Arc Raiders breaks another concurrent record as player count soars

Arc Raiders has once again smashed its own concurrent peak user count on Steam, topping 400,000 for the first time this weekend.

Last week, we reported that Arc Raiders had surpassed a peak concurrent player count of 250,000 on Steam just a day after its release, and then again on 1st November when it topped 328,062 simultaneous players, making it the most popular Steam release for a PvP extraction shooter ever.

Now, over the weekend period, Arc Raiders has broken its own record once again, hitting a new high of 416,517 concurrent users on Steam, making it the fifth biggest game on Steam over the last 24 hours.

Based on data from Alinea Analytics, market analysts believe around 69.2 percent of the game’s playerbase is on Steam. That means roughly 30 percent of its playerbase – 17.3 percent on PlayStation, and 13.5 percent on Xbox – are not accounted for in that figure.

As for why Arc Raiders is so popular when other extraction shooters haven’t reached such highs in terms of sales or player count? As Connor reported earlier in the week, market analyst Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics believes that “Arc Raiders is great because it focuses on community – NOT because it’s an extraction shooter”.

In Eurogamer’s Arc Raiders’ preview, we wrote: “Arc Raiders is, simply put, a third-person extraction shooter. It is a factory that mass produces tense moments, by its own nature a source of intense anxiety: high stakes, devastating losses, rapturous victories. Pulling back, it’s a game of gradual self-refinement, both of your inventory full of resources and your characters abilities, and likewise your own know-how.”