168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Extraction shooters are pretty fun. I’ve only played a handful over my gaming career, but while they’re not exactly ‘My Thing’, I certainly see the appeal. There’s something about executing a high-risk, high-reward pla🍸n and having to improvise when things inevitably break bad that gets the blood pumping. It’s the kind of genre that perfectly embodies the ‘okay, just one more game’ mentality.
That all said, when did everything become an extraction shooter? 168澳🗹洲幸运5开奖网:The genre has been pop🃏ular for a long time, but 2025 feel🐷s like the year of the extraction game, with studios announcing new entries in the genre left and right.
Oops! All Extraction Shooters
There’s been a lot of extraction shooter news over the last few weeks. Bungie finally held a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:showcase for Marathon and also hosted a closed alpha test for it 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:to mixed reception; Arc Raiders is set for release later this year and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:has had sꦜome solid buzz♏ thanks to a few previews; Mycopunk is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an indie take on the extraction genre revealed by Devolver Digital this week; He💎lldivers 2 ha🅺s continued to maintain a steady player base for its in-game events, and a new report claims that one of the games canceled by E♔A amidst its latest rounds of layoffs was a Titanfall extraction shooter.
On top of all of that, extraction games have been reimagined in the indie horror space with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:games like Repo, Lethal Company, and Content Warning becoming massive hits on Steam. It feels like every🍌where you look, there’s an extraction game to be found.
I understand the appeal of the genre, but it feels like it’s a trend from a few years ago that, out of nowhere, made a big return. The other odd th🎃ing about it is that I’m not so sure the sudden influx of extraction games is going to be sustainable for publish📖ers.
Adding To An Already Saturated Genre
It’s interesting to pay attention to multiplayer gaming trends because it seems like the only games that are actually successful are the ones that get in early. We’ve seen countless failed battle royale games try to get 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a slice of the For🍒tnite/Apex Legends/Warzone pie and struggle to find an audience because people already have their go-to games. When someone has put an untold number of hours into a game and spent almost as much money on skins that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:make them look like Sabrina Carpenter or Nicki Minaj, it’s an uphill battle to convince them to leave that game in favor of a new one, especially if it doesn’t have their favorite popstar๊s.
These new extraction shooters seem like they’re going to face the same problems that battle royale games faced in the early 2020s. Fans of the genre have already put their time into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:games like Escape From Tarkov, Hunt Showdown, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rainbow Six Siege. They might divert their attention for a weekend or two to try out Marathon or Arc Raiders, but unless those games are able to set themselv🦩es apart in a meaningful way, I struggle to imagine them sticking around long-term.
I’m not praying for the downfall of any of these games. I think Marathon looks pretty good, and I took the day off from work to mourn 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the loss of a new Titanfall game when I heard the news, but I just can’t figure out why extraction shooters have be♏come the new go-to genre when it comes time for a publisher to announce a new multiplayer game.
Who knows, maybe I’m wrong and the 2025 extraction revival will go down in gaming history as the year the games industry fixed itself, 🔥but that feels unlikely. If y♉ou need me, I’m taking some more time off to keep mourning Titanfall.
