Sh*t UI Designing, Gamplay is too hard,too much radiation zones,game is to hard even you set the game mode to Easy,no steam overlay,no achievement ,no trading card, at the first time i thought this game is deserve that cost but now i regret please don't waste you money on this ♥♥♥♥ game.
(If you deal with multiple enemies there is no chance you can stand i mean what a game is a game where you can't play even 5min or more ) save your progress manually every time. Personally I don't like this I thought is good but...........

Amazing atmosphere, gunplay, story, and aesthetics. Feels like fallout but in a more grounded setting and with much more intense gameplay. I would definitely highly recommend this to anyone interested in post-apocalyptic games or militaristic games.

not a single crash the whole playthrough

oh and ♥♥♥♥ lukash

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernoby one of the best game i grow up with as a kid and man did it drive you insane but that is the best part of this franchise its hard as ♥♥♥♥ and i love it but never forget to cheeki breeki

I wanna touch Sterlok up

I ignored this game for a few years after release because I considered it an average mainstream game about weird men in gas masks and hoods. What a fool I was..
After a first meeting Stalker starts to tightly integrating in my life. After a few replays I found out that I like autumn’s cloudiness and steady oppressiveness. I learned a lot of phrases and jokes from an NPCs and sometimes I use it in a real-life communication.
Each time I launch a new game and find myself in a village of newbies, I feel vibes like back to something native or even to home. It reminds me my teen age when my friends and I wandered in abandoned places. Those ordinary Eastern Europe terrains look a little ugly but at the same time it’s painfully familiar to me.
I fell in love with Stalker’s atmosphere. What can be better than a pause by the fire in a company of guys with guitar after walking in a dangerous world? Or back to the bar after a hard raid and listen to Dirge for the Planet.
My first playing was like a usual shooter: run and kill. Since the second replaying I found some quests and lore in the game. Actually, I don’t really like fantasy but Stalker’s story has a real-life justification like radiation impact on a fauna and flora or a noosphere theory. So, it raises in me a desire to solve the riddle of the Zone.
Of course, the game isn’t perfect and it’s clear for me. It has outdated graphics, pinched mechanics, and some bugs. But I hope it will never get a remaster or remake because I’m afraid it will loose this depressive but congenial atmosphere. This game is amazing in its current form.
Thank you Grygorovich and team, thank you GSC.

I really wanted to like this game. In fact, I assumed I would love it. Instead, I just wish I had played it years ago because now it feels awful. By today's standards this is a nearly unplayable, broken mess of a game. I unloaded an entire clip from a machine gun into a regular enemy at point blank range, and it did nothing. I rescue Mole, he shows me a route through a sewer, I then pop out the other side of the sewers without him, now I have to rescue Mole again(?), but he dies before I can even reach him every single time. I don't understand what I'm even doing. Very much a disappointment, but I have faith the new one will still be good. I'm sure this game was worth the struggle back in the day, but I can't do this anymore.

enjoyable even in 2024, just add a gunslinger mod, and maybe some graphic mods

The original CHEEKI BREEKI I V DAMKI!!!
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Made me (metaphorically) ♥♥♥♥ my pants countless times. Perfect game for the spooky season. Having my gun jam in the Agroprom Underground was one of the most tense and unnerving moments I've experienced in a video game.

As for mods, the game is perfectly playable with just the vanilla game and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R Complete 1.5 mod, but if you want to fix the sometimes broken weapon animations, there are also overhaul mods like Radiophobia 3 and Lurker which drastically change the gunplay to be more like the legendary Gunslinger mod for Call of Pripyat.

Atmosphere: 10/10. It is unmatched, even by it's sequels.

Combat: 6/10. There can be some tense and genuinely fun gunfights but SOC is infamous for having very unfitting sound fx for the guns and strange recoil patterns that sometimes make shooting while aiming less accurate.

Soundtrack: 8/10 (The ambient sounds in this game are incredible, I just wish the soundtrack had a few more tracks for the early areas. Campfire songs are also a very nice part of the soundtrack.)

Visuals: 8.5/10. I know this game doesn't have the fanciest visuals but I think the older look of the textures contributes a lot to the overall horror atmosphere of the game.

Overall: 8/10