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

About

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 drops you into a crumbling 64-km² version of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where every rusted building and irradiated forest hides threats. You scavenge for gear, fight mutated creatures, and avoid environmental hazards while juggling a story that shifts based on who you trust and what you take. The factions here don’t just trade bullets, they reshape the world around you. Play as a lone survivor or team up in multiplayer to carve out a path through a landscape that feels as dangerous as it does alive. The Deluxe Edition adds a bonus quest, visual customizations, and bonus pre-order rewards like exclusive skins and early access content. While the base game already earned over 90% positive reviews on pre-release polls, the expanded single-player campfire interactions and multiplayer badges give returning players new hooks. The Zone’s unpredictable chaos remains its strength, every playthrough leaves you questioning if you’re uncovering truth or just another layer of the lie.

Storyline

One of the biggest open-worlds to date, filled with radiation, mutants and anomalies, is yours to explore. All the choices across the way not only define your own epic story, but influence the future itself. Be mindful about what you see, do and plan, as you will have to find your way through the Zone or be forever lost to it. Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has changed dramatically after the second massive explosion in year 2006. Violent mutants, deadly anomalies, warring factions have made the Zone a very tough place to survive. Nevertheless, artifacts of unbelievable value attracted many people called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who entered the Zone for their own risk striving to make a fortune out of it or even to find the Truth concealed in the Heart of Chernobyl. Take over a role of the lone stalker and explore photorealistic seamless open world in a 64-km² radioactive zone with a variety of environments that reveal post-apocalyptic atmosphere from different angles. Make your way through the Zone to define your destiny as you choose your paths within highly branching epic story.