S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Worth it · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 15.1h
- Value
- $1.32/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 768 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.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in January 2013. It has been discounted 71 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fallout: New Vegas ($9.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky ($19.99, scores 61).
80 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 630 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 2,188 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15.1 hours; clearing it takes 32, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
Players
142 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.: Call of Pripyat é o fechamento perfeito da trilogia original, corrigindo os problemas técnicos que assombravam os dois jogos anteriores sem perder um grama da atmosfera que define a série. A GSC aprendeu com os erros de Clear Sky e entregou o jogo mais polido e estável da franquia, com três áreas novas e igualmente densas: Zaton, Yanov e a própria Pripyat. É a...
Thank you For an amazing childhood This was my Fav. one LOVE IT You HAVE to try it!
Way too fast, now it says i have alot of hours but that was becuase my save broke and i had to replay it again to finish it and it wasnt really worth it. The game is basically a bunch of side missions without really anything meaningful. Shadow of Chernobyl really is the really the only worthy one out of the trilogy
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.: Call of Pripyat scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/41700/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-call-of-pripyatThe 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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