Survarium was a free-to-play online first-person shooter with role-playing and survival elements developed by Vostok Games through a venture capital following the purported cancellation of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

series, the developers intend to include comparable features, notably the anomalies and artifacts that reference the Russian science-fiction novel Roadside Picnic, and the 'ecological catastrophe' that renders much of the environment uninhabitable for humans.

[10][11] The free play game mode will contain a large, session based map with limited numbers of players in it at one time.

[12] If a player is killed, they lose all items found during that session and are moved back to the lobby where they can enter another free play instance.

Such targets include weapons manufacturers, military installations and laboratories that are working on methods of stopping the spread of the forest.

Despite the company's initial denials in response to press inquiries, the media widely reported that senior management had officially cancelled S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

The soundtrack and effects in Survarium were made by the founder of the Ukrainian melodic death metal band Firelake.

Vostok said in March that it was taking "a break from our work" because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which forced some of the development team located in the capital city of Kyiv to relocate to other parts of the country.