So what we did, en masse, was went and played STALKER GAMMA. So Vostok’s Early Access release in September reminded us all of that important blueprint and how much so many of us seem magnetized to it.
Realism is king when it comes to weapon behavior and damage modeling, but horror elements are allowed, even to the point of supernatural. You’re in charge of managing your resources out in the wild, and navigating a vast space. Hardcore survival elements, no hand-holding. DayZ, yes, but also PUBG and The Long Dark, The Last of Us, Fallout 3 and 4 and… wow, we’ve actually been pretty obsessed with this premise over the last couple of decades.īut like all those other games, so much of Vostok owes to the initial blueprint Shadow of Chernobyl laid out in 2007. Road to Vostock is certainly aware of the last 15 years in games, and all the titles since STALKER that made a significant contribution to the service of simulating shivering in some bushes with not quite enough ammo, hoping those much better equipped soldiers over there don’t spot you. Or maybe it was the release of Road to Vostok, an early access survival shooter set in the moodiest, gloomiest piece of geography between Finland and Russia a STALKER fan could ever hope for. That would explain the slight spike in the original game’s concurrent Steam users and Twitch viewers in March 2022. Perhaps it was that the global media’s eye has been trained on Ukraine for most of this year that got people thinking about STALKER again. But that’s the least of anyone’s worries, given the enormity of the situation that the entire country faces. That conflict also hugely and inevitably affected GSC, whose long-awaited STALKER sequel - now just called STALKER 2 – has been delayed until December 2023. Sadly, an animator at 4A, Andrii Korzinkin, died last year while fighting for his country in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. A splinter group of GSC developers formed 4A games and began the Metro series, taking something of the gritty atmosphere, the horror elements and the ‘just scraping by’ approach to inventory but focusing on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s novels of the same name.
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