To my associate’s enduring frustration, I by no means obtained round to Stalker. What I’ve as a substitute is a photo book of Soviet Bus Stops and an everlasting love of huge, decaying concrete monstrosities. Thus, whereas I may not have the body to guage Chernobylite, a singleplayer survival shooter from The Farm 51 as a worthy successor to Stalker, there are actually sufficient brutalist oddities to pique my curiosity.
While it may not have well-considered public rest-stops, Chernobylite is dropping us again into the exclusion zone for some supernatural gunfights, launching into early entry at the moment.
Previously on Chernobylite, we obtained a tense glimpse of The Farm 51’s painstaking rendition of Pripyat. This time round, although, every little thing’s gone a little bit inexperienced. In this local weather, I’ll take it.
There’s no scarcity of games the place you skulk across the 20th century’s most notorious peacetime nuclear catastrophe, in fact. But The Farm 51’s take appears fairly a bit extra polished than most, with sharp environments scanned in from Pripyat correct. The trailers we’ve seen thus far all appear to push a story-driven expertise, and the devs are touting eight hours of non-linear storytelling, survival, and capturing wobbly ghost dudes.
You’ll additionally be capable of crew up with the assorted strangers kicking concerning the space, although they’ll be a drain in your assets and make it more durable to skulk round. It’s all very emergent and that, and will make for an attention-grabbing – if extra directed – sandbox.
The Farm 51 efficiently crowdfunded Chernobylite earlier this 12 months, raking in over double their goal. They’ve beforehand made wonky games like Get Even (wot Alec liked) and 2001 horror schlock Necrovision (wot Sin appreciated). But then, Stalker itself is a damaged mess requiring spreadsheets of mods to actually “get into”, so possibly that is simply the crew to hold on that legacy.
Chernobylite might be picked up at the moment on Steam and GOG for £24/€25/$30. The Farm 51 hope to launch the total factor in late 2020, and plan on including common new areas, characters, and equipment over the course of the game’s early entry tour.
