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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Also known as STALKER, Stalker
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person shooter survival horror video game franchise developed by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World. The series is set in an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, where, according to the series' backstory, a mysterious second Chernobyl disaster took place in 2006. As a result, the physical, chemical, and biological processes in the area were altered, spawning numerous nature-defying anomalies, artifacts, and mutants. The player takes the role of a "stalker" - a name given to trespassers and adventurers who have come to explore
Key facts
- Video game series.title
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
- Video game series.image
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise logo.png
- Video game series.developer
- GSC Game World
- Video game series.first release version
- Shadow of Chernobyl
- Video game series.first release date
- 20 March 2007
- Video game series.latest release version
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy – Enhanced Edition
- Video game series.latest release date
- 20 May 2025
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Setting
- Plot
- ''Shadow of Chernobyl'' (2007)
- ''Clear Sky'' (2008)
- ''Call of Pripyat'' (2009)
- ''Heart of Chornobyl'' (2024)
- Reception
- Board game
- Related games
- References
- External links
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person shooter survival horror video game franchise developed by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World. The series is set in an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, where, according to the series' backstory, a mysterious second Chernobyl disaster took place in 2006. As a result, the physical, chemical, and biological processes in the area were altered, spawning numerous nature-defying anomalies, artifacts, and mutants. The player takes the role of a "stalker" - a name given to trespassers and adventurers who have come to explore the exclusion zone and its strange phenomena.
The series is based on the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and influenced by the 1979 film Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky which was itself adapted from Roadside Picnic.
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Alternate history video gamesFiction about the Chernobyl disasterFiction set in 2012First-person shootersMutants in fictionParanormal fictionPost-apocalyptic video gamesScience fiction video gamesS.T.A.L.K.E.R.Survival horror video gamesVideo game franchises introduced in 2007Video games about the paranormal