Gray Zone Warfare hit the open market in early access back in April and has been turning heads ever since. With a fresh approach to the tactical FPS genre that fuses it with extraction shooter elements, ‘GZW’ was able to sell almost one million copies in just a few weeks.
Recently, the development team at MADFINGER released a lengthy roadmap that details the most major changes coming up to 2027.
Long Road Ahead
Gray Zone Warfare is a slow burner, that much is certain. It’s not a flash in the pan or a ‘built-in-a-day’ kind of project, and it certainly has legs and the dedication of a studio ready to unravel the production over several years.
I recently sat down with the MADFINGER team, including the studio’s CEO, at Gamescom, getting an exclusive look at some of the upcoming content.
Now, the squad has released one of the most ambitious roadmaps I’ve ever seen, covering updates through 2027 and up to the 1.0 release of the game:
It all begins with Night Ops, which drops in a few weeks. It’s the most major update MADFINGER has applied to Gray Zone Warfare thus far, and it’ll bring a day/night cycle to the game that completely changes the playing field.
Next year, Dark Revelations will surface, expanding the game’s story and lore. From there, the team will broaden GZW’s horizons with Elite Operator (Fall 2025), Battle Forge (Spring 2026), Shadow Strike (Fall 2026), and Rising Tensions (Spring 2027).
While these updates are being prepped, improvements and amendments will be made to the game to keep things fresh and smooth for both the new players and those who already consider themselves veterans of Lamang, the massive, open-world map that’s modelled on countries like Laos.
It hasn’t been given a date, but the 1.0 release of Gray Zone Warfare has been teased with the title ‘Ground Zero’. We all know that something happened at the core of the map, introducing an impassable area thick with radiation, but we don’t know what it is.
Colour me excited.
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