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CHERNOBYL: The Untold Story

Mehsoft · 2019-09-24

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 24, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

1986. Chernobyl disaster. The story that you will see in the game resembles a delusional dream of a man exhausted by radiation. But whether it is nonsense or the nightmarish reality of the Soviet era – you decide.

0
playing now
71%
positive of 289 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

1986. Chernobyl disaster. The story that you will see in the game resembles a delusional dream of a man exhausted by radiation. But whether it is nonsense or the nightmarish reality of the Soviet era - you decide.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 45% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.2k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 289 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2021-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.592019-09-242026-07-092019-09-24 — best price $2.992020-01-02 — best price $2.992021-01-05 — best price $2.992021-02-15 — best price $2.992021-06-24 — best price $0.892021-10-28 — best price $0.592021-11-24 — best price $1.492021-12-22 — best price $0.742022-01-27 — best price $1.492022-06-23 — best price $0.742022-11-22 — best price $1.492022-12-22 — best price $0.742023-03-16 — best price $1.492023-06-29 — best price $0.592023-11-21 — best price $0.592023-12-21 — best price $1.192024-06-27 — best price $0.892024-11-27 — best price $1.192024-12-19 — best price $0.892025-03-13 — best price $1.192025-06-26 — best price $0.892025-09-29 — best price $0.892025-12-18 — best price $0.892026-06-25 — best price $0.892026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DGoreIndieActionViolentDifficultDark HumorOpen WorldAtmosphericSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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