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 microtransactions, primarily consisting of cosmetics (including some crossovers).^[5] There are two primary game-modes, Warfare, a massive-scale multiplayer mode,^[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]

The game features a roster of playable operators who all 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.

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The game is set in 2035, when the government of the fictional North African country of Ahsarah partners with the technology corporation Haavk to solve an energy crisis. As Haavk expands its influence, the conservative nationalist Ahsarah Guard launches a rebellion, creating a three-way conflict between Haavk, the Guard, and the Global Threat Initiative (GTI), which intervenes to restore order.

Because the multiplayer announcers for each faction present contradictory accounts, the objectives and actions of all sides remain ambiguous, with each portraying its opponents negatively. Major developments are instead revealed through seasonal *Operations* missions and accompanying cutscenes.

GTI discovers that Haavk intends to use its Relink project, ostensibly designed to treat mental illness and brain injuries, to control users with Relink neural implants through an "Alpha" implant. Operative Zoya infiltrates Haavk's New Tower of Babel to persuade the project's lead scientist, Doctor Romulus, her former research partner, to defect. Romulus refuses, arguing that humanity must be controlled, and Zoya realises he has implanted the Alpha device in himself. Although GTI captures him and temporarily halts the project, he is later returned to Haavk in a prisoner exchange.

Haavk then activates Skynet, a satellite network capable of disabling GTI communications worldwide despite attempts to stop it. With GTI scattered, Zoya contacts Nox, a former Relink patient helping GTI remove his implant, and sends him to recover data needed to disable Skynet. The objective proves to be a trap; although Nox escapes a Haavk ambush, the mission fails.

GTI next sends Luna, Shepherd, and Stinger to free Raven, the exiled prince of Ahsarah and former leader of the Ahsarah Guard, from Haavk's Tide Prison. Raven incites a prison riot, drawing the attention of Haavk security agent Tempest. When Tempest and the GTI team reach Raven's cell, he releases hallucinogenic gas. Tempest and Luna recognise each other as former archery rivals, prompting Tempest to allow the operators to withdraw, though they must abandon the rescue.

After learning that the Ahsarah Guard plans to destroy the Haavk-built Zero Dam, now under its control, GTI deploys Gizmo and Uluru to defuse the explosives. Gizmo is captured and interrogated by militia leader Saeed, but convinces him that detonating the dam would make the Guard no better than Haavk. Saeed releases him and refuses to trigger the explosives, frustrating fellow Guard leader Reis.

D-Wolf and Zoya are then assigned to recover a Haavk MandelBrick containing Skynet data. They encounter Raptor, a bounty hunter and former GTI and Delta Force operative, who incapacitates Zoya before reluctantly joining D-Wolf to repel Haavk reinforcements. Raptor warns that GTI command should not be trusted with the MandelBrick and sacrifices himself to cover their escape. Later, he unexpectedly survives and personally delivers the MandelBrick to D-Wolf.

Meanwhile, Haavk's orbital space stations are damaged by asteroids. Efficiency Director Hudson proposes using experimental dark matter generators to restore power in exchange for an unspecified favour, but Security Director Desmoulins rejects the plan to avoid risking Haavk's reputation. Afterward, Hudson secretly initiates a "plan B".

When the dark matter energy is transported aboard a cargo ship, GTI dispatches D-Wolf, Stinger, and newcomer Morse to gather evidence. During the mission, Morse follows a mysterious sound pulse that triggers memories of his time as a submariner, when the same phenomenon distracted him from intercepting a torpedo that killed his crew. Ignoring his failing tracker, he pursues the signal to the ship's command module but finds only a drone. With the vessel about to explode, he escapes by helicopter with Stinger's assistance. Afterwards, D-Wolf questions Morse about the unexplained 15-minute loss of contact, but Morse attributes it to his damaged tracker.

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 Task Force Ranger soldiers participating in Operation Gothic Serpent, with rights to Scott's footage and is 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.^[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 collaborated with Norwegian DJ Alan Walker,^[12] the mobile game Arknights,^{[13][better source needed]} the Saw series,^[14] the action-adventure game Tomb Raider,^[15] among many others. Recent collaboration announcements include the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege collaboration, including a Doc Skin for Stinger, a Vigil skin for Nox and a Montagne skin for Sineva.^[16]

Delta Force received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.^[17]

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".^[18] 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.^[19]

Accolades

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Year	Award	Category	Recipient(s) and nominee(s)	Result	Ref(s).
2024	15th Hollywood Music in Media Awards	Best Score – Video Game (Console & PC)	Johan Söderqvist, Edwin, Zio, Jason H, LUMi	Won	[20][21]
		Best Song – Video Game (Console & PC)	"Dawn", "Eternity"	Nominated
		Best Music Supervision - Video Game	Sam Yang	Nominated
2025	23rd Game Audio Network Guild Awards	Best UI, Reward, or Objective Sound Design	Delta Force	Nominated	[22][23]
		Creative and Technical Achievement in Sound Design	Delta Force	Won[b]
	15th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Best Music Supervision in a Video Game (Original Music)	Sam Yang	Nominated	[24]
	16th Hollywood Music in Media Awards	Best Song/Score – Mobile Video Game	Delta Force Music Team	Nominated	[25][26]
		Best Music Design – Trailer	Peter Tomlinson	Nominated
	NAVGTR Awards	Best Song, Original or Adapted	"Dawn"	Nominated	[27][28]

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