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.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.32/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 31,463
- Critics
- 80 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.61 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.1h
- To 100%
- 31.9h 2.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 January 2013
- Sale every
- 41d last December 2024
Players and genre
- Online
- 262 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 71 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 96 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 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).
More about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
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 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,257 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.
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.: 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...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-pripyatReviews 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.