Although the post-apocalyptic open-world shooter STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is available for release on the Game Pass subscription, the project from the studio GSC Game World turned out to be very popular on the Steam service.
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According to the SteamDB portal, on the night of November 21 – just a few hours after release – STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl reached 113,587 concurrent players.
For the STALKER series, this result became a record (by a large margin). Until recently, the most popular game in the franchise on Steam remained STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl with a peak online of 2.3 thousand people.
The developers have already commented on the achievement: GSC Game World thanked each stalker, wished them a good hunt and reminded: “In the Zone, the journey is as important as the destination”.
Since its release, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has received more than 8.8 thousand “very positive” reviews on Steam. The share of positive responses is 81% (the figure has increased from 75% at the release).
Users complain about optimization problems and bugs, but are happy about the long-awaited release. “Waiting for STALKER 2 after 15 years. Now we just have to wait for Half-Life 3.”– shared one of the buyers.
STALKER 2 was released on November 20 on PC (Steam, GOG, Microsoft Store, EGS), Xbox Series X and S, as well as Game Pass. The game suffers from a large number of technical problems – the developers are aware of them and are aimed at eliminating them.
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