Extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov landed on 750,000 wishlists on Steam, announced the game’s director Nikita Buyanov via a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Nov. 5, 2025.
Initially released for Windows PC in a Closed Beta mode on July 27, 2017, the game is slated for release on Steam on Nov. 15, 2025, with a console port in the plans.
Set in the fictional Norvinsk region of northwestern Russia, in the midst of a war between two private military companies, United Security (USEC) and the Battle Encounter Assault Regiment (BEAR), Escape from Tarkov features three different modes: online PMC raids, scavenger raids titled Scav, and a temporary offline training mode without progression or loot gains.
As of the time of writing, developed and published by Battlestate Games, Escape from Tarkov has over 1.6 million monthly active users and around 393,000 daily players, according to ActivePlayer.
