Overview
- Revealed during the Xbox Partner Preview on Thursday, the first major S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 expansion is slated for Summer 2026 on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.
- GSC describes Cost of Hope as a massive, nonlinear add-on that offers dozens of hours of new quests and characters.
- The DLC opens two new regions — the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the Iron Forest — each with its own hub, activities, and new weapons and gear.
- Players return as Skif in a parallel storyline that triggers from a PDA signal during the main campaign and responds to player choices.
- The team positions the release as the middle entry in a planned second trilogy with another story DLC to come, and it has not yet announced a firm date or pricing.