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Arc Raiders has proven that extraction shooters can be popular, with over 4 million copies sold in under two weeks

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Arc Raiders has sold even more copies, which we should’ve guessed, given that the game keeps breaking its own concurrent player records.
It’s pretty clear at this stage that Arc Raiders is one of the biggest launches of 2025. More interesting than the numbers themselves, however, is that this is an extraction shooter – a subgenre which has typically been thought of as niche.
If you’ve been paying the PvPvE game any attention, you could easily see how (and why) it keeps breaking its own records.
Today, publisher Nexon announced in a press release (via Gematsu) that Arc Raiders has now sold over 4 million copies. The game came out on October 30, which means it managed to sell that many copies in a little over 10 days.
The news comes on the same day that developer Embark Studios announced that the game had more than 700,000 concurrent players across all platforms over the weekend.

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