From their Twitter,
"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation will receive a free upgrade to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition on May 20, 2025.

New shaders, lighting, textures, gamepad support, Steam Deck, Steam Workshop, and more."

In a reply, they mentioned:

"If you have old games, you will get all three games for free. But it will be another product, not an update for the old games.

So, eventually, you will have the Original Games and the Enhanced Editions.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl — Enhanced Edition
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky — Enhanced Edition
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat — Enhanced Edition"

The Enhanced Editions were released just today. They also have steam achievements.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2427410/STALKER_Shadow_of_Chornobyl__Enhanced_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2427420/STALKER_Clear_Sky__Enhanced_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2427430/STALKER_Call_of_Prypiat__Enhanced_Edition/

4 hours ago

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I've just seen them in my library. It was a wonderful surprise.

3 hours ago
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nice

3 hours ago
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Nice! I love when they give enhanced versions to original fans!

3 hours ago
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Time to play through them again, I guess!

3 hours ago
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Those reviews are... not good

3 hours ago
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Reviews are a damned mess because of review boosting based on the original games, the goodwill of the devs and to honor a dev who passed away in the fights against the invading Russian army, while there is also review bombing for cutting out Russian language and "being political".

There are some proper reviews about performance and features, but it's in the minority. At least with the first game I'd wait for the reviews to clean up, if you didn't get it for owning the original games, and planning on buying.

3 hours ago
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Does that also mean that if you activate keys for the stalker games after this initial release you'll still gett access to the enhanced editions?

2 hours ago
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I think so. Looks like the added the enhanced edition to the old subs.
They didn't add it to all collections though. You have to know which sub it is and check with SteamDB.

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Judging from reading reviews they're trying to make it fit for modern audiences by blurring the historical Soviet Russian aspect. While understandable for an Ukrainian studio such historical distortions are too Orwellian for me.

2 hours ago
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Oof! the reviews are brutal. Better to ignore and check back after a couple of years.

2 hours ago
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The original game had Russian voiceover, was written and voiced in Russian, and that's all gone - also, now the Soviet posters were blurred etc
You're altering the original product. That's not "Enhanced edition", that's a "remake"
Which is sad given you neglected the games for decades, only to change the title spelling, do some political/language changes, slap some "modern" graphic filters and throw them out there
These might be the games with the most amount of mods to fix the original to a playable state. I'll wait for the mod community to restore the original audio/ fix the blur issues/ other technical problems and give it a go

2 hours ago
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Was the original ever called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of ChOrnobyl?
I always thought it was called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of ChErnobyl?

2 hours ago
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The original used the Russian spelling "Chernobyl", the remake uses the Ukrainian one "Chornobyl".

1 hour ago
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natasha doesen't understand ukranian speech, lenin invented really very difficult language lmao

1 hour ago
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Wow I'm glad people got them for free because looking at reviews - no one would pay for them

46 minutes ago
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Not much gained, more lost or worse...
I'll keep using my original+mods.

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