S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 15.1h 31.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.32/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 4,181 positive
Recent reviews trending up: 87% over the last 30 days against 63% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat follows the story of special service agent Major Degtyarev as he investigates the fate of a lost expedition.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 11 discounts in the 17 months tracked, the median cut is 33 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl ($59.99, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 13).
More about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition
Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Players rate it 63 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 87 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 1,158 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
15.1 hours to finish it, 32 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
66% start to 20% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
In terms of release order, this game is a HUGE upgrade to Clear Sky. Way less game breaking bugs, completely all new environments instead of half of the game being recycled maps, a more intriguing story, and an amazing ambient soundtrack, although to be fair, all three games have pretty amazing sound tracks. The only thing that was more frustrating in this game was getting all of the achievements, if you care for...
1 more review, not recommended
It's hard for me to even say which of the recent remasters was the worst. At first, I was going to give this undoubtedly honorable title to the TES IV: Oblivion remaster, but I changed my mind; at least the visuals were nicer, even considering they ruined the original TES IV's color palette. But here...they released three remasters at once. And they're all g♿rb♿ge. A lot more bugs. The fonts and textures are...
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Cite this score
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition scores 14/100 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/2427430/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-call-of-prypiat-enhanced-editionReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.