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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
21 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“First playthrough review time. This is the third game in the STALKER series, set around the dangerous, radioactive area near Chernobyl. The game world feels empty and creepy, with dark places full of hidden dangers. You…”
“A very good game for what it offers. While Clear Skies felt disappointing and underwhelming, this is where the franchise picks up again. I'm still in favor of the repair and upgrade system, but bigger fan of no timed…”
“This is the 3rd game in the old series and it shows, did not had any game breaking bugs, crashes, and this mixes up the formula a bit. There is only 3 regions in this game but the regions are bigger, and 2 of them open…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This is the 3rd game in the old series and it shows, did not had any game breaking bugs, crashes, and this mixes up the formula a bit. There is only 3 regions in this game but the regions are bigger, and 2 of them open…”
“S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is straight up tremendous and somehow even tighter than the first one. A litleee bit less broken, more focused, and still keeps that same brutal Zone energy that doesn’t care if you live…”
“Call of Pripyat probably remains the best entry into the series combining the exploration focused design elements of Shadow of Chernobyl with some of the refined systems from Clear Sky such as the artifact detectors,…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This is the 3rd game in the old series and it shows, did not had any game breaking bugs, crashes, and this mixes up the formula a bit. There is only 3 regions in this game but the regions are bigger, and 2 of them open…”
“S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is straight up tremendous and somehow even tighter than the first one. A litleee bit less broken, more focused, and still keeps that same brutal Zone energy that doesn’t care if you live…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A very good game for what it offers. While Clear Skies felt disappointing and underwhelming, this is where the franchise picks up again. I'm still in favor of the repair and upgrade system, but bigger fan of no timed…”
“This is the most advanced S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game from the original trilogy,it has a lot of side quests but the main story is a bit simple,its still a great experience nevertheless.”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Excellent art style, gunplay, and overall feel. This game sat in my Steam library for about 10 years and I'm so glad I finally gave it a real try. Now I want to go back and play the previous entries in series.”
“perfect with absolute nature and the atmosfear mod”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Favorite stalker game out of the trilogy, no game will ever top the feeling of dread of kid me felt back then when the emission warning came to be and realizing that a burnt farmstead won't be enough to cover me from…”
“Game crashes randomly averaging around 2 times in a hour, Randomly soft-locks you by crashing when you leave an area not allowing you to progress a quest and I had to spend around 3 hours searching for a mod that…”
“Eastern Europeans can't make a game that works consistently”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Out of the 3 of the STALKER games, this one is a personal favorite. I will make the complaint that the constant usages of guides to get to point A to B back to A is very annoying, but with how much money you get in game…”
“killed a zombie and then another one spawned behind me and kurt cobain'd me with slugs”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 95.5% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“- has vodka - has cheeki breeki bandits - has bloodsucker goth girls - meds against shizo - u get to see streloks hairline and touch his bald spots (with ur tongue ofcourse)”
— a player, Steam review · 41 hrs played“Call of Pripyat represents the peak of the original STALKER trilogy: in both scope and (especially) stability, it surpasses the previous two entries. Enjoyers of action and/or exploration are both catered to within the main questline. Three entirely new areas replace the…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“- NOT A REVIEW OF THE VANILLA GAME - I'm writing a review on "Call of Pripyat" only because it's the game which gets associated by Steam when playing STALKER G.A.M.M.A. which stands for Grokitach's Automated Modular Modpack for Anomaly. Anomaly is a total conversion of the…”
— a player, Steam review · 31 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:47 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat Enhanced Edition is now on Steam!
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition is now available on Steam! Shadow of Chornobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Prypiat get a refresh with enhanced graphics, next-gen console optim
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Enhanced Edition, coming May 20
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation will receive a free upgrade to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition on May 20, 2025. New shaders, lighting, textures, gamepa
Console release and weeklong Steam deal for all S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans
Winter is a tough season, especially in the Zone. And even though some winter days felt like late March, stalkers are jubilant to welcome the advent of spring. The season when everything is new, the w
Gamescom is coming, as well as the demo of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists, bandits, free stalkers, players and partners are heartily invited to join us and play the demo of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at gamescom 2023
Fix for the 12th Generation Intel® Core™ CPUs
Minor update in the renderers initialization sequence to address issue with freezing the game on computers powered by 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors running on Windows 11. Patch affects only R2 rend
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, RPG |
| Player tags | Atmospheric · Open World · Post-apocalyptic · FPS · Survival · Action · Singleplayer · RPG · Shooter · Survival Horror · First-Person · Moddable (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | German * , English * , French * , Italian * , Russian * , Spanish - Spain * , Ukrainian * , Polish * * |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://cop.stalker-game.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Supported OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP(Service Pack 2)/Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4 Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz / AMD XP 2200+ Graphics: 128 MB DirectX® 8.0 compatible card / nVIDIA® GeForce™ 5700 / ATI Radeon® 9600 Memory: 768 MB RAM Sound: DirectX® 9.0 compatible sound card Hard Drive: 6 GB free hard disc space