After Inventing the Genre, Tarkov Creator's New Game Won't be an Extraction Shooter

After Inventing the Genre, Tarkov Creator's New Game Won't be an Extraction Shooter

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When Escape from Tarkov was released, it was the defining moment for the extraction shooter genre, paving the way for games like ARC Raiders and Marathon, and creator Nikita Buyanov is striving for innovation once again.

Buyanov has been working on a new sci-fi FPS game called Fragmentary Order, which is being developed by the newly-formed Rant Gaming Studios, while Battlestate Games continues to work on Escape from Tarkov.

Tarkov Creator Says Fragmentary Order Could Be the Start of a New Genre

While there's still a lot of mystery surrounding Fragmentary Order in terms of how the gameplay loop will work, we've been shown quite a bit about the lore of the game.

FragOrder takes place in the year 2251, after humanity was brought back from the brink of total destruction by an AI-controlled corporation known as Core.

With the help of this corporation, humanity began to overcome famine and war, unite the governments of the world, and explore the solar system, but now, the Core's control has been weakened by newly-formed, power-hungry alliances, resulting in a Fragmented Order.

While this exciting new space shooter has been lovingly nicknamed "Starkov" by fans, Buyanov revealed in...

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