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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enhanced Edition
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the prequel chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy. With the ability to directly influence the balance of power through Faction Wars, step into the boots of Scar — a seasoned mercenary, able to somehow survive deadly Emissions.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
19 of the 86 reviews raise this.
“S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is overall a decent and fun S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. It keeps the core atmosphere and tension that define the series, even if it doesn’t quite reach the level of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of…”
“There are some great ideas here, and some pretty good improvements to systems that desperately needed it in the first game, but this game just HATES the player. And the dynamic music is awful. Even SoC which is…”
“Stalker Clear Sky is a perfect successor to the first game. In every way the gameplay has been improved from the animations, performance, graphics, sound, gunplay and quest design. Everything feels smoother and the…”
9 of the 86 reviews raise this.
“S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is overall a decent and fun S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. It keeps the core atmosphere and tension that define the series, even if it doesn’t quite reach the level of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of…”
“Stalker Clear Sky is a perfect successor to the first game. In every way the gameplay has been improved from the animations, performance, graphics, sound, gunplay and quest design. Everything feels smoother and the…”
“Well I was playing this game lot of years and this is really easy and interesting game to play. The whole S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise is interesting to play. The graphics are decent. The sounds are good. The dialogues are…”
7 of the 86 reviews raise this.
“Stalker Clear Sky is a perfect successor to the first game. In every way the gameplay has been improved from the animations, performance, graphics, sound, gunplay and quest design. Everything feels smoother and the…”
“Well I was playing this game lot of years and this is really easy and interesting game to play. The whole S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise is interesting to play. The graphics are decent. The sounds are good. The dialogues are…”
“Same old game! I still love this game, though it has some glaring flaws. Play Call of Pripiat and Shadow of Chernobyl first, because they're better games. But this one still has really good, unique environments that…”
4 of the 86 reviews raise this.
“Stalker Clear Sky is a perfect successor to the first game. In every way the gameplay has been improved from the animations, performance, graphics, sound, gunplay and quest design. Everything feels smoother and the…”
“Well I was playing this game lot of years and this is really easy and interesting game to play. The whole S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise is interesting to play. The graphics are decent. The sounds are good. The dialogues are…”
“Eh, it was okay. Not bad, but not good either. The graphics are nice, the soundtrack is amazing, and there’s more detail in the Zone. Radiation is more forgiving but still a pain in the ass. Ammo doesn’t weigh you down…”
3 of the 86 reviews raise this.
“Stalker Clear Sky is a perfect successor to the first game. In every way the gameplay has been improved from the animations, performance, graphics, sound, gunplay and quest design. Everything feels smoother and the…”
“The OG is better cuz modding and is not censored but this one runs better and I would wager that this one is better for normies who don't want any extras/fuss and just want "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." without all the crashing.…”
“If you have device compatability issues with the original Clear Sky this is not a bad re-release. It works, looks ok for an upscale and runs just fine. If you don't - stick to the original and maybe slap Sky Reclamation…”
34 of the 86 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Constant stutters, FPS drops and no gameplay or QoL improvements, VERY lazy "enhanced edition" UPD: The old softlock with the mercenary Hog happened, completely blocking story progression. It's really embarrassing that…”
“Bought the OG Stalker Trilogy, got the remasters for free. Compared to the OG Stalkers, this was a bad move from GSC. Removed content, censorship and so on, they literally did a remaster just to remove the…”
“This game is plagued by bugs and bad design decisions... here is a list of a few of them: - Artifacts are no longer bountiful and prevalent, instead they are extremely rare, hard to find, and statically generated the…”
33 of the 86 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Constant stutters, FPS drops and no gameplay or QoL improvements, VERY lazy "enhanced edition" UPD: The old softlock with the mercenary Hog happened, completely blocking story progression. It's really embarrassing that…”
“This game is plagued by bugs and bad design decisions... here is a list of a few of them: - Artifacts are no longer bountiful and prevalent, instead they are extremely rare, hard to find, and statically generated the…”
“Spawn in room, take two steps, 15 enemies notice you, 6 immediately open fire on you with pin point accuracy, the other 9 throw grenades, die, repeat.”
16 of the 86 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Spawn in room, take two steps, 15 enemies notice you, 6 immediately open fire on you with pin point accuracy, the other 9 throw grenades, die, repeat.”
“I hated the original game. I never finished it when it launched originally and seven years ago I finally did and it was a struggle. It focuses on the horribly executed "Faction Wars" that never function and lay bare how…”
“its very good but damn did it take a lot of time to complete this 100%. although, genuinley get it IF you want to know the full stalker lore. 1. The game is very hard. The enemies (novice) take like 500 bullets just to…”
8 of the 86 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“It plays like a fine, time aged, rare whiskey, the kind you don’t fully appreciate at first sip, but that lingers long after. Despite its dated visuals, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky outshines many modern titles where it…”
“The OG is better cuz modding and is not censored but this one runs better and I would wager that this one is better for normies who don't want any extras/fuss and just want "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." without all the crashing.…”
8 of the 86 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Constant stutters, FPS drops and no gameplay or QoL improvements, VERY lazy "enhanced edition" UPD: The old softlock with the mercenary Hog happened, completely blocking story progression. It's really embarrassing that…”
“What. A. Nightmare. I dont think i've ever had such a stressful time with a game due to how broken and buggy it can be. This thing was a full blown cashgrab by GSC as they didint bother fixing a single bug from the…”
“okay okay okay... i might get hated for this, but the enhanced versions are amazing. sure, the games now crash more oftenly and there havent been large bug fixes, but the ambience and atmosphere are even better than the…”
Note: these 86 reviews lean more negative than the game overall — 42% of them recommend it, against 56.3% across all 3,447 reviews.
Counted across 86 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 56.3% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“A still good but somewhat frustrating prequel. So after finishing Shadow of Chernobyl (SoC), I jumped straight into Clear Sky, which I knew going in was a bit of a divisive game but as always, I like to play the game myself to form my own opinion. And so what did I think?…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Some frustrating moments but still a good game. I had no issues with the enhanced edition, in fact I didn't have a single crash or major bug or anything like that.”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“How dare you to release such an awful "upgrade" for trilogy. Outsource developers from Poland didn't improve game overall, they just made it even worse. The game looks blurry ? Okay, there are some settings to solve it BUT the text still blurry and theres no way im able to fix…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Hotfix v1.3.2
Fixed loading MODs from filesystem. Fixed an issue where "Restore relations with stalker" quest was not completed even after paying Sidorovich
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, RPG |
| Player tags | Action · Adventure · RPG · Shooter · Exploration · FPS · Immersive Sim · First-Person · Realistic · Atmospheric · Post-apocalyptic · Lore-Rich (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Workshop · Adjustable Difficulty · Save Anytime · Stereo Sound · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish * , Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 43 |
| Official site | http://stalker-game.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64 Processor: Intel Core i3-7100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1300X Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB Storage: 8 GB available space Additional Notes: Graphics Preset: LOW | FXAA; Resolution: 1080p; Target FPS: 60