Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone

backed this game on kickstarter which was successful feb 2025. all i got for my backer was early acces. all other digital goods was never recieved. and exclusive rewards apparently arent dooable. so backers got massively scammed. to which may i add. the low time played since 2025. is down to performance. and it hasnt gotten any better. thanks farm51 for not rewarding backers with what we paid for! took our money and ran clearly. specs attached are the same specs i ran the game on too

Game is in development hell according to the developers themselfs, developer team got massively reduced and while the game should have been already fully released since last november, we're now in july and they don't even know when it will be done eventually. There was only a statement about "possible in a year". The developers also stated that they've made many bad design choices which will corrected. For anyone thinking about getting this game, stay away until full release. 40€ for a game which is now in official development hell is too much.

This might be long, writing after playing almost 48 hours and doing probably every mission I had. Firsty. If you want to play game with finished endings, don't do it. It's not available right now, you can just finish all missions that are available right now (which actually made me lowkey mad because I thought after one year of early access there are available endings... at least part of them). Secondly. It's not the same game like Chernobylite (1). First part was much darker and with much more slavic jokes (at least it was for me). Is it bad? No, at least not for me, I got used to this. It's just diffrent but not in bad way. Open world, lots of places to unlock, more survival stuff than in part one. More ways of fighting, more weapons, more diffrent chernohostes, etc. It this way I'd say it's more like playing stalker 2. And what was improtant to me - even if locations looks familiar or even the same, it doesn't mean you will do the same things as you did in previous ones. It might be a hidden mission there or Chernobylite's mystery. That makes you want to check new places. Thirdly. Bugs. Still much to repair, but they don't make a game unplayable. The longer you play, the more you will see and the more unfinished things you see or listen (and it's not only unrecorded english VA). Usually they are just more annoying (hope here producents read this too because this might help in patches). Like doubled Alina (after she told she doesn't feel good in base; second one disappeared randomly like after 35 hours of playing), companions who told they will help you and do nothing (especially in one mission in Mercs when companions said they will help me in killing monster, Luka was just standing and looking in nowhere), workshops flying like 0,5 m above a surface in room in base (especially in planewalker's room in my case), [here a small spoiler] mission with Baba Yaga and accusing Yuri despite he was dead in my case since at least a few days... It wasn't logical. Sometimes after click "F" on portal nothing was happening too... despite I should be transported. Loading game again was usually enough. One time I couldn't finish a mission with Borya because "there are enemies nearby" but there actually weren't (near last of available missions). Again - loading again and fighting agai. Fourthly. Suggestions. I'd maybe add a possibillity that your companion may die if they are helping you in fighting or something. I'd also change workshops in rooms into more "logical" ways, I mean - it's annoying in the long run when you can make armor upgrade in one room but you have to change the room to install it. From not playable things - I'dd just add more slavic humour, gimme my gopnik and hardbass! Damn, I miss Misha and Sashko from part one so much... There are also lots of AI quotes but I get it because it's early access still. I'd also add damage when you fall, without that I feel lowkey weird. Also - I almost forgot - advanced workshops for armours was doing upgrades for weapons. And this one for weapons - was doing for armours. And no, loading again didn't help this time. Anyway, I just god mad that I cannot finish game and find out what actually had happened when I finally claimed I'm interested in plot and have a few theories to check. To sum up... Yeah, it's still lots of things to improve and it has a potential. As I said in first paragraph, don't play if you want to know endings. In other cases - go ahead, it's really good game and as I read, producents will add ukrainian VA in the future (Russian VA was adding atmosphere in part one so much). Hope they will finish it soon because I really want to come back and find out what actually had happened and what actually black stalker wants... and which Igor exactly he is. And what's my one companion's plan. I would even say more but don't want to spoiler. Good luck, guys.

Another fun game ruined by the use of gen A.I i know making game is hard but are you really that lazy your release a game half done and with gen A.I filler dialog just ruins the dialog when half way through talking to a npc you suddenly hear that lazy monotonus toned A.I voice

This game is such a cashgrab scam. We supported it on KS but neither the promised in-game content, nor the physical bonuses we paid for have been delivered. To make matters worse, this game is buggy, unoptimised and much worse than its predecessor.

They had a masterpiece with the first one. Why couldn't they just stick to what actually worked instead of half-baking as much BS as they could into an already great game?

Bought for much reasonable price at 12.5 euro, knowing that developer company announced bancrupcy and game might never release. Chernobylite 1 was not amazing game, it was good, but nothing ground breaking. It just makes no sense how sequel can get so much worse in almost every aspect, with UE5 performance and jank on top of it.

This is absolutely horrendous! I feel ripped off it is so bad. I feel deeply disappointed in the devs. This game does not know what it wants to be. It is AI slop. This is literally the worst game I have ever played. I own approximately 500 games. Luckily I bought a steam key on another site for 14.00 usd. I wasted an hour working to buy this game and then wasted 4 hours figuring out I wasted my time. Hopefully this will help you not waste any more time. Look elsewhere! Had I paid the steam full price I would be even more upset. Save your money. Trust me, it is bad. This is an On rails " poorly constructed open environment that is boring, predictable, cheeesy. It feels like a game made by a.i. resembling something from 2007. Sound design is horrible. The voice over is weird. And the biggest gripe so far are the GUN SOUNDS!!! they are soooo quiet and WEAK SOUNDING. Bring up the volume. I want to feel the shots. play the game bodycam. Also, why no LEAN function to peak around corners? Maybe it does later in the game? That would be another easier implementation to help with immersion. Otherwise, I am going to keep trying the game.