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The Zone: Stalker Stories

The Zone: Stalker Stories is a hybrid top-down RPG / deckbuilder card game, with a story-driven focus and full plot. It features unique hand-drawn art, exploration, quests, card battles, and detailed inventory…

15 June 2023

The Zone: Stalker Stories is an adventure developed by Illuminated Games, released 15 June 2023 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Zone: Stalker Stories is

The Zone: Stalker Stories is an adventure game developed by Illuminated Games and released in 2023. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

"No one knows how or why the Event happened. Only that, in one instant, everything went mad. It shattered minds, twisted bodies into inhuman monsters, and turned the laws of nature inside out. No one remembers what the world was like before. The new one is all kinds of wrong, filled with psychics, mutants, artifacts and anomalies where the very fabric of reality has been torn apart. A Zone in which death is only ever an inch away. But it's the only world you've got -- and now you're going to have to live in it."
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Zone: Stalker Stories launched on 15 June 2023, within three weeks of Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver and System Shock.

Released around the same time: Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver, System Shock.

Official trailer

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When did The Zone: Stalker Stories come out?
The Zone: Stalker Stories was released on 15 June 2023 for Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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