Posted on: September 2, 2025
space_kot
Games: 286 Reviews: 2
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly
Description
The Zone evolves. So must you.
Welcome to the most complete and immersive S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience yet. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly is a free, stand-alone mod built on the 64-bit X-Ray engine, reinvigorated and enhanced to deliver the definitive survival sandbox in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
Whether you walk the dust-choked roads of Garbage, stalk anomalies in Jupiter, or run clandestine operations under the cover of Prypiat’s ruins, Anomaly reshapes what a survival shooter can be: open-ended, brutal, and richly atmospheric.
A Living, Breathing Zone
Choose Your Path
Hardcore Survival, Modular Freedom
Anomaly comes with hundreds of built-in settings to let you tweak the experience right out of the box. For more advanced adjustments, additional add-ons and packs are also compatible, offering even more than what the core settings provide. It’s your playground.
This is the Zone – more brutal, more beautiful, and more alive than ever before.
To see a list of all developers and contributors to this release, click here to see the credits document.
Welcome to the most complete and immersive S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience yet. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly is a free, stand-alone mod built on the 64-bit X-Ray engine, reinvigorated and enhanced to deliver the definitive survival sandbox in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
Whether you walk the dust-choked roads of Garbage, stalk anomalies in Jupiter, or run clandestine operations under the cover of Prypiat’s ruins, Anomaly reshapes what a survival shooter can be: open-ended, brutal, and richly atmospheric.
A Living, Breathing Zone
- 32 Unique Maps from across Shadow of Chornobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Prypiat, seamlessly stitched into one interconnected, explorable world.
- Smart Terrain & AI Systems bring the Zone to life: mutants hunt in packs, factions seize control of territories, and combat is dynamic, unpredictable, and deadly.
- Day/Night & Weather Cycles with visual and audio enhancements push immersion to its limit.
Choose Your Path
- Story Mode: A rich, lore-friendly campaign that bridges the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. timeline and offers multi-faction perspectives.
- Sandbox Mode: Drop the narrative and shape your own legend. Trade, raid, survive. Or die trying.
- Warfare Mode: Join your chosen faction in all-out territorial warfare across the Zone. Bases fall. Frontlines shift. Chaos reigns.
Hardcore Survival, Modular Freedom
- Survival Mechanics: Monitor your hunger, thirst, stamina, sleep, and radiation exposure. Every wound counts. Every bullet matters.
- Equipment Degradation: Weapons jam. Armor fails. Maintenance is a constant battle.
- Scavenging & Crafting: Repair gear, cook meals, craft ammunition, and make use of what the Zone gives you. Or die for what it doesn’t.
Anomaly comes with hundreds of built-in settings to let you tweak the experience right out of the box. For more advanced adjustments, additional add-ons and packs are also compatible, offering even more than what the core settings provide. It’s your playground.
This is the Zone – more brutal, more beautiful, and more alive than ever before.
To see a list of all developers and contributors to this release, click here to see the credits document.
Disclaimer: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Anomaly is a fan-created modification for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games by GSC Game World. It is not an official product of GSC Game World and is a derivative work based on their original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.
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User reviews
Posted on: September 2, 2025
Krteq
Games: 94 Reviews: 1
Best original STALKER series experience
Best standalone STALKER series mod, ever With GAMMA pack it's even better than STALKER 2
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Posted on: September 4, 2025
Stalcair
Verified ownerGames: 841 Reviews: 2
Great if you already survived the Zone
This mod is excellent, really brings A-Life to life. With Stalkers within and outside your instance moving, questing, artifact hunting, trading, killing and getting killed while commenting on it. Procedural quests and emerging gameplay makes the experience memorable. Very unforgiving, it takes a while to get used to the mechanics and difficulty. After that time it's will probably be one of your top 3 mods of all times. It's not for nothing it's been up there on the ModDB most downloaded list for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately even getting through that initial hurdle can be a real challenge. It took me years on and off of trying, not understanding and quitting after an hour or so then trying again 6 to 12 months later. But believe me it's worth it. Even though the mod is solid, with very few bugs considering the engine it is built on and the amount of new content and combined content from the franchise added, I'd say the Anomaly still feels unfinished. With assets from different artists, a very outdated inventory UI and gunplay it can still be improved in a later release or with sub-mods or mod-packs. Still, I recommend you give it a try, and come back to it until you're finally ready to get in the Zone. The playthroughs can be as long as you make them, once you know the systems, making money can be easy and rushing the main quest possible. Still, the fun part is the free roam. Getting your reputation up through questing, finally going North, meeting legendary Stalkers, teaming up with them or killing them depending on your faction, hunting others, watching the sun set over the Zone, getting immersed into the night, be a bystander to a gunfight, maintaining your equipment, having your sortie ruined by an emission or a psy-storm. So many things to do, and never going through the same. Many thanks to the GOG team for bringing the mod here, and to GSC for allowing Stalkers to revisit the Zone through those mods.
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Posted on: September 5, 2025
kakas01
Verified ownerGames: 90 Reviews: 9
One of the greatest MODS of all time.
10/10 mod, it is a pioneer that set down new basics that AAA games use today! It is fun to start up a new adventure each time, truly a G.O.A.T.
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Posted on: September 4, 2025
SCO77YBOY
Verified ownerGames: 69 Reviews: 7
Fantastic Mod
This is a must play for any Stalker fan. I have had may hours of fun with this mod
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