Escape from Tarkov console port officially confirmed by Battlestate
Escape from Tarkov is coming to consoles, Battlestate CEO confirmed in a TGS recap video. Platforms, prices, and a release window are unannounced; PS5 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. CEO Nikita Buyanov shared the update in a TGS 2025 recap video, without naming platforms, 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 November 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 says 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 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 November 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.