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Arc Raiders Breaks Its Own Steam Concurrent Peak Once Again, This Time Nearing Half a Million Simultaneous Players
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 69135" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><img src="https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2025/11/10/ss-cb49dfbcd7175c86e297b35ffc54cf779708f0ae-1920x1080-1762770997971.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p><a href="https://www.ign.com/games/arc-raiders" target="_blank"><u>Arc Raiders</u></a> has had another bumper weekend, once again breaking its own concurrent record on Steam.</p><p></p><p>Within a day of its release, Embark Studio's new extraction shooter <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-raiders-is-already-one-of-the-biggest-extraction-shooters-ever-on-steam" target="_blank">hit a Steam concurrent peak player count of 264,673</a>, making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever on Valve's platform. And now it's topped even that record over the weekend, hitting a concurrent peak of 462,488 players according to Valve's official figures.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday, November 9, Arc Raiders had a higher concurrent peak than Battlefield 6 (441,035), and placed behind only the eternally popular Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG. Of course, Arc Raiders' true concurrent player peak will be higher, given the game is also available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, but neither Sony nor Microsoft make their player numbers public.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As Arc Raiders tears up Steam's most-played games list, streamer <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/us-multiplayer-gamers-are-the-minority-shroud-one-of-the-biggest-streamers-in-the-world-urges-his-followers-to-vote-for-arc-raiders-over-clair-obscur-expedition-33-for-game-of-the-year" target="_blank">Shroud has continued to call on his fans</a> to vote for it as Game of the Year 2025 over <a href="https://www.ign.com/games/clair-obscur-expedition-33" target="_blank"><u>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33</u></a>, calling multiplayer gamers "the minority" (even though research shows that it's mostly multiplayer games that retain high player counts).</p><p></p><p>"I thought I was only going to play five or six hours of Arc Raiders on launch day before sitting down to write this initial review in progress, but after just a handful of matches, I suddenly couldn’t pull myself away – and before I realized it, I’d been playing for 10 hours," we wrote in <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-raiders-review" target="_blank"><u>IGN's Arc Raiders review-in-progress</u></a>.</p><p></p><p>"This is without question the most hooked I’ve found myself on an extraction shooter (and I’ve played a lot of them), with clean and tense gunplay, a progression system that’s been incredibly satisfying so far, and a loot game that has me sweating over what to put in my backpack and what to leave behind."</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at </em><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/vixx.bsky.social" target="_blank"><em>BlueSky</em></a><em>.</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-raiders-breaks-its-own-steam-concurrent-peak-once-again-this-time-nearing-half-a-million-simultaneous-players" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 69135, member: 1"] [IMG]https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2025/11/10/ss-cb49dfbcd7175c86e297b35ffc54cf779708f0ae-1920x1080-1762770997971.jpg[/IMG] [URL='https://www.ign.com/games/arc-raiders'][U]Arc Raiders[/U][/URL] has had another bumper weekend, once again breaking its own concurrent record on Steam. Within a day of its release, Embark Studio's new extraction shooter [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-raiders-is-already-one-of-the-biggest-extraction-shooters-ever-on-steam']hit a Steam concurrent peak player count of 264,673[/URL], making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever on Valve's platform. And now it's topped even that record over the weekend, hitting a concurrent peak of 462,488 players according to Valve's official figures. Yesterday, November 9, Arc Raiders had a higher concurrent peak than Battlefield 6 (441,035), and placed behind only the eternally popular Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG. Of course, Arc Raiders' true concurrent player peak will be higher, given the game is also available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, but neither Sony nor Microsoft make their player numbers public. As Arc Raiders tears up Steam's most-played games list, streamer [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/us-multiplayer-gamers-are-the-minority-shroud-one-of-the-biggest-streamers-in-the-world-urges-his-followers-to-vote-for-arc-raiders-over-clair-obscur-expedition-33-for-game-of-the-year']Shroud has continued to call on his fans[/URL] to vote for it as Game of the Year 2025 over [URL='https://www.ign.com/games/clair-obscur-expedition-33'][U]Clair Obscur: Expedition 33[/U][/URL], calling multiplayer gamers "the minority" (even though research shows that it's mostly multiplayer games that retain high player counts). "I thought I was only going to play five or six hours of Arc Raiders on launch day before sitting down to write this initial review in progress, but after just a handful of matches, I suddenly couldn’t pull myself away – and before I realized it, I’d been playing for 10 hours," we wrote in [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-raiders-review'][U]IGN's Arc Raiders review-in-progress[/U][/URL]. "This is without question the most hooked I’ve found myself on an extraction shooter (and I’ve played a lot of them), with clean and tense gunplay, a progression system that’s been incredibly satisfying so far, and a loot game that has me sweating over what to put in my backpack and what to leave behind." [I]Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at [/I][URL='https://bsky.app/profile/vixx.bsky.social'][I]BlueSky[/I][/URL][I].[/I] [url="https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-raiders-breaks-its-own-steam-concurrent-peak-once-again-this-time-nearing-half-a-million-simultaneous-players"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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