The First True Escape From Tarkov Finally Happens
So this moment has been years in the making—nine years, to be exact. Escape From Tarkov has always carried that haunting, impossible-sounding title, and most of us assumed it was just that: a title, a metaphor, a grim joke about a place no one ever actually leaves. But now, for the first time since Battlestate Games launched this brutal extraction shooter, someone really did it. A player genuinely escaped from Tarkov, and the entire community is buzzing because of it.
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That player is Tigz, a longtime Tarkov veteran and Twitch streamer who has been part of the game’s world practically since the early access days. When Tarkov finally hit its long-awaited 1.0 release in mid-November, the developers introduced something brand new—four hidden endings scattered throughout the full campaign. And tucked inside that update was the Terminal map, a PvE endgame zone designed specifically to lead players toward those endings.
Over the course of about two and a half weeks, Tigz committed roughly 150 hours of focused streaming to fight his way through every quest chain and story objective in Terminal. His journey eventually took him to a dock lined with shipping containers, the final choke point where AI enemies waited to derail his run. But he pushed through. Once the extraction timer hit zero, something unbelievable happened: the game rewarded him with a full cutscene.
For a moment, even he thought it had to be some kind of bug or joke. But then the sequence unfolded—the ship pulling away from the port, jets screaming overhead, and finally a catastrophic flash that swallowed Tarkov behind him. His character survived, but the city didn’t. And that’s when it became official: Battlestate Games confirmed on social media that Tigz was the first human being ever to escape from Tarkov.
His ending wasn’t the best one, though. According to game director Nikita Buyanov, the version he unlocked was the second-worst of the four possible finales. It’s a bittersweet outcome: triumph mixed with total destruction. Buyanov even hinted that the first person to reach the “Best Ending” will receive something special, which has now ignited a whole new race among players determined to discover every hidden path.
But regardless of what comes next, the moment itself is historic. For years, escaping Tarkov was a philosophical concept. Now it’s real. Tigz’s achievement proved the endings are not only possible—they’re deeply cinematic, emotionally heavy, and absolutely worth the grind. And with the community now diving into Terminal en masse, it feels like this is just the beginning of a new era for one of the most unforgiving shooters ever made.
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