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The English voice acting is rather ‘Cambridge’, I think would be the best way to describe it. Trust me, you’ll want to keep it Russian. In the options, you can choose between English or Russian audio. The writing here really is quite excellent and far deeper than you think as you play through the first couple of hours of the game. Things you say and do will affect so much in the game that you will soon find yourself being very careful of just what you do decide to say and do. Quite a few quandaries pop up throughout the game that will affect the characters, which all goes back to the branching system I’ve already covered. Backstories you will want to uncover to get the most out of their skills. Along the way, you will recruit team members, each with their own backstories and strengths.

This is where the missions in the game come in handy, this is why you need to gather resources and build your base and weapons. Anyway, you can actually go for this heist very early on in the game… of course you will die, as you are just not equipped to carry it off. The endgame of this is to plan and carry out a heist, which I’m not going to cover here, as to avoid major spoilers.

You don’t just build base improvements (to help keep the morale of your companions up) but there’s also weapon and item crafting and so much more. Chernobylite has a similar base building thing going on, it may not be as in-depth as Fallout 4, but it’s still pretty extensive. Love or hate Fallout 4, its base-building mechanic was actually pretty damn impressive. Really, this part of the game feels Fallout 4-like. It’s a mechanic that feels very roguelite I guess.īefore you do embark on a mission, you can (if you have the resources) build your base. You’ll actually want to die so you can enter the dreamscape and see just how differently things can work out. From minor effects like how enemy patrols will work on missions to much bigger and major character and story events, the game will change as you play. The branching system here is quite simply huge and unlike other games that use it to little effect, Chernobylite really pushes the whole multiple decisions thing beyond anything I have ever seen in a game before. Quite honestly, this is a brilliant gameplay mechanic. You can then go back and change your decisions (using Chernobylite shards) to better suit your needs. See, when you die in this game (and you will), you enter a ‘dreamscape’ and while in it, you can see how the decisions you have made have affected the story and characters.

An idea used in many games before, but Chernobylite does something a little different with it as your decisions are not necessarily final. You’ll have a great many conversations with your team (oh yeah, you recruit people too) and you’ll be given a variety of responses and decisions to make that affect not just the story but also your relationship with individual characters. Really, Chernobylite is a mish-mash of gaming ideas and when titles tend to throw multiple ideas into one title, they usually become a ‘jack of all trades’.Īside from the various gameplay mechanics used here, there’s also a branching story system. Part FPS (though it’s possible to play through missions without firing a single shot), part survival, part, base-building and crafting, All with a sci-fi/horror setting. The core gameplay of Chernobylite has you setting up and carrying out missions to scavenge the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and help build your base and create weapons to help you in bigger and harder missions as you slowly uncover just what happened to Tatyana. And that is when things really kick into gear. Soon after successfully breaking into the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Igor finds a strange (and real-life) mineral called Chernobylite, which is used to power a portal gun. 30-years after the disaster and Igor returns to the site in search of his missing fiancée, Tatyana, who disappeared shortly before the Chernobyl Disaster. Playing as Igor Khymynuk, a physicist who worked at Chernobyl before everything went very badly wrong. Yes, Chernobylite could certainly be called a survival game, but there is so much more going on here that really needs looking at too.