Delta Force (2025 video game)

Players assume the role of military operators in the midst of a conflict between the Global Threat Initiative (GTI), a paramilitary organization, and Haavk, a progressive yet questionable international corporation.

The game is free to play with optional micro-transactions, primarily consisting of cosmetics (including some crossovers).^[5] There are two primary game-modes, Warfare, a massive-scale multiplayer mode similar to games such as Battlefield,^[6] the game also features an extraction mode known as Hazard Operations.^[1] Player progression is shared across different platforms with some limitations.^[7][8]

Like Battlefield 2042, the game features a roster of playable operators who all have unique abilities while fitting into one of four archetypes: Assault, Support, Engineer, and Recon - Assault focuses on frontline combat, Support focuses on maintain or enhancing allies, Engineers focus on vehicles and bolstering defenses, and Recon gathers information on hostiles.

The game takes place in 2035, where the government of a fictional North African country called Asharah partnered with technology-based corporation Haavk to resolve its energy crisis. However, when Haavk begins to expand its control, the conservative nationalist faction within the Asharan government, the Asharah Guard, revolted, leading to open conflict. The Global Threat Initiative attempts to restore order, leading to a three-way conflict between GTI, Haavk, and the Guard.

Due to conflicting information from the multiplayer announcers for both factions, specific objectives of both factions remain unclear and generally show the opposing faction in a negative light (for example, Haavk claims that the GTI's military advances have caused destabilization of the fault system in the map Aftershock, while GTI claims that Haavk has been deliberately setting the system off.)

The conflict's major developments are delivered through seasonal missions in the Operations game mode and through seasonal cutscenes.

GTI learns that Haavk intends to use its Relink project, ostensibly to help those with mental issues or brain damage, to control the minds of those with Relink neural implants through an "Alpha" implant, and sends out operative Zoya, to convince the project's head scientist, Doctor Rometheus, to defect to GTI. Infiltrating Haavk's New Tower of Babel, Zoya is able to reach Rometheus and attempts to appeal to him through their past experiences as partners working on prototypes of Relink. Rometheus again refuses, claiming that humanity is too unruly by nature and must be controlled, and Zoya then realizes that Rometheus has the Alpha Relink implant in his own brain, complicating the situation. While Rometheus is captured and the immediate threat from Relink put on pause, he is released back to Haavk in a prisoner exchange with GTI.

Haavk develops a satellite network, known as Skynet, that threatens to disable GTI communications across the globe - despite efforts to thwart its activation, the network is able to activate, leaving GTI scattered. However, Zoya regains contact with one independent operator, Nox, a former Relink patient who is working with GTI to remove his implant, and directs him to obtain data on how to disable Skynet and restore GTI communications. However, the terminal is revealed to be a trap, and Nox is ambushed by Haavk forces. While he is able to escape, the mission proves a failure.

Meanwhile, a squad of GTI operators, Luna, Shepherd, and Stinger, are brought to Haavk's Tide Prison facility in order to break out a priority target, known as Raven, the former leader of the Asharah Guard and prince of Asharah who was betrayed and exiled. Raven begins a riot in the prison, prompting the deployment of Haavk security agent Tempest and the escape of the GTI operators. The GTI operators and Tempest arrive at Raven's cell, where he releases hallucinogenic gas - however, Luna and Tempest recognize each other as former archery rivals, resulting in Tempest allowing the GTI operators to leave without further incident, though the operators are forced to abandon their mission. 

GTI then learns of a plot to blow up the Zero Dam by the Asharah, a power facility initially created by Haavk that has been taken over by the Ashrah Guard. Operatives Gizmo and Uluru are deployed to the dam to defuse the bombs planted there, but Gizmo is captured before he can defuse the bombs. As he is interrogated by the Asharah Guard's militia head, Saeed, Gizmo appeals to Saeed's nationalism and compares him to Haavk, leading Saeed to set him free and not set off the bombs, much to the chagrin of one of the other heads of the Asharah Guard, Reis.

GTI then deploys D-Wolf and Zoya to recover a Haavk MandelBrick (a specialized device used to store data) with information on Skynet, but they encounter bounty hunter and former Delta Force and GTI operator Raptor, who quickly incapacitates Zoya, but is forced to ally with D-Wolf to fight off Haavk reinforcements, while also explaining that GTI high command should not be trusted with the MandelBrick. Upon witnessing D-Wolf go through the wreckage to rescue the unconscious Zoya, Raptor buys the two time to extract, presumably being buried in the earthquake. Afterwards, while D-Wolf is debriefing his superiors, Raptor interrupts the meeting to speak with D-Wolf personally, MandelBrick in hand.

Meanwhile, Haavk's space stations in orbit are threatened by asteroids, which critically damage the station's power systems. Efficiency Director Hudson meets with the Security Director of Haavk's "Space City" facility in Asharah, Desmoulins, to discuss the usage of his experimental dark matter generators to repair the power station in exchange for an unknown favor, but Desmoulins rejects the offer, refusing to let Hudson stain the reputation of Haavk in the case that the generators would fail, which would incur far greater losses. Desmoulins is escorted out of the meeting room as Hudson calls an unknown number to discuss a "plan B".

Black Hawk Down campaign

Inspired by the film Black Hawk Down (2001) by Ridley Scott and Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, the game features a single-player and cooperative mode as United States forces participating in the 1993 Somali conflict, with rights to Scott's footage and is to be closely based on the film. Tech demos of the campaign featured levels rendered in Unreal Engine 5, including the locations of the raid which led to the Battle of Mogadishu. A fully fledged campaign had not been previously seen in a TiMi-developed game.^[9]

Release

Delta Force open-beta released for PC on December 5, 2024.^[7] For iOS and Android, Delta Force launched on April 21, 2025.^[10] For PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, Delta Force launched on August 19, 2025.^[11]

Collaboration

Delta Force has recently collaborated with Norwegian DJ Alan Walker,^[12] the mobile game Arknights,^[13] the Saw movie series,^[14] among many others.

Delta Force received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.^[15]

Justin Koreis from IGN felt that the game was competent and wrote that Delta Force was "both a good large-scale PvP shooter and a serviceable extraction shooter, even if neither half stands out".^[16] Rick Lane from Eurogamer also praised Warfare and Operations, describing them as "meticulously designed and undeniably entertaining", though he lamented that the game was not innovative and too conservative in its design. However, he strongly criticized the Black Hawk Down campaign, calling it "atrocious" and adding that it was nearly impossible to play the campaign alone.^[17]