Evacuation shooters seem to be all the rage right now, as are games ARC Raiders and Marathon Making the genre more accessible to newcomers than ever before. Steam Escape has long been a great home for the shooter genre Escape from Tarkov Released on the platform in November of last year. In 2026, Steam is set to get another extraction shooter with a unique twist that could rival the likes. ARC Raiders, Tarkovand Marathon.
The last few years have been highlighted by the rise of withdrawal shooters ARC Raiders' recently won Game of the Year at the Nordic Game Awards. What was once a niche genre has suddenly grown into a fairly mainstream source of Steam games with upcoming ambitious indie titles. beautiful light Set to join the ranks in 2026. While beautiful light Can face a tough fight against such giants ARC Raiders and MarathonIt has a secret weapon that can elevate its gameplay above that of its competitors.
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ENTER – Prepare yourself to face an intervention area, find a mysterious artifact, or complete your quests.
Secure – Artifacts all have different properties that can be exploited. You need to be the first to protect them and eliminate anyone who stands in your way.
Extract – Shoot a flare, call in an extraction helicopter, and escape before something kills you – with or without an artifact.
Progression – Spend your rewards wisely to improve your character level and your skills in an RPG-like progression tree.
Anomaly – Play as the Anomaly to hunt, kill, and prevent players from extracting artifacts.
Sundar Prakash, a PvPvPvE tactical first-person extraction shooter where 6 squads of 3 operators are tasked with entering, securing and extracting an artifact in a hostile, terrifying environment. Face other operators and player-controlled anomalies, but be careful: mistakes can put your life and gear at risk.
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Sundar Prakash is basically ARC Raiders meets STALKER
Contrasted with the retro-futuristic aesthetic of ARC Raiders or realization of intrauterine science Marathon, beautiful light At first glance it looks like a standard military evacuation shooter. However, it is home to a very dark world, which mixes horror elements like the games STALKER or Metro 2033. The result is a tense extraction shooter where PvP and PvE gameplay collide as players fight for their lives and extract artifacts.
beautiful light It is scheduled to release on Steam in Early Access in December 2026.
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in beautiful lightPlayers will join a rapid response force and enter an intervention zone in search of powerful, mysterious artifacts with dangerous potential. Like hostile ARC enemies ARC Raidersthe world of beautiful light Each mode is unforgiving, with threats from both other players and the environment. beautiful light It has a heavy emphasis on horror elements, with monstrous anomalies waiting to attack unprepared players.
beautiful light The game features six teams of three operators, providing a layer of teamwork on top of its PvPvE gameplay. The goal of the game is to make it out alive after completing a quest or securing an artifact. As is the case with other extraction shooters ARC RaidersDying during the game means the player loses any progress they've made and any artifacts they've collected. This means that it is often better to get away with nothing than to die and lose everything.
Completing quests earns beautiful light Players receive rewards from NPC traders, allowing them to upgrade their character's skill tree and increase their chances of surviving to the next round. Players can also purchase valuable weapons and gear from merchants, such as loadout systems. ARC Raiders and Marathon Convenience. beautiful light Gives players a pretty major incentive to kit out their character with the best gear, as the game's unique gameplay twist adds a significant threat that they have to consider every time they travel.
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While most players will join the game as an operator, beautiful light There is an asymmetric multiplayer component that allows some players to seek out other players as an anomaly. Like other asymmetric multiplayer games Dead by DaylightThe goal of Anomaly is to spoil other players' runs by eating them and preventing them from taking out the artifact. To deal with unbalanced teams, Anomaly has a variety of unique skills that players can upgrade with the more kills they earn in a round. Eventually, players will be able to unlock other types of anomalies to play as DBDof unique playable assassins.
For its early access launch, beautiful light It plans to focus on the core raid mode: a 24-player PvPvE mode with six teams of three operators and six players taking on the role of anomalies. The aim is to provide a level of immersion with the game, just like the game's audio ARC Raiders It heightens the horror of the constant threat of anomalies hanging over the player, ambient breathing, realistic footsteps, heartbeats, and a realistic gas mask, all used as immersive features along with a HUD that takes the form of a forearm PDA for a more diegetic gameplay experience.
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Planned for the 1.0 launch are features such as leaderboards, ranks, roles, management, and bonus generators, an expanded contract system, and more maps and weapons. For Steam users looking for a horror-filled extraction shooter experience, it's worth keeping tabs on beautiful light.
