Let’s take a look at Escape From Tarkov’s thriving single-player modding scene

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Escape From Tarkov is one of the most complex first-person shooters on the market right now, and it has successfully been holding onto this title for years now. This complexity appeals to many players: from its excessively detailed weapon modification systems to its janky but engaging combat loop, Tarkov delivers the sort of experience that virtually no other FPS has delivered. They’ve certainly tried, mind. The game’s appealing complexity, however, goes hand-in-hand with its always-online progression systems, where you’re always engaging with other players. This, of course, means you’re always at the risk of losing everything you’re carrying, which is bound to put many people off.

The game’s many issues did come to a head with the massive Tarkov cheating scandal from earlier in 2023. The developer, Battlestate Games, issued some updates on that front, but the fact of the matter still is that the innately cutthroat economy of the game may be preventing newcomers from jumping into the fray. But, what if you could take other players out of the equation? As some might already know, there’s a group of dedicated modders working to fashion Escape From Tarkov into a full-fledged single-player survival FPS, and it just so happens that they’re doing a phenomenal job of it.

Specifically, this article is dedicated wholly to SPT-AKI, the most comprehensive of several different Tarkov modding projects. Aside from its sheer longevity, having first come out back in late 2020, SPT-AKI is also important because it’s got a big community of modders working on it, and because it’s making absolutely no attempts at producing a co-op version of the game to boot.

In other words, SPT-AKI will never have a multiplayer component to it, as the devs