STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl will be released on September 5, 2024. This is evidenced by the new release date, appeared on the website of the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World, which is developing the game.
Also, the new release date is indicated in the official trailer, published on YouTube. How writes DTF with reference to the game developers, this date is final.
STALKER 2 will be released simultaneously on PC, as well as Xbox Series X and Series S. It will be available on Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, Xbox Store and Game Pass on the first day of release, as specified on the website.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — Final Release Date Announcement
GSC Game World
The game was originally scheduled to release on April 28, 2022, but four months earlier in January, the developers announced that the date would be moved to December 8 as they needed additional time to fully realize their vision for the game and get it “to where it needs to be.” state.” After this, the release was postponed again – first to an unspecified date in 2023, and then to the first neighborhood 2024.
After the start of the war, the developers of STALKER 2 from the Ukrainian studio announced that the game would not be sold in Russia. The company also changed the spelling of the word Chernobyl in the game title to Chornobyl (in accordance with the transliteration from Ukrainian).
In the summer of 2022, the studio announced that the game will not have Russian voice acting – only English and Ukrainian – but players will be able to choose subtitles in Russian.
In the spring of 2023, hackers threatened to publish tens of gigabytes of materials from an unreleased game, demanding an apology from the studio for “inappropriate treatment of players from Belarus and Russia.” GSC Game World responded that they had “seen much worse things” and called attempts to intimidate developers “useless.”
