Arc Raiders Breaks Its Own Steam Concurrent Peak Once Once more, This Time Nearing Half a Million Simultaneous Players

Arc Raiders has had one other bumper weekend, as soon as once more breaking its personal concurrent report on Steam.

Inside a day of its launch, Embark Studio’s new extraction shooter hit a Steam concurrent peak participant rely of 264,673, making it one of many largest extraction shooters ever on Valve’s platform. And now it is topped even that report over the weekend, hitting a concurrent peak of 462,488 gamers based on Valve’s official figures.

Yesterday, November 9, Arc Raiders had a larger concurrent peak than Battlefield 6 (441,035), and positioned behind solely the eternally well-liked Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG. In fact, Arc Raiders’ true concurrent participant peak will probably be larger, given the sport can be obtainable on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S, however neither Sony nor Microsoft make their participant numbers public.

As Arc Raiders tears up Steam’s most-played video games listing, streamer Shroud has continued to name on his followers to vote for it as Sport of the 12 months 2025 over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, calling multiplayer avid gamers “the minority” (despite the fact that analysis exhibits that it is largely multiplayer video games that retain excessive participant counts).

“I believed I used to be solely going to play 5 – 6 hours of Arc Raiders on launch day earlier than sitting down to put in writing this preliminary evaluation in progress, however after simply a handful of matches, I all of the sudden couldn’t pull myself away – and earlier than I noticed it, I’d been taking part in for 10 hours,” we wrote in IGN’s Arc Raiders review-in-progress.

“This is with out query probably the most hooked I’ve discovered myself on an extraction shooter (and I’ve performed a lot of them), with clear and tense gunplay, a development system that’s been extremely satisfying to this point, and a loot recreation that has me sweating over what to place in my backpack and what to depart behind.”

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.