What is extraction shooter?

[Veles]

Game looks cool, there is no doubt and I will try it once it gets out of early access. The issue is that everyone describes it as "extraction shooter", but I don't know what does that mean and it seems to many very obvious. Personally it looks to me like Xcom, Mechcommander, Alien: Dark Descent, Last Train Home and to some extend Dawn of War 2, but apperently it seems I am wrong. So what is exactly Extraction Shooter?

[pgames-food]

hi the quasimorph game is like a mixture of lots of games, like you said :)

the extraction shooter, just basically means you play a mission, you shoot up some bad guys etc, and you end the mission, (picking up useful items before you end or extract from the mission)

this style is a top-down, 2D version of it,
and tarkov is a 3d (fps) version of it :)

edit: the key word here is that you need to successfully extract, (and survive the mission) to be able to use what you found during the mission.
(but even if you die you can still replay it and get your starting gear/basic kit back)

[phoagne]

Generally extraction shooters have these: you choose your equipment before a mission, you go there and grab loot, you either extract with loot or die and lose everything you've equipped.
Same here but without PVP, the game is turn-based, and levels are randomly generated. Also Quasimorph has a little bit of a simulation around you: stations produce and consume goods, items change their price depending on supply and demand, factions grow stronger with time (or your help).

[Veles]

Originally posted by phoagne:

Generally extraction shooters have these: you choose your equipment before a mission, you go there and grab loot, you either extract with loot or die and lose everything you've equipped.
Same here but without PVP, the game is turn-based, and levels are randomly generated. Also Quasimorph has a little bit of a simulation around you: stations produce and consume goods, items change their price depending on supply and demand, factions grow stronger with time (or your help).

That still sounds like Xcom or Alien: Dark Descent. I don't know, maybe I am bothered over insagnificent details (I am mostly asking to know about similar "extraction games"). Either way Quasimorph looks cool and from what I've saw from the gameplay like something I would enjoy. I will wait for end of Early Access and try it out.

[Ghazghkull]

Originally posted by Veles:

Originally posted by phoagne:

Generally extraction shooters have these: you choose your equipment before a mission, you go there and grab loot, you either extract with loot or die and lose everything you've equipped.
Same here but without PVP, the game is turn-based, and levels are randomly generated. Also Quasimorph has a little bit of a simulation around you: stations produce and consume goods, items change their price depending on supply and demand, factions grow stronger with time (or your help).

That still sounds like Xcom or Alien: Dark Descent. I don't know, maybe I am bothered over insagnificent details (I am mostly asking to know about similar "extraction games"). Either way Quasimorph looks cool and from what I've saw from the gameplay like something I would enjoy. I will wait for end of Early Access and try it out.

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[phoagne]

Originally posted by Ghazghkull:

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[Elims]

Originally posted by Veles:

Originally posted by phoagne:

Generally extraction shooters have these: you choose your equipment before a mission, you go there and grab loot, you either extract with loot or die and lose everything you've equipped.
Same here but without PVP, the game is turn-based, and levels are randomly generated. Also Quasimorph has a little bit of a simulation around you: stations produce and consume goods, items change their price depending on supply and demand, factions grow stronger with time (or your help).

That still sounds like Xcom or Alien: Dark Descent. I don't know, maybe I am bothered over insagnificent details (I am mostly asking to know about similar "extraction games"). Either way Quasimorph looks cool and from what I've saw from the gameplay like something I would enjoy. I will wait for end of Early Access and try it out.

As far as I know, Extraction games puts you in a situation where the best outcome is to finish the mission as fast as possible. Just like Xcom 2 "timed" mission, but intead of instant mission failure, the mission becames harder thanks to the titular quasimorphs.