Chernobylite Complete Edition
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 14.9h
- Value
- $2.01/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
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The value story
March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 55 percent off as a rule. There have been 56 in the 7 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats CONVRGENCE ($14.99, scores 48).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 1,656 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
75% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
76 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game is incredible and while the atmosphere seems small it feels like you're there. I got stuck at investigating the mistery of your wife (aka your mom), but i personally give this game a 10 out of 10, and i hope more games like this will exist in the future.
At first, the game seemed like a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. clone, but it has a unique style of its own, it's structured around a day-by-day system where you select specific areas and missions and you can unlock additional companions over time to send then out on expeditions, too. At your base, you can craft items from the materials you've gathered to upgrade your gear. You usually don't have to kill enemies, you can simply...
Did not like this game at all. It was hokey and the inventory business was so grinding it made me think I was at work.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Chernobylite Complete Edition scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1016800/chernobylite-complete-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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