As he journeys around the Zone, he has the option of recruiting allies such as Olivier, Olga, Tarakhan, Sashko, and Mikhail, as well as negotiating with or killing Dr. With his first intrusion a failure, Igor realizes that he will need a better plan, along with resources and allies to help him break through the NAR defenses around the plant. However, he is then attacked by the Black Stalker and forced to flee before he can find Tatyana. Igor successfully breaks into the power plant and recovers a Chernobylite crystal, which he uses to power a special portal gun he had developed. In order to find her and uncover the conspiracy behind her disappearance, Igor may recruit allies in the Zone, such as the Canadian mercenary Olivier, guerilla freedom fighter Olga, the mysterious hermit Tarakhan, outlaw Sashko, and local Stalker Mikhail.Īfter receiving a picture of his missing wife Tatyana and being haunted by her in his dreams, Igor decides to travel to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and sneak into the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to find answers, as both he and Tatyana used to work at the plant and Tatyana disappeared shortly before the disaster. Meanwhile, Ukrainian physicist Igor Khymynuk arrives in the Zone to search for his missing fiancée Tatyana, who disappeared shortly before the Chernobyl disaster. In order to secure their investment, the NAR enlists the services of former Soviet General Kozlov and the mysterious and dangerous Black Stalker to remove any intruders into the Zone by any means necessary. The presence of Chernobylite also attracts Shadows, extradimensional creatures that are hostile to humans. Interested in Chernobylite's potential applications, the military contractor NAR has leased the entire Zone in order to carry out experiments that are led by Chernobylite specialist Dr. Following the disaster, a strange material dubbed "Chernobylite" began to appear in the Zone. The game is set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster. Deep in the contaminated environment also lie strange supernatural threats, due to the "chernobylite" created from the nuclear aftermath. Any character can die and any task can be failed. There is also a crafting system, which allows the player to craft their own equipment and weapons. The player is also forced to make decisions which affect the nonlinear story line. Most of the single-player gameplay revolves around exploring the exclusion zone, gathering supplies and tools while encountering "Stalkers" and hostile military personnel. You can keep an eye on Chernobylite on Steam.Chernobylite is a survival game in which the player controls Igor Khymynuk, a former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant physicist who must explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in search of his fiancée. Perhaps they're exactly the right people to pull this one off. Which was also janky and full of good ideas done a bit wrong. The Farm 51 have yet to really knock a game out of the park, but Alec Meer ( all bow) was rather taken with Get Even, despite some wonky bits, and I've a bit of a soft spot for their 2009 WWI-triggers-apocalypse horror shooter Necrovision. The devs promise said story is "non-linear, unpredictable and fully dependent on player’s decisions, which leads to many possible endings", offer survival and crafting bits, and an insistence that all the AI lads have their own agenda and shouldn't be trusted. Chernobylite looks to be aiming for a story-driven approach, as you search the exclusion zone 30 years after losing your girlfriend there, while dodging monsters and interacting with the local Stalkers, for good or ill. Stalker-ish games tend to capture all the messy jank of the original mutant-dodging trilogy but none of its compelling atmosphere or setting. The environments, 3D scanned from the real area, look rather shiny too. It's a game, not a mineral or a low-calorie power plant.īy 2030, 12% of people on Earth will have worked on a game set in or around Pripyat, but this one looks like it's doing its own thing rather than blindly copying. Since their succesful Kickstarter bagged double their target, Poland-based The Farm 51 have announced that their ambitious Stalker-esque survival horror Chernobylite will enter Steam Early Access on the 16th of October, with a full release an estimated 10 to 14 months later.
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