

STALZONE
EXBO · 2022 · Free to Play, Multiplayer, MMORPG, FPS, Shooter
PC
3 user reviews100% · 3 📉 Recent reviews down 67%
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About STALZONE
STALZONE is the extraction shooter where you don't have to start over — and the only one with a 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. 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
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 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.
- Skill-driven gunplay — victory comes from aim, tactics, and game knowledge, not just gear. Master 200+ realistic weapons with deep customization built for true gun lovers.
- Persistent progression — your character, reputation, equipment, faction ties, and place in the world carry forward over time with no progression wipes.
- Fair free-to-play model — monetization focuses on cosmetics and optional progression support, not buying power. Everything can be earned in-game and even paid skins or boosters can be obtained through the player-driven marketplace.
- Global matchmaking for fairer fights — players are matched by similar power, keeping raw gear advantage in check. High-tier gear brings high-tier danger, so success still depends primarily on skill and experience.
- In-house anti-cheat — STALZONE runs on our own engine and is protected by EXENS, our dedicated anti-cheat team, giving us maximum control in a genre where balance is crucial.
- Community-shaped world — years of updates, feedback, balance changes, and player behavior have turned STALZONE into a living online world with its own rules, stories, and culture.
- Proximity voice chat — hear the players around you before you see them. Every encounter becomes a negotiation, a deception, or a standoff.
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
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
No passive option for us who just started and only have A pistol to not get shot in the back by A kited player. also why join the Stalkers that are the "good faction" and play like A bandit only looking out for yourself. Was fighting AI bandits and killed all but two and got knocked down another play kills the two. loots the box and just walk right over me when I was calling for help.1 found this helpful
Stronger mutants are much easier with players who know when to move instead of standing still and shooting.
if your looking for a beginner friendly game, this is not it. I find it to be way to difficult, and trying to be to many things that i belive causes it to be lower quality and not allowing it to reach full potential. Challenges are very overwhelming as you get swarmed with a bunch at the start requiring hella materials which are hard to get whether you get swarmed by pigs or run into a real player with better gear or even get sniped by a ai camp from forever away gathering simple materials at the start is insanely hard.Fun concept bad execution. If your up for a challenge I might reccomend but this game is honestly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. A AMAZING UP SIDE HOWEVER IS AN AMAZING COMMUNITY. I got downed by an ai and a opposite clan member saved me and didnt kill me and random people are always willing to team up usually. Not many games have that so I respect that aspect. Not alot of educational videos or guides on youtube and alot of different things that overwhelmed me alot.
The atmosphere is even better than in Escape From Tarkov
The shooting feels solid after you get the hang of it. TTK is in a good spot so fights stay intense but dont feel unfair
This game surprised me in a good way. the quests, looting, PvP, and gear progression all come together pretty nicely.
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