The game includes elements of role-playing and business simulation games. The game has a non-linear storyline and features gameplay elements such as trading and two-way communication with NPCs. It features an alternate reality theme, where a second nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in the near future and causes strange changes in the area around it.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first-person shooter video game by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published in 2007.
The European cover art for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl For the sequel, see S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. For the prequel, see S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.
