GSC Game WorldAug 20, 2026$29.99USView on Steam ↗

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope

Learn the Cost of Hope — head out on a new expedition into the Zone in this massive, nonlinear expansion.

Action Adventure RPG

Estimated lifetime revenueHigh confidence

$1.5Mgross

$879.8Klow → high range$2.5M

Net to developer$975.1K

Most likely between $879.8K and $2.5M. On 8 games checked against developer-reported sales, our median error is 11%. How we estimate →

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Reviews

What players mention

Themes across 1070 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.

Story & quests

77% · 203

Visuals & world

70% · 142

Value & content

72% · 142

Performance & bugs

Player reviews (1,070)

Not recommended0h played7 found helpfulAug 2026

Wow, great work, GSC. Played for 60 hours on mods - great game. Got hyped for the DLC, sat through 130gb of update because my data cap is worthless and i should just pay more Got into the game at last, sat for 15 minutes on the shader compilation screen because my time is worthless and i should just have more of it. Finally the game launches, i'm at the end of the story cos i was having fun just exploring, i think "maybe i'll finish it before hopping into the DLC. Game crashes on load. Okay, maybe that's the mods? i remove all of them except carry weight mod. Game still crashes on load. GSC has killed my 60h save. I start the new game in a desperate try to see if it's a dead save. Game is now clean - still crashes. I start the new DLC game, choose my options to match my 60h save. Game still crashes. Game is unplayable now. Great start. Worth waiting SO LONG for.

Call of Pripyat gave a perfect template for what a modern Stalker game should be. Tight maps, filled with content, meaningful quests, choice&consequence. Instead, GSC made a game that is stuck in 2007 - a theme park and a walking simulator across an area that is 64 times bigger than it needs to be. Cost of Hope was a chance to salvage things - just like Bethesda reacted to fan feedback in Fallout 4 and made Far Harbor. It could've been a standalone addon set in a small area with faction warfare and better A-life. Instead, it's more of the same. Worse yet, the DLC is held hostage by the main story by virtue of being integrated in it. After the prologue and a few quests you get access to the DLC, play a bit, get a taste for it, and then suddenly realize you only got the HALF of it - with the other half gated behind most of the main story, which you couldn't care less about as it's just a contrived justification for having to spend hours running from A to B. The tragedy of the DLC is being stuck inside the game the only praiseworthy things about are its assets and animations. Everything else - from the story to worldbuilding and minute-to-minute gameplay deserves a long hard look at. Perhaps it was naive to expect it to happen within the scope of a DLC? That said, this might be a blessing in disguise, because assets might be reused to make a better game going forward.