The sequel to GSC Game World's post-nuclear first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is no more. The team behind the troubled S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 says that development on the project has frozen and that the studio has been shuttered.
From the ashes of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and GSC Game World, however, has risen a new title: Survarium.
After failing to reach an agreement with the rights holders of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. property, the game's creators say they moved onto a new project. According to developer Vostok Games, Survarium is a free-to-play "MMOFPS game set in the near future."
"The concept of Survarium is a next evolution step for the idea of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. we’ve been working on for the last ten years," said project lead Ruslan Didenko. "Survarium will go way further forcing mankind to fight for survival not only within the closed area of Chernobyl zone, but also far beyond."
"The game focuses on a mass-scale ecological catastrophe on Earth, the reasons behind vaguely known," says Vostok Games. "Impassable woods advance onto cities from every side, maddened animals and birds attack industrial complexes, military structures, warehouses and power plants. Towns are cut off from each other, there are no water supplies, no electricity, gas, communication is lost. Countries collapse, anarchy spreads throughout the world. Now force dictates who to survive."
Built on proprietary tech, Survarium is slated for release on PC at the end of 2013.
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