It's been a long road for the seasoned soldiers waiting for an Arma 4 release date. We have a release window for when PC and console players will get the fourth installment of the world's best military simulation game, but it's still years away. Still, the occasional slice of news does surface like a flare breaking through clouds. This guide tracks everything we know about Arma 4 so far, as well as key hints being dropped by the 'bridge' game, Arma Reforger.
Arma Reforger will serve as the testing grounds for Arma 4 gameplay, and Bohemia Interactive is apparently paying close attention to the community reactions during this in-between phase. If Bohemia can successfully innovate on Arma 3, we'll soon see one of the best tactical shooters ever made. However, only time (and, with regular updates, this guide) will tell if that's on the cards.
Everything we know about Arma 4:
Arma 4 release date window
The Arma 4 release date will be in 2027. Developer Bohemia Interactive revealed this during a a music concert to celebrate its 25th anniversary in October 2024 (watch it above).
It's exciting news for sure, but it tells us almost nothing about what we can expect from Arma 4, and fans now have a long wait to get into the sequel. If everything goes well, there will be a gap of 14 years between numbered entries in the Arma series. At least we have Arma Reforger, which entered early access in 2022, to break things up a bit - more on that shortly.
Arma 4 news
Besides the release window, actual Arma 4 news is sparse. For a long time, the only sign that the game was real was its website. All the page shows is the logo, though. Oh, and the phrase 'ETA 2027' with an email newsletter signup box, laid over an animated seascape. But hey, you can toggle on some mood music if you like!
If you dig a little deeper, however, there are some hints to be uncovered. A YouTube video shared in July 2025 showed some behind-the-scenes at Bohemia Interactive, and it features an 'Arma map of the Cold War', featuring an island that doesn't exist in the real world.
This seems to confirm that Arma 4 will take place during the Cold War, presumably on this fictional island. The interviewer in the video points out a space between Poland and Sweden where this island could be, though Bohemia have remained tight-lipped on any further details.
In more concrete news, it seems that Bohemia's chief game developer, Philip Doksansky, gave an interview to a Czech magazine in August 2025. A helpful Redditor translated the page, and it apparently claims that Arma 4's map will be 900 square kilometers - so big that the game's Unreal engine needs additional support to keep the graphics looking great.
What is Arma Reforger?
In something of a surprise announcement on May 17, 2022, Bohemia not only revealed that Arma 4 was, indeed, in development, but simultaneously released Arma Reforger, a "creative platform" (playable on PC and Xbox Series X/S consoles) to test out the newest version of the Enfusion engine and "provide valuable feedback for the ongoing development of Arma 4".
Since then, Arma Reforger has received continual updates. It hit its big 1.0 release in November 2023, and as of November 14, 2025, the latest core Arma Reforger update is version 1.6.0.68.
Set on the Czechoslovakia-inspired, fictional island of Everon - the setting of Bohemia's original 2011 Arma: Cold War Assault - Reforger's gameplay takes place in a fictionalized 1980s, where American and Soviet soldiers face off using a roster of "era-authentic weapons, vehicles, and equipment".
Arma Reforger includes three multiplayer modes:
- Conflict - two teams compete to capture strategic positions from one another by base-building and completing strategic tasks, while AI forces resist them both.
- Combat Ops - co-operative missions for groups of 1-6 players.
- Game Master - one or more "curator" players create "responsive combat encounters" for the other players to take on.
Bohemia says Reforger is also aimed at Arma's vast army of modders, laying the groundwork for Arma 4 to be as much of a fertile ground for endless modifications as its predecessor.
Reforger includes a "suite of in-house development tools" called Workbench which reportedly includes the "exact same tools" used to make the game. The modded content users create via Workbench can then be shared on Bohemia's "integrated, repository service" - titled Workshop - and can then be downloaded and played by Xbox, PC and (as of May 2025) PS5 players alike.
While the terms of service for the Workbench prevent anyone from charging for their mods, Bohemia does allow one form of community monetization - paid servers. This was enabled on June 2 2025, though servers must meet certain criteria, and are reviewed by Bohemia before they're allowed to charge. One of the key features of accreditation is that pay-to-win is not allowed!
Kolguyev
The most recent major update to Arma Reforger was build 1.6 at the end of October 2025, which brought back the beloved Kolguyev map first seen in Operation Flashpoint. It's a volcanic island without the lush greenery of Everon, and single-player gamers can experience it via the five-episode campaign Operation Omega, which drops you behind enemy lines on the island.
Build 1.6 also added the Headquarters Commander mode, which has been on the roadmap for a long time. This mode lets a player adopt operational command, assigning objectives to human players and managing AI logistics. That gels with the revamped building and supply system. Bases can now be constructed anywhere, but supplies need to be physically transported from harbors and depots, either by players or AI support.
Arma Reforger Roadmap
Bohemia's Arma Reforger roadmap is broken into three main parts, 'Ground Support', 'Air Assault', and 'Final Strike', which will pave the way to the full Arma 4 game. The original plan was to deploy these as complete packages in that order.
However, in October 2023, Bohemia Interactive said it was going to bring out features as they were completed by its team, to ensure the community could use them right away. As of September 2025, Ground Support has been completely deployed into Arma Reforger, and Air Assault is also nearing completion. Some functions from Final Strike are also live.
Beta versions of the missing features from Air Assault are live in the Experimental branch of the game on Steam, as are more than half of the remaining features from Final Strike.
Arma Reforger Ground Support update
The Arma Reforger Ground Support update is completely live in the game. Bohemia Interactive's first of three promised large-scale updates to the game, Ground Support adds:
- Arland - a 16-square-kilometer new playable island area
- Combat Ops mode - Bohemia's "dynamic, cooperative, multiplayer-oriented game mode" which assigns your team three "randomly scattered" objectives to complete before exfiltration.
- Updates to Conflict mode - enhanced building mode, new support structures, base capture, supply system for deployments
- Sa-58P and Sa-58V 7.62×39 Assault Rifles
- 4×20 Carry Handle Scope - for M16 rifles
- New medical items
- Better destructible assets
- Anti-tank mines
Arma Reforger Air Assault update
The second major Arma Reforger update is Air Assault, bringing helicopters to the game - and a whole lot more. As of November 2025, all of Air Assault's listed features are live in the game.
- Gear and weapons - UK-59L machine gun, M16A2 carbine, NSV heavy machine gun, 1P29 rifle scope, PGO-7V3 launcher scope, suppressors bayonets, flare rounds for underslung grenade launchers.
- Helicopters - adds the Mil Mi-8MT and UH-1H helicopter, which players can pilot, and with scope for player and AI-controlled machine guns.
- Combat Ops - a new scenario set on Everon.
- AI - AI units able to drive all land vehicles on roads; players can issue basic commands to AI groups.
- Mortars - can be disassembled and reassembled.
- Vehicles - S1203 van, S105 car added, along with an update to the fuel system: there are new fuel-related assets, vehicles are refuellable, and fuel consumption is improved.
- Supply system - the supply system is enhanced to have greater impact on the game, including having a physical presence, and being modular so it can be used in user-generated scenarios.
- Helmets and body armor - M1 helmet, M69 flak vest, PASGT vest, 6B2 vest, 6B3 vest, and flight suits added.
- Melee - all personal weapons become usable for CQC.
- Unconsciousness - a new medical state.
- Save Slots - for both Game Master and Conflict game modes.
Arma Reforger Final Strike update
As of November 2025, almost all of the planned features in Arma Reforger's Final Strike update are fully live in the main game.
For most players, these include civilian outfits and explosive charges which can be remotely detonated or set on a timed fuse, plus rockets for helicopters, anti-personnel mines, and two types of recon vehicle. There's also a basic building destruction system to use those explosives on.
For the Game Master, waypoints can be linked to specific entities; there's functionality to pause and resume single-player scenarios; and players can place crewed vehicles.
In Conflict mode, buildings can be constructed almost anywhere on the map within radio signal range. A new Commander role can assign objectives to either faction, and can be assigned either to a human player or to an AI.
The last set of features still in development is a functioning electrical grid for buildings and infrastructure, which can be disrupted or restored.
Here's a full breakdown of which Arma Reforger Final Strike update features are complete, planned, and in testing:
| Feature | Status |
| Explosive charges | Completed |
| Anti-personnel mines | Completed |
| Vehicle crew uniforms | Completed |
| Civilian outfits | Completed |
| LAV-25 recon vehicle | Completed |
| BRDM-2 recon vehicle | Completed |
| Rockets added to helicopters. | Completed |
| Both islands to get their own electrical grid. | Planned |
| Infrastructure and buildings supplied with utility power. | Planned |
| Players can disrupt and restore the supply of utility power from points of distribution. | Planned |
| Remotely detonated and timed fuze explosives. | Completed |
| Functionality for sharing saved scenarios with other players. | Completed |
| GMs can place artillery strikes, smoke shells, and other effects. | Completed |
| Waypoints will be linkable to specific entities and will update if the entity is moving. | Completed |
| Functionality for pausing and resuming single player scenarios. | Completed |
| Players will be able to place crewed vehicles. | Completed |
| Bases will be constructable almost anywhere on the map and will no longer have preset locations. | Completed |
| Building bases will be limited to available supplies and can only occur within a faction's radio signal range. | Completed |
| HQ /Commander role in game | Completed |
| Commander can be assigned to AI or to human player | Completed |
| AI can transport supplies | Completed |
| Basic system to handle the destruction of buildings | Completed |
Arma 4 trailers
While there's not yet an official Arma 4 trailer online, Bohemia has released the Road to Arma 4 trailer, including clips from all the previous games and a teaser for the Arma 4 logo, which you can watch below.
And, because we know you want it, here's that rip-roaring Arma Reforger trailer again, to show a little more of the new and improved Enfusion engine:
When it's finally time, we wouldn't be surprised if Bohemia makes the official announcement with another cinematic trailer. Rest assured: when it exists, we'll add it here.
Night gathers, then, and our watch continues. As soon as there's something more substantial - or, ideally, official - to get our teeth into about Arma 4, we'll let you know here. Come and chat in the official Wargamer Discord community - we're always happy to hear war stories, or tales of massively modded servers.
In the meantime, you could get your tactical fix with our guide to the best RTS games for PC - or go tabletop with our picks of the best miniature wargames.