Chernobylite Reviews
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Chernobylite is a difficult game to pigeonhole. Developer The Farm 51 has called it a survival horror RPG, but after spending 30 hours with the game, I wouldn’t say that’s terribly accurate because there’s also quite a strong focus on strategy. I guess a ‘science-fiction survival game with a twist of strategy, horror, and roleplaying’ is probably too long to use as a genre though.
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Chernobylite is a game that's dripping in atmosphere, but doesn't quite hit the mark in other areas. If you can get past its clunky shooting and stealth mechanics, there’s some fun to be had in base building and people management.
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It’s not without its problems, then, but Chernobylite offers an intoxicating blend of horror, survival, base-building and FPS action. Repetition could be an issue for some, and shying away from playing with the poorly-acted English dialogue is highly recommended. Once you’ve settled in to your quest to find out what happened to your long-lost love, however, it’s hard to not feel the urge to do one more mission before turning it off, ever in the hope of finding valuable resources or a crumb of information.
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Chernobylite combines some cool ideas and implements them in a way that complements the story it wants to tell. Several issues stand in its way, with potential save corruption acting as the biggest road block. Once that issue gets patched out, the core experience will offer up something unique, even if many of its gameplay elements lack depth.
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Chernobylite’s trifecta of gun combat, survival, and base management serves the game’s unique narrative system. With more features comes more shortcomings, but nothing drastic enough to take away from an otherwise compelling experience.
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Farm51 definitely has a lot of solid ideas with Chernobylite, especially given how it combines so many different genres into one game. Any time you try to mash up more than one element into a game, though, there is a good possibility that multiple aspects of the game will be left feeling underdeveloped.
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Chernobylite is nearly impossible to put in a specific genre and it feels generally unpolished, but the sheer amount of fun and excitement that it provides makes the game more than worth playing.
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Chernobylite offers a deep survival game experience that offers elements of sci-fi, horror and RPG. It's hard to call this a survival horror title, but all the management aspects and the branching storylines will provide fans of the survival genre plenty to enjoy. There are only a handful of areas to go to and while they're decent sized, enemies tend to respawn in the same location upon returning to the location. The atmosphere could have gone a different direction, but the visuals and environments are undeniably effective. The visual design in the portals in particular are something to marvel at....
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Thanks to the lack of Soviet transparency, there was, and still is a great deal of mystery around the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Was the fatality count accurate? What about the subsequent cases of radiation sickness or birth defects or weird natural anomalies? Did the meltdown create a rift in space-time and unleash monsters from another dimension? If you believe The Farm 51’s game Chernobylite, it most certainly did.
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The Polish game Chernobylite is an extremely atmospheric return to the Chernobyl Zone. In addition, it intrigues with the plot, choices and gives a lot of freedom during the game. So do fans of the cult STALKER have reasons to celebrate?
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If you love the atmosphere of Eastern European survival games but hate the jank, Chernobylite is for you. Its cycle of scavenging and questing is addicting, and its characters are fun to meet. But that also means it becomes too easy once you get a feel for the controls and mechanics. Add that with a story that isn’t scary, and you have a flawed game with an engaging core. It held my attention during its full runtime, and I can’t say that for a lot of games.
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What happens when you take a survival game, horror title, first-person shooter, and combine it with a heist plot? You get Chernobylite, a mixture of a bunch of different genres that actually do manage to work together. First released in Early Access back in 2019 with a strong reception throughout most of its initial period, Chernobylite has finally been released into Version 1.0, so let’s take a look if it was worth the wait.
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Another Chernobyl set survival game is once more begging for your attention. No, I’m not talking about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, that’s still some months away. What is at least attempting to tide you over until then is Chernobylite, a horror-action shooter developed by The Farm 51. With Alexey Sityanov on the team, who’s a game writer and story writer on the very first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game, it’s no mistake the team is aiming for those comparisons.
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Chernobylite is a rare game that makes you feel the weight of your decisions.
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With a combination of multiple features and mechanics from different genres, as well as a setting that's steeped in mystery, Chernobylite attempts to be the jack-of-all-trades. Unfortunately, a mediocre combat system, repetitive mission structure, and dull gameplay loop lead to questionable results.
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Chernobylite is a solid package for any player looking for an original survival FPS with a lot of heart in it. The story is sufficient, but the game will really satisfy players who are looking for a difficult experience without holding their hand too much. For players looking for much more than just the gameplay, however, they may be left wanting.
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Chernobylite is one of the most inconsistent games I can recall ever playing, with fantastic highs and frustrating lows, leading to someplace in between.
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I'm aware my clunk tolerance is low. I'm incapable of overlooking jank when it suspends my suspension of disbelief, and that's a particularly big problem when atmosphere is supposed to be the main selling point. Clunkiness reminds me I am sat in a comfortable office chair in Brighton rather than struggling to survive in an irradiated hellzone.
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