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The Arc Raiders player count has grown again with a new peak concurrent player count record of 481,966 on Steam. Not only is this a new record for Embark’s extraction shooter, but it has completely crushed Call of Duty Black Ops 7 which only managed a peak concurrent of 100,261 on November 16th. Arc Raiders also convincingly beat Battlefield 6 which peaked at 299,135 on Sunday.
This is only a reflection of how the games are performing on Steam courtesy of Steam Charts. We don’t know the numbers for PS5 and Xbox, but we at least know Arc Raiders has amazingly sold over 4 million copies since releasing on October 30th.
Beating the player counts of both Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 on Steam is a huge achievement. Call of Duty and Battlefield are mega franchises belonging to juggernaut publishers Activision and EA, meanwhile, Arc Raiders is a completely new IP from a much smaller studio in Embark.
Right now, Arc Raiders is the fourth most played game on Steam. While incredibly impressive, don’t expect it to climb as high as third as PUBG Battlegrounds’ current 24-hour peak is 672,503. Definitely don’t pin any hopes of it reaching first place as Counter-Strike 2 has a whopping 24-hour peak of 1,624,130.
Embark’s extraction shooter has been a phenomenal success, but there has been controversy over its use of AI. Design director, Virgil Watkins, has said there’s “no generative AI whatsoever,” but also admitted the game uses the same text-to-speech used in The Finals.
The game has also ignited a fierce debate over whether it should be in contention for Game of the Year. Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards nominees will be revealed on November 17th, and it’ll be interesting to see how Arc Raiders fares for Multiplayer Game of the Year and Game of the Year period.
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