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10 Best Extraction Shooters on PlayStation

If you watched the Extraction action thriller movie and wanted so badly to become Chris Hemsworth in the thick of war, well, here’s your chance. It’s time to entrust you with the gruesome task of waging through a blood bath to get to the extraction point. You’ll run out of resources. Heck, you might run out of ammunition. But can you make it to your destination in one piece? While PlayStation has now stacked up on a good number of extraction shooters, only the following best extraction shooters on PlayStation will prove worth your time.
10. Helldivers 2
Helldivers 2 is a teamwork game where buddies join the elite squads of the Helldivers and fight for freedom across a warring galaxy. Battles take place in the third person in the near future and often grow intense quickly. You have a guideline of the missions at hand, thrusting you into a procedurally generated world. Waves of enemies will push back.
However, you’ll have handy weapons and Stratagems to take them out. As you can imagine, a Galactic War is hardly a task you can undertake with just three buddies. So, each effort you put into going in the thick of battle and getting out while you still can counts toward the collective efforts of all the online players logging into the game. For liberty, liberty for all.
9. Ghosts of Tabor
Ghosts of Tabor is the first and only virtual reality extraction shooter game with first-person gameplay and PvPvE survival elements. Venturing into the island of Tabor, the Matka Miest, and Missile Silo maps, you’ll face both environmental and blood-thirsty enemies.
However, you must scavenge, loot, and craft your way to survival, making the most of your safehouse for rainy days. As you build your gear and weapons back at your safehouse, each venture into the wild will grow easier, and you can last longer periods of time scavenging and hunting better loot.
8. Deceive Inc.
You’re working for a monopoly Deceive Inc. corporation as spies, and you can essentially disguise yourself as anyone based on the mission at hand. Plus, you have hi-tech gadgets to gain an upper hand over rival spies. The trick is to get in, complete the objective, and be the first to break out. Otherwise, you don’t get your paycheck.
7. Witchfire
If you’d prefer a first-person dark fantasy RPG shooter, consider Witchfire. Having transitioned from a wicked sinner into a witch hunter, you have to work your way to redemption. Sounds like a lot? Well, you do get multiple chances and pathways to reach your end goal. Whenever you’re overwhelmed on your dangerous expeditions, you can always “extract” at your sanctuary. Or you can risk pushing further into the “witchfire” and risk death.
6. Deep Rock: Galactic
Whether you’re playing solo or with up to three players in co-op FPS, your role of dwarves will constantly be tested deep in the caves filled with alien monsters. The sea of monsters you’ll be fighting is endless, and so your choices are to stick around for longer and loot and dig for more resources or retreat back to safety to live to fight another day.
5. Delta Force
Delta is a free-to-play team-based tactical shooter. While you can play the large-scale PvP warfare or go through the Black Hawk Down campaign, the focus is on the extraction shooter mode. They’re called Operations, where you hold your position behind enemy lines, fighting side by side with your squad as you stack up on resources and take down rival players.
However, you have to be vigilant and get out while you still can. Staying too long on the battlefield could lead to death and loss of everything you’ve acquired thus far.
4. Arena Breakout: Infinite
Do check out the fully tactical extraction FPS Arena Breakout: Infinite, among the best extraction shooters on PlayStation. The mantra is one you’ve heard before: shoot, loot, and survive. You can always head back into the fight to loot some more, each time pushing further into the intense battles for more rewards.
However, knowing the right time to get out is key, or you risk succumbing to your wounds and dying. All in all, it’s one of the best extraction shooters on PlayStation.
3. Level Zero: Extraction
Level Zero: Extraction, in turn, merges tactical extraction shooter and survival horror. You’re a squad of rival mercenaries fighting against alien monsters (or vice versa). These atrocious beasts stand in the way of reaching valuable loot.
But there are other players to watch out for, too, as well as PvE hazards. Combined, the stakes of survival are greater, with seemingly a new threat arising every time you head back onto the map.
2. Hunt: Showdown 1896
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is a game of bounty hunters looking to score the highest bounties. These come from chasing down mythical monsters through dangerous jungles. Killing a monster isn’t the end of the road of your mission.
You have to survive other bounty hunters, too, alongside the harsh environment crawling with PvE hazards and other enemies until you reach an extraction point.
All the while, you can try your luck killing more monsters to claim an even bigger bounty. While you can play the game solo, there’s freedom to team up with up to two more players, making the search for mythical monsters easier across the four maps available.
1. Vigor
With the apocalypse in full swing, Vigor challenges your ability to survive the Outlands. Post-war Norway holds lots of loot, but also danger awaits in the shadows. This free-to-play looter shooter not only tests your survival skills against intense enemy encounters and harsh environments, but it also demands building fortified bases for protection.
Like most extraction shooters, dying takes away your hard-earned resources. So, you have to carefully consider the risk versus reward of heading into unforgiving areas with more valuable loot or playing it safe. This makes it one of the best extraction shooters on PlayStation.