A trailer has been released. On February 1, 2026, a video for a new game called COR3 (Fragmentary Order) suddenly surfaced on YouTube — and this, apparently, is not what everyone expected from the creators of Escape from Tarkov.
The developer from Battlestate Games, or to be precise, the head of the studio himself, decided, it seems, to send us to the year 2251. The plot there revolves around a kind of “Core” (The Core) — this is such a secret structure that, in fact, saved the remnants of humanity from complete annihilation two centuries ago. The scale here, by the way, is promised to be interplanetary, and visually it all resembles a mix of Fallout and the upcoming ARC Raiders — the style, frankly, looks very powerful.
Curiously, COR3 is positioned precisely as Buyanov’s personal brainchild — formally, it is not a project of the entire BSG team, but a kind of private initiative. This whole movement, by the way, began back in January 2026, when a strange website appeared online, imitating an old computer interface with a bunch of riddles and entanglements — so we were smoothly introduced into an alternative reality of the future.
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Details of the COR3 project and the plot in the setting of the future
Nikita Buyanov decided to intrigue hardcore fans. The founder of Battlestate Games personally took over the curation of COR3. It will be an ambitious shooter in a sci-fi setting, where we will be thrown into the year 2251. The plot there, in fact, is tied to the survival of the remnants of people under the wing of a murky office called Core. A teaser with a first—person view, where the camera flies straight into space through the wreckage of ships, is powerful, really.
Nikita Buyanov’s personal involvement and the ARG campaign of the game
Buyanov is not just a nominal boss here — he, by the way, acts as the main architect of the entire movement. Nikita himself rolls out mysterious teasers in social networks, launching an entire ARG game. Sites like cor3.gg with ticking timers, it’s purely his handwriting to make the community puzzle over the codes. Interestingly, he even registered the COR3 trademark in his own name, which directly indicates his personal control over the franchise. After moving from a 3D designer to the game director of Escape from Tarkov, Buyanov clearly wants to do something even bigger.
COR3 project concept
Buyanov sees in COR3 the evolution of all those ideas that he laid in Tarkov, but now in the scenery of Mars. It will be a survival on the edge, where bullet ballistics and weapon physics will remain as honest as possible — the way he likes. In the world of the game, in fact, 200 years have passed since some kind of global catastrophe. They promise us a dystopia, terraformed structures and, apparently, collisions with space pirates — it sounds impressive, you must agree.
Future plans and game design
In recent interviews, Nikita often hints that his plans for the period “after Tarkov 2.0” are ambitious. In his podcasts, he constantly emphasizes the importance of making games “for yourself” while remaining true to realism, even if the community asks for simplifications. The COR3 game design, in principle, is based on the foundation of an extraction shooter. We will collect loot and try to evacuate, but on an interplanetary scale. Insiders from the videos — like Corporate Interspace Terminal — hint at a deep dive into ENT, where even dead astronauts in orbit will be part of the story. It’s great that Buyanov is not afraid to change the setting, while maintaining the very dark atmosphere for which we love his projects. It looks like a truly unique experience awaits us.
Many Tarkov fans are now in mild shock — the change of course for two hundred years ahead is being demonstrated as a real challenge to familiar mechanics. In fact, we are dealing with a large—scale expansion of the universe through the prism of one person – and it is simply impossible to ignore such an announcement.
