Stalker 2’s Lower Review Scores Are ‘Unfair & Misleading’, Says Arkane Founder

“It’s a bit rough on the edges at launch”

It’s safe to say that Stalker 2’s reviews have been quite varied so far – we went with a lower score of 4/10 due to a litany of bugs, glitches and game breaking issues experienced during our review time, but plenty of other critics went higher. This has led to a somewhat middling Metacritic average for the game – and Arkane Studios founder Raphael Colantonio has taken issue with that.

Posting on social media recently, the former Arkane dev claims that “safe boring games” are likely to score higher for being “polished at launch” – and that this in turn puts game studios off from taking risks. Colantonio then uses Stalker 2 as an example of a game that’s apparently scored lower than those ‘safe’ games just because it’s “a bit rough on the edges at launch”.