What is ESP in games?

What an ESP shows

Player ESP draws a box or a skeleton over every player, often with a name, a health bar, the weapon in their hands and how far away they are. Most builds let you pick what to show and colour players differently when they are in view and when they are behind cover.

Loot ESP marks items instead of people, usually filtered by value or rarity, which is why it counts most in extraction and survival games. Chams recolour the player models themselves so they show through walls, and a radar hack puts every position on a minimap instead of the screen.

How ESP works

Your game has to know where nearby players are even when you cannot see them, so it can draw them the moment they step out. An ESP reads those positions from memory and turns each point in the 3D world into a point on your screen, with the same camera maths the game uses to draw everything else.

An external ESP then draws on a clear window laid over the game; an internal one draws inside the game's own rendering. A streamproof overlay is built so that screen recording and screen sharing do not pick it up.

Some games limit what your PC is told. When the server only sends a player's position once they are close to being visible, an ESP has less to draw, which is one reason the same feature is worth more in one game than another.

ESP vs wallhack vs chams

The words overlap. Wallhack is the older, plainer name for seeing players through walls. ESP is the wider term for any overlay of hidden information, including loot, distance and health. Chams are one way of drawing it, by recolouring the models, and radar is another, on the map instead of the screen. A build that lists ESP normally does what people mean by a wallhack.

Where ESP matters most

In extraction games such as Escape from Tarkov, DayZ and Dark and Darker, ESP is often the main reason to buy, because knowing where loot, exits and other players are decides whether a raid pays. In large battles it shows which positions are held and where squads are bunching. In small tactical shooters it is about knowing which angle the next player will come from.

Games where our builds include ESP

73 of the 88 game builds on sale list ESP in their own description, for 38 of the 40 games we sell. Each game page below shows which builds they are.

• Counter Strike 2 ESP - 17 builds
• GTA 5 ESP - 2 builds
• FiveM ESP - 1 build
• Fortnite ESP - 3 builds
• Rust ESP - 1 build
• Escape from Tarkov ESP - 5 builds
• Battlefield 6 ESP - 2 builds
• Arc Raiders ESP - 3 builds
• Apex Legends ESP - 3 builds
• Marvel Rivals ESP - 4 builds
• DayZ ESP - 2 builds
• Escape from Tarkov: Arena ESP - 1 build
• Arena Breakout Infinite ESP - 1 build
• Gray Zone Warfare ESP - 1 build
• Delta Force ESP - 1 build
• The Finals ESP - 1 build
• Dead by Daylight ESP - 3 builds
• Deadlock ESP - 2 builds
• Hunt: Showdown ESP - 1 build
• Dark and Darker ESP - 1 build
• Overwatch ESP - 1 build
• SQUAD ESP - 1 build
• Battlebit ESP - 1 build
• Hell Let Loose ESP - 1 build
• Red Dead Redemption 2 ESP - 1 build
• SCUM ESP - 1 build
• ARK: Survival Ascended ESP - 1 build
• ARK: Survival Evolved ESP - 1 build
• Insurgency Sandstorm ESP - 1 build
• War Thunder ESP - 1 build
• The First Descendant ESP - 1 build
• Deadside ESP - 1 build
• Rogue Company ESP - 1 build
• Unturned ESP - 1 build
• Bodycam ESP - 1 build
• Vigor ESP - 1 build
• Left 4 Dead 2 ESP - 1 build
• Palia ESP - 1 build

Is ESP safer than an aimbot?

ESP does not touch your input, so the way you play leaves fewer traces than an aimbot's snaps do. The software is caught the same way, though: an anti-cheat that finds a program reading the game does not care what it draws. Behaviour can also give it away. Tracking players through walls, pre-aiming every corner and never being surprised are what reviewers and player reports look for.

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