Embark Studios dropped ARC Raiders, and it apparently crushed the Steam charts for total copies moved, hitting 7.7 million sales across PC and consoles. The third-person extraction shooter beat out a bunch of indie games like RV There Yet and Peak, which is pretty wild for a new multiplayer title going up against free-to-play stuff like The Finals from the same dev team.
The game keeps pulling better concurrent player counts than The Finals on Steam, but the real test comes next year when everyone figures out if the hype stays alive past the honeymoon phase. Awards season basically ignored it outside of one multiplayer nomination at The Game Awards, while games like Clair Obscur and Silksong are hogging all the GOTY talk.
The game keeps pulling better concurrent player counts than The Finals on Steam, but the real test comes next year when everyone figures out if the hype stays alive past the honeymoon phase. Awards season basically ignored it outside of one multiplayer nomination at The Game Awards, while games like Clair Obscur and Silksong are hogging all the GOTY talk.
