ARC Raiders has formally surpassed Battlefield 6 in whole concurrent gamers on Steam. Whereas ARC Raiders has solely been out for lower than two weeks, it has already garnered an enormous following and seen a steadily rising participant depend as constructive group experiences and a solo player-friendly gameplay loop has attracted each new and veteran extraction shooter followers.
Though Battlefield 6 has held a equally robust participant depend because it’s launch on October 10 that was bolstered by the free-to-play battle royale mode Battlefield RedSec, ARC Raiders has defied the chances to beat one of many largest shooter franchises on the market in variety of lively gamers. Each Battlefield 6 and ARC Raiders have acquired very constructive opinions general, however ARC Raiders does have the sting with a extra inexpensive worth level of $40 versus Battlefield 6‘s $70. Even with Battlefield RedSec‘s free-to-play monetization mannequin, ARC Raiders distinctive system appears to be extra fashionable amongst shooter followers.
ARC Raiders Now Has Extra Energetic Steam Gamers than Battlefield 6
According to SteamDB, ARC Raiders is sitting at over 460,000 lively gamers, making it the third-most performed recreation for the time being simply behind Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2. Comparatively, Battlefield 6 now falls to fourth-most lively gamers with simply over 430,000 gamers on Steam, and plenty of Battlefield 6 players are flocking to ARC Raiders. This knowledge solely represents the full variety of Steam gamers lively in these video games, and with each titles on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S as properly, it is potential Battlefield 6 should still be main on one of many different two platforms.
Furthermore, Battlefield 6 continues to be main ARC Raiders in peak player count with over 747,000 gamers on the recreation’s peak. Whereas, ARC Raiders‘ newest concurrent participant depend numbers signify the sport’s new peak lively participant numbers. Regardless, the ARC Raiders group is celebrating appropriately after Embark’s brand-new IP has overtaken EA’s long-running franchise.
Regardless of some ARC Raiders server struggles the previous few weekends, gamers are nonetheless flooding the sport to take part in newly added experiences just like the Hidden Bunker Occasion and Electromagnetic Storm climate situation. There are nonetheless some areas that ARC Raiders gamers want to see improved, with a closely debated subject being the necessity for a PvE-only mode within the face of ARC Raiders intense PvP motion that some gamers would slightly keep away from. Nonetheless, it is clear that Embark has discovered a system that’s designed to maintain gamers coming again, as ARC Raiders‘ participant depend has steadily been on the rise, and that can seemingly solely proceed as extra content material from the sport’s roadmap rolls out over the subsequent few months.
- Launched
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October 30, 2025
- ESRB
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Teen / Violence, Blood
