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What is Chornobyl Liquidators?

Chornobyl Liquidators is an immersive simulation of post-disaster Chernobyl and Pripyat based on the actual 1986 nuclear accident. But unlike many of its peers, it doesn’t feature any irradiated monsters or mutants. It’s only you, your fellow disaster response crew, the soldiers, and the politics that moved behind the scenes.

Chornobyl Liquidators features:
　⚫︎　Gritty gameplay emulating the numerous tasks of nuclear disaster management
　⚫︎　Choice-driven narrative
　⚫︎　Abundant environmental storytelling
　⚫︎　Multiple sides to align with
　⚫︎　Gripping backstories that progress with the plot

Chornobyl Liquidators Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Relative Narrative Freedom Gripping Environmental Storytelling Down And Dirty Gameplay	Loaded With Bugs Uncanny NPCs Really Awkward Controls

Chornobyl Liquidators Overall Score - 76/100
Chornobyl Liquidators is a nice and gritty game that emulates the herculean efforts of disaster management crews in nuclear disasters. It also mixes in a very realistic depiction of political intrigue that comes with such major accidents. While it’s severely impeded with numerous bugs and frankly terrible voice acting, it’s still worth trying out.

Chornobyl Liquidators Story - 8/10
Featuring numerous political conflicts during a nuclear disaster’s aftermath, Chornobyl Liquidators’ story is an engaging tale of survival, family, friendship, and big decisions. But while watching your character navigate through the politics of post-disaster Chernobyl and Pripyat is an absolute joy, unfolding of your companions’ and their families’ lives as they survive with you is also quite worthwhile.

Chornobyl Liquidators Gameplay - 8/10
There’s an amazing variety in the number of things this game has you do in the name of completing your tasks. These are accurate to what the Chernobyl liquidators were honored for such as fighting fires, organizing evacuations, sanitizing areas, etc. Not only that, the game also has you completing more secretive operations for the KGB. It’s a lot of fun and only really suffers from the occasional unresponsive and clunky controls.

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Relative Narrative Freedom

The most engaging part of playing Chornobyl Liquidators isn’t its gameplay. Sure, it’s fun if you enjoyed the publishers’ House Flipper, but Chornobyl Liquidators offers something more.

It actually has a story! But it’s not just any linear story that usually accompanies these types of games. Chornobyl Liquidators allows you to make choices that dictate the direction of the game’s narrative. On top of that, these choices are designed in such a way that you can choose a side that’s typically neglected in plots rife with political conflict: nobody’s.

While sure the game does proceed in a rather linear fashion regardless of your choices, to be able to deny each side their requests or demands and keep everything to yourself whenever you’re able to is quite a breath of fresh air.

Gripping Environmental Storytelling

As a game that aims to replicate some of the events during the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, being able to see the environmental effects of the accident adds a lot of immersion to the experience. This is not only visible as ruined buildings and radioactive areas, but also as heavily-cordoned garrisons and fully-geared soldiers.

The developers have taken great care to ensure that every area feels lived in. Past tense, most of the time. Abandoned buildings truly feel abandoned in a way that truly feels appropriate for the occasion. And what else can make you really feel like you’re there?

Down And Dirty Gameplay

The Chernobyl liquidators were heroes that had many roles during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster’s aftermath. Some of these include fighting the fires that resulted from the reactor’s accident, removing the radioactive debris scattered around the territory, sanitizing the affected areas to prevent the outbreak of diseases, and many other tasks.

You are given an arsenal of tools to help you enact those same tasks. What makes it even more immersive is that your tools are limited in much the same way as the real ones. For example, your spray needs to be regularly repressurized, and your hose can’t spew water without being connected to a hydrant. Heck, even if you can’t even walk too far away from a hydrant if your hose is connected to it.

Of course, the real stuff requires much more than what the game needs you to do. But this is a necessary compromise to at least keep the game moving. Balance is key, after all.

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Is Chornobyl Liquidators Worth It?

Try it for the story

Chornobyl Liquidators might be riddled with bugs, but there’s barely anything there that would completely ruin your run. At the very least, you’ll derive at least enough enjoyment from it to justify the purchase.

Game8

https://game8.co/articles/reviews/chornobyl-liquidators-review

Chornobyl Liquidators Review | Lots of Bugs, Tons of Potential

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