Ukrainian game “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl” tops Steam sales

"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl"/Steam

The Ukrainian project “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl” took first place in sales among paid games on Steam and second place in the overall ranking, where the free Counter-Strike 2 has been leading for 640 weeks in a row.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is now the best-selling game on the platform, according to Steam.

The game continues to stay in the top for the second week in a row, beating popular paid games such as “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” and football simulator “EA SPORTS FC”, as well as free projects such as “Call of Duty: Warzone, PUBG” and “Dota 2”.

After several postponements, the release of “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2” is scheduled for November 20. The game's popularity has led to a quick sell-out of physical copies, prompting an extra print run, and buyers won't receive their editions until April. However, digital versions of the game will be available from the day of release.

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The game will be released exclusively on new console platforms from Microsoft – Xbox Series X/S, as well as on Windows.

“S.T.A.L.K.E.R.”/Steam

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a series of first-person shooters that take place nowadays in the Chernobyl zone alienation After the radiation release, anomalies and mutants began to appear there.

The game was developed by the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World, founded in 1995 by Serhii Hryhorovych. GSC Game World is a Ukrainian video game development company located in Kyiv. Founded in 1995, it gained worldwide popularity thanks to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series. and “Cossacks”. Xbox created a documentary about the studio's activities during the full-scale Russian invasion.