This mix of frantic nail-biting tension coupled with incredibly rewarding victory, makes Escape from Tarkov a hugely addictive game that can leave you playing for hours into the night. This has the effect of increasing the tension in each match, as success or failure can have real - long-lasting consequences for your character, and what was gained over the course of 10 hours can be lost in 10 seconds. This fundamental difference becomes incredibly important as it builds a persistent progression between each match. Depending on which map you select, there can be anywhere from 4 to 14 enemy players on the map, and they all have the same goal as you gather as much loot as possible and make it out alive. If you die you lose all the loot you entered the match with, and any you gathered along the way. In the match you can encounter both AI enemies and other players, both of which will try to kill you.

Each match or raid drops you into one of five maps where your main objective is to make it to one of the exit locations, alive and with as much loot as possible.

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