Chernobylite Complete Edition

The past lingers like radiation; unseen but never unfelt.

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.

The game has great graphics and game play with a pretty good story line, my only gripe is the people have British and American accents... in Eastern Europe? Ya, this really breaks the immersion of the game, and it's why Metro is the best at what it does when it comes to games set in this post apocalyptic setting of Russia and Ukraine.

This game made me want to sell my grandma and go into debt to the IRS ... so it was great..


Would recommend

Its not that i dont like the game overall. It was a decent shooter with some ok RPG elements.
But after playing games like Stalker and Metro style, it does really fall short on that playing style, while still feeling like its trying to be those games, with the story and narrative.

I got maybe 1/2 to 3/4 in and it was ok, i just felt i didnt need to finish it as every interaction with new NPC's was the same process. The base building aspect is ok, but does not allow too much option and does not feel like a need in a game like this, when you could just make them 'pick up style items' in game and make it a more liner shooter, rather than a complicated mission start and end process with base upgrading and restocking.

Overall maybe 5.5/10
Combat and fighting was ok and fairly fun.

Don't give in to minor skepticism and persevere.
The story and the individual protagonists are what make the game something exceptional. Love it. The game is good in what it offers and in what environment it takes place. On the contrary, I think that if it were full open and with dozens of characters and a bunch of unnecessary quests.
I probably wouldn't have the desire or strength to finish it. Which is an interesting finding for someone who loves games like Witcher3 :)
The game is dynamic and will continue to surprise you. Great work The Farm 51

First i thought it was waste of money because i cant understand to play the game. I accidentally understand way the game work's and it's very interesting!!!

One of my favourite games as of late. The controls are rather standard and easy to grasp (except for using F to confirm choices).
Enviroments are pretty well made and are like little sandboxes that allow you to choose your approach, but they're pretty small. After you clear all the ? markers in the early game there's nothing to do besides main missions in mid and late game. Base building and resource management were fine, but didn't really add that much to the gameplay, as even with a full team it was still very easy to give them good equipment and double food rations after every mission, as long as I did enough gathering in early game. Stealth and gunfight are challenging, but pretty fair.
Story was a little bit weird to be honest, like very science fantasy approach of the whole Chernobyl tragedy. It's a bit complicated, but at the same time most big plot twists and plot-twist-of-a-plot-twists were painfully obvious, but I liked it enough to be pretty invested. Plot choices actually have a meaning, and it's pretty challenging to have at least neutral relationship with everyone. Tone whiplash was quite jarring at times, with that one gopnik running around the zone blasting hardbass during serious mission with a huge stake, but that's how life in place like this would be like I guess.
I didn't really encounter any technical difficulties besides enemies sinkink halfway into the ground few times, but you can argue that it's just anomaly, lol.

Quite enjoyable, gets a bit monotonous as you return to the same maps over and over but the stories and side characters are interesting enough to keep things going. Wish I could modify the base a bit more.

Душноватый сюжет, но классный сеттинг и механики
+ ачивки все сюжетные, изи пройти на 100%

I PERSONALLY enjoyed this game.
First of all, it is not the same type of open-world survival RPG like Stalker, but an easy-entry fps game in the Chernobyl wasteland setting. And it certainly captured a good amount of that spirit and aesthetic.

The game-play loop is frankly simple, going into one of the semi open map for loot and objectives, return, upgrade base, recruit companions and complete their missions, rinse and repeat. It hold a strange duality of being repetitive and comfortable, as you are familiarized with the enemies and map,(despise the dynamic map change) each of your loot run becomes faster, more confident and more mindless. Which I found to be quite relaxing.

After all, the story, the characters, the map are simply good, not brilliant but good,

At the end it is good enough of a game.

LOVED this game, once you appriciate the for what it is its much for fun, its definetly not a AAA game but its a lot of fun once you get a railgun into your hands.
PS: Iam the guy who posted the mega garden on reddit.

Remember , memory and history its not stabile product and sometimes its cost all lot, try make the best solution and live as u think is right

História interessante, animações complexas mas um jogo honesto.

Above average game with some flaws. Final score - 5.4/10

Graphics - 7/10 - At times gorgeous, like with lighting and environments, at times pretty bad like with characters, enemies or effects. Would be a 6/10 if not for the fact that the game includes Corsair Icue integration and it's well done and will up the immersion factor by making your entire room match the colors of what's happening on game. The colors will make you feel like you're there with the green radioactive crystals or all red from blood because your injured.

Gameplay - 5/10 - Pretty average and engaging but only slightly so. Combat is extremely mediocre and clunky / basic, but there is an interesting, although simple, base building / survival / crafting component to it all as well. Quests and locales will keep you interested but quickly lose your interest as there are only a few preset maps and very, very limited amount of enemy types. (4 including human soldier and 3 types of monster...none of which are really scary) Final boss fight is ok but pretty much just a bullet sponge, and there is a recurring "mini boss" throughout the levels that chases you but very quickly becomes a joke. Final mission is well designed though with all your choices coming into effect and can result in everyone dying or everyone living and everything in between.

Story - 5/10 - While the overall story is really mediocre and extremely poorly paced, you do at least get to play with interesting characters for team mates and manage their relationships. About 2 hours into the game I already knew exactly what the ending was going to be, who or what the mysteries answers were, but then had to do what basically amounts to 14-20 hrs of gameplay (lots of "fluff" flavor lore missions) just to get to the ending, which on top of everything doesn't even give you the satisfaction of being able to achieve a "true happy ending" just in the name of throwing a twist your way. (but not a twist to anyone with more than 2 brain cells) Also, the ending and the way it's portrayed is very unsatisfying.

Audio - 6/10 - Does some things well, other things not so much. Audio bugs cause music tracks to stop abrubtly, music mixing is off where sometimes it's too loud and sometimes it's too quiet. Voice acting is serviceable but often cringe and not well directed (although well acted in English).

Performance - 4/10 - Slightly below average as there are several visual, audio and gameplay bugs, and overall FPS remains challenged when running on high/max settings with a top of the tier PC even though graphics are not that impressive.

Overall, I had a good time but the game is really rough around the edges and could've been improved in so many ways. If you like games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I would recommend getting this on sale and keeping your expectations low since this is an indie title and then you should have a good time.

Thanks to the devs for their hard work, congratulations on releasing this game.

Here is my opinion on this game:

The game is fun, with a rich story and characters, but it prevented me from having full fun and enjoyment in the game because it has bugs and low optimizations.
The UI and UX were a great experience for me, the green color on the main menu and as the main color for the game just made it more favorable for me.

Some times I got into invisible mode kinda thing, the enemies would not shoot at me even if they detect me and I think this is a bug, also there is not a lot of voice actors so sometimes you will hear the same voice from another character on another character in the game which I can respect because of low budget but kinda messed with my brain and the experience.

The developers really didn't bothered much with animations, so its just 2 characters standing in front of each other and go with the dialogues, no emotions, no facial expression, but they managed to give those expressions in the dialogues which I will say the dialogues were really impressive.

I think there is not a lot of balance in the choices the player makes, one goes up and one goes down, you can't really have "Excellent" relationship status with everyone in the base, so you always gotta disappoint one or two of your team members thought out the missions which is really sad and frustrating for me, I want to have great relationship with everyone in the base but sadly you might not be able to do this.

Plus there is not much motivation for the upgrades, you will remain the same with or without them but only makes you a bit tougher towards enemies which I would say its boring, there is not a lot of challenge into it.


There is not online support or any kind of online play where you can play with your friends so keep this in mind.

Overall 7/10 | It really made me dig deep into the real disaster that happened in the real world which is still to me is a mystery I can't solve but games like these are really making it more interesting.



*[[SPOILER]]*
[[I really hated it where in the end our character Igor is Tanya's son, like wtf man she out here calling Igor "My love" and romantic things rights and lefts but like what is this all about? so this not just makes me disgust but also completely disgust 🤢! Yea definitely the 2 writers were drunk when they wrote the final plot.]]

Damn, I didn't expect this game to be this good! Imagine STALKER but with some light party and base management, crafting and several smaller open world zones to explore.

Interesting story and characters with multiple choices, good graphics for a AA / indie game and nice melancholic music.

It even has some solid replay value and extras, like a 'tour through Chernobyl' mode where you can just explore the scenery and read / listen to interesting information about the disaster.

One of the few downsides could be the lack of enemy types (there only seems to be around 5-6 total). And an occasional minor bug here and there.

Still, completely worth it full price and is a steal if you get it during a sale (I got it for just 5 bucks).

Totally recommended, especially if you're a fan of STALKER and Chernobyl as a setting in general!

топ игра по атмосферности, можно БЫЛО бы поставить в один ряд с такими легендарными сериями игр как сталкер и метро ЕСЛИ бы не душниловка в мидгейме.

Gameplay 8.2
Map and surroundings 8.1
Storyline 8.7 (1 Ending Choice was a Shocker...well done!)
Game Progression to Complete 3.0

Finally decided to play the game after it went on sale. Surprising good, but with a few flaws.

Liked: The storyline and progression. I also liked the upgrades for weapons and easy crafting.
Disliked: The far too numerous choices for work machines. Some of the movement was choppy.
Hated: That you have to follow a very select path to finishing the game or replay sections to re-align correctly. Regardless if I choose to go it alone or with a skeleton crew I should be able to attempt a finish...no?

I came in thinking it was go play like fallout but it was more like an extraction shooter. You pick a mission, collect resources while completing it then head back to base. The game also has base building and also companion management. The story is not so bad, it actually was interesting. There are choices that are made that effects your relationship with your companions and also the out come of the came.

Easy 100% all achievements are mission related

God Bless Stay Safe

A good game. It is quite immersive and the story is good too. Though would have been great if there were cinematics too. The twist at the end was mind-blowing.Overall 8/10 for me.

Very slow opening before you are let into the main game loop which is basically just collecting a few resources over and over with story reveals in between.
Really tests your patience.

It looks pretty and runs good.

Played for about 3-4 hours before I had enough, left the game open overnight which is why it says way more hours played.

So, Graphics are Insane, Always been into the Chernobyl History and stuff which is why I got this game, But the Quest you do in the game are Stupid and Confusing.

I don't know if this is a me problem or what but I have tried everything I can to fix it but no matter what this game always installs with corrupted files, even with verify file integrity it still pops up mid mission, "Game files are corrupt, please verify file integrity or reinstall the game" I have verified these files integrity at least 5 times, and reinstalled at least 2. I have so much time on the game simply trying to get it to run properly that I can no longer refund it. Do not waste your time if this happens to you.



EDIT:

So I have tried a few things that chatgpt recommended for a fix, so far so good, what I did was I ran Steam entirely as an Administrator, I haven't had the game crash on me yet, and as my original review wasn't really much about the game, I did change it, This game is very beautiful with amazing graphics to the towering buildings to the darkness of the woods, even down to the inside of the buildings, game-play is great! I really like the combat method, where you can approach it from a stealth position or from a GUN-HO position, Def would recommend if you can get past that corrupted file error (If this is happening to you try running steam as an administrator or asking chatgpt for other possible fixes.

Chernobylite is an enjoyable horror shooter RPG mystery packed with science and sci-fi to make any nerd, nerd more. The solid gameplay could be akin to a Metal Gear Solid spinoff as you desperately sneak around and evade your foes. Your choices feel impactful and allow for variations in individual playthroughs with some genuinely memorable story beats and hilarious dialogue with some of the not-so-sane characters. If The Farm 51 had a bigger budget and more time, this game would really shine. An otherwise beautiful presentation, fascinating story, and genuine good time make Chernobylite a great game, 8 out of 10 Soups. If you love horror games with shooting mechanics, a dash of intricate game mechanics as well, and a story to keep you hooked, you will love Chernobylite.

The game is great, visually nice and didint destroy my gaming laptop from 2018, gets a little boring after 6 hours of back and forth walking, 9/10

a lot of cool concepts but all poorly executed, gunplay is terrible, every part of map is pseudo open world of just a box, that has the same procedural generated objectives, any decent loot in the game has these fucking phantom things that never stop spawning and are impossible to kill early on, clearly supposed to avoid them but they're just annoying.

Story is whatever, base buildings is a copy paste of fallout 4 but slightly worse, the dimension shit is the only thing that they did really well but you hardly get to see it.

Game is just mid, good buy if it's like 15 bucks.

The missions can get samey toward the end. The timer with the dark stalker can sometimes be a little frustrating as you're constantly toodling around looking for collectables and resources. It is nothing like STALKER and I think the setting confused people. I really enjoyed it but I don't think it's something I'd revisit. The base building function was really well done, and I think it's something that's missing from the STALKER series, being able to hole up in an abandoned building has been something people have been asking for in that series for a long time. The game is great, exploration is solid, but some of the maps can feel very linear or difficult to traverse around. The environments are gorgeous and the gunplay is solid if not lacking a little impact. More monster types would benefit the game greatly. The historical account mode is AWESOME. Really neat feature that more games should explore.

Great game!
Graphics are amazing, felt really cool to explore Chernobyl as i have always been interested in the subject
The training seems a little pointless though
I loved the fact your actions have consequences, had a few shock moments lol.
Really enjoyed it 8/10

The story is not good at all. The voice acting is atrocious. The goofy characters contrast to a super serious world. Most features like base building are half-baked. Animations are abysmal. There's only 3 different monster types, and 3 human enemy variants (light armor, medium armor, heavy armor). The "change your story choices" component is confusing and unnecessary.

It's like the game director had a bunch of random ideas but only the budget to implement them, not flesh them out.

And the ending... well, I won't spoil it, but what the ****? Seriously? It's like they tried to come up with the most insane twist/reveal just for shock factor.

Maybe Chernobylite 2 will be better, but it got half the amount of Kickstarter backers, which shows they lost a ton of supporters once this game launched.

Interesting game, in the stalker theme. The map is well designed, and I have not encountered any bugs. It is interesting to develop your base and manage your team. You can go through both the story and just run and explore the map pumping the base. I recommend!

I liked a lot of aspects of this game, but dealing with the overgrown dusters just made it frustrating to the point where it drove me to quit and not finish the game. Either out of bad design choice or bad execution, they just felt broken. I didn't really feel like it was good enemy design, and felt more punishing than challenging, and it was a pretty major turnoff. I'm also not really a fan of the hub and mission-based gameplay, where you deploy to one zone, and your NPC teammates will deploy to a different zone for the day, and you never see or interact with anything they're doing - it's just a menu screen that tells you what happened. They had some good things going, but overall it felt pretty unfulfilling, and there were one or two design choices that really rubbed me the wrong way to the point where I put the game down and decided not to finish.

- USAID DETECTED -

🔲 No
🔲 Yes
☑️ Massively here

- DIFFICULTY -

🔲 My 95 year old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
☑️ Normal
🔲 Hard
🔲 "Dark Souls"

- GRAPHICS -

🔲 "MS Paint"
🔲 Bad
☑️ Meh
🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game
🔲 Good
🔲 Beautiful
🔲 Masterpiece

- MUSIC -

🔲 Bad
☑️ Not special
🔲 Good
🔲 Beautiful

- STORY -

🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Like playing "Temple Runners" for the story
☑️ It's there for the people who want it
🔲 Umm Good?
🔲 Well written
🔲 Epic story

- PRICE -

🔲 It's Free
🔲 Underpriced
🔲 Perfect price
☑️ Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money

- REQUIREMENTS -

🔲 You can run it on a microwave
🔲 Potato
🔲 Average
☑️ High end
🔲 "NASA" computer

- LENGTH -

🔲 Very short (0 - 3 hours)
🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours)
☑️ Average (15 - 50 hours)
🔲 Long (50 - 90 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (90 - 110 hours)
🔲 More than 1 week (170+)
🔲 No ending

- FUN -

🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
☑️ Repetitive
🔲 Actually pretty amusing
🔲 Ride of your life

- REPLAYABILITY -

☑️ It's a one - time experience
🔲 Only for achievements
🔲 If you wait a few months / years
🔲 Definitely
🔲 Infinitely replayable

- WORTH BUYING -
🔲 It's Free
☑️ No
🔲 Wait for sale
🔲 Yes


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GAMES I HAVE PLAYED

Unfortunately, I went past the refund time. Game looks promising, but is not fun to play.

I like this game. It's not perfect, the combat falls flat and the variety of enemies is limited. However, the game has lovely graphics, interesting characters, and the base building+management aspects were not something I expected but wound up thoroughly enjoying. Overall, Chernobylite is engaging, occasionally terrifying, and unique. A decent game for someone looking for something similar to Fallout or Stalker.

Yo, this was a blast. A sort of STALKER-lite that's mission based with crafting and base-building elements, throw in a bit of mad time travel shit and you've got a surprisingly good - if sometimes janky - time.

Found this by googling "survival games without base building." It is beautiful and fun.
I have my issues: the looting, due to the OP scanner and the scarcity, becomes very brainless as you just run from one lit up object to another. It removes any real reason to organically explore, which is kinda the original itch I was looking to scratch. The maps are far too complete. Knowing exactly where everything is in a place I've never been, including all the points of interest for the current mission, also removes any urge to organically explore and makes it feel very much like brainlessly checking things off a list. Would MUCH rather have a looting system that depends on looking at the containers and objects and deciding if its lootable based on how it looks and maybe a gently highlighting.
I was also not expecting the structure to be a hub to a few smaller maps you teleport to and from, with no physical connection between them. Really was hoping to manually trudge out into a giant space and find my own way.
What I found with this game is definitely NOT a survival game by any means. You have some more health meters than a normal shooter, you have more appliances to upgrade than a normal shooter, and there is a little tamagotchi stuff with your base companions, but really you are not "surviving." It's about as involved as Fallout 4 minus the construction. Luckily I also happen to dig an atmospheric open world shooter, so I am still having fun here. The english voice acting is very.. ah... indie. But it's beautiful and fun regardless.

İpuçlarını bulmanız ve yoldaşlarla aranızı iyi tutmanız gerekiyor. Oynayacaklar bunları kaçırmasın.

So much fun! One of my favourites. Looking forward to Chernobylte 2 !

Struggling with this, it's just not very appealing. I'm 102 minutes in and trying to decide if it's worth refunding. It's just not grabbing me at all.

In short : This game is a masterpiece. If you like FPS with a great scenario and awesome atmosphere, don't even hesitate, even at full price.

In detail : The game takes you on an epic journey to Chernobyl. I found every aspect to be perfect : the gameplay loop, the characters, the scenario, the sounds and musics, the environments; the level designs...

The game got its inspirations from other games (Bioshock series, Fallout series, Metro series, STALKER, This War Of Mine...), but the devs did not copy anything. Instead they offer their own vision and manage to do something trully unique, and deliver an experience like no other.

It took me 35 hours to complete in Normal difficulty, the game is quite difficult and complex to apprehend.

I don't want to spoil anything, but trully, this is a trip you should not miss.

was very fun, i now know how to live in cherknobly

Great game! The story is really interesting, the little details in the world and the choices you make, i cant wait for the 2nd game

Is is unusual but very good. If you are bored with the buggy STALKER series... this is your best alternative, especially with -75% sale price.

"Igor... it's not the end. I won't let it end like this."

This game, as something I had no idea what to expect from and had lowest of expectations, was quite a roller coaster of emotions.

The game starts quite confusing and it keeps such tone all the way to the end, making you constantly question your theories. Graphics and atmosphere is really fitting and smooth, along with music being the strongest part of the game.

Base building element was a pleasant surprise, crafting weapons, modifying them, managing base structures and resources like electricity, air pollution, bunk beds, food and free time amusement. Meanwhile you hunted for clues, allies and new discoveries once per a day throughout various locations of Chernobyl until you and your crew were ready for a final blow.

Weakest part of entire game was the combat, it was so shallow, empty and basic. Enemies kept shooting you through foliages, trees, buildings, obstacles, no matter what, you got constantly being pinged with bullets with steady frequency no matter of your position or amount of obstacles between you and your enemy.

Stunning enemies? Forget that, they will 720° trickshot you even when taking full auto burst from AK47 in the head from behind, being bulletspongy eating your entire mag and still calling it a successful day doesn't help much either. Variety of enemies kinda lacking as well.

Weapon behavior is rigged with bugs and don't feel good at all.

Doing main mission objectives always result in one ally to approve and other disapprove toward your decisions changing their relationship toward you, decisions that often really make no sense or feel forced just to be there, you can adjust ally relationships toward you through mind-bending machinery... That uses annoying long-a$$ combat scenarios in VR, yay...

Game and lore definitely overstayed it's welcome as you progress through, bonus points for conveniently making you be able to alter your decisions through time-space anomalies, not really costly.

Overall the game shifted from good to annoying times frequently, the finale being the proper and pleasant climax to the lore closure.

+ Atmosphere/Graphics
+ Day/Night progression system
+ Base building
+ Graphics
+ Music
+ Lore
+ Skills leveling
+ Ending

- Entire combat
- Weapons
- Relationships management
- Ally quests and dialogues becoming quite annoying and too much
- Silly decision making...
- Half a$$ed and messed up saving system

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6 from 10 samosiels recommend this game.

This game has the most hyper realistic map from the real life Chernobyl Exclusion Zone...

And I won't say no to a little walk there

The game over all so far is pretty darn good ngl (4 hours in)
BUT the only real thing holding it back for me personally is the simplistic gameplay loop (could be more to it later through the story) but that is just one opinion :)
I'll say its still worth giving it a go for yourself
Recommended purchase = yes

Worst performance of all time. It's not going to get fixed either because the devs want to develop their shitty soulslike mobile game of a sequel.

Sorry to give a thumbs down but performance is too broken to be able to recommend, major FPS dips with any form of RT enabled and broken HDR. I'm far beyond the recommended specs. I've spent ages trying to find a fix but I see many others have the same. I'll update if ever fixed.

Even at 720p internal resolution using DLSS Ultra Performance Ray tracing cannot be used with a 3060 Ti and 5800X3D..

I can run CP2077 with PATH TRACING better than this game.

Sadly the game is very dark indoors without RTGI. Which is further an issue as the gamma setting doesn't work as the HDR implementation is broken.

for a "modern" release the gameplay is very like 90s feeling shooting scavenging and base building, enemy ai is none stealth kills 1ft behind wo hearing but guy u kill goes ooooo uuuugggg. played 10hr and got bored its same feeling of other games but worse done i own too many games to play one that is just kinda good all around.