Nordic Vanlife

Nordic Vanlife is a first-person open-world vanlife game set in the Finnish countryside. Build your own camper van, live on the road, take odd jobs for money and explore Finland — alone or with friends.
You are Jari Mäkinen. Your home has burned down, most of what you owned is gone, and an empty cargo van is about the closest thing you have to a fresh start.
So you make it your home.

Build the van yourself. Install wall panels, furniture, storage, electricity and equipment. Buy tools and supplies, organize your belongings and slowly turn an empty metal box into a camper built exactly the way you want it.
Then hit the road.

Drive gravel roads and two-lane highways, explore forests and villages, stop at quiet lakes and camp almost anywhere. Cook your meals, find work when you need money and keep yourself — and your van — running.

Fuel, water, electricity, food and fatigue all matter. The weather turns. Things break. And the moose does not wait.

You run out of diesel on a forest road. You forget to fill the water tank. Your batteries are dead. You take a job in a village because you spent your last money upgrading the van.

Then you find a quiet lake, cook dinner beside the water and sleep where you parked.
Tomorrow you do it all again.

On the road
Drive your camper van through forests, villages, highways and lakeside tracks inspired by Finland

Explore an open world and find your own places to camp

Stop almost anywhere and make it home for the night

Experience changing weather and a dynamic day and night cycle

Watch the road — Finnish wildlife does not use crossings

Travel alone or bring friends along in online co-op

Build your home
Start with an empty cargo van and turn it into your own camper

Install wall panels, furniture, storage and equipment yourself

Use tools and materials to build and modify the interior

Freely place and organize your belongings inside the van

Upgrade the van as you earn more money

Build something practical — or put a sauna in the back

Live in the van
Cook, sleep, store gear and keep your tiny home livable

Manage fuel, fresh water and electricity

Keep Jari fed, hydrated and rested

Cook over a campfire or using equipment inside the van

Prepare for longer trips away from villages and services

Repair and maintain the van when life on the road takes its toll

Make a living
Life on the road still costs money.
Take odd jobs around the countryside to pay for diesel, food, tools, repairs and your next van upgrade.
Spend carefully, or don't.
A full fuel tank is useful.
So is a new cabinet.
Off the grid
Camp almost anywhere: beside a lake, deep in the forest, at a gravel pit or behind a petrol station.
Unload your gear, cook something, watch the sun disappear behind the trees and decide where to go tomorrow.
There is no single route through Nordic Vanlife. Explore, work, build your van and live at your own pace.
Just remember that being far from civilization becomes considerably less relaxing when the fuel gauge reaches zero.
Bad decisions have consequences
Nordic Vanlife gives you freedom — including the freedom to make terrible decisions.
Forget to pay for fuel. Take something that isn't yours. Spend your last euros on something completely unnecessary.
Choices have consequences, and some problems will follow you down the road.
Bring your friends
Bring friends along for the trip in online co-op.
Share the van, split the jobs, build together and explore the countryside. One person drives while another cooks. Someone keeps track of the supplies.
Or nobody does, and you discover 40 kilometres later that the water tank is empty.
Online co-op is in development and will continue expanding during Early Access.
BUILD
Turn an empty cargo van into your home on wheels.
Build the interior yourself, install equipment and create a van that actually feels like yours.
COOK
Food isn't just an inventory icon.
Carry it, store it and cook your meals while living on the road.
EXPLORE
Leave the main roads behind.
Explore Finnish forests, villages, lakes and hidden locations and find your own places to spend the night.

Features
Build and decorate your own camper van

Physically install furniture, wall panels and equipment

Drive and maintain your van across the Finnish countryside

Camp almost anywhere and build your own campsite

Manage hunger, thirst and fatigue

Manage fuel, fresh water and electricity

Cook food over campfires and inside your van

Collect, carry, place and organize physical items

Complete odd jobs to earn money

Buy tools, supplies, food and building materials

Repair, maintain and upgrade your van

Explore forests, villages, lakes and hidden locations

Experience changing weather and a dynamic day/night cycle

Encounter wildlife and unexpected situations on the road

Make choices that can have consequences

Play solo or travel with friends as online co-op expands

Modify your van from an empty cargo van into your own home on wheels

Nordic Vanlife is being developed in Early Access with the goal of expanding the world, jobs, activities, building systems and multiplayer together with the community.
Jari's old home is gone.
Now build a new one — and take it anywhere.