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It’s safe to say that the launch of Arc Raiders on PC has been a success so far as on Steam alone the game reached a peak concurrent player count of over 260,000, skyrocketing Embark’s new extraction shooter to the top of Valve’s global sales chart for best-selling games.
As of writing, Arc Raiders is currently positioned first in Steam’s global top 100 selling games. It sits just ahead of Counterstrike 2 and the recently released Battlefield 6, and it’s also ahead of other new October releases, Dispatch and The Outer Worlds 2.
For most played games, Embark’s shooter sits in the top 10, positioned at ninth place. Arc Raiders launched on October 30th, and it reached a concurrent peak player count of 264,673. This is fantastic news as it’s more than the free-to-play Server Slam’s peak player count of 189,668. It’s also more than Embark’s The Finals’ all-time peak of 242,619, and that’s a free-to-play game.
The player count will naturally decrease over time, but it’s a fantastic start. Not to mention, this is only for Steam. The game is also on the Epic Games store for PC, and it’s on PS5 and Xbox for consoles, too. Unfortunately, we can’t track the player count for these platforms.
Embark have teased “ambitious post-launch plans,” hinting at Stella Montis by December, but there’s no roadmap yet even though Embark internally consider it a “10-year game”. Following its release, fans have noticed a disclosure on Steam regarding AI. Despite this disclosure, Embark have assured fans that there is “no generative AI whatsoever”.
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