An Early Access for Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone is on the way with many getting to head into Chernobylite 2 this coming March
With the success of funding for Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone, making almost twice what they needed, it looks like The Farm 51 is ready to give players just what they have been waiting for. A taste of the game and one of those early perks for helping to fund the game. At least if you are looking to get in on the PC side of things, there is an Early Access for Chernobylite 2 planned and coming on March 6th. Just a month from now, some will be able to experience and see just where the game is and then be able to report back to the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S gamers who will need to wait a bit longer. It is what it is when it comes to platforms, but all still exciting for those who are looking to have the experiences out there.
To further celebrate this announcement, we have a new cinematic trailer for Chernobylite 2 to take in and remind us of the world that the game is set in. It is a dark and mysterious world where tales are told around fires, for sure. It is one that is also filled with all vastly different views on what is going on and how certain things are being used. It is a fun take on it all with, maybe, some in-game shots mixed in. Nothing that truly highlights how Chernobylite 2 is going to function when we are able to dive into with the Early Access, but fun nonetheless. Just more marketing to make sure we are all still on board with it all. You can have a look at it all and just keep your excitement flowing until this month has passed and you can jump into the game. It is a good thing that February is the shortest month of them all.
Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone — Early Access
Yes, that’s true. Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone is going to Steam Early Access on March 6th, 2025!
Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone is a post-apo action RPG, mixing free exploration of a huge and extremely realistic open world, challenging combat, unique crafting, and team and base management with non-linear storytelling. You’re a planeswalker who travels through parallel worlds in search of the precious, high-energy material called Chernobylite. Cut off from the world, trapped in the Zone, attacked by hordes of nightmare creatures, you must fight for survival and unite the handful of remaining survivors.
The story told in the game will make you fight to survive in the most dangerous place on Earth. Whether you become the hunted or the hunter depends on how quickly you can evolve, your ability to adapt, and the strategy you follow when exploring the open world of the Chornobyl area. In the daytime, you can see the Zone as an intriguing, exciting, or even beautiful area, but when dusk comes, the absolute terror starts and you have to face it every night.
Open World Exploration
Explore the big and realistic open world of the real Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Chernobylite has taken over the zone, transforming many of its elements, and people are trying to defend themselves against it using prototype technologies.
Character Development
Create and develop your hero. Attributes and skills will affect combat effectiveness, as well as the conversation style. An arrogant muscle man with a big sword trying to intimidate everyone? Or a smart sniper who always finds the right arguments? The choice is yours.
Diverse Combat
Fight for survival with an advanced melee combat system or keep your enemies away with a diverse arsenal of firearms in a third-person perspective – gain complete control over your character. You can also use the stealth approach or ask others for help. When you explore the game world, you can see it from your eyes’ perspective, but whenever it comes to combat, you’ll get the third-person perspective to see all the threats around you more clearly and be able to react more accurately.
The combat system of Chernobylite 2 is a massive expansion of its predecessor. The introduction of advanced melee weapons fight and crafting system gives more diversity to the character build, strategies, and tactics you can create independently. Don’t forget that if you like to play at the pace of the original Chernobylite, you still can.
Planewalking
Adapt your build and equipment to the situation with plane walking, which allows you to change things on the fly. You’re free to develop more than one character skill set. Are you encountering a situation that your previously prepared heavy melee build will solve better than your current ranged sniper? Planewalk and use another one.
Team Building
Embark on the exciting team-building journey. Each of your mates is a potential teacher, ready to share their knowledge and skills. Assemble your team and discover the unique strengths and abilities they bring. The question is, will you earn their trust and unlock their full potential?
Base Development
Develop your base. There, you can create valuable items and upgrade your weapons every day. Assign your people to tasks, and they will take care of your equipment and supplies.
Factions
Fight for domination and negotiate with factions. The Exclusion Zone is a battlefield that changes every day and reacts to your every action. Can you help them defeat the army of vicious monsters? And when old conflicts are revived, whose side will you be on?
Cooperative Missions
Experience online cooperative missions embedded in a single-player campaign allowing players to interact in various ways to achieve the goal.
Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone is being developed by The Farm 51 and will launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2025.
Are you excited to see that you might be able to play in the Early Access for Chernobylite 2 this soon? How much of the game will we actually get to experience as the team wraps up the rest of the development to make good on their goals? Will we get to see some form of access on the consoles with this one or will that always be a massive hurdle that developers just cannot get over with ease? Wander on down to the comment section to discuss all of this and everything else that is going on for the game. We know there is still a lot more for Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone to come, so please keep on checking in to the site to see and hear about all of that as it flows out there. This is one of the few Kickstarter titles we get behind, so we are going to try to cover all angles as best as we can.