Arc Raiders, Embark Studios’ in style extraction shooter, has exceeded 17m copies offered, based on writer Nexon.
Arc Raiders was launched on the finish of October 2025, so reaching that milestone in a yr is nothing to scoff at. In line with Nexon’s newest earnings report, nonetheless, solely 1m copies of these 17 have been offered within the third quarter – that means gross sales have definitely slowed down.
Relatedly, Nexon mentioned it expects Arc Raiders’ income to say no within the fourth quarter in comparison with the identical interval final yr – when the sport loved its massively profitable launch – and anticipates income will probably be “broadly flat sequentially”. Regardless of this, the corporate mentioned Arc Raiders’ income was “inside the outlook”, naming its Frozen Path replace as a key second that introduced again some lapsed gamers whereas introducing new ones.
Certainly, Frozen Path boosted the sport’s Steam participant depend, and reviews counsel it additionally helped Arc Raiders hit a six-month participant excessive throughout varied platforms.
Even with its slowing gross sales, Arc Raiders stays certainly one of Nexon’s most profitable titles. The corporate primarily attributed an total year-on-year income enhance, for the 9 months ended thirtieth September, to the sport.
Wanting forward, the most important query hanging over Arc Raiders is whether or not or not it will get a devoted PvE playlist. Following a profitable take a look at earlier this summer time, Embark has been coy, and hasn’t mentioned whether or not PvE will return as a everlasting function. Arc Raiders’ Chinese language model does have a devoted PvE mode, and govt producer Aleksander Grøndal mentioned he may see each PvP and PvE modes co-existing sooner or later.