Arena Breakout Infinite: Everything You Need to Know
Arena Breakout Infinite is a free-to-play tactical extraction shooter developed by MoreFun Studios, a subsidiary of Tencent. Launched globally in 2025 for PC via Steam and the official client, the game takes the successful mobile formula of Arena Breakout and adapts it for a full-scale PC experience. With its realistic gunplay, hardcore survival mechanics, and immersive graphics, it's being positioned as a direct competitor to Escape from Tarkov and Gray Zone Warfare.
Players drop into high-stakes missions called “raids” where they must scavenge, fight, and survive against both AI enemies and real players. The main objective isn't just killing opponents. It is to successfully extract with the loot you manage to secure. Every bullet, medkit, and piece of gear has weight and value, making each decision matter.
Core Gameplay Loop
At its heart, Arena Breakout Infinite is about risk versus reward. Each raid starts with you choosing your loadout: weapons, armor, ammo, and healing items. You can go in fully geared, which gives you a higher chance of survival but risks losing everything if you die. Alternatively, you can go in lightly equipped, relying on scavenging to build your arsenal during the mission.
Once inside a raid, you scavenge and search abandoned buildings, supply caches, and downed enemies for weapons, ammo, meds, and valuables. All that while trying to survive by managing health, stamina, bleeding, fractures, and hunger. Injuries affect your movement and combat performance. Engage and fight other operators (real players) or hostile AI factions guarding key loot areas. And last, you locate one of the designated extraction points on the map and survive long enough to escape with your haul. But make sure you do all that before the time limit is over! Failure to extract means you lose everything you brought and everything you found. Success, however, rewards you with loot you can sell, trade, or use in future raids.
Realistic Gunplay & Ballistics
One of Arena Breakout Infinite's strongest features is its ultra-realistic gunplay. MoreFun Studios implemented a ballistics system where every caliber of ammo has unique penetration and damage values. Bullets can penetrate armor depending on thickness and material and weapon attachments (scopes, grips, suppressors, etc.) drastically change recoil and accuracy. This level of detail means you can't just run in spraying bullets. You need to think tactically about positioning, ammunition, and how you engage fights. But the ultra-realistic features, also mean that you need to be aware of a lot of difference with other shooters. Reloading means you put the previous magazine, back in your pockets or backpack. With the amount of bullets that is still in there. Which, is unknown the moment you do that, and you will need to spend time checking and manually reloading from a ammo box if you want that magazine to be full again. The "reload after a few bullets" gameplay will majorly hamper you on time, and potentially in being ambushed at a bad moment, unable to defend yourself. A lot of these small nuisances can make or break the game for people.
Health & Survival Mechanics
Unlike most FPS games, Arena Breakout Infinite requires survival management. Damage isn't just numbers and bullets can cause bleeding, broken bones, or even fatal hemorrhaging if untreated. Players must carry bandages for light bleeding and Medkits for heavy bleeding and recovery. But for fractures you need a splint or surgery kit, while also bringing painkillers to counter movement imparing effects. This system fills your backpack realy quickly, but also adds some tension and forces preparation. Forget a key medical item, and a single injury could ruin your entire raid.
Maps & Environments
Arena Breakout Infinite features multiple large-scale maps, each with distinct themes and tactical challenges Where Farm is a mix of open fields, barns, and ambush points. Valley brings a dense forests and river crossings, perfect for snipers. If you prefer close-quarters combat in apartments and office buildings, than the Urban Ruins map is your preferred one and for warehouses, factories, and shipping yards with loot-heavy hotspots, Industrial Zone will be the choice. The maps are designed with multiple entry and extraction points, making every raid unpredictable. No two runs play out the same.
Economy & Trading System
Loot extracted from raids isn't just for show. It fuels an in-game economy. Players can sell items on the marketplace for in-game currency or trade gear with AI vendors and other players. Or you can invest in upgrades for hideouts and storage. This economy creates a progression system where smart trading can make you rich, while reckless spending or constant raid failures can leave you broke. A system we have seen to be very succesfull since Delta Force came out late last year. Which will have Delta Force Season 6: War Ablaze coming out on September 23rd, less then a week from now.
Free-to-Play Model
Unlike Escape from Tarkov, which has a premium entry cost, Arena Breakout Infinite is completely free-to-play. Tencent has committed to monetization primarily through cosmetics and battle passes, rather than pay-to-win mechanics. This lowers the barrier to entry, allowing millions of players to experience the game without any financial risk.
Comparison to other extraction shooters
Many FPS fans compare Arena Breakout Infinite directly to already established extraction shooters. And although the other games are already out longer, and had more time to refine their gameplay, the comparissons are fair, as Arena Breakout Infinite, could have learned from their mistakes. The accessibility for beginning players is way better then for example having to learn Tarkov, due to a cleaner UI and onboarding. Some of the gameplay might be 'realistic', but realism is not always more fun in games, where we try to escape real life and enjoy something else. A lot of Quality of Life features from other games, be it Tarkov, Delta Force or even Call of Duty, make things less realistic, but generally also a lot less frustrating. Arena Breakout Infinite, goes back to more realistic, but also back to more frustrating by not having a lot of Quality of Life.
The graphics are better then any other extraction shooter out there, being build on Unreal Engine 5, just like Delta Force, the game looks great and runs relatively smooth as well. This also means it is way better optimized for PCs that are not high end or super pricey. Mid tier gaming PCs will have no issues running the game, which can not be said about Tarkov which is missing a lot of UE5 optimization gamers expect from their games these days. And for a free to play game, these kind of graphics certainly make up for some of the QoL or 'realism' mishaps the game forces yoiu to deal with. While Tarkov veterans may find Arena Breakout Infinite less hardcore, its accessibility and free model are attracting a broader audience.
General Extraction Shooter Tips for games like Arena Breakout Infinite
If you're just starting out, here are some quick tips you need to always remember. Do not bring what you can not afford to lose. Play it safe early on until you have more money or items to spend and potentially lose. Always bring healing and defensive items. Even when cheap, a simple banadage can be the difference between beleeding out or being able to turn and run for extraction before being jumped by other operators. Get familiar with the maps and know key areas. If you need to check your map too much, you will lose valuable time and provide your opponents great ambush moments, while you are not seeing them coming. Use your ears, as much as your eyes. Shooting, reloading, footsteps and even moving through bushes can give your position away, but that also goes for your enemy. Often you can hear them get close, before you see them. And last, when you can see far, they can see you from just as far. Cover is not just to stop bullets, it is also preventing them from seeing you. Open fields are a death sentence if some one is ready to shoot you.
