US EditionARC Raiders’ Concurrent Playercount Record Shows A Rapid Viral Spread
ARC Raiders doubled its launch peak with 416,000 concurrent players during a free open beta on Steam, showing strong viral growth despite the final game costing $40 or more.
- Sunday, ARC Raiders hit a 416,000 concurrent player peak on Steam in its second week, a 17.5% rise from its launch-window peak.
- The free open beta for ARC Raiders, while the final game price is $40 or more, coincided with a 17.5% second-week increase from a 354,000 launch-window peak.
- Three weeks ago the open beta peak of 189,000 concurrents showed rapid growth to ARC Raiders' current levels, marking unusual success for Embark, a smaller studio and new IP.
- Yesterday, ARC Raiders had a higher concurrent peak than Battlefield 6 and ranked behind only Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG on Steam, marking a strong start for a live-service game.
- Because consoles don't publish player numbers, Arc Raiders' true peak likely exceeds Steam's 416,000 concurrents, surpassing Embark's The Finals' 242,000 concurrents two years ago.
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‘Arc Raiders' Emerges As One Of Steam's Biggest Extraction Shooters With Over 450,000 Peak Players
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, …
The main question surrounding ARC Raiders was how long the game could stand the hype of its release. The extraction shooter debuted with good numbers, but it is clear that this was just a preview of what was to come, as over the past weekend (the second in the market) it has set a new record of maximum number of players on Steam. According to SteamDB, over the weekend, it managed to record a peak in which it had 462,488 players in the game on th…
Arc Raiders Reportedly Sells 2.5 Million Copies, Hits 450,000 Concurrent Players on Steam
Arc Raiders has reached a peak concurrent player count of over 450,000 on Steam. The extraction shooter is currrently among the most played games on the platform. The game has also reportedly sold over 2.5 million copies since launch.
ARC Raiders breaks its own All-Time Player Peak record
Extraction shooter ARC Raiders continues to do very well, and after another weekend of play, has blown past its previous all-time player peak, and beating plenty of other, popular games at the same time. ARC Raiders breaks its own All-Time Player Peak record | Image and Data Credit: Steamdb Per the available information via Steamdb, … The post ARC Raiders breaks its own All-Time Player Peak record appeared first on XboxEra.
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