Best Extraction Shooters & Looters (September 2026)

Free to play: Arena Breakout: Infinite, Dark and Darker, Delta Force, Off The Grid, Vigor. Everything else is paid — see the Price column above for each.

The genre is mostly PvP-first. Steam lists a single-player or co-op mode for: ARC Raiders, Arena Breakout: Infinite, Dark and Darker, Delta Force, Dungeonborne, Escape From Duckov, Escape from Tarkov, Gray Zone Warfare, HAWKED, Hunt: Showdown 1896, Incursion Red River, Level Zero: Extraction, Marauders, Off The Grid, Reaper Actual, Road to Vostok, SYNDUALITY Echo of Ada, The Cycle: Frontier, The Forever Winter, ZERO Sievert, ZERO Sievert 2. PvP-first (only competitive modes listed): Marathon, SAND: Raiders of Sophie, Vigor. Note: some PvP-first games still let you queue alone, and some solo-friendly ones still share the map with other players — check each game's page.

Every game here runs on Windows PC (this list is built from Steam's PC store data). Also on macOS: Escape From Duckov. For PlayStation or Xbox availability, check each game's own page — Steam's PC store data doesn't list console support.

An extraction shooter is a genre where players enter a match (often called a raid or run) with limited gear, scavenge or fight for loot and objectives on the map, and then must reach an extraction point to leave with what they've collected. Dying before extracting typically means losing the items you were carrying into or found during that run, which is the core risk/reward loop that separates the genre from standard shooters.

Battle royale games shrink a map and eliminate players until one person or team remains, with no way to leave early and keep loot. Extraction shooters let players choose to exit the map mid-match through a designated extraction point, banking whatever gear they've found — matches can end in survival and profit rather than only in elimination. Some titles blend elements of both, which is why checking each game's own mode list (as linked in the table above) matters more than relying on the genre label alone.

Free-to-play extraction shooters generally make money after launch through cosmetics, battle passes, or in-game currency rather than an upfront purchase. Paid entries charge a one-time price and may still add optional cosmetic purchases later. Neither model determines a game's mode support (solo/PvE vs PvP-first) or platform availability — those are listed independently in the table above for each title.