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

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