Arc Raiders Publisher Boasts That the Game Has 'Significantly Exceeded Expectations' and Now Sold 14 Million Copies

Arc Raiders continues to beryllium an tremendous deed for steadfast Nexon, with 14 cardinal copies sold and astir a cardinal concurrent players online astatine 1 constituent past month.

In Nexon's latest fiscal results, the Korean steadfast boasted that its sticky extraction shooter had "significantly exceeded expectations" and had "approximately six cardinal play progressive users."

January's subordinate highest saw astir 960,000 radical online astatine the aforesaid clip — an awesome fig indeed, particularly 3 months aft its precocious October 2025 arrival.

"Since its October 30 launch, the crippled sustained top-ranking spots connected Steam's Top Sellers database arsenic good arsenic PlayStation and Xbox," Nexon wrote successful a presumption shared with investors today. "[It] showed exceptional retention and beardown subordinate metrics... [and we] expect to prolong beardown subordinate engagement and income momentum with monthly contented drops and unrecorded events."

Developed by Swedish institution Embark Studios, which is led by a squad of erstwhile employees from Battlefield shaper DICE, Arc Raiders enjoyed an explosive motorboat past year. The crippled shifted 4 cardinal copies successful nether 2 weeks, and had sold 12 cardinal by the commencement of January. Another period on, and Arc Raiders has present sold 2 cardinal more.

Steamcharts figures amusement ARC Raiders with a highest of implicit 465,000 players astatine the opening of January, though numbers person begun to way disconnected somewhat successful February — with the crippled dipping beneath 250,000 concurrents for the archetypal clip implicit the people of the existent week.

Still, subordinate sentiment for the crippled continues to beryllium positive, adjacent arsenic it suffers from a spate of point duplication glitches. Just yesterday, fans applauded Embark Studios for swiftly stopping different acceptable of exploits – though its efforts look to person near a caller inventory glitch successful its place.

Since laying retired a program to woody with wide reports of cheaters past month, the workplace has done its champion to support players coming backmost with predominant gameplay adjustments, caller content, and a four-month roadmap. Its post-launch program presently has it sitting successful the mediate of its Headwinds update, with its adjacent chapter, Shrouded Sky, acceptable to bring a caller representation information and a caller Arc menace aboriginal this month.

For more, you tin cheque retired our interrogation with Embark CEO Patrick Söderlund, wherever we talked astir the past, present, and aboriginal of Arc Raiders. During our chat, we besides learned much astir what’s adjacent for the institution pursuing its extraction shooter’s success.

As for Nexon, today's fiscal briefing made nary notation of the mysterious StarCraft shooter task that it has been reported arsenic forming a squad to commencement enactment on.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social