S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl ▶ Trailer
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ActionAdventureRPGOpen WorldFPSPost-apocalypticSurvivalAtmospheric

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

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Developer
GSC Game World
Publisher
GSC Game World (worldwide), SEGA (Japan), 4Divinity (China and South East Asia)
Franchise
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Release date
Nov 20, 2024
Store page updated
Sep 10, 2026
Price
$59.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

59.1/ 100

Based on 434 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 75% of 3,670
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 80% of 140,614
“game was good after real-world adventures”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.93
Freedom +0.56

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Story & World
+1.31
World +2.96
“incredible, immersive world and STALKER universe” (115)

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Content Volume
-0.28
Volume +1.36

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Visuals & Sound
+3.05
Visuals +2.98
“beautiful and atmospheric game with good voice acting” (60)

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Multiplayer
-2.32

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Playing together -1.50

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Fairness
-3.20
Balance -3.21
“enemies see through obstacles at 100m, lock through cover, no tactical AI” (19)
多久时间了，不说所谓的Alife，普通敌人的战斗逻辑还是一坨： ①敌人能隔着几十米甚至百米的树丛草堆发现玩家，根本没有做遮蔽物视觉衰减，在夜晚也人人都自带夜视仪。 ②敌人只会硬锁玩家，几十米外霰弹精准锁头，玩家躲掩体后仍然精准穿透掩体锁头。 ③声音系统一塌糊涂，听到玩家枪声并不一定朝该方向看，一名敌人朝玩家开枪后，另一名附近的敌人不会包抄，甚至不会一起朝玩家索敌，只会仍然找不着北自顾自巡逻。 总之，敌人只有找不着北和透视锁头玩家两种状态，连人类敌人战斗都做不好的还能做什么Alife，让人笑掉大牙。就冲这个像2000年游戏的弱智人类敌人就必须给个差评。

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Tech & Ops
-2.42
Stability -2.39
“numerous game-breaking bugs including enemies shooting through walls” (78)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update DLC
20%40%60%80%100%
Nov 20, 2024Sep 16, 2026
Reviews
per day · 3,631 reviews, peak 279/day
0250500
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the week before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 434 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English31%
  • Russian15%
  • Chinese11%
  • Ukrainian8%
  • Spanish6%
  • Japanese5%
  • Other24%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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