The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is the setting for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, which has quickly risen to the top of our list of anticipated forthcoming horror games. It’s worthwhile to be enthusiastic because everything we’ve seen so far of STALKER 2 Heart of Chernobyl points to a significant improvement over the acclaimed first trilogy.

A new trailer for the upcoming horror video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has been released by GSC Game World. The game’s gorgeous environments and some of the characters we’ll meet when it launches in late 2023 are showcased in the two and a half minute long teaser, “Come to Me.”

Everything We Know on STALKER 2 Heart of Chernobyl

Release Date and Platforms

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will be available on PC and Xbox Series X|S in 2023. The game will be accessible on the first day of Game Pass. However, due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the release of Stalker 2 has been delayed from its original December 2022 target date. Also, there are no signs that the game will be released on PS5.

Story and Characters

An intimate, enigmatic, and skin-crawling first-person shooter is still in the works. However, STALKER 2 still looks to contain a few sun-drenched fields and splashes of color for every dilapidated structure and survivor camp seen. With the new STALKER 2 gameplay trailer above, you can see what 2023 has in store.

We return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Stalker 2, but no information regarding the characters and storyline is available. “Featuring a huge, borderless open-world and a non-linear story,” the developer said. “Over 60 square kilometers of space are available for survival, making it one of the biggest open worlds in video games to date.”

GSC estimates that it will take more than 100 hours of gaming to understand its secrets because of how large the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone constructed here is.

Minimum System Requirements

OS Version: Windows 10 / Windows 11 Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X / Intel Core i5-7600K Memory: 8 GB Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Disc space: 150 GB SSD

OS Version: Windows 10 / Windows 11 Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X / Intel Core i7-9700K Memory: 16 GB Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Disc space: 150 GB SSD