Escape from Tarkov 1.0: The Ultimate Extraction Shooter is Painfully Flawed

For nearly a decade, Escape from Tarkov has been a ghost story told by hardcore PC gamers—a mythical, “in-beta” monolith that defined an entire genre. It’s the game that spawned a thousand “Tarkov-likes” but was never truly replicated. It’s a grueling, ultra-realistic, soul-crushing extraction shooter that has been developed, argued over, and played in a [...]