In the world of Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone, nothing is obvious. As a traveller between parallel worlds, you have been cut off from the reality you know and trapped in the Zone. Constantly under attack from hordes of terrifying monsters and bandits lurking everywhere, you must fight to survive. You must decide for yourself what your survival strategy will be.
Are you a born fighter or do you prefer to resolve conflicts through dialogue? Do you choose to explore the vast open world by day, or do you want the thrill of facing danger by night? Do you prefer to be a lone wolf, or will you strive to unite the survivors who also managed to survive? Your every move matters. How much? Find out for yourself!
We are proud to present the first gameplay trailer from Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone. Scheduled for release on PC and consoles in 2025.
MAIN FEATURES
OPEN WORLD EXPLORATION
Explore the big and realistic open world of the real Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in first person perspective. Chernobylite has taken over the zone, transforming many of its elements, and people are trying to defend themselves against it using prototype technologies.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Create and develop your hero. Attributes and skills will affect combat effectiveness, as well as the conversation style. An arrogant muscle man with a big sword trying to intimidate everyone? Or a smart sniper who always finds the right arguments? The choice is yours.
DIVERSE COMBAT
Fight for survival with an advanced melee combat system or keep your enemies away with a diverse arsenal of firearms in a third-person perspective - gain complete control over your character. You can also use the stealth approach or ask others for help. When you explore the game world, you can see it from your eyes’ perspective, but whenever it comes to combat, you’ll get the third-person perspective to see all the threats around you more clearly and be able to react more accurately.
The combat system of Chernobylite 2 is a massive expansion of its predecessor. The introduction of advanced melee weapons fight and crafting system gives more diversity to the character build, strategies, and tactics you can create independently. Don’t forget that if you like to play at the pace of the original Chernobylite, you still can!
PLANEWALKING
Adapt your build and equipment to the situation with plane walking, which allows you to change things on the fly. You’re free to develop more than one character skill set. Are you encountering a situation that your previously prepared heavy melee build will solve better than your current ranged sniper? Planewalk and use another one.
TEAM BUILDING
Embark on the exciting team-building journey. Each of your mates is a potential teacher, ready to share their knowledge and skills. Assemble your team and discover the unique strengths and abilities they bring. The question is, will you earn their trust and unlock their full potential?
BASE DEVELOPMENT
Develop your base. There, you can create valuable items and upgrade your weapons every day. Assign your people to tasks, and they will take care of your equipment and supplies.
FACTIONS
Fight for domination and negotiate with factions. The Exclusion Zone is a battlefield that changes every day and reacts to your every action. Can you help them defeat the army of vicious monsters? And when old conflicts are revived, whose side will you be on?
COOPERATIVE MISSIONS
Experience online cooperative missions embedded in a single-player campaign allowing players to interact in various ways to achieve the goal.
CHERNOBYLITE 2: EXCLUSION ZONE ANNOUNCEMENT
Today is an important day for the entire team at The Farm 51.
We are proud to announce that intensive work is underway on Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone!
Chernobylite has been a huge success for us. A large and dedicated community has rallied around the game, and vividly supported our little team at every stage: from launching the campaign on Kickstarter, through Early Access and long after the official game release. We received some great feedback from you. This, combined with our accumulated experience, allowed us to start working on the sequel - a post-apocalyptic action-RPG. The upcoming Chernobylite 2 game will feature:
explore and analyze an open and immersive world in first-person perspective - you won't miss a single detail
character development, expanding your base and creating your own team
brutal combat with diverse enemies in third-person perspective - gain full control over your character
planewalking, i.e. travel between dimensions
dealing with various factions in the Zone
cooperative missions
...and much more!
We will be revealing more as time goes on. If you want to keep up to date with what's happening around Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone, add the game to your wishlist now!
And don't forget to follow us on our social media.
Chernobylite Enhanced Edition on Steam Summer Sale - 67% off!
The Steam Summer Sale is underway! From today until 11 July, Chernobylite: Enhanced Edition and most of the DLC released so far will be available at a discounted price of -67%.
This is final major free update that will offers new players to immediately experience the full excitement of playing the game, set in the danger-filled Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Plus, owners of the Enhanced Edition will receive a highly anticipated pack of new content.
Complete Edition consists of the base game and free content from all previously released updates:
Monster Hunt
Ghost Town
Season 1 - Blue Flames
Season 2 - Red Trees
Season 3 - Green Walls
However, the Complete Edition wouldn’t be truly complete without every component. With this update, players will also get access to content from the long-awaited Season 4.
1. Farewell, my doll 🪆 Experience new events on the map, with the creepy dolls taking centre stage. If their mere presence in the basic version of Chernobylite unsettled you, I dread to think what attractions they have in store for you in the Zone...
2. I Am Your Hero 📷 Collect all the photos of Tatyana scattered around the Zone and unlock the possibility to watch VHS tapes with fairy tales in Igor's room. And not just any fairy tales - these are fairy tales based on Ukrainian folklore.
3. Tour Around the Zone 🗺️ Try the brand new game mode. Explore familiar locations, without the stress and fear of being attacked. Collect notes and talk to scientists to learn more about the history and curiosities of Chernobyl and the events that took place almost 40 years ago.
Important information for owners of the console version!
👉 The Complete Edition containing all outstanding updates will arrive on consoles in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, The Farm 51 team says: have fun, stalkers! ☢️
The announcement of Chernobylite: Complete Edition!
We have been working on this for a very long time and we can finally announce it.
Chernobylite: Complete Edition is coming to PC and consoles in Q2 of this year!
What is the Complete Edition? It is the final version of Chernobylite, where players will receive free content from all major updates: Monster Hunt, Ghost Town and all Seasons, including the long-awaited Season 4!
What will you find in Season 4? Among other things, new map events in which creepy dolls will play major roles and a new game mode allowing free exploration of the Zone. A base decoration pack will be available for purchase as part of the paid Black Smoke DLC.
We will keep you informed about the release of the Complete Edition and details of the full content in a separate announcement.
A group of enthusiasts from the south of Poland are launching a fundraiser on Kickstarter. The aim is to raise funds for the creation of a game for which they have been collecting materials for many months. However, it wasn't the usual research involving scouring the internet for reference material. In order to lay the foundations for their latest creation, the team traveled more than 1,000 kilometers east. To Ukraine. To Chernobyl.
An experiment was carried out in the renovated power unit No. 4, the purpose of which was to show how long (after a possible failure) the power plant would be able to produce energy for its own operation. The duration of the experiment was planned only for a minute.
Tests started at 01:23. Almost a minute later, the pressure of steam led to the first explosion - the anti-radiation dome was blown up, and the building of block four was demolished. The second explosion took place at 01:24. Only a crater remains from what once was the fourth reactor.
The fire brigade arrived shortly after the fire broke out. The firefighters were convinced they were dealing with an ordinary situation, a fire on the roof of the power plant. Units from Chernobyl and Pripyat arrived there and the fight with fire lasted several hours, until the very morning. They were extinguished by dozens of units, well over a hundred firefighters in total.
The entire local population was evacuated - first within a radius of 10 km from the crash site, then it was extended to 30 km in the following days. Approximately 350,000 people were evacuated, including those from Pripyat, which is today known as a “ghost town”.
38 years later, the memory of the Chernobyl events is still alive. For many years the Chernobyl disaster has been the subject of many publications - historical and scientific articles, reports, analysis. Over time, the history of Chernobyl and the place itself began to be used in other media - movies, TV series. And also video games.
24 April 2019
Just nine days after the launch of the Kickstarter campaign, we are informing everyone that the required minimum amount has been raised. Work on Chernobylite has officially kicked off. All sketches, plans and concepts are slowly coming to fruition. But this is not the end of the story. The ongoing fundraising is uncovering more milestones, and that means new content that needs to be created and added to the game. The project is growing.
Chernobylite saw the light of day for the first time in early access. And while the game is still in its infancy at this stage, plenty of things will still be tweaked and changed in the coming months, it is being met with mostly positive feedback alone. Players have particularly praised Chernobylite for its detailed reproduction of Chernobyl in even the smallest detail. We are not resting on our laurels. There is still a long way to go.
Big day for us - Chernobylite is officially leaving Early Access! The game almost entirely resembles what we showed just two years earlier. Improved graphics, a new story, additional characters, additional content, new and improved locations and a finished ending - this and more was already ready for release. Over the following months, we have been fixing bugs reported by players and delivering new content to the game. We are giving these major innovations to players in the form of DLC completely free of charge.
You have been with us from the very beginning. You followed all the information about the game, which we passed on to you in the form of reports. In 199 posts on Steam, we showed you the entire creative process, the ins and outs of game development, behind the scenes and interesting facts. We also told you about everything related to the very place without which the game would not have been created - Chernobyl. About its history, the events of almost 40 years ago, and our memories of traveling to the site. You read and commented on all the entries with equal enthusiasm.
Today's 200th report is somewhat symbolic. First of all because we are publishing it on the 38th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. This event not only had an impact on the modern world, but also on pop culture as well. Without it, games like Chernobylite would never have existed.
The 200th report is also the last. It's been a fantastic journey and we hope it's also been very informative for all of you. We have to admit that, in preparing posts for you each week, it was not uncommon for us to learn something ourselves.
But it's not like we're abandoning Chernobylite! Keep following us on Steam and on our social media. We still have a few outstanding issues to resolve. And there are also brand new, exciting challenges ahead of us. And we sincerely hope you will join us on this new journey. Where to?
From today until April 29, Chernobylite: Enhanced Edition and all DLC released so far will be available at a discounted price of -60%. The discount also applies to the Chernobyl VR Project.
The moment has finally arrived! Weeks of anticipation and your hard work have finally brought the harvest! Today, the winners of our art competition will be announced!
We admit that we were a bit apprehensive at the beginning. The entries did not come in as wide a stream as we had imagined. Also, some of them deviated from the established rules (what were those screenshots doing there?). But the closer we got to the deadline, the better images we received from you. In the end, we received a solid batch of works, from which we managed to select the final 10. It was a challenge for us, because each of these works charmed us in its own way.
D.E.S.T.R.O.Y.E.R. Here you can see the huge amount of work that went into creating this image and the inspiration behind our concept material. The character has everything he or she needs: a name, his or her own historical background and is depicted in various costumes, along with the smallest details described. Heck, we even get to know the musical themes that fit this character! Hats off to you. An excellent job.
SIEGE (облога) The character's name is Natalya. The traditional long coat in moro, glans and dreadlocks on her head perfectly match the look of a real stalker with Ukrainian roots. We appreciate the attention to detail of her silhouette and the look of her face.
FDE Two pluses. The first for the richly detailed portrait drawn in pencil (that hair!). The second for the background and the clear definition of the character's purpose in the game itself. You can see that this is not a job done in three days.
Csenge Bíró There is something charming about this image. Here we see a character created by Csenge (maybe even a self-portrait?) alongside Olivier. Extra points for the level of detail, including what is in the background.
Michael648 An interesting approach to the task. We're familiar with the stories of people who treated sneaking into the Zone and taking out fangs from there as a high school adventure. Therefore, we are all the more able to imagine that not every stalker has to wear a moro coat. One tip for the future: a bigger frame :P
Jarosław T. (MRAFpl) An interesting concept. Partly cosplay, partly the product of a computer program. We ourselves have sometimes used such a method to help ourselves a little during the creation of concept graphics (this means that one of us had to dress up). Here, too, this method worked.
Dante Making a cosplay is one thing. But to make a cosplay, throw in a cut-out silhouette against a screenshot from the game (or rather one of our graphics ;) and create a dialogue frame almost identical to the one from Chernobylite - that's a whole other, higher level.
Sigaev Taras Sigaev tattooed himself with the figure of a stalker gawping at us from above the Devil's Mill in Pripyat and took a photo with this tattoo against the backdrop of the real Devil's Mill in Pripyat. That's called dedication to the cause.
Mico A stalker in a mask dragging an oxygen bottle behind him was one of the funnier ideas we've seen. At least that's what we thought at first. Then we started to think that maybe it wasn't such a silly idea. While others walk around in just masks with filters, we came across one who thinks otherwise. Brave? Silly?
Koppany Szabo The simplest and most old-school look. Reminds a bit of those who came to the power station after the explosion to investigate what happened and secure the place.
And that's it! As you can see, everyone had a different method, different skills and tools. But they managed it all the same and delivered some really cool images.
Congratulations to all the winners! Expect a message from us 🙂
Let us know in the comments which of those works you like!
Prior to delving into the core content of the report, we would like to remind you:
1. The Spring Sale is underway! Chernobylite and all the DLCs released so far, as well as Chernobyl VR Project - the educational app where it all started - are available at reduced prices by 60%!
We had a lot of fun choosing the best photos from our outdoor photo shoots. Although we have to admit that it was not an easy job. It was quite a challenge to choose even a few from a really huge and hard-to-count collection. But it allowed us to dig into a lot of material that we ourselves had almost forgotten existed. It was worth sinking into the folders.
As we promised, there will be more moving pictures in this report. In addition to the pictures themselves, we also recorded short videos. Some of them you've probably seen on our social media, and some appeared in our Chernobylite promotional videos. Here, for example, footage from a photo shoot inside the building ruins. The light that day was perfect for taking outdoor photos.
Even when Tatyana (Joanna) is sitting in one place the pictures come out great!
This series was a special one. Here we tested the concept of showing Tatyana as a phantom straight out of the movie "Ring". We spent a lot of time styling our model. The hair caused some problems (it turns out that it is not enough to just flip the hair over the face). But the end result rewarded us for this effort. The photos came out fantastic.
There is an anecdote behind this session, which Joanna and Kasia talked about in one of our behind-the-scenes videos. A group of foreign tourists entered the building where the photo shoot took place. The girls decided to play a prank on them. Joanna appeared from behind a wineglass and... almost scared these poor tourists to death. They were quite frustrated 😀
And that's it for today. If you haven't had enough photos, go to our social media - there we upload and will continue to upload photos and other material that we have never published before. And in the next report we will see what you have drawn for us :)
Chernobylite Enhanced Edition in Steam Spring Sale - 60% off!
Steam Spring Sale is on! From today until March 21, Chernobylite: Enhanced Edition and all DLC released so far will be available at a discounted price of -60%.
The discount also applies to the Chernobyl VR Project.
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