SP Tarkov will shut down on or before August 12 after Battlestate Games issued a trademark violation notice to the team behind the single-player project. The notice demands that the project stop using Battlestate’s Tarkov branding, including the name in its domain.
The legal communication concerned the sp-tarkov.com domain and the use of Battlestate Games trademarks on a website offering a computer game. It called for the immediate removal of Tarkov branding, a domain change, and a separation from names or designs that could be confused with the original game.
Details from the legal notice surfaced online before the SPT team had reached a final public decision. The document can be seen in the shared internal communication.
SPT’s Current Team Is Stepping Down
DrakiaXYZ, one of SP Tarkov’s lead developers, later addressed the situation in the project’s Discord community. The announcement confirmed that the current maintainers will leave, and that the project will end in its present form.
Battlestate Games have effectively just killed the Single Player Tarkov, an offline version of the game which allowed you to play Tarkov entirely offline with mods support, due to a trademark dispute
The developers are hanging up their hats completely, this fucking sucks. pic.twitter.com/slSsqkuDOg
— Rin (@TheIshikawaRin) August 1, 2026
“This is the end of the SPT Project under the current team.”
According to the announcement, the SPT Forge, the sp-tarkov.com domain, and the infrastructure used to host SPT patches will be discontinued on or before August 12, 2026. On the day the Forge closes, the project’s GitHub organization will be renamed and archived to remove direct references to Tarkov and other trademarked terms.
The code will not be transferred directly to another team because of sensitive internal information. However, the archived repositories will remain available for anyone who wants to create a fork. The future of the SPT Discord server was still under discussion at the time of the announcement.
A Six-Year Fan Project
SP Tarkov began around 2019 or 2020 as a single-player alternative to Escape from Tarkov’s online multiplayer structure. Over time, it became a large modding platform that gave players extensive ways to customize their Tarkov experience.
That history also left the project in a legally uncertain position. Although the SPT team maintained its own code and infrastructure, the project remained closely tied to Battlestate Games’ intellectual property and the Escape from Tarkov name.
Some members of the community argued that the team could have answered the trademark complaint by changing the project’s name and domain instead of ending the entire operation. Others criticized Battlestate Games for pursuing action against a project that had built a large following.
The shutdown announcement does not necessarily prevent someone from continuing the work in a new form. With the source repositories expected to remain available, a future team could create a successor that removes the disputed branding and operates independently.
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Escape from Tarkov
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