CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story
Skip · Shooter · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 2.5h 3.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 289 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.89 (70% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
1986. Chernobyl disaster. The story that you will see in the game resembles a delusional dream of a man exhausted by radiation. But whether it is nonsense or the nightmarish reality of the Soviet era – you decide.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GT 720M, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
24 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 71 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Underground Man ($1.99, scores 57) and Retro City Rampage™ DX ($14.99, scores 48) both outscore it.
More about CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story
Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
70% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This is a very sub-par indie on-rail shooter set in Chernobyl. It has some vague point-and-click elements in an overworld, but this is also very poorly executed. It's bland, poorly designed and simply not fun to play. It's sad that this game feels like wasted potential, because I really like all of the ideas present here, but the execution is sorely lacking. The on-rail elements themselves are incredibly generic and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Untold Story of...what exactly? As the title suggests, I am penning this review somewhat confused. I just finished the game in one sitting. This isn't hard to do as the game itself, even if you take your time (read: suck butts at the combat), you'll finish it in three hours at most. About the length of your average movie. In this review, I'll cover the basics: plot, gameplay, soundtrack, everything else...
Sad that the combat missions are way too hard, to the point of unplayable. (Or is this just another 'Soviet Propaganda' trying to make us believe the 'Comrades' are way better fighters than us, in the 'West'?!) But I really enjoyed my time walking down the streets of daily life at the time of the Soviet Union. Nothing much to do with the actual Chernobyl disaster which is just a backdrop for this game. And frankly...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1155830/chernobyl-the-untold-storyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.