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Explore a faction-divided Chernobyl Zone, fight mutants and rival players, and extract loot while building lasting gear.
Released 09 Dec 2022
Extract Loot Under Fire
Choose a Faction
Search Anomaly Fields
STALZONE is the PvPvE extraction shooter where you don't have to start over — and the only one with persistent world worth belonging to. You are invited to explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone twisted by anomalies and divided between rival factions whose territories shape the danger around you
Developed by EXBO · Published by EXBO









STALZONE is an online shooter set in a dangerous, anomaly-twisted version of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. You take the role of a Zone explorer, choose a faction, and follow main and side quests through a world shared with other players.
Head out to explore locations, fight mutants and hostile NPCs, search for resources and artifacts, and face rival players in open-world PvPvE encounters. Expeditions put the loot you carry at risk until you bring it back to safety; losing a fight can mean dropping carried items.
Use gathered resources to barter for and upgrade weapons, armor, and other equipment. Character progress and gear carry forward, while faction relationships, co-op squads, social hubs, and a player-driven market connect players across the persistent world.
Players who enjoy STALZONE often point to its unusual blend of open-world shooter and MMO progression, along with the Zone’s atmosphere, story quests, exploration, and satisfying gunplay. Some find the early journey especially engaging; enjoyment is often tempered by reports of a much heavier grind and tougher PvP gear gaps later on.
You are invited to explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone twisted by anomalies and divided between rival factions whose territories shape the danger around you. Choose your side and over time you’ll learn where it’s safer to travel and also where every route can become a gamble.
Experience nail-biting tension without the frustration of loss: keep your gear and long-term progress but the loot you find is at risk until you bring it back alive. Upgrade your weapons and refine your build. No one can take it away from you.

The world persists and is not just a place to loot. NPCs live in it, factions fight over it, and players shape it with no escape timers or progression wipes. It's the only extraction shooter that plays like an MMO — and the only MMO that plays like an extraction shooter.
The Zone is a living social ecosystem where open-world events, faction conflicts, social hubs, and a player-driven market bring people together. Trade, cooperate in 5-player squads, ambush, betray, or carve out your own reputation. Every system creates interaction, and every interaction becomes a story.

A cinematic storyline that includes main and side quests smoothly immerses you in the world and its mechanics through nail-biting action, dialogues, and real choices that affect the story. You’ll enjoy a narrative experience almost like a single-player STALKER-style journey inside a persistent online world.

STALZONE has grown through years of development, iteration, and community-driven evolution. Over that time, it has become a unique ecosystem of mechanics, social systems, and player-made stories unlike anything else.

New to extraction shooters? STALZONE is built to give you the best of all worlds. Enjoy a 50+ hour cinematic story campaign that guides you through the Zone step by step delivering dangers, progression, factions, and PvPvE tension. It gives you room to learn, adapt, and survive against both the world and other players, turning extraction into something you discover through fun, not suffering.
STALZONE is intentionally free to play. No box price, no trick, no scam — just a world we have spent years building, asking only for your curiosity and nerve.
Explore more. Risk more.
The Zone doesn’t punish curiosity and remembers.
Formerly known as STALCRAFT
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 17 |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | STALCRAFT: X is an online MMOFPS with both PvP and co-op elements in a shared open world. Players can explore alone or with friends, join squads, and participate in faction-based PvP and PvE activities. The provided information confirms online multiplayer, online co-op, and online PvP, but does not state a squad-size or player-count limit. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No information provided about mod support or multiplayer modding. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |