Nothing can stop ARC Raiders, which broke a new record for concurrent users and surpasses games like Battlefield 6 and Helldivers 2.
Despite arriving in the penultimate month of the year and focusing on extractive multiplayer, ARC Raiders It turned out to be the surprise of 2025. And with numbers that don’t stop rising.
Far from being a mirage, Game data on PS5, Xbox Series and PC breaks record: surpassed 1.5 million sales in 3 days, and that’s just on Steam.
After surpassing the mark of 400 thousand simultaneous users, Embark Studios’ game aims to double that number; and with the current history it already prevails over other big games.
ARC Raiders exceeds 700 thousand simultaneous players
Through a message on its official X account, Embark Studios announced that in just over a week, the game already has more than 700 thousand simultaneous users.
“Hello, Raiders! Last weekend we arrived more than 700,000 simultaneous players on the surface. “We are so happy to have you all here!”says the publication.
“The multiple ways of playing and participating in ARC Raiders left us speechless, far exceeding our expectations. They surprise us, deceive us and keep us on our toes. “We wouldn’t trade it for anything!”
The publication concludes like this: “you all encourage us to be betterand we sincerely thank you for joining us on this path. Love, ARC Raiders team.”
Of these more than 700,000 players, almost 500,000 belong to the PC version. Specifically, the peak of 462,000 users, reached over the weekend on Steam.
This same record beats records like Helldivers 2; another highly successful multiplayer title, which had its limit of 458,709 players at a time.
ARC Raiders also outperformed a recent release on Steam: that of Battlefield 6, despite the excellent numbers with which the EA game started.
This weekend, the shooter peaked at close to 440,000 playersa number that, as we saw, the ARC Raiders surpassed.
Battlefield 6 Maintains Record for Peak Players on Steam, Encrypted 747,000 users…For now, because everything indicates that the Raiders will also break that mark.
Now Embark needs to build on this unusual success. You will do this through a content roadmap, which Between this month and next we will add maps, missions, events and much more.
ARC Raiders, the big surprise at the end of 2025, continues to break records for the number of users. He promises to close the year as one of the most successful releases on consoles and PC.
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