
Whatever their motivation, over time these individuals – Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killer, Explorers and Robbers – have become known as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s.Īwakening in the Zone, you are one such S.T.A.L.K.E.R., fighting for survival in this man-made Hell, while trying to discover the truth behind Chernobyl’s sinister past and ominous future.

Others seek to find the truth behind the Zone, while some merely revel in the desolate lawlessness of the place. Mercenaries and bounty hunters compete to recover these artifacts, which command extortionate prices on the black market. It is now 2012 – man has ventured further and further into the heart of the Zone driven by reports of strange ‘artifacts’ imbued with anomalous energy. The Zone was cordoned off by the military, who would shoot on sight anyone foolish enough to brave the horrors within. Find out what dangers await there, you are sure to be affected by what youll meet. The game takes you back to year 2012, where the abandoned and excluded Chernobyl zone is yours to explore. From this epicenter came waves of mutated creatures, deadly radiation, and a strange, anomalous energy. Shadow of Chernobyl is an action shooter RPG developed by GSC Game World. Soviet authorities established a 30km ‘Exclusion Zone’ around this nuclear wasteland, but in 2006 a second explosion rocked the stricken reactor, obliterating all living things and causing the Zone’s boundaries to ripple outwards.

In 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl power station.
