Developer The Farm 51 has introduced Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone, a sequel to 2021’s survival sport Chernobylite. The sequel is ready to debut on PC and consoles in 2025.
Per the sport’s official Steam web page, you may play as a planewalker (sure, that’s somebody who travels between parallel actuality, so don’t be concerned, you did not flip over two pages directly) on the hunt for the mysterious titular useful resource.
You may end up trapped within the Exclusion Zone and combating to your life towards hordes of monsters. The Farm 51 describes Chernobylite 2‘s surroundings as a “huge and life like open world” which has been taken over by the Chernobylite useful resource, with the inhabitants of the Zone making an attempt to struggle again utilizing “prototype expertise”.
Chernobylite 2 will permit you to create your individual character, and you’ll make selections about how your character approaches conditions. The Farm 51 offers the examples of an “smug muscle man with an enormous sword” intimidating everybody he meets, in addition to a “sensible sniper who all the time finds the fitting arguments”, so it feels like you’ll diversify fairly extensively.
You may additionally be capable of select whether or not you method fight with melee weapons or firearms, and The Farm 51 says you may go for stealth or “ask[ing] others for assist” when you choose. The planewalking system permits you to swap builds on the fly, so you may swap up your method relying on what the scenario requires.
In accordance with Chernobylite 2‘s Steam web page, the sport may even characteristic a solid of social gathering members to fulfill and speak with, every of whom is “a possible instructor, able to impart their information and expertise”. It feels like The Farm 51 is taking a extra RPG-centric method to this followup.
Between every thing outlined above, a base you may increase, and factions you may meet (and probably affect), Chernobylite 2 feels like a considerably extra bold enterprise than the primary sport, which was already fairly expansive.
You’ll try Chernobylite 2 on PC and “consoles” (which presumably means PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S, on the very least) subsequent yr. Keep tuned for extra.