Developer Embark Studio’s Arc Raiders has been making waves on Steam since its launch on 30 October 2025, rising to become one of the platform’s biggest extraction shooters ever with an all-time peak of over 460,000 concurrent players.
Arc Raiders had already made headlines a day after its launch, with the game garnering a concurrent peak player count of 264,673, as reported by IGN. Now, a little more than a week after the impressive milestone, it has gone on to break its own record, with an all-time concurrent player count of 462,488 at the time of writing.
The extraction shooter even managed to surpass Electronic Arts’ multiplayer shooter giant Battlefield 6 in terms of Steam player counts, with a 24-hour peak of 384,254 players at the time of writing, compared to the latter’s 325,843, which is certainly impressive considering the scale of Arc Raiders compared to EA’s much-celebrated and hyped shooter sequel. As these figures only cover the game’s performance on Steam, its true player counts are bound to be much higher when factoring in data across its other launch platforms, the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, although neither Sony nor Microsoft make such player count data public.
Set in a lethal future Earth ravaged by a mysterious mechanised threat known as ARC, Arc Raiders sees players taking on the role of “Raiders” residents forced into the underground city of Toledo, as they travel topside to collect resources to survive. The game follows the popular extraction shooter PvPvE format, meaning that players have to face both AI-controlled enemies as well as other Raiders while trying to extract, with every death potentially leading to a complete loss of all their collected resources and equipment.
Arc Raiders also marks Embark Studio’s second major release following 2023’s The Finals, a first-person PvP arena shooter, with both games theorised to be set in the same universe. The studio’s pedigree in making multiplayer experiences shouldn’t come as a surprise either, as it was founded by former DICE executives, the studio behind the Battlefield games.
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