S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Fair · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.9h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB DirectX 8.0 compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 5700 / ATI Radeon 9600, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – standalone prequel for the acclaimed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, which tells you story about the Clear Sky group, that want to research the Zone and understand it better.
What drives the score
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The value story
April 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 71 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl ($19.99, scores 58).
75 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,546 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 12.9 hours. Doing everything runs 37, 2.8 times as long.
Players
107 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
Nota Geral | Overall Rating ⭐⭐⭐ S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky complementa Shadow of Chernobyl perfeitamente e expande o universo da Zona de um jeito que só reforça o quanto essa série é especial. Sendo uma prequel, o jogo mostra o Grande Blowout que precede os eventos do primeiro jogo e coloca o jogador no meio da guerra de facções que só era mencionada de forma indireta antes. A GSC pegou tudo que fazia Shadow of...
Just finished playing S.T.A.K.E.R. Clear Sky. The game is genuinely beautiful, but the finale was one of the biggest disappointments in all time I've played games. Maybe if I took a longer route and got all the heals I could, I would've made my experience easier, but I've suffered immense mental torment. No heals, enemies kept throwing grenades at me non-stop, gun kept jamming, kept bleeding and couldn't move, ♥♥♥...
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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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky scores 61/100 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/20510/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-clear-skyThe 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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