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

Arc Raiders has had different bumper weekend, erstwhile again breaking its ain concurrent grounds connected Steam.

Within a time of its release, Embark Studio's caller extraction shooter deed a Steam concurrent highest subordinate number of 264,673, making it 1 of the biggest extraction shooters ever connected Valve's platform. And present it's topped adjacent that grounds implicit the weekend, hitting a concurrent highest of 462,488 players according to Valve's authoritative figures.

Yesterday, November 9, Arc Raiders had a higher concurrent highest than Battlefield 6 (441,035), and placed down lone the eternally fashionable Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG. Of course, Arc Raiders' existent concurrent subordinate highest volition beryllium higher, fixed the crippled is besides disposable connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, but neither Sony nor Microsoft marque their subordinate numbers public.

As Arc Raiders tears up Steam's most-played games list, streamer Shroud has continued to telephone connected his fans to ballot for it arsenic Game of the Year 2025 implicit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, calling multiplayer gamers "the minority" (even though probe shows that it's mostly multiplayer games that clasp precocious subordinate counts).

"I thought I was lone going to play 5 oregon six hours of Arc Raiders connected motorboat time earlier sitting down to constitute this archetypal reappraisal successful progress, but aft conscionable a fistful of matches, I abruptly couldn’t propulsion myself distant – and earlier I realized it, I’d been playing for 10 hours," we wrote successful IGN's Arc Raiders review-in-progress.

"This is without question the astir hooked I’ve recovered myself connected an extraction shooter (and I’ve played a batch of them), with cleanable and tense gunplay, a progression strategy that’s been incredibly satisfying truthful far, and a loot crippled that has maine sweating implicit what to enactment successful my backpack and what to permission behind."

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.