Escape from Tarkov console port officially confirmed by Battlestate
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Key points
- A console version of Escape from Tarkov has been confirmed, but the platforms, pricing and release window remain unannounced.
- Version 1.0 is coming on Nov. 15 with a Steam debut. Post-launch plans include the DLC Scav Life, major events and a new location.
- According to the game’s Steam store page, the recommended PC specification for Escape from Tarkov currently calls for 64 GB of RAM.
Escape from Tarkov is coming to consoles, Battlestate chief operating officer Nikita Buyanov confirmed in a TGS recap video. Platforms, prices and a release window are unannounced, and PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S versions are unconfirmed. Additionally, the first post-launch DLC for the extraction shooter is Scav Life.
Battlestate Games has confirmed that the console version of the extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov is in development. Buyanov shared the update in a TGS 2025 recap video without naming platforms, a release window or any other meaningful information. The studio has not addressed cross-progression, cross-play or other platform-specific details.
The timing aligns with Tarkov’s push to version 1.0 on Nov. 15 alongside a Steam debut. Buyanov also shared early post-launch plans, including the first DLC, Scav Life, several major launch-window events and a new location.
The game’s main campaign features a linear story with four endings, and Battlestate has said that additional Tarkov-universe projects are already in pre-production.
The challenge of bringing EFT to consoles
For context, Escape from Tarkov has been in development for roughly nine years (from the early public alpha in 2016 to the planned 1.0 release in a month). About half of the development time, Battlestate spent battling with technical issues of the ambitious extraction shooter (mostly, netcode/desync problems and frame-time stutters in most locations).
The PC control scheme reflects the complexity of mil-sim, with the settings spanning about four full pages. There are dozens of discrete actions, each bindable to multiple keys or buttons and configurable with modifiers (hold, on release, double-tap and other per-action options).
On the hardware side, the current EFT recommended spec asks for 64 GB of system RAM, underscoring the game’s substantial memory footprint (texture streaming and the still unresolved issue with memory leaks) and the studio’s ongoing efforts to stabilize and improve performance of the extraction shooter.
Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore PvPvE extraction shooter on PC (Steam and standalone launcher) by Battlestate Games set for release on Nov. 15, 2025.
The Steam store page of the game is already live.
The studio titles the game as a highly realistic military simulator, a “Hazardous Environment Combat Simulator” (HECS), and it’s been in beta since July 2017.
