Heart of Chornobyl already looks like a hit, with developer GSC Game World declaring one million copies sold.In a tweet, Ukrainian studio GSC said that in addition to these sales, “much more” are playing via S.

It's time to venture into the heart of darkness! S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is finally here, launching on Xbox, PC and Game Pass.

Hazzador Gamin points out via Threads that the game is already the best-selling game on Steam (the first game, Counter-Strike 2, is free-to-play). For Xbox, there will be a lot of people playing via Game Pass, so it seems likely that we will get press releases about very high player numbers shortly after the premiere on Wednesday.

Heart of Chornobyl has sold an amazing one million plus copies despite being out for fewer than three days. That’s one heck of an accomplishment, considering it’s been fifteen years since the last game in the series game came out and Ukrainian developer GSC Game World is rightly pleased.

Heart of Chornobyl is now available on PC and Xbox Series X/S, marking the end of a long and challenging development cycle that included the pandemic, relocations, cyberattacks, a fire in the Prague office,