Update 30/10/2025: It's official, ARC Raiders' launch on Steam is bigger than The Finals, as it reaches 243,386 concurrent players on Steam.
Original Story:
Embark Studios' third-person extraction shooter, ARC Raiders, is now live and available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S and, at least on Steam, we know that the game is having a massive launch. It's even on track to surpass what The Finals accomplished in 2024, as ARC Raiders has over 200K concurrent players on Steam at the time of this writing.
Per SteamDB, an hour after it went live, it had reached 140K concurrent players on Steam. Six hours after it launched, it had more than 200K concurrent players and has continued to rise, with the number currently standing at 225,731 players at the time of this writing, which is already a few thousand players more than the number I saw when I started writing this article.
As more people across the world get off work and jump online to give the game a try, we could see ARC Raiders fly by the 242,619 concurrent player number that The Finals achieved when it launched in December 2024. It still has a long way to go, of course, but the fact that it has gotten close is a good sign for Embark Studios as it enters the shotoer space during an extremely busy time, as Battlefield 6 is firing on all cylinders and Activision is gearing up to launch Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in a little more than two weeks from now.
The advantage ARC Raiders has over both of those games is that not only is it significantly cheaper than both titles, it offers something different as a third-person extraction shooter. Besides, it's worth noting that Embark Studios has a pedigree in making a new shooter survive in what you could argue is the most competitive genre within video games.
Impressive as The Finals' destruction and shooting mechanics are, no one would have been surprised if it failed to find a strong footing once it was in players' hands, like countless other free-to-play live service games. The fact that it's been doing so well is a happy surprise, and ARC Raiders just might be able to share some of that magic.
As a final check-in just before this post's publishing, ARC Raiders has hit 230,227 concurrent players on Steam.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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