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• ARC RaidersARC Raiders is a multiplayer PvPvE extraction adventure by Embark Studios, out Oct 30, 2025 on Steam, Epic, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for $39.99. You go Topside for loot, fight machines and other players, and keep only what you carry out. The game is on update 2.3.0, Oct 27, 2026.
• Embark StudiosEmbark Studios made ARC Raiders. It is a Stockholm studio founded in November 2018 by six game industry veterans including CEO Patrick Söderlund, it is a subsidiary of Nexon, and it also makes the free-to-play shooter The Finals.
• PC Requirements and PerformanceARC Raiders needs at least a Core i5-6600K or Ryzen 5 1600, 12 GB of RAM and a GTX 1050 Ti or RX 580; Steam recommends a Core i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB and an RTX 2070 or RX 5700 XT, as read Oct 31, 2026. Press settings guides favor motion blur off, lower shadows and effects, and Reflex on.
• Platforms and CrossplayARC Raiders is on Windows through Steam and Epic, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and GeForce Now, with crossplay across them that you can turn off in the Gameplay settings. There is no Mac or native Linux version, and its anti-cheat has caused trouble on Linux and Steam Deck.
• Player Count and SalesARC Raiders had 81,998 people playing on Steam on Oct 31, 2026, down from an all-time Steam peak of 481,966 per SteamDB but far from dead, and Nexon reported over 16.3 million copies sold in its June quarter report. Consoles and Epic are not in Steam's count.
• Price and EditionsARC Raiders costs $39.99 on Steam, or $59.99 for the Deluxe Edition, as of Oct 31, 2026. It is not free to play; it was free only for a weekend, Oct 8 to 12, 2026. Six paid DLC are on Steam, led by the $29.99 Frozen Trail Collector Set.
• Raider Tokens and Reward PassesRaider Tokens are ARC Raiders' premium currency, for cosmetics. Reward Passes replaced Raider Decks and Cred on Oct 8, 2026; the Frozen Trail pass has 60 levels, a Free track with all its gameplay items and up to 200 tokens, and a 1,150-token Premium track that pays up to 1,150 back and holds no gameplay items.
• Reception and AwardsARC Raiders scored 86 on PC on Metacritic and 87 on OpenCritic as of Oct 31, 2026, holds 81% positive Steam reviews, and won Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2025, Online Game of the Year at the D.I.C.E. Awards and Multiplayer at the BAFTA Games Awards. The main criticism concerned AI voices and cosmetic prices.
• Release HistoryARC Raiders came out on Oct 30, 2025 on Steam, Epic, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, nearly four years after its Dec 2021 reveal as a free-to-play PvE shooter due in 2022. It was delayed, rebuilt as a paid PvPvE game, tested twice, and reached its first anniversary on update 2.3.
• Speranza and the TradersSperanza is the underground home of ARC Raiders, the oldest neighborhood of Toledo. Its five traders are Celeste, Shani, Tian Wen, Apollo and Lance, and a sixth slot, the Nomadic Envoy, was filled by Ermal from May 2026 and by Cassio from update 2.0, open from level 25.
• Story and SettingARC Raiders is set on a future Earth where the rich fled by rocket in the Exodus, machines called ARC descended in two Waves, and survivors live underground in Toledo, whose oldest neighborhood is Speranza. The story runs through quests and updates, and in Frozen Trail it reaches Pendola Pass, where an Emperor has fallen.

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