S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

Discover the vast Chornobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chornobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is a open world, fps and post-apocalyptic game developed by GSC Game World and published by GSC Game World (worldwide), SEGA (Japan) and 4divinity (China and South East Asia).
Released on November 20th 2024 is available only on Windows in 18 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Arabic, Czech, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish and Serbian.

It has received 90,748 reviews of which 75,462 were positive and 15,286 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 53.99€ on Steam and has a 10% discount.

The Steam community has classified S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl into these genres:

Open World FPS Post-apocalyptic Survival Atmospheric Shooter Singleplayer Exploration RPG Story Rich Action First-Person Lore-Rich Nonlinear Sci-fi Multiple Endings Choices Matter Immersive Sim Realistic Cinematic

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64
Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A750
Storage: 160 GB available space
Additional Notes: Graphics Preset: LOW / Resolution: 1080p / Target FPS: 30. 16 GB Dual Channel RAM. SSD required. The listed specifications were evaluated using TSR and comparable technologies.

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Dec. 2024

It has its shortcomings, as of 36 hours since release. However, it still feels like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I can feel the love, sweat, and passion that's been poured into this beautiful wasteland. I can appreciate the dedication that the devs have put toward bringing a worthy sequel to such a beloved franchise, and it certainly wouldn't have been easy. After over a decade of waiting, the pressure and expectations for the next S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game would have been mountainous, and the devs managed to overcome that, at least for me. Performance bugs are to be a-given with any new release. There have been people who have noticed the anticipated A-Life 2.0 seems to be absent. The devs claim that it is broken and are currently working to re-implement it into the game as soon as possible. Mutants are unreasonably tanky, AI can be rather smartn't, and there doesn't seem to be a linear direction of weapon rarity. I found a VSS Vintorez (Famously the best and rarest weapon in the previous games) in the beginning area. It was almost completely broken, of course, but it was on a dead Stalker. Day-Night cycles and weather cycles feel too fast and chaotic. On the bright side however, almost everything else about this game has lived up to expectations. The world is beautiful, expansive and interesting to explore. The story so far is engaging, keeping things vague but still holding a level of intrigue. It is interesting to see the new layout of all the original locations across a now open-world map. Anomalies are deadly, mutants are dangerous, Anarchists are stoned, and Bandits are plentiful. But none of them will stop my triumphant march towards the centre of the Zone. Edit: I'd like to make it very clear. I do recommend you buy this game. And so far every downside I've come across can easily be changed and altered in post-release patches and updates. Don't let the pessimistic "Veterans" of the Zone influence your decision too heavily! I myself have played the Original STALKER games countless times, and truly believe this is; or at least will be, a worthy sequel. Edit 2: Update 1.0.3 and previous patches seem to have fixed a large majority of game-breaking bugs within the game. It's very clear that when the devs say they are listening to feedback, they are not lying.

Nov. 2024

1. Atmosphere and sound - Amazing 100/10 2. Bugs - didn't find anything critical 3. Optimization - it's just bad. Waiting for patches. 4. A-LIFE - there's no A-LIFE. Game just spawns enemies within 50-100 meters. Hope patches will make it work like in previous games, because without it it's not STALKER and the world is empty and lifeless without it. 5. Enemies are just sponges for bullets. Need rebalance. 4 mags to kill a bloodsucker? Really? Other things to mention that I would like DEVs to change/add: - Day/night cycle is too short - No sleeping bags - It costs a fortune to repair weapons and suits - No dymanic shadows from the flashlight - eneimes just spam you with grenades all the time - would be cool to have more food/drinks options and cook monster parts like in GAMMA or order some meals in the bars - weapons/suits condition goes down waaaaay to fast (shot 2 mags from AK and got -3%. Whaaaaaat?) - when you sit at the campfire you cannot eat/drink/open PDA/inventory etc. - you get hungry every 5-10 minutes. I assume longer day/night cycle would be a great option as well to fix the issue. - mutants AI is strange. If you're being chased by the mutants and jump of the car for example they just run away. When you get down they appear again. They don't try to jump or at least swarm around the car waiting for their meal. For now the game is medium rare. Waiting for the DEVs to cook it properly and then it will be the game of the year for sure.

Nov. 2024

Good game... my CPU's glowing in the dark now—calls itself 'Chernobyl's Chosen One'

Nov. 2024

This is a sequel to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. NOT the mod packs. Go in with this expectation and you will have a good time.

Nov. 2024

So far, the game is really good. There are some bugs and issues, but it's been about an hour and they already released a patch. Just give it time, the studio has been through a lot and things aren't great in the Ukraine right now - a lot of people working on this game did not get to see this day, let's try to appreciate it for what it is. In the first 10 minutes, you can clearly see it is a good game and everything the old STALKER was, if not more. It's a good game.

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