S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Has Turned a Profit - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 December 2024 / 2,488 Views

Developer GSC Game World owner Maxim Krippa in an interview with Forbes Ukraine has revealed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has already recouped its investment and has turned a profit.

Krippa also teased there could be a Netflix adaptation of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series in the future.

The game sold over one million units worldwide within a couple of days of release and topped 100,000 concurrent players on Steam alone on its launch day.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl released the Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG, and Xbox Game Pass on November 20.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has recouped its investments and now is turning profit.

Owner of GSC Game World, Maxim Krippa, also reveals there could be a possible Netflix adaptation for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in the future.

Via Forbes Ukraine pic.twitter.com/yAGhQMTTjJ
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6 Comments

JEMC (on 18 December 2024)

After all they've been through, they deserve all the sales and more. Congratulations to the team.

G2ThaUNiT (on 18 December 2024)

Game has been worth it and more! Congrats on the developers. They've been through hell and back.

The Fury (on 18 December 2024)

Nice. Well done to it and the developers. I hope Xbox compensated them well for the GP release too, as I feel STALKER is a game series that didn't really need that. It would have sold regardless.

G2ThaUNiT The Fury (on 18 December 2024)

That GP check was probably one of the biggest reasons they've been able to stay afloat after 2 years since the games original scheduled release. Who knows if the game would've ever released as they most likely would've run out of funds. MS did do some extra help as well with them funding the documentary to help promote the game. I really enjoyed that documentary!

The Fury G2ThaUNiT (on 18 December 2024)

Did not know about the latter, good for them. It's that kind of funding I think we need in the industry, less just paying devs for nothing more support and creative things that help grow the industry.