S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a atmospheric, post-apocalyptic and open world game developed and published by GSC Game World.
Released on March 20th 2007 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 47,291 reviews of which 44,761 were positive and 2,530 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.11€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl into these genres:

Atmospheric Post-apocalyptic Open World FPS Survival Action Survival Horror Shooter RPG Horror First-Person Singleplayer Classic Based On A Novel Moddable Adventure Immersive Sci-fi Inventory Management Difficult

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System requirements

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

Windows
  • Supported OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP(Service Pack 2)/Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4
  • Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz / AMD XP 2200+
  • Graphics: 128 MB DirectX® 8.0 compatible card / nVIDIA® GeForce™ 5700 / ATI Radeon® 9600
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Sound: DirectX® 9.0 compatible sound card
  • Hard Drive: 6 GB free hard disc space

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Nov. 2024
Even now the game from 2007 is fun to play. AI of enemies is quite impressive, atmosphere is really nice. The idea of the world living it's own life while you play and missions can fail, almost any NPC can die and you won't complete their quests is also really cool. Even on difficulty 2 it's quite a challenge. It does have some bugs and weird things from time to time, but the game is still a masterpiece for its time and I'm a little sad that I didn't listen to my classmate back in 7th grade that this game is great and I should play it. This playthrough was for you, my old forgotten friend.
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Nov. 2024
With Stalker 2 here now, writing a quick review for the OG feels necessary: Shadow of Chernobyl is the "truest" of the first three games. Its all about the mystery, allure and quite horrific nature of the zone. While the later games would try and explore the bright side of the zone, SoC just oozes darkness, danger, radioactivity, violence and flesh ripping anomalies. The gunplay can vary in quality. Its definitely a frustrating experience with the starter guns and especially if they have non-green durability. Mid and high tier weaponry is rewarding and second only to CoP. The story is serviceable. Its not grandiose and altough it follows a protagonist, its definitely world-centered. Its pacing is strange but personally in a good way, keeping enough details in the dark to imagine crazy stuff. The world itself is a 10/10, no other game in the series has this much detail and evident effort visible in its maps. Textures are raw and cold, the skyboxes are breathakingly overcast, the CNPP looks as mighty as the game hypes you up. Sound design is so iconic even S2, years later, reuses most effects in it. Game pacing is decent. The beggining can be very slow, the midgame as long as you want, and the endgame is a race to the finish line, depending which ending you get. The second half of the experience is well directed, never overstaying its welcome (except for the true ending, a real ammo-dump). Personally, SoC is very different to its succesors in tone, in the jankiness of the xray engine, the quality all around. It really feels like an anomaly, a forbidden sight just barely keeping it, always threatening you with a crash, but at least in my case only 2 happened. If you dont know which of the three games you want to try, Shadow of Chernobyl is the CORRECT answer.
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Nov. 2024
A gravity anomaly annihilated a military platoon shooting at me, very generously and kindly allowing me to pick all the ammo and sausages off of their corpses without having to spend any resources of my own
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Oct. 2024
A teenage me was sold on the hype of what this game should've been. It ended up having half of its content scrapped to get it out of development hell for years. Even being incomplete, it ended up being the absolute peak of 'eurojank' This said piece of eurojank has ended up becoming the golden staple of what a game should've been. It used to be my favorite game of all time, even with it's many flaws. It ended up becoming even better, even with a bit less, but stil existent flaws. And yet to this day, very few games have this same level of polish, quality and yet be so fucking inconsistent and weird that you'd think this was made by some stoned college students. No, to be more specific, it's like having to hold a piece of Van Gogh's paintings, just shortly afterwards him vomiting over the painting due to drinking the painting liquid for sustenance. This game is an utter shitshow, which is covered in gold.Nothing can, will, or yet compare. That jank is to the max, but yet, one that will - to this very day - contiue to capture thousands in its grasp. You owe it to yourself to play this unique piece of gaming history. It's fucking amazing. To me, it is yet still the gold standard of what a video game should be as a form of art.
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July 2024
You play as a Ukrainian garbage man collecting dangerous and highly radioactive artifacts to sell for about 20 USD to then buy sausage and white monster energy drinks.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl received 44,761 positive votes out of a total of 47,291 achieving an impressive rating of 9.29.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl was developed and published by GSC Game World.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is playable and fully supported on Windows.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is not playable on MacOS.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is not playable on Linux.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl does not currently offer any DLC.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl does not support Steam Remote Play.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
19.99€ -75% 19.99€ 5.11€
9.3
44,761
2,530
Game modes
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134
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GSC Game World
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GSC Game World
Release 20 Mar 2007
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