Do you hear the call of the Wish Granter? After six years in the making,STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobylis finallyon the cusp of release, and GSC Game World has published the release timetable.

The game comes out at 16:00 UTCon November 20.

When Is STALKER 2 Out?

Honolulu, HI

Juneau, AK

Seattle, WA

Denver, CO

Chicago, IL

New York, NY

La Paz, Bolivia

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ponta Delgada, Portugal

London, UK

Paris, France

Kyiv, Ukraine

Istambul, Turkey

Yerevan, Armenia

Astana, Kazakhstan

New Dehli, India

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Beijing, China

00:00 (+1)

Darwin, Australia

00:30 (+1)

Tokyo, Japan

01:00 (+1)

Brisbane, Australia

02:00 (+1)

Sydney, Australia

03:00 (+1)

Auckland, New Zealand

05:00 (+1)

If you have pre-orderedSTALKER 2: Heart of Chornobylon Xbox, you can already pre-load the game and start playing the second it comes out.

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Unfortunately for PC gamers,GSC has not extended this option to Steam, the Epic Games Store, or GOG.

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This wasconfirmed on the official STALKER Discordby a community manager four days ago, which is a disappointing surprise considering the size of the game.

The infamous ferris wheel from the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Stalker 2

While the Steam page forSTALKER 2has had placeholder system requirements for years now,most players were under the impression that these were just stand-insthat would be updated once the game approached its release.

GSC shocked fans when it confirmed thatSTALKER 2would require150 GB of disk space, and then doubled down by increasing that to 160 GB last week.

Stalker 2 Heart of Chornobyl Train Bridge M14

This placesSTALKER 2firmly ahead of even famous AAA storage hogs likeCall of Duty, which has been on adisk space dietfor a few editions.

Do keep in mind that with a big launch normally comes an equally large day one patch, soeven if you pre-load the game, it is quite possible that you will need to sit for another houror more once the first hotfix is out.

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Such is life in the Zone, of course, sograb yourself a bottle of kvass, sit down with your fellow stalkers by the campfire, and exchange a few jokes to kill time.

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STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl

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