Escape from Tarkov

Bring gear in, lose it if you die, keep it if you walk out — stakes return to the online shooter.

Released 2017 Developer Battlestate Games Platform PC Genre Extraction shooter Era Live service & the long tail Website escapefromtarkov.com ↗

Mechanics this game introduced

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Multiplayer & Social · 2017

Extraction Risk/Reward Loop

Extraction loops let players carry their own equipment into a hostile map where every gain and loss is permanent, and …

Origin: Escape from Tarkov

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Escape from Tarkov inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Permadeath Run Structure ~~1980~~Spatial Inventory Grid ~~1996~~Iron-Sight Aim-Down-Sights ~~1998~~Learnable Recoil Patterns ~~1999~~Paid Early Access Development ~~2009~~

Descends from

DayZ ~~2012~~

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