HHáromszor kezdtem újra eddig, és mindig valami lehetetlen hülye nyomorult bug miatt kellett újrakezdeni. Pedig már fél percenként elkezdtem menteni. A kínszenvedés nem fejezi ki jól azt, hogy mennyire nehezen élvezhető állapotban van sajnos jelenleg a játék.

Jelenlegi formájában nem ajánlom a megvásárlást!

A demó sokkal jobb volt és játszhatóbb mint a kiadott játék.
A pre-alpha gameplay trailerben látott tartalmak 90%-a nincs benne a játékban, főképp azok érdekeltek volna.
Hiányolom az erőművi dolgozók részét, a kilakoltatós részt, meg az összes többi mindent ami a trailerben megvoltak. Ami benne is van a játékban, az is rosszabb lett.
A játék tele van felesleges, unalmas, kínos és hosszú dialógusokkal, amik megakasztják a játékot és nem tesznek hozzá a játékélményhez, (inkább csak elvesz), és az animációk a jobbra-balra dülöngélésnél nem többek ilyenkor. És mint ha a feliratok is rosszul jelennek meg esetenként.
Nincs egységes játékmenet, ami van az logikátlan és érthetetlen.
A chapterek nem időrendben követik egymást, illetve a Duga radaros dolgot nem is értem mit keres a játékba. Ha a KGB-s szálat meg azzal a nővel a beszélgetés kivennék, nem hiányozna a játékból.
Nagyon sok hiba van a játékban ami megakadályozza az előrehaladást, és az achievementek nagy részét sem kaptam meg.
Ami nagyon tetszik az egyes pályák kidolgozottsága és felépítése, de sajnos az kevés.

Remélem a későbbiekben ez javulni fog, és megkapjuk azt a játékot amit a demó és a gameplay trailer ígért anno sok-sok évvel ezelőtt.

Hát őszinte leszek hatalmas csalódás a játék. Az első részben összesen háromszor kellett újrakezdenem, mert egyszerűen nem vette fel pl. a markert, így tovább nem lehetett csinálni semmit sem sajnos. Az ugrások is elég bugosak, néha ugrik, néha nem.
A második takarítós részben is ugyanez történt. Össze vissza ugrunk az időben is, plusz a második részt mint takarítás nem is tudom hova tenni. Unalmas nagyon és ugyanazt csinálod végig csak más helyszíneken.
Összességében egy jó játéknak ígérkezett, de sajnos nagyon rossz lett. Annyira sok benne a bug és néha a játék is egy rövid időre megakad, hogy élvezhetetlenné teszi a játékot. A kedvenc bugom viszont az volt mikor 3 kezem volt 😂
Az legalább megnevettetett. Kár érte :(

It appears most reviews address the issues with the game. Optimisation, clunky movement, character bugs.
The demo looked promising.
My message is to the developers. It's nice to see you addressing the issues put forward in these reviews. I see your replies and you're making an effort. Please just do this right.
We are stuck in an unfortunate era of developers pushing out unfinished/broken games, In which we end up paying top whack for, only to be disappointed, furthermore the trailers make many games look better than it is. I don't want this game to be that. Fortunately your game is less than £20.
If said issues are addressed, this'll be a unique fun, game experience. My review could be swayed to positive.

So um. I'm really unhappy that I have to write this type of review because I waited for a very long time for this game and it looked so promising. I've studied the disaster for more than fifteen years and know it very well, but I was prepared to forgive this game for certain things (which is more leeway than I gave to HBO Chernobyl, which - don't even get me f-ing started).

So let's do categories to make this easier:

Accuracy-
2/10. Dear god. Other reviews in the feedback thread for this game have already detailed small inaccuracies in the environment (books and other "set dressing", the location of pumps on the fire engines, etc.), so I'd like to know exactly what the soldiers are wearing after the first part of the game. Those rubber smocks don't look anything like the OZK chemical defense sets that were sometimes issued to dosimetrists or the men in charge of washing Pripyat. The green "pig snout" respirators are right, those were quite common, but the goggles? No. Not unless you were being sent to climb the roof of the third reactor. In reality, the guys sent to evacuate villages were in their ordinary army uniforms and didn't even always have masks.

Some parts of Pripyat looked good, like the "white house" over the Raduga department store. But the movie theater and the pool are not only not in that microdistrict but also nowhere near each other at all. Instead of sticking them in areas they don't belong, perhaps Pripyat should've been made fully explorable (more on that later). One thing I will grant some leniency towards is the power station during the first segment of the game except for jumping down the elevator shaft. Nobody would do that, especially not trained firefighters.

Gameplay-
3.5/10. Plenty of people have pointed out the clunkiness of the mechanics but that honestly doesn't bother me too much compared with all the OTHER things wrong. I've played both iterations of the demo before the game was released, several times each, and... in many ways those versions were superior. In the initial version of the demo before it had a significant update, the autosave feature worked very well (at least for me, I know other people had problems) and ironically besides the masks and helmets the black and white rubber uniforms on the firemen were much, much closer to what they wore in real life. The out-of-town brigades probably did have the tan canvas gear with the rubber flaps over the shoulders, but brigade 2 at the power station and brigade 6 from Pripyat were very well taken care of and had better equipment. After a major update on appearance and game mechanics, the second version of the demo made me even more hopeful. Yes, the uniforms looked kind of wonky and not really realistic to actual Soviet equipment (except the helmets and gloves and to an extent the mask/rebreather backpack combos), but the fire extinguishing mechanic was working better and the atmosphere was absolutely nerve-wracking at times.

And speaking of nerve-wracking, I want to talk about the pulsing reactor for a second. In both versions of the demo, whenever it "breathed" and lit up blindingly, if you were outside of cover it would seriously hurt or even kill you. This was one of the things I was prepared to forgive like I mentioned earlier because this is after all still a game, and while it's not the most accurate thing in the world it did serve very well to make the environment absolutely terrifying. That one mechanic put such a fear of death into me by itself that regardless of the dozens of times I played the demos I was always shaking by the time the platform was collapsing with me on it near the end of the level. But this was cut, for reasons I don't understand. They should've left that in. It was horrific and effective and made you feel the danger of the place you were in a hundred times stronger than anything else.

Demo versions aside, I will now take issue with the planting of the contamination warning flags in the village you're sent to evacuate during the third level. Figuring out where they're supposed to go is so outrageously difficult and frustrating that after four hours I quit the game because I was about to put my fist through the screen. The next day I picked it back up and tried again, and eventually worked out all the spots, but it was so annoying and hard that I took screenshots of the level map afterwards (it shows where you've already planted a flag) and marked the locations in blue so that I wouldn't have that issue again. The objective marker doesn't move after planting the flags, so you have to wander around with your DP-5 using up all your iodine until you HAPPEN to find the right spot on the ground.

Speaking of objectives that are badly explained and make no sense, WHY IS COMPUTER HACKING A FUNCTION OF THIS GAME. Chornobyl Liquidators bills itself in its own description as being a realistic take on the disaster but this is straight from Fallout and has no place here. In the same vein, sneaking around at Duga makes absolutely no sense and should not be part of this game. This is partly a personal gripe because there are few things I hate more in video games than being randomly coerced into stealth for one or two parts when the rest of the game it's unnecessary, and partly me screeching in outrage at the total stupidity of that entire level. Practically speaking, there's no reason for it because if the KGB really needed things done there, they'd first of all send one of their own grunts and second of all issue paper passes and documents saying "hey let this guy in so he can rummage around or else". And historically speaking, again, it would be an actual KGB agent if that was necessary, not some random dosimetry sergeant.

One more thing that is maybe a nitpick but probably not - why would you make a game like this and NOT have Pripyat be fully explorable? In previous trailers and developer updates so much more of it was shown than what you get to see. I guarantee though that wandering around a freshly irradiated Pripyat in all its frightening splendor was one of the things a lot of us were looking forward to the most, and we were robbed.

Story/Characters-
1/10. I touch on this some in the section above but the plot of this game is ridiculous. There were hundreds of thousands of people drafted as liquidators, but aside from the firefighting portion in the first level, this same one guy is working for the KGB and cleaning Pripyat and evacuating villages and and and and and. Just. No. If he didn't have such a flat and unremarkable personality and was more fleshed out maybe I could see the merit of this a bit more, but it's absurdly unrealistic that one man would be responsible for so many tasks. He would have one or maybe two tasks. None of the NPCs really stand out either and some are outright obnoxious to deal with too. And going back to the Duga radar mission for a second, that was so stupid and needlessly difficult that I haven't even finished the game.

In conclusion, I'm so sad and disappointed with this game. I waited for it for years and read all the developer logs as they were put out, and the product that was released is not the one that was advertised. The best part is the first level where you're firefighting in the first hours after the explosion. I'm sure some people were annoyed or confused by the fireground tasks in the very beginning before you climb up onto the first roof, but I liked those and felt they actually *did* add some slivers of realism that were sorely lacking in the rest of the game.

- Laggy, performance is terrible.
- Dialogue is terrible
- Quest System is really buggy
- Why is there a note that says "Yo dawg, the ...."

Great idea, absolutely terrible execution. I'd love to love this, and I will finish it, but this feels like an Early Access game.

I really wanted to like this game more than I did. Sadly it's quite rough around the edges in terms of controls and atmosphere. I do really want to return to this game, and see it in a better light.
I hope it still gets worked on, there's some real potential here.

I so wanted to love this game. I'm fascinated by all things Chernobyl and Pripyat, but this game just isn't it. The game play is clunky and super repetitive at times. The hacking portions have no business being in the game and it just really isn't that fun. I'm also really nervous that this game has just been abandoned by the devs. They promised a long time ago that they were working on an update with DLSS and the new Unity version, but nothing has come of that and the Discord is dead too. Again, I wanted to love this, but I just can't.

I had this game in my wishlist for maybe 2 to 3 years, and I was very excited when I heard the announcement that it was coming out. I have a big interest in Chernobyl and when I saw the trailer and the pictures it looked promising. I bought the game when it came out and it had its negative reviews, but it also had promise, so I waited.

Playing the game a few months later after release I was expecting a lot of positive changes, but unfortunately after completing the game I wasn't very pleased. It did not meet my expectations and in some parts of the game did not make sense for the time period of 1986. Also some parts of the story telling felt like it was missing voice overs and even subtitles. It was little things like that which kept adding on.

Now I want to say that the game isn't too bad. The story is interesting and unique in its own way. Graphics aren't too bad, there are moments where you look around and everything looks great, but there are also moments where areas needs some more work. Additionally some game mechanics were really annoying (putting out fires at the end of the game took too long, doors closing when you go near them, random noises that did not correspond to the action of the player etc...). I can go on, but in my opinion, there are other reviews that have explained it much better then I can, and in much greater detail.

I want to also mention that I am not a game designer or anything of the sort. I am just a guy who enjoys playing videos games, so please keep that in mind.

To the developers of the game. I think you have something good here, but it is far from great. I don't know what happened here, and why the game went in the direction it did, but I think if you continue working on it, you will get much better results. I wish you luck.

Its hurts me to give this a negative review because I waited years for this game, but I must say this game is extremely unpolished, clunky, buggy and poorly optimized. Its a real shame there's a lot of potential with a game like this, but in its current state it has a lot to be worked out. Again as much it hurts me to say this, I would not recommend this game, at least not now.