S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on sale this week

By Robert Purchese Published 27 October, 2009

Save two-thirds and pay just £3.50.

The price of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is being slashed by 75 per cent this week on Steam.

That means the radioactive openworld shooter-cum-RPG is now only £3.50. The offer ends on 2nd November.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. took over one hundred years to make, but the wait was worthwhile; Shadow of Chernobyl - set around the Ukranian nuclear disaster zone - is a startlingly atmospheric game. Bugs upset the launch code, but by and large they have been ironed out. User-created mods, particularly Oblivion Lost, also add considerable legs to the 2007 PC shooter.

Catch-up with our S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl review to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • ZuluHero #1 2 years ago

    Ohh i'll re-buy this! I had a system upgrade a few months ago, would be nice to play STALKER on it now as my poor old system couldnt cope with it when it first came out...

  • YoungPayters #2 2 years ago

    hehe, he said "cum"

  • Widge #3 2 years ago

    Got this via D2D and can't get the BLOODY mods to work.

  • bad09 #4 2 years ago

    Hmmm, I tried this on my metaboli recently couldn't get on with it at all and deleted it fairly quickly. But for £3.50 it's definitely worth a look I'd say.

  • FooAtari #5 2 years ago

    Got it on disc. Is buying the same game twice just for the convenience of it being on Steam dumb?

    Probably...

    /resists

  • kangarootoo #6 2 years ago

    Sweet jesus, that is a massive bargain.

    STALKER has always been a rough diamond, burt there are a shed load of good mods out there to help polish it up.

  • cianchristopher #7 2 years ago

    Is buying the same game twice just for the convenience of it being on Steam dumb?

    I dunno, it's a question I face every time Steam has some good deal going! I recently bought the Company of Heroes pack when it was going on offer, even thought I had 2 of the 3 games on disc!

    But Steam's great though, isn't it? I just got ARMA II for half-price at the weekend! The only reason I bought it was cos it was half-price! I'll be fucked if I'm actually going to play the fucking thing for more than a couple of hours, though! Just don't have the time! But.... I see a special offer on a game that looks interesting, and I just go for it (something I wouldn't bother with in the shops with physical media - even though that would make more sense given that I could sell/trade those games later on).

  • PearOfAnguish #8 2 years ago

    £3.50 is a bargain for one of the best PC games ever.

    "Got this via D2D and can't get the BLOODY mods to work."

    Mods work fine on the Steam version.

  • skillian #9 2 years ago

    EG recommending PC game mods in a news story?!

    Good work fellas, and it's a great recommendation - Oblivion Lost is a serious improvement to what is already an excellent game.

    I'm another one who bought it even though I already own the disc - the convenience of having it on Steam was worth the £3.50. If you don't own the game already, it's a complete no-brainer.

  • Rack #10 2 years ago

    Ooh, thanks for the update. I nearly bought the D2D version till I found out mods didn't work. Now I can get a moddable version for £3.50?

    Bargain.

  • CivilD #11 2 years ago

    I totally bought this last night, can't say no to that price!

  • VicViper #12 2 years ago

    Been trying to get this at some point, Now there's no excuse not to.

  • Koozer #13 2 years ago

    So since when did two thirds equal 75%? Did I miss the meeting?

  • SAMagic #14 2 years ago

    I played it on release but naturally hated the bugs as well as virtually impossible Qs to find certain monsters and artefacts, plus rapidly respawning enemies. I'm very tempted to try this, especially if there is a decent range of mods out there.

  • kuzanagi #15 2 years ago

    Absolute bargain for what is easily one of the best PC games ever made.

  • Golgo #16 2 years ago

    and a free lollipop to anyone who can get the buggy mess to run...
    Edited by 1 at 27/10/09 @ 16:12

  • skillian #17 2 years ago

    ^ Two years late with that comment I'm afraid.

  • Inigo #18 2 years ago

    I made a promise to myself that i would play some of the steam sale games before i bought any more. In one day i've broke it twice, first STALKER and then The Witcher (only £11).

  • MattyD #19 2 years ago

    One of my favourite games ever. Buy it you fools!

    Also, for anyone having trouble getting mods to work, this is how you do it: unzip/rar the files right into the GAMEDATA folder within your main Stalker directory. Then, use Notepad to open the file in the Stalker directory called FSGAME.LTX

    Look for a line that says:

    $game_data$ = false| true| $fs_root$| gamedata\

    and replace the word 'fasle' with 'true' like so:

    $game_data$ = true| true| $fs_root$| gamedata\

    And Bob's your uncle. Bear in mind that a lot of mods will conflict with each other, or weren't updated when the game was patched, or may otherwise break the game. Use at your own risk!

    Also, for pity's sake play the game through at least once without the mods. I promise you won't regret it!
    Edited by 1 at 27/10/09 @ 19:33