Very few people expected Arc Raiders to do as well as it did. It was the surprise smash hit of 2025, at least in the multiplayer sphere (the Clair Obscur sweep is hard to ignore), and it brought the rather niche extraction shooter genre into the mainstream. Players would hear about Tarkov and the like, but that was always the place covered in shadow – we don’t go there, people in that corner of the internet take things very seriously indeed.
Arc Raiders Steam player count for March down over 50% since launch
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