Pioneers is an exploration-survival-adventure game set in the 16th century. It's a turn based game with some RPG elements where you lead a party of pioneers each with different professions, skills and attributes. You start out in a town where you first have to assemble your party from the tavern, plan out and buy equipment you need from the supply store and get yourself a ship. Or two. Then by conversing with different people you get quests.

You then start exploring the world and surviving the harsh environment facing diseases, fatigue, bears, wolves, rampant rabbits, snakes, angry beavers, poisonous plants and native tribes, who have never seen a white man and obviously are a bit cautious. You must also find food and water on the way because you can only carry so much. If you come across impenetrable forest, you can cut down the trees to forge path and use the wood to build awesome stuff like a raft or a cabin, if you wish to survive the winter.

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First of all, oh wow! This has been really popular and it's all over the Internet. Huge thanks to everybody who's played it, tweeted abut it or written a small article in your blog/site and let me know how much fun it was. I can't express how much it means to me. What's really great is that people seem to have gotten genuine enjoyment out of it, as "fun" has been the main adjective used to describe the game. That really wasn't designed intentionally, it just sort of happened. The whole thing just sort of happened. Though I thought the idea was very silly (I like silly things) it was the techical side of thing that piqued my interest in the beginning and I honestly thought only a few people would ever play it and perhaps sort of like it. If as a result there've been people who've gotten interested (or re-interested for that matter) in the whole text game thing, then that's a great bonus. I also really like the fact that people say this was more fun than it deserves to or they thought it would be. It just goes to show that sometimes the most simple things are most enjoyable and you don't have to over-design stuff.

For those who haven't played here's a little overview. It's an old-school text game with a twist: it's in fact a multiplayer shooter. You enter commands like 'GO NORTH' and 'TURN EAST' to move about, 'LOOK' to see your surroundings and 'FIRE' to blast your weapon at anyone who dares cross your path. Plus you have some items in your inventory that you can use. That's basically it.

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Here's what I've managed to find about it on the web:
polygon.com, rockpapershotgun.com, eurogamer.net, giantbomb.com, indiegames.com, /r/games, /r/webgames, /r/gaming, kotaku.com, kotaku.com.au, kotaku.com.br, superlevel.de, gizmodo.de, fz.se, bonusweb.idnes.cz, oujevipo.fr, ekstrabladet.dk, polygamia.pl, hookshotinc.com, pcworld.com, thesixthaxis.com, pcgamer.com ... and the list goes on.

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