ARC Raiders has surged to a Steam peak of 441,174 concurrent players in its launch week, per SteamDB charts. The number marks a clear bump from the game’s launch-window high and shows the title is still drawing new players after initial release. For context, ARC Raiders hit a launch-window peak of 354,000, so the current figure represents about a huge increase. Three weeks earlier, the free open beta peaked at roughly 189,000 concurrents; we wrote about that early milestone in our piece ARC Raiders Server Slam Hits Nearly 190K Concurrent Players on Steam.
The jump from a free beta peak to a paid launch peak that more than doubles it is rare for a small studio handling a new IP in a niche multiplayer genre. Embark previously hit substantial numbers with The Finals, which peaked around 242,000, but ARC Raiders is operating on a different scale right now. Numbers alone do not guarantee a long lifespan. Still, the early signs are promising: high player counts, positive player scores, and a relatively warm critical reception for a multiplayer-only game.
The developer has framed ARC Raiders as a long-term project, which may help retention if post-launch support actually follows through, the studio’s plans were discussed in our coverage of Embark’s roadmap stance Embark calls ARC Raiders a 10-year game and won’t publish a public roadmap before launch.
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