Archive EntryPreservation Record
Escape from Tarkov
Shelf markLIB-0009
Editorial StandingCatalogued · Permanent Record
2025Game
Catalog Information
- Original Title
- Escape from Tarkov
- Release
- November 15, 2025
- Developer
- Battlestate Games
- Publisher
- Battlestate Games
- Medium
- Digital edition · Steam
- Subjects
- Action · Massively Multiplayer · RPG · Digital Preservation
Archival Status
- Custody
- Permanent archive holding
- Reference Copy
- Steam digital edition · live-service title without a physical shelf object
- Condition Report
- Held solely as a Steam license. Online services are required for play; no disc or boxed materials accompany this filing.
- Acquisition
- Digital acquisition · July 2026
- Filed
- August 3, 2026
Acquisition Record
How this digital copy entered archival custody — provenance for the holding, not the identity of the work.
- Source
- Steam
- Acquired through
- Digital library holding
- Entered
- August 3, 2026
- Steam App ID
- 3932890
Technical record
- Holding reference
steam-3932890- Provenance reconciled
- August 3, 2026
- Recorded playtime
- 487 hours
- Playtime · recent
- 20 hours 48 minutes
- Store listing
- Steam store listing
Curator Notes
Collection Documentation
Preservation Notes
- Access Hardware
- Windows PC through Steam, subject to the title’s online requirements
- Original Hardware
- PC · Steam digital edition
- Playback Compatibility
- Access depends on Steam custody and on Battlestate’s online services. That service layer is an additional constraint beyond ordinary digital-license risk.
- Preservation Concerns
- Account binding, storefront change, client aging, and online-service dependency. No offline installer or physical fallback is held.
- Edition History
- Steam edition dated November 15, 2025. Earlier launcher-distributed builds of Escape from Tarkov are outside this accession; the archive retains the Steam-licensed digital edition in present custody.
- Access Status
- Reachable through the archive Steam account while both the license and the title’s required services remain available.
Connections
- Editorial Record
- Reserved for future critical writing in Bloodsoaked Media.
Artifact Documentation
This filing is retained as a digital edition. Physical collection photography does not apply to the holding itself.
Supplementary archival media may be entered if documentation is later filed. Nothing is forced into the record.
Stewardship History
A permanent chronology of this archival record — filed, revised, and tended over time. Entries accumulate; none are erased.
Filed into the Library
Accessioned as LIB-0009.
Collection Documentation entered
Connections established
Official artwork entered
Steam library artwork filed under the Library accession path.
Editorial revision
Catalog identity, authority references, and digital-holding documentation aligned for publication.
Preservation Notes entered
Published to the Bloodsoaked Library
Digital accession curated from Steam custody and set to Catalogued · Permanent Record.
Editorial revision
Primary cover replaced with official Steam library capsule (portrait).