From fleeing Kyiv bombings and supporting colleagues on the front, the game’s developers have endured the shadow of war

STALKER 2 features a wide variety of weapons, each offering something a little different. Here are the best pistols in STALKER 2.

Heart Of Chornobyl is vast, filled with horrors, treasure, and more than a few mysteries. There's also a main story arc you can follow, uncovering a plot that extends across the Zone. How you approach both sides of the game is up to you,

Forged in adversity, this Ukrainian-developed shooter delivers a beautiful open-world survival-shooter like no other.

The Needle in a Haystack mission gives players several options to progress in Stalker 2, but some are much more advisable than others.

Not that a lot of post-apocalyptic first-person shooters are, but STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is especially not for the faint of heart. It’s built to generate the kind of friction that goes a long way in creating a challenging and punishing game that’s also captivating.

The Stalker 2 Heart of Chornobyl Review Scores are in, and we're curious to see what critics think of the game.

There are plenty of great weapons to get your hands on in the early game of Stalker 2. Here’s our guide to the best.

You don't need to have played past Stalker games to dive into Heart of Chornobyl, but newcomers to The Zone – an irradiated land of impossibilities in Ukraine – will find themselves tested by its brutality. That goes double for protagonist Skif, whose first foray into The Zone results in him being ambushed and left for dead.

The Fora-221 is one of the stronger assault rifles in STALKER 2, and it has some of the highest accuracy out of any assault rifle in the game. The rifle is most commonly found as a drop from stronger, well-armed enemies such as Ward Soldiers.