The series is based on the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and influenced by the 1979 film Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky which was itself adapted from Roadside Picnic.

Welcome to the former exclusion territory near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant… the most dangerous place on Earth. Play as The Marked One, face sinister mysteries, radiation-soaked …

Experience one-of-a-kind gameplay, featuring the elements of a first-person shooter, immersive sim, and horror. Play a major part in a non-linear story that unfolds in the setting of local post-apocalyptic dark …

Stalker: Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. With Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko. A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a …

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, …

For the game series, see S.T.A.L.K.E.R. "Stalkers" is the self-designation of people who are illegally present within the Exclusion Zone. From the stalkers' own point of view, only those who actively …

May 17, 2025 · Here are all the STALKER games in order from 2007 to the present day. From janky 2007 gunfights to massive, seamless worlds built with photogrammetry and real-time AI, the series …

Jan 8, 2026 · Use our guide to the chronological and release date orders to start your playthrough of the bleak but brilliant S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.

Already, 6 million incredible stalkers have visited the zone in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl!

Dec 27, 2025 · The Rat Catcher mission in the Stalker 2 Stories Untold starts after completing the Radio Silence quest.