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.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.57/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 22,602
- Critics
- 75 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 24% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.09 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.7h
- To 100%
- 36.5h 2.9x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 April 2022
- Sale every
- 42d last December 2024
Players and genre
- Online
- 93 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 69% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
71 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 96 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 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. 2: Heart of Chornobyl ($59.99, scores 51).
More about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
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 12.7 hours. Doing everything runs 37, 2.9 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 675 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
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...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky scores 61/100 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/20510/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-clear-skyReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.