Mission Walkthroughs

Navigate The Zone with our comprehensive S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl walkthrough. Detailed guides for main missions, side quests, and endings.

Welcome to our S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl walkthrough guide.

This guide will offer a series of self-contained walkthrough pages with useful tips and detailed instructions on how to complete the game's Main Missions. Several of these can be tackled with many approaches.

Given the sheer amount of missions, please refer to the sidebar on the right for their links. They'll be separated into sections corresponding to the area in which they take place, for clarity's sake.

Apart from that, you can count on a series of Side Mission Guides, which'll detail all of the optional quests you may find in your journey. As with the Main Mission pages, these also are separated by region in the sidebar to the right, though into more compound pages given their shorter nature.

There's also the usual Achievements Guide, for those interested in fully experiencing everything the game's got to offer.

Please mind that our set of guides is a work in progress and pages may be added or changed if deemed necessary.

Disclaimer: This set of guides has been written with the Stalker difficulty mode as reference.

Walkthrough (Lesser Zone)

• Prologue (Beginner's Guide)
• A Tough Awakening
• A Needle in a Haystack
• Behind Seven Seals
• A Race Against Death

Walkthrough (Garbage)

• Answers Come at a Price
• The Price Goes Up
• Deal with the Devil
  • King of the Hill (optional)
• Back to the Slag Heap

Walkthrough (Wild Island)

• Hot on the Trail
• Chasing Ghosts

Walkthrough (Zaton)

• Dead Frequency
  • Dead Frequency - Scar Route
  • Dead Frequency - Ward Route
• In Search of a Guide

Walkthrough (Swamps)

• Ad astra per aspera
• Extreme Simplicity

Walkthrough (SIRCAA)

• A Long Overdue Visit & The Forge of Progress
• Wishful Thinking
• Chapter closure
  • To the Last Drop of Blood (Spark)
  • Law and Order (Ward)

Waltkthrough (post-SIRCAA)

• Just Like the Good Old Days
• The Hornet's Nest
• On the Edge (Optional)

Waltkthrough (Duga-Malachite)

• An Invisible Threat
  • An Invisible Threat (Spark)
  • An Invisible Threat (Ward)
• Dawn of a New Day (Spark-only)
• The Assault on the Duga
  • The Assault on the Duga (Spark)
  • The Assault on the Duga (Ward)
• A Minor Incident
• In Search of Past Glory
• Follow-up mission
  • Happiness for Everyone (Spark)
  • Once More unto the Breach (Ward)
• Visions of Truth
  • Visions of Truth (Spark)
  • Visions of Truth (Ward)

Walkthrough (Red Forest-Yaniv)

• Dark Times
• An Act of Mercy
• Legends of the Zone
• Subtle Matter
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Escape from the Cage (non-Ward)
• The Boundary

Walkthrough (Prypiat)

• The Road to Foundation
• Down Below (2 routes)
  • Down Below (Non-Ward)
  • Down Below (Ward)

Walkthrough (Game End)

• Endings Guide
• ✨ Spark Ending
  • Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
  • The Eternal Shining
• 🛡️ Ward Ending
  • Eye of the Storm
  • The Last Step
• ☢️ Strelok/Kaimanov Ending(s)
  • The Last Wish
  • Let No One Leave Unsatisfied

Side Missions

• Side Missions - Lesser Zone
  • Warlock's Debtor
  • Dogfight
  • Nightingale's Hunt