GSC Game World has announced that its game STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has been launched by over 6 million «stalkers». However, the project has received mixed reviews on Steam over the past 30 days — players are asking the developers when a roadmap with plans and new content will appear.
GSC Game World has announced that its game STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has been launched by over 6 million «stalkers». However, the project has received mixed reviews on Steam over the past 30 days — players are asking the developers when a roadmap with plans and new content will appear.
«Today we celebrate the number of 6 million stalkers who came to play STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Six million! A number that is difficult to comprehend, but it became a reality purely thanks to you,» GSC Game World reported on its social networks.
They probably mean all the players who launched the game on Steam, also on Xbox consoles, including through a Game Pass subscription.
However, STALKER 2's Steam rating has dropped to 67% positive reviews from over 2,000 in the last 30 days, and is «mixed.» The all-time rating since release is «very favorable» and 82% positive reviews from over 82,000.
In the comments to GSC Game World posts, many players are asking when new content will appear in the game or when a roadmap for 2025 with a support plan for STALKER 2 will at least be published.
«The game needs fundamental updates, because the more you play, the more attention is paid to the problems. And the most important issue and not yet finalized is the so-called A-Life system, which does not exist in essence, and it is impossible to take seriously NPCs that spawn in front of you, even if they are far away from you,» wrote X (Twitter) user Vicheslav Shulga.
Many players are also asking when the developers plan to add the planned multiplayer mode and update the classic STALKER 2 on PC. They note that online play has decreased significantly since the project’s release in November.
«This is really cool, congratulations on this. When will there be a map with content? Because I’m really looking forward to the update of the classic trilogy on PC, and the addition to STALKER 2», — asked a Steam user with the nickname Overushka.
After its release on November 20, STALKER 2 had a peak concurrent online presence of 121,335 players on Steam. Since then, that number has been declining, with the current peak online presence over the past 24 hours standing at 8,160 players, according to SteamDB.
Although for a single-player project, which is currently the game from GSC Game World, this indicator is not as critical as for online projects, it shows that despite periodic major updates with fixes, players continue to lose interest in STALKER 2.
Recall that Maksym Krippa, who became the owner of the GSC Game World studio, replacing its founder Serhiy Grigorovich, gave an interview in which he spoke about the financial success of STALKER 2, plans for the project’s development, and a potential series from Netflix.
