Fortnite meets Call of Duty DMZ in this free adventurous Steam game

Extraction shooters are the next big thing if we’re to believe the hype. As battle royales begin to age, developers have started to look to extraction gameplay that was made popular by Escape from Tarkov.

If you don’t know what an extraction game looks like, we recently saw it in Call of Duty with their DMZ game mode. Essentially, you are dropped into a map and tasked with looting the area for weapons, items, armour, and more. You’ll be set specific tasks to complete while in the map and must extract from the area in order to keep the goodies you have looted.

Call of Duty has binned their extraction shooter DMZ and replaced it with Zombies

These games are usually PvPvE and HAWKED, a new game from developer MY.GAMES, is hitting the ground running with an early access attempt at the genre. The game has a very colourful aesthetic similar to Fortnite while still keeping the tension of the extraction shooters we’ve come to love.

HAWKED is an action-packed adventure that can be played solo or with friends and it features a wide array of tasks to complete including puzzle solving, battling AI enemies and, of course, trying to avoid or hunt down other players.

As the game’s blurb says, “The adventurers guild GRAIL has recruited a band of Renegades—treasure-hunting mercenaries—to infiltrate the island and retrieve these relics. Become a Renegade and squad up with pals to explore this new world as you battle monstrous Disciples, outwit other players, and escape with a bounty of ancient treasures!”

Extraction gameplay has already featured in several titles from AAA studios and indie developers and while none are yet to topple the king of them all, Escape From Tarkov, plenty are planned to try, including Bungie with their upcoming Marathon reboot. Of course, some are more successful than others but you better get used to seeing them on the market as they’re taking the industry by storm.