Well here is how I see it--I have loved every Techland game I played, and I have played nearly all of them. Odds are this is going to be another instant classic. WELCOME BACK KYLE

These remain some of the best FPS/RPG hybrids ever, and one of the rare times you really SHOULD play all the games in the series to better appreciate the story and the bigger picture.

If you never played the first three S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games here comes your chance/reason. Some of the best FPS/RPG hybrids ever, and assuming GSC has their act together this will be a top 2025 release

Truly the year of the Best Games of the 2000s Returning; if you never played the first three S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games here comes your chance/reason. Some of the best FPS/RPG hybrids ever.

Unsurprisingly exactly as great as "the original game but looks decades newer" should be. Gotta say I still mostly ignored the Oblivion Gates in my playthrough but that is personal preference.

System Shock 2 is one of the best games ever, and this company's remaster of System Shock 1 was one of the best remasters ever, and UNSURPRISINGLY this remaster is also utterly fantastic

Best in the series at balancing open-world and tense closed-section gameplay, also has a great story and satisfyingly concludes the trilogy (thus far?). Lots of post-apocalyptic fun all around.

Hardly controversial to say this is not a great game, but I was struggling SO HARD to stay invested through the tutorial/early game, and then I read about how all the good content is front-loaded.

Barely an FPS/RPG, barely recommended, but I cannot deny the appeal. Pretty decent reboot of fun-but-fairly-unpleasant 1990s Build Engine stalwart, just thoroughly overstays its welcome with padding.

RPG/FPS formula so solid that I enjoyed picking herbs for hours and watching numbers go up. The story is interesting, and the gameplay is innovative and engrossing. Developers are real awful though