 nutrition for each mining process.
  • There are 2 types of meals you can feed to your miners:
    • Prepared rations
    • Freshly cooked nutritious meals from the tavern. If available, these are delivered with priority.

How do I get more population?

  • The carriers living in cottages and residences will visit the tavern to consume fresh comfort meals.
  • Each meal they consume has a comfort value which depends on the meal ingredients.
  • After they return to their home, a new baby will be born if the comfort score of that home is high enough.
    • If you have less than 500 units total population, only 5 comfort score is needed for a newborn.
    • If you have less than 750 units total population, 10 comfort score is needed.
    • If you have less than 1000 units total population, 15 comfort score is needed.
    • This score needed will increase, the current maximum population is 3000.

How do homes work?

  • Each of your units will need a home.
    • Your ship, the Venturer, can be a home for up to 500 Pagonians.
    • Each cottage you build will provide a home for 10 more units.
    • Each residence you build will provide a home for 25 more units.
  • All carriers will live in your cottages, and residences preferably, and use the ship as necessary.
  • All other homeless units (details below) will also use space in your cottages, residences, and the ship.
  • If you have no more space available, your carriers will no longer visit the tavern and therefore not provide any more newborns until there is space available again.
  • You can see the current balance of homes in the top bar. If the number is positive, you have space available. If the number is negative, everything is occupied.

What are units without a home?

  • If they do not find a type of home they prefer, for example their workplace, they will occupy space in cottages, residences, and the ship.
  • Craftspeople of all types live in the building where they work. Craftspeople without a building where they work, e.g., because their building was torn down or because they are part of your initial landing party, use space in cottages, residences and the ship.
  • Military units assigned to a guard tower or garrison as well as military units resting in military camps use those as their home. Surplus military units recruited which are not assigned and do not find room in military camps use space in cottages, residences and the ship.
  • Construction units (Diggers, Builders and Construction carriers) use Construction Camps as their home while Traders use Trading Camps. Surplus units of those types which find no room in the camps use space in cottages, residences and the ship.
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