2025-04-18 11:42:52

its not bad but i would prefer something more, which i cant explain in words but otherwise its a solid 10/10, and a solid 9/10 so basically

10/10 gameplay
10/10 freedom of building and choices
story 8/10
etc overall its good

2025-04-15 11:12:56

I bought this game on sale primarily as I'd heard the developers had created a photo scanned replica of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and I was interested to see what this was like, wandering around the abandoned town of Pripyat, seeing what it looked like. The game does include a tourist mode where you can do just that. However, very happy to say, having finished the game, that it's certainly worth playing for its own sake, and i'm very happy I gave it a go, the devs have created a really interesting and unique game here.

The premise is this substance known as Chernobylite, affecting the zone, and your search for your wife, who went missing in the zone years in the past. The aim is to build up to a final assault on the reactor itself, where you find out exactly what is going on. You get there by performing missions in the zone, on a kind of "extraction" basis, one mission per in game day. You meet characters who end up forming your crew and discover more about the lore as you go, all the while having to keep an eye on the survival / crafting elements.

The interesting mechanic is the ability to rewind previous decisions (that haven't worked out well) and replay them to alter the outcome in a preferable way, perhaps a decision resulted in someones death, or your own, or prevented someone deciding to join your crew. You only discover the outcome of choices a little way down the line as there appear to be multiple paths you can choose. The final assault on the reactor, and how you succeed, is based on these choices (my first attempt failed as I had no way to eliminate a sniper).

Basically, I was very pleasantly surprised on finding and playing this quite unique and well put together, (presumably), Indie title, and would recommend it, I'm certainly happy I picked it up.

2025-04-15 01:08:54

Good game for a small indie company, but it sucks on MANY small things, its just... no

p.s. not a stalker game

2025-04-14 20:41:41

If you enjoyed games such as STALKER or the Metro games, then this is the game for you.

Chernobylite is a semi-open world, horror, stealth, RPG, story-driven shooter set in Chernobyl. Now, this game is absolutely stunning in a dark, gritty way. As you traverse the landscape, you really feel like you’re in a forsaken wasteland. The environment looks absolutely stunning, and you can tell a lot of work has gone into it.

The game’s progression feels good, and exploration is rewarded by finding resources for the many base and weapon upgrades.

Personally, I would play this game with the characters set to speak in Russian with English subtitles, as it keeps the immersion of being in Chernobyl. Also, the English voice acting seems very over-exaggerated, and the voices sound almost comedic and very put on. This is just my personal preference, and you may have a different experience.

One thing to note: the game is not an open world; it’s more of multiple open sandboxes split into zones, but each zone has plenty to explore.

The AI are quite basic but definitely not a pushover, and you should definitely pick your fights, especially at the beginning. They seem to lock on and won’t lose you unless you leave the immediate area. Throw in the fact that you have limited resources and health, and this can become quite frustrating, but what do you expect playing a survival game like this?

The shooting mechanics and damage seem quite realistic. Headshots are 1-shot kills; any weapon on other body parts takes different amounts of shots for the kill. Best bet: just aim for the head.

For you controller players, this game is well-optimised for controller, with a nice experiential curve for the sticks. Button placement seems well thought out, and the quick menu works nicely on the D-pad. Keyboard and mouse work great too, and is my preferable way to play the game.

I purchased this game back when it was in early access and unfinished, and I thoroughly enjoyed it in its previous state.

2025-04-12 17:53:09

Recommend if you like stalker and radiation-core. The Chernobyl environment looks super authentic and the atmosphere is 10/10 - provided you turn the game's music off. Gameplay loop is pretty fun if not repetitive. Lowest point is probably the story which kinda...exists.


Good
- Atmosphere and immersion
- Can't say it enough, the laser scanned environments make for some good radioactive tourism
- Looting for resources
- Upgrading base
- Scary and unnerving without constantly assaulting you with monsters
- Guns feel nice to shoot
- Little nuggets of information about the real world area are great

Bad
- Story is very whatever
- Characters are super stiff. Maybe Metro spoilt us
- Looting can get repetitive
- Final mission will take trial and error to get perfect
- The music constantly droning ruins the atmosphere - needs to be turned off!!
- Base is pretty simplistic - wish we had actual animations of your team doing stuff in there

2025-04-05 17:58:19

What a fantastic game.

I'll start with my favourite aspect which is the companions you recruit. All five of them have very different personalities, bring something different to the group and have very varied opinions on how to proceed during important mission points.

The writing is great, any game that makes me like and care for companions is well written in my opinion. Also, the story is intriguing with many twists and turns, some you will not seen coming, all in all very well done.

The choices you make do affect the world, characters and the ending, they do matter which is unlike many games that make this claim, I'm looking at you Starfield!

The gameplay is pretty good, great weapons/upgrades and equipment that is all useful and worth working towards to get the best versions. The character skill trees are well worth investing in and add a lot to you progression throughout the world.

The base building is very well done from a progression stance and actually being needed rather than just a gimmick like Fallout 4.

One final thing, this is not like Stalker, its more story driven, has choices and is not open world. You have set locations that you visit on numerous occasions, each has plenty of things to find and you will need to visit them a few times to get everything as some places are not accessible, this is tied into the progression of your base and equipment. Each area is also a good sized to explore with many iconic locations from the exclusion zone.

I highly recommend this game, its well worth your time unlike most modern AAA slop.

2025-04-05 11:25:11

A mix mash of different genre's come together to make something that feels similar but completely different from any other game I've played. A few of it's components don't feel as flushed out as they could've been such as the base building and investigation system. The actually combat feel's brain dead human enemies just run straight at you and don't take cover and super natural are similar except the one range unit teleport's around you at least attempting to flank you. Unfortunately there is a lot of backtracking so be prepared for that. The graphic's are superb really giving off that 1980's soviet vibe and the score compliment's it quite well. Could have used more locations since it does get repetitive near the end. The atmosphere is the best part of this game, the feeling of trekking through swamps and small villages is extremely immersive.
Do yourself a favour and play audio in Russian with eng sub's, apparently the Russian voice acting is superior.

2025-04-03 23:44:18

It's not really a shooter game, it's more like base management and survival/crafting, like This War of Mine. You just go out gathering resources everyday to survive until the end of the story, but nothing too groundbreaking. English voice acting sounds AI generated so I switched to Russian.
Overall 7/10, pooped my pants

2025-04-03 01:41:13

Honestly, a really beautiful game with quite good artstyle, music and design. But I just did not like the voice acting at all, was very preachy. The story also was quite in your face Netflix style. No subtlety.

If the gameplay of first 3 hours wasn't just walking around and collecting random shit with no motivation maybe I would have enjoyed it, but otherwise I was just kind of walking around sightseeing kind of bored out of my mind.

Also, shooting mechanics were better in STALKER, I don't know how you can degrade the core shooting experience that bad since we already knew how to make it good.

All in all, I don't know. Its not aggressively bad, but its so unbelievably mid in everything but how it looks that I just couldn't justify going forward. 4/10

2025-04-02 05:21:18

It's a fun game, with a very good story. I highly recommend it, especially if it's on sale. It does get kind of grindy at the end, but if you can get through it when it starts to get that way the end is worth it.