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Chornobyl Liquidators
Developer Live Motion Games, Frozen Way
Chornobyl Liquidators is not a fantastic tale of exploring the Zone. It's a story about real people facing a real threat — the CNPP disaster. Invisible radiation, KGB, difficult moral choices... Do you have enough courage and strength to take on this challenge? From the Steam store page
193 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Aug 26, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
44
Mixed
82 positive · 106 negative
95% range 37–51%
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| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
349 of 716 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 193 · most liked firstSo um. I'm really unhappy that I have to write this type of review because I waited for a very long time for this game and it looked so promising. I've studied the disaster for more than fifteen years and know it very well, but I was prepared to forgive this game for certain things (which is more leeway than I gave to HBO Chernobyl, which - don't even get me f-ing started). So let's do categories to make this easier: Accuracy- 2/10. Dear god. Other reviews in the feedback thread for this game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Act 1 & 2 are really fun in showcasing the first responders to the Chernobyl incident and trying to simulate it in game format. Act 2 starts to add more story and background to the character you take control of. Act 3 continues to showcase that with helping evacuate but slowly introduces odd gameplay mechanics. Act 4 turns into a full on stealth mission with radioactive hallucinations and the point where I put this game down. This game doesn't know what it wants to be but I still appreciate the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I so wanted to love this game. I'm fascinated by all things Chernobyl and Pripyat, but this game just isn't it. The game play is clunky and super repetitive at times. The hacking portions have no business being in the game and it just really isn't that fun. I'm also really nervous that this game has just been abandoned by the devs. They promised a long time ago that they were working on an update with DLSS and the new Unity version, but nothing has come of that and the Discord is dead too.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely can't recommend this game, which is a real shame because I was very hyped for its release. I got soft locked in the first level, once I get to the roof, I am completely unable to progress as a story critical item (the dosimeter) does not spawn. The platforming is PAINFUL, the framerate is awful. ...where's the radiation? I sat next to the burning remains of reactor #4 and was not affected in the slightest. EDIT: I gave this game another chance, some of the levels are interesting,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I personally want to thank all the Chornobyl Liquidators that gave their lives to save the world, Thank you! Absolute best of the best gave their lives not knowing how important the mission was they was on, Thank you. I absolutely loved the game. What a brilliant concept of a game felt like I was with them making history!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The opening of Chornobyl Liquidators genuinely wrecked me — playing as one liquidator after another, only to find each previous body lying exactly where it fell, is the kind of haunting storytelling that sticks with you long after you put the game down. The first couple of acts do a decent job capturing the grim, hopeless work of the cleanup crews, and the atmosphere is legitimately unsettling at times. But by the midpoint the game completely loses the plot: radiation inexplicably glows bright…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had this game in my wishlist for maybe 2 to 3 years, and I was very excited when I heard the announcement that it was coming out. I have a big interest in Chernobyl and when I saw the trailer and the pictures it looked promising. I bought the game when it came out and it had its negative reviews, but it also had promise, so I waited. Playing the game a few months later after release I was expecting a lot of positive changes, but unfortunately after completing the game I wasn't very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some games entertain. Some challenge. And some leave a mark that lingers long after you put them down. Chornobyl Liquidators is one of those games. It’s a deeply unsettling experience that captures the brutal, hopeless reality of the Chernobyl disaster’s clean-up crews—men sent in to die, shoveling radioactive death off rooftops with no real hope of survival. At its best, it delivers a harrowing, emotionally effective look at the liquidators’ experience, but at its worst, it frustrates with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've always been a huge... well.. fan doesn't sound like the respectful answer. But I have always been interested in the Chernobyl disaster. I educated myself on almost everything and was super keen and hyped for this game from the start. (Back when the demo was first available.) Unfortunately, I do NOT recommend this game. This game has been in development for a few years now and yet what we got was barely enough gameplay that you could complete it in a single day. It took me 5 and a half…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →VERY VERY BAD its nothing like the trailers or anything it made me really disappointed and this really need a lot of work and fixing to really stand up for the games name and expecting of its self
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to leave a review because it hurts me how this game has failed in many aspects, and because I wanted it to succeed... I played the beta and was super excited to get the full game as the Chernobyl disaster and the following cleanup have been a rather special interest of mine for years. But unfortunately it's not a good game, even beyond the poor optimization, the mechanics are poorly implemented and the scenery in many cases makes you lose immersion, but even then, I had fun most of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just don't... The principle sounds very interesting, especially for a die hard stalker fan. You will recognize the buildings and the atmosphere is ok. But... - the tutorial (act 1) is bad, like really bad, for example the first task is to lock onto a hydrant - there is a hydrant right at the start, with action buttons - so i tried to use that one for 15 minutes until i realized i have to use one with no action buttons, - there is a common, known, GAME BREAKING bug in the tutorial... like,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the demo for this game a long while back, and it was fun. It was promising. I was looking forward to it. Then the full release came out and it was clear that was where all their energy went. The rest of the game looks and feels crude and unpolished, the mechanics are confusing, and the story about espionage feels rather on the nose. The Chornobyl Event was a fascinating event that deserves a realistic look into how it was handled, but I feel like it could have been handled a little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game uses content from modern Russia (“Pizza.ru”, “Revda”, “Serpukhov”, etc) in setting of 1986 Ukraine. Did your dev team from Russia want to express themselves this way? Really bad joke to say the least.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy this. I was very impressed with the demo, and when the game came on sale, i bought it. the first two levels were impressive but, the next level started with you floating in the air and immediately falling to your death. Reloading, restarting, restarting steam. All tried. nothing resolved it. i subscribed to the discord and posted a bug. i saw a lot of unanswered posts, including one stating the game is lo longer supported. the game had so much potential. Perhaps the developers run…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not great not terrible.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved the idea of this game but could only stand it for about 30 minutes. Felt like you were being completely railroaded, no choices, no agency. Just go here, click that, go there, click this. Refunded.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've tried playing it on launch yea it was buggy, so I waited for the patches to roll out but nothing. I can't even get past the first level without it bugging out and my character gets frozen in place before it crashes, not only the game but crashes my steam to. And I know my computer can run it I can run other high performance games. Edit: After waiting a year somehow after i don't know how many updates i could finally play the game, I think the story is cool the mechanics are cool but the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A lot of bad reviews on this game, i decided to check it out for myself. While there is some bugs and it can be bit glitchy the game overall is not bad. If you like a good story line this one is pretty decent, while the game has it's downfalls it also has more upsides in my opinion.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I paid money for this game. while being buggy and at times really confusing, it was a blast in addition it was really unique. Being a long time S.T.A.L.K.E.R fan and a huge chernobyl fan. To anyone else like my i recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish there was a mode where you can explore the zone in it's entirety
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At its current state, I do not recommend this game. The game certainly has lots of potential, but the amount of game-breaking bugs is overwhelming. Within the first five minutes of gameplay, I encountered two game-breaking softlocks without even trying. I simply played the game normally, using its intended mechanics. **Examples:** In one of the first quests, you are supposed to pick up graphite blocks with a shovel and throw them onto a designated drop-off spot. However, you can also throw…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After buying this game I didn't play it for a month or two, but I wished I played it sooner so I could've refunded it. The first act was decent. Mainly confusing because a game breaking bug was within the first few missions. I had to restart just to fix the bug. The ending of act 1 was just a jump cut to start the next act.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This really disappointed me, the game is buggy, laggy, and unfinished. The game shouldn't have been released in its current state. Many bugs ranging from annoying to gamebreaking can be found within the first 5 minutes of the game. To top it all off, the Elephant's foot isn't even radioactive. :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is rough. It's plagued with audio issues, clipping objects, incorrect subtitles and historical inaccuracies. FPS drops below 30 on a RTX 4090 and an i9-14900KF. Despite the issues, it's very unique and they nailed it with the environments and the atmosphere. Buy this on sale. It's worth $10-$12 but it's very hard to justify the $20 price tag for 8 hours of gameplay and the poor optimization. If steam had a neutral option for the recommendation, that's what I would have picked,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think I got this in a humble bundle and while I paid next to nothing for several games, I'm super glad I didn't have to flat out buy at full price or even on sale. So while I really hate leaving bad reviews, it's needed because whatever the experience here is completely disheveled by a broken product. Beyond being complete garbage performance, no optional settings seem to even work. Lowering resolution, toggling DLSS (which is not toggleable), etc....it's all broken. I could barely make it 5…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I should have listened to the reviews, this is probably one of the most unplayable games I've ever touched. There are invisible walls but they don't tell you it's because of your hose being too short and its just so laggy. I wanted to play this longer to get a better feel but the first mission bugged out, saying I still needed to put out fires when they were all out, I sprayed the non existent fires for a while to give it a chance but nope. This is such a great concept but in the state it's at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember the playtest years ago being a short blast to play through, little to no bugs at all. Once this game came out, I gave it a try with a few bugs here and there. I put the game down due to life being a pain in the ass. But once I finally try to try and finish this game, its a buggy mess. Took me an hour to finish the firefighter section, having to reload saves half a dozen times to finally finish it. I can't recommend this game in its current state. I really hope the devs get back to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having finished the game in just under 3.5 hours; I can't exactly recommend the game. It is short, The choices don't really make an impact to the "story" either. The first mission was the most enjoyable being able to actually do meaningful tasks, but afterwords most of the game was just filler to ensure it took longer than steams 2 hour refund time. The devs have abandoned the game for "other projects". In an announcement by Mateusz Jelen, "Hi! Chornobyl Liquidators is a finished game and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i got this game for $15 along with 9 other items and i still feel scammed i was initially intrigued by the concept, but in the first 2 hours i have encountered enough bugs to make Todd Howard blush and been forced to restart several times due to a near complete lack of autosaves. All of that i could forgive, if not for its most heinous crime. It's boring as hell.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Downvoted solely for the ridiculous mandatory stealth section that's poorly made (some people literally spawning out of nowhere, near instant detection, foliage you can't see through not hiding you, etc.). Oh, yeah, sure, totally what I wanted in a game on the liquidators. Some random KGB mission. /sarcasm There are a ton of other problems, too. Audio issues of all kinds, no audio during a lot of cutscenes, odd camera behavior during forced deaths at the beginning, framerate problems when it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most important 90 seconds of my life
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chornobyl Liquidators is a narrative-driven simulation game focused on the real-world events following the CNPP disaster. Instead of treating the Zone as a playground, it centers on the people sent in to deal with the aftermath - facing invisible radiation, political pressure, and morally difficult decisions tied to a very real historical tragedy. Pros ✔️ Highlights overlooked heroes - I appreciated that it tries to focus on the people involved rather than sensationalizing the disaster itself.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I got this game the ratings were mixed so I was a bit skeptical but after playing the game from start to end I can say that is absolutely fun to play and also very informative. Just as with every piece of software there can be some bugs but I haven't encountered any game breaking bugs here. All in all I can definitely recommend this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm from Canada. I went through grade 5 back in 2010, and at the time our school system was starting to fully embrace teaching kids about computers as multimedia machines. One memorably noteworthy example of this was available on our Parliament's website: a fully explorable, detailed map of the National Parliament building, complete with a third-person avatar, easter eggs, and actual multiplayer, all done through javascript and optimized to run on a school laptop. It wasn't a replacement for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only 2 hours in, and i will say if you like Chernobyl then get this. I was weary from the other reviews and maybe they have fixed it, but mine is running great on a 2070 super and 12600k. Having fun exploring slowly and just enjoying the game. Oh also running the game on high setting on 1440p. Any who keep up the good work and don't hesitate to get it! Sweet game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems like a fun, niche game right down my alley. A lot of people are complaining about how it is boring, but I like these kind of games and they are a pretty acquired taste. I can get past the terrible voice acting and the bothersome (but not gamebreaking) bugs, but I just cant recommend anyone play this at the price and I dont know how they were able to justify a full release in the current state the game is in. The optimization is awful. I am running a 4090 suprim with a ryzen 7950x3D both…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this game but it is far too boring If you can get it in a decent sale then maybe
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is from the Story a really good game but there are some sections where the performance is kinda dying
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel it represents the Chernobyl Liquidators well, but it has quite a few bugs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game so much as I have had it wishlisted for ages as I was really keen on the premise. I always hesitated due to the reviews. The game is just a bit boring really, encountered multiple frame drops along the way, the atmosphere is okay but leaves some to be desired. The game feels a bit clunky and in need of some work. This game had a lot of potential and unfortunately falls short in areas of gameplay and immersion. As much as I wanted to like this game, I can't recommend…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is a serious waste of money and due to steams ♥♥♥♥♥♥ refund system i now have this rotting old garbage in my library until the end of time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As other reviews have stated, this game feels unfinished and poorly put together. Between an inconsistent storyline and graphics, annoying bugs, poor optimization, flat characters, unmotivated or nonsensical tasks, dialogue that doesn't match the captions, and an overall feeling that this game doesn't know if it wants to be Viscera Cleanup Detail, a platformer, a stealth game, or what. As much as I really wanted to love this game, it needs some serious work to be worth the cost and be worth the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Обожаю Чернобыль и был вдохновлен как раз, НО: Игра одноразовая, часа на 4 где-то максимум. Геймплей скучный и громоздкий, даже на волкинг сим не потянет. Критикал баги встречал, к счастью обходил их. 40-50 фпс на моей сборке. Русского нету, а в сюжете повсюду клюква. Например злое КГБ загоняет не смотря на потери ликвидаторов которые в свою очередь ну очень не хотят спасать страну и мир) Произведение художественное и я не надеюсь на 1 в 1 реализм но оно капец пытается в неловкую…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has to be the worst take on the disaster. I played the games Demo way back but with the play test that went out YEARS after the request time and no less after it went out as a full game I feel this game really has no right to be 25 dollars (cad). The amount of bugs and soft locks i kept getting while streaming this was horrific. I got soft locked close to 15 times. It got to the point where i moved on to the next chapter when I got softlocked. The worst offense is the fact I had myself…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After all the hype, the game left me dissapointed, it's feels exactly like a mobile game First red flag was the fact that the intro was in a slideshow, then, the english voiceover sounds weird, either by the bad voiceacting or the attempt on a russian accent The inventory and itens are pretty nice, too bad you don't even have a use for most of them, like the consumables as food and medicines, at the first level I kept dying randomly but the health and radiation meters were all normal, making…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow, I just spent 6.7 hours playing this game, and I have to say, it really blew me away. Sure, there are some bugs and kinks, but if you stick to the main story and don’t let those bugs make you forget about the main story you really got to edmire it, it truly feels like a masterpiece. I do have one heartfelt request for the developers: it would really help if the radar field acted for a shorter duration. I found myself spending way more time playing as a spy than as a liquidator, and I would…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game, to put it bluntly, is nothing of what it promises. The mechanics are janky, the graphics bad, the performance lacking severely, and the characters half-assed at best. The story is severely lacking of waht you would expect of something calling itself *Chernobyl* liquidators, given that all of about 30 minutes of the 5 hours you need to play through it play in and around the actual damn powerplant. add confusing maps, barely working game mechanics and many, sometimes extremely…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Other reviews have commented on details better than I could. I will say that I generally like Eurojank games. The concepts make up for the shortcomings. So I gave this a chance anyway. I did finish it, but the other reviews are right. This is bad even for the genre. Bad story, glitchy gameplay, silly writing, but worst of all are the design decisions where mechanics are introduced once and never used again or artificial barriers put up to keep you from walking directly to an objective for no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken NPCs, confusing map, upgrades that don't carry into the next level(s), bad optimization, atrocious voice acting, flickering shadows and other graphical glitches, typos, instructions that are confusing and straight up incorrect, off putting out of tone moments like some note saying "yo dawg", hilariously oversized objects, random facts screen that praises the response of Polish People's Republic, all this ingredients combined form a disaster that's comparable to Chernobyl. I will lay out…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh. My. God I played many bad simulator games, but this is really something else. There are so many flawas, that I will simply make a list: Audio & Text - Dialogues and texts are awful - Horrible voice acting - Audio and subtitles don't match - Bugged audio Gameplay - You spend more time talking with NPCs and going back and forth than actually dealing with radiation - There's no HUD: you have to open the inventory every time to check the toolbar, health, stamina and radiation level -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately the first section is the most interesting, but doesn't last as long as you'd like it to. There are a lot of bugs including game breaking ones, janky movement, dialogue heard from a mile away, not enough autosaves, some boring and repetitive gameplay in the later sections. There's more issues but it's honestly a lot. I hope there are updates coming to address these issues but I would've expected game breaking bugs to have been fixed by now. If you're looking for a similar game, I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was looking forward to this game after playing the demo. While some missions have a good feel of the actual Chernobyl Zone and the disaster it falls short when the game is trying to tell the story. But that's nothing compared to the state of this game (who knows? maybe there were some patches by the time I last played it but I just can'r be bothered to come back to it) Game is horribly optimised. In enclosed locations and certain situations frames drop to low or even below 10's. From the good…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →realy good if you like Chernobyl and its allso realy fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chornobyl Liquidators had a pretty strong start with an interesting angle: what would it be like to have been one of the members of the rescue crew during the Chernobyl disaster? The atmosphere was on point, the dialogue and voiceovers, while clearly working off translation, seemed alright... then, the back half of this game happened, and I felt like the momentum the game started with had withered away. What the game ended up being was a half-baked task management simulator that tried to pay…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not great, not terrible.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →let me start with saying i love the premise and was looking forward to it since the first demo was being played by youtubers i reccomend you do not buy at this point in time, tutorial broke 75% of the time, picking up the shovel more often than not didnt place it in my inventory, which is an issue when the very next objective is to use the shovel to get the graphite chunks out of the way, also broke it the very first time by conecting the firetrucks to the pump before being given the objective…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The initial setting is kind of nice but after the fire fighting mission things take a rather dreadfull, boring turn. From starting out being a firefighter all of a sudden you end up being an escape room specialist. There's no action, just pointless back and forth between quest markers. It's basically a puzle game in an FPS POV. Dialogs are insanely slow, interaction with objects is a bit hit and miss. Doors are buggy, journal entries are sometimes not in line with progress made... A lot of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have played the early release of this and it was a good engaging game. This epilogue to playtest was less then ten minutes. I shoveled 3 pieces of graphite. The mechanic for shoveling was ass, it needs top be reworked. I also got chewed out by a General and that was it. Now that I went to go put in the Original early release it won't even load up. Unless they are doing something to change the game, I payed for that early release I liked it the way that it was. For now NO I would not recommend…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not an engaging game and the negative reviews are definitely correct. I can't refund it because I got it as part of a humble bundle but I wish I could get the money and time back I spent on this game. The game is really boring and follows a narrow set track but you can't really understand what the game is trying to get you to do.
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