An escape from Tarkov to Ending Force squads to make a tough call

PSA: The details of Escape from Tarkov's many endings will be discussed in this article.

Although Escape from Tarkov has maintained a steady level of popularity in its Early Access state, it's definitely gained a significant bump of “mainstream” level flair since it's 1.0 status, with Steam and endings that include, well, managing to escape from Tarkov.

Speaking of endings, as first seen by Insider Gaming, one of Tarkov's four endings has a completely brutal ending, if A) you manage to make it to the end and B) you have a full team of people with you.

Because if you manage to meet those two parameters, then Tarkov will let you know that not everyone can experience the ending. Specifically, after fighting all the way through the terminal, the entire team is informed that the Zubr boat can only take three people.

Zuber boats cannot accommodate everyone. Evacuation will start only when 3 people are left on the ghat.

In other words, two people who have to be executed, and these are real-life friends, is not an easy choice.

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“It's glorious and blatantly obvious – Tarkov isn't like all these games that do nothing but deliver a constant dopamine hit,” one defender wrote in part in the comments. “Nikita Buyanov's sudden offer of morality at the end of the choice is scandalous and absolutely the same.”

That ending is very reminiscent of Mafia 2, where you, as the player, assume that you are part of the deal, only to be told at the end that this was not the case. It is brutal and also very realistic.

In the end, it's only one of four possible endings that exist in this brutal world, and the others aren't nearly as harsh, but also chilling in their own right.

Tarkov's ending is really neat, and I hope other escape shooters follow suit

As my colleague Josh Colson points out in his report on managing to escape Tarkov in first person, there are actually four possible endings you can face.

Realize that the end received by the first-time recipient was the second-worst of them all.

Per Insider Gaming, of the four existing endings, Debtor and Fallen are considered the worst to achieve. Survivor is a meh, middle-of-the-road ending, and the best ending, Savior, is also the hardest to achieve. It also has some story elements that we think are worth exploring, though we won't spoil what they are because the endings are still new.