Serhiy Grigorovich, founder and former head of the GSC Game World studio (known for the STALKER and Cossacks game series), said that he is working on a new fantastic project with technologies «that the industry has not yet seen.»
Serhiy Grigorovich, founder and former head of the GSC Game World studio (known for the STALKER and Cossacks game series), said that he is working on a new fantastic project with technologies «that the industry has not yet seen.»
«We are not just creating a game, but an immersive leap. STRANGER will incorporate all the best that we have developed over more than 33 years of work by various teams of the company, but at the same time will offer fans technologies and an approach that the industry has not yet seen», said Grigorovich in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine.
He said that the full name of the project is STRANGER Bermuda SOS. The game takes place in a world after a global nuclear disaster. It will combine the achievements of previous games with new technologies, including AI.
Serhiy Grigorovich added that a video game project related to cryptocurrencies is also in the works.
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In a comment to Forbes Ukraine, Grigorovich noted that development of STRANGER only started in February 2026. The authors of the original STALKER are working on the game, but not GSC Game World itself. The new team, which includes six developers (four of them in Ukraine), is headed by Serhiy Grigorovich himself.
According to him, the budget for STRANGER could be several tens of millions of dollars. Grigorovich said that the development of the first part of STALKER cost $2 million, and STALKER 2 cost $70 million. In the early stages, he is self-financing his new project and predicts that the release will take several years.
Recall that in 2024, Ukrainian businessman Maksym Krippa, who owns the NAVI esports team and the Maincast company, told how he became the owner of the GSC Game World studio. According to him, GSC founder Serhiy Grigorovich is no longer a shareholder, but will receive a percentage of STALKER 2 sales.
The last two GSC Game World projects — Cossacks 3 and STALKER 2 — were released under the direction of Serhiy Grigorovich’s brother, Yevgeny. It is currently unclear whether STRANGER is being worked on by a new team or by GSC itself.
Last March, the company’s COO and creative director, Maria Grigorovich, hinted that after the success of STALKER 2, opportunities appeared at the GSC Game World studio not only to create additions to the game, but also something more.
