Escape from Tarkov is lastly coming to Steam ‘quickly,’ developer says

Following information that Escape from Tarkov is escaping its perpetual beta, the pioneering extraction shooter can be about to make its debut on Steam. Nikita Buyanov, head of the Battlestate Video games studio that developed Escape from Tarkov, confirmed on X that the sport’s Steam web page “will probably be obtainable quickly,” solely teasing that the total particulars will come later.

Buyanov’s affirmation comes lower than a day after the developer posted a GIF on X of a person spraying steam from an iron. Earlier this month, Buyanov revealed on X that the looter shooter will get its 1.0 launch on November 15, 2025, greater than eight years after the beta opened as much as gamers in July 2017, and that the studio has plans to port it to consoles. The Steam web page for Escape from Tarkov is not dwell but, and with solely imprecise particulars to go off of, longtime followers have already got burning questions. Most significantly, current gamers are desperate to know in the event that they should purchase the sport once more on Steam and the way this variation will have an effect on the ongoing cheating problem.

Whereas we haven’t any solutions but, Battlestate Video games just lately went into damage control mode when it revealed the Unheard Version of the sport that prices $250 and features a new PvE mode. This transfer irked longstanding gamers who beforehand bought one other premium version of the sport, referred to as the Fringe of Darkness, which promised entry to all future DLCs. The controversy boiled all the way down to house owners of the Fringe of Darkness version claiming they need to have entry to the brand new content material, however the studio argued that it’s not categorized as DLC. Ultimately, Buyanov apologized for the debacle and promised the PvE mode could be obtainable for anybody who bought the Fringe of Darkness package deal.