Escape from Tarkov’s console version will be announced in 2027, according to the head of the studio making it. “For next year will be the announcement, 100%, I believe that,” Battlestate Games’ Nikita Buyanov said in an interview with Insider Gaming published today. The catch came in the sentence before it: “The console version, it won’t be ready next year, for sure.”
So console players get a reveal in 2027 and the game itself in 2028 at the earliest. Buyanov did not name any platforms.
Buyanov guesses the announcement will come early in 2027
Buyanov put a rough window on the reveal. “I guess the announcement will be early next year; I believe so,” he said. That is his expectation and not a scheduled date, and Battlestate has not put out an official statement to go with it.
The port has been a slow build. According to the same report, Buyanov first said a console version was in the works after Tokyo Game Show 2025, and said earlier this year that the studio was looking for a partner to handle it.
Battlestate is “really close” to signing a partner for the port
Battlestate is not planning to make the console version alone. Asked where production stands, Buyanov said the studio is “really close” to finding the partner it has been looking for. He did not say who that is.
That detail matters for the timeline. A port that does not have its partner signed yet is a long way from a release date, which fits Buyanov ruling out 2027.
Tarkov players doubt the game can work on a controller
Escape from Tarkov is a PC-only game. It left beta with its 1.0 release on November 15, 2025, the same day it arrived on Steam, so the console news lands almost exactly a year later.
On the game’s subreddit, the first reactions were skeptical. Players pointed to two problems: performance, which is a regular complaint on PC, and the number of keybinds the game uses. “Performance aside this doesn’t seem playable or accessible with such limited control scheme,” one wrote. Another summed up the news itself: “An announcement for an announcement.”
Buyanov has not said how the controls will be adapted, and that is likely to be the first question when the reveal arrives.
