Developer: GSC Game World
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Source Code Release Date: Not formally released

I know I've used the term "hardcore" a bit on here but this game is not only pretty hardcore, the process of running it is going to be a little involved too.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a series of survival horror FPS games set in a fictional dystopian version of Ukraine after a second Chernobyl disaster. You play as a stalker, someone who ventures into the wasteland looking for loot and encountering mutated monsters.

Combining elements of FPS games, survival horror, role playing elements and the bleak atmosphere and resource scarcity associated with Eastern European game development, the series has always had a fairly devout niche. The developer released a trilogy of games in three years, the last of which was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. In the years since the OpenXray project has worked on a source port for modern systems.

I try not to use the "Early Access" tag on here too often but it's appropriate here since we're hosting a build with some caveats. For now it's Apple Silicon only until I can hammer out some issues with Intel builds. The game also requires additional data to be present that is not in the original game data or in the app bundle, so there is a second file of data to download and install. Please read the instructions carefully.

KNOWN ISSUE: quitting the game via CMD+Q may cause the game to crash or hang, however exiting via the menu works correctly.

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