S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Fair · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.65/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 143,274
- Genre rank
- Top 39% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 36.3h
- To 100%
- 129.8h 3.6x the story
- Finish
- 3% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 76
Price and sales
- Sales
- 16 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $35.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3,220 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 54% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 16 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 39 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky ($19.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 14).
More about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 36.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 7,326 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
36.3 hours to finish it, 130 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
143,274 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 4 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I have just crossed 100 hours of playtime, and I'm writing this review having just reached the main Freedom base. Honestly? that summarizes how I've been playing the game. While I have done a mix of main story content and DLC content, my core experience has been driven by pure curiosity: "Hmm, there's something over there, I want to go check it out." So, I just walk over, and it has been incredibly fun. Through...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
As an enthusiast of every Stalker media, this game is a mess and a miracle at the same time. It has a pretty messed up canon problems and unnecessary retcons thats doesn't even make slight sense. It relies heavily on old trilogy and rarely becomes something original. But when it becomes its own thing through such points like Faust, Strider and future of monolith and Cost of Hope dlc sections it shows its beautiful...
I really wanted to like this game especially after 2.0 and cost of hope but I feel I am bug fixing and modding more than playing, just for it to run poorly on my hardware. I'm sure if your up to current standard like a 40-50 series this game probably plays much better for you but for someone with a 3060 this game just does not run well, and that's just the performance issues. Stalker 2 has completely changed the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A750, 160 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1643320/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobylReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.