
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl, the first chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy, which started it all.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 4.71/day in the week to Aug 17 → 7.43/day in the week after.
About
Back to where it all started — the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy, one of the most visionary and groundbreaking survival first-person-shooters of all time returns. Now upscaled, enhanced must-play journey for a new generation.
Atmospheric visual enhancements including God Rays, Dynamic Screen Space Reflections, and Advanced Global Illumination effects.
Redesigned water shaders, upgraded skyboxes, and wetness effects.
Improved visuals with upscaled textures featuring more detailed NPCs and environment.
Upgraded weapon Field of View and models.
Multiple bugfixes and quality of life tweaks.
Full gamepad support.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl, the first chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy, which started it all. Welcome to the former exclusion territory near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant… the most dangerous place on Earth. Play as The Marked One, face sinister mysteries, radiation-soaked anomalous threats and moral dilemmas, as your decisions determine your destiny in this immersive dark sci-fi saga.
Navigate the isolation and suspense of a harsh Eastern European wilderness, filled with hundreds of desperate vagabonds, mutant creatures, and lurking dangers unseen.
Venture through realistic locations deeply rooted in the anomalous aftermath of the Chornobyl disaster. Each area holds its own grim secrets and discoveries, awaiting the bravest stalkers.
Treacherous anomalies, invisible radiation, starvation, and ruthless mutants will hunt you in the Zone. Carefully manage your resources and utilize an arsenal of over 30 weapons. Your choices pave a non-linear path toward multiple endings in your quest to uncover the Zone's darkest secrets.
Good Hunting, stalker!
Genres
Sums Steam only; Xbox, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 8.7Kreviews | 63% | — | $2.8M |
| $19.99 | 1.6Kratings | 76% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 1088 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I waited too long to play this.
Still has some of the same bugs the original had, it can be glitchy at times, but it looks pretty good without mods and runs without crashing. In the original lost multiple playthroughs from the original and needed mods to even get the game running. Somehow others have experienced the complete opposite, which I guess I'll attribute to hardware(?) or like I had to do needed an optimization mod. If I had 2 big complaints it would be wishing the AI got buffed I hate watching a character I save be killed by something idiotic after trying hard to keep them alive. The other thing is common bugs some of the quest are not able to be completed for example some clear area quest don't sense when all entities are killed.
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14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Sep 2: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish*, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese +1 more
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
While I am unfamiliar with the community's opinion on the Enhanced Editions, my experience was very positive and I found it to run very smoothly. The remaster does not blemish the game's fabulous jank nor sour the experience of exploring the Zone as it was first envisioned. Above all else, this game excels in atmosphere. The story is very solid, if simple by today's standards. the end section of the game kinda sucks but I think that's just to be expected with having to cram a nonlinear game into a railroaded ending.
good game
Наконец-то дошли руки, чтобы пройти первую часть серии игр STALKER. Конечно, чувствуется 20-ти летний возраст этой части, старенькая графика, анимация, отсутсвие некоторых механик. Но приятный геймплей, сюжет, интересно исследовать локации, особенно подземные лаборатории, понятна мотивация ГГ. Из сюжнтных недостатков могу только отметить концовку - нескончаемые орды монолитовцев в финальной части игры - никаких бронежилетов не хватит и долгая прыготня по телепортам у самой ЧАЭС. Советую к прохождению для понимания общей истории серии.
peaki breeki
Вперше пройшов гру в 2026 і зрозумів чого навколо неї така фан база
Este juego tiene un aura y atmosfera muy inmersiva, puede tener escenas de acción y momentos de horror, la historia está principalmente oculta y debe revelarse aunque quedan muchas más preguntas abiertas que respuestas en esta entrega. El gunplay es muy rústico pero tiene su encanto una vez te acostumbras. Esta versión arregla bugs y crashes que volvían al juego injugable aunque sigue teniendo los mismos problemas y softlocks para algunas misiones secundarias a pesar de que la comunidad de mods los arreglaron hace decadas. De todas formas si pude terminar este juego sin mods y eso que lo juego desde Linux, cosa que no pude con la entrega original (con Windows), así que en mi experiencia personal esta versión es mucho más estable. Respecto a la polémica de censura: a penas se notan los cambios en algunos assets y texturas, realmente es casi imperceptible y puede arreglarse con un mod en la Workshop, igual con el doblaje ruso.
bom jogo!
This game is amazing, love the jank.
Active players
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