looks like pleb font so probably not

>>7479801
It's Russian.

>>7479798
I liked a roadside picnic better.

>>7479813
Okay. I might check it out.

It isn't great.

slightly better than your everyday shit

>>7479798
I like it. It's kinda reddit. It's a book one reads for the worldbuilding, not the prose or the characters.

>>7479798
Just skip it and play the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games instead.

>>7480853
you mean metro redux.

Really cool worldbuilding but that's it. Prose is a bit repetitive, characters are bland.

>>7480912
The Metro series is just S.T.A.L.K.E.R dumbed down for casuals and girls.

Even the writing (at least in SOC) is better in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

>>7479798
i loved both that one and 2034. it's cozy, easy reading

>>7481048
Metro is nothing like STALKER - it's got a similar tone. They shouldn't be compared. Both are excellent gsmes with shared developers.

Metro was designed, from the start, to be linear. STALKER was designed to be open-world.

>>7481059
S.T.A.L.K.E.R also just has better systems and design in general. There's nothing quite like that first playthrough where you end up crouching behind a tree stump for 20 minutes because your shitty half-broken AK has such ridiculous bullet spread that you can't hit anything at all beyond 5 meters distance, and then you get flanked, and when you try and escape it you run straight into a vortex anomaly and explode into a thousand gibs.

And to be fair, past Bar SOC at least gets pretty damn linear.