It has been more than seven months since ARC Raiders hit the extraction shooter space, bringing about an all-new concept in the genre and introducing millions of people to the notion of escaping. Embark Studios made bank from this sensational game, pushing out content and keeping things fresh while retaining players, but the situation started going south fairly quickly. In the last five months, ARC Raiders has seen a drastic drop in players, with each successive major update failing to capture the attention and interest of gamers worldwide. The copies have been sold, and the millions have been made, but with each new month, ARC Raiders dwindles further down the charts. And as we all know, that’s never good news for a live service game with ‘years of content’ in the pipeline. The Degradation of ARC Raiders is Tangible If we go by Steam’s player numbers, which is the only accurate and publicly accessible data out there, we can see a dire picture being painted. In November 2025, during the game’s first full month on the market, ARC Raiders hit lofty peaks, securing a top player count on Steam of 481,966 users. The next month saw a sizeable dip, but that’s to be expected, with early adopters who don’t quite enjoy the game enough inevitably dropping off during the holiday season while they play other games. But when the new year came around, a minor uptick hit in January, only to be followed by months of consistent downward trending for ARC Raiders. At the worst, ARC Raiders saw a -39% drop month on month in peak player count. As the months have pushed on, the percentages have eased off, but that’s because the stabilization is coming from the core community holding on in the hopes that more content will come