Arc Raiders server slam Steam numbers show the extraction shooter is gonna be October’s different main recreation

Simply a few hours in the past, Arc Raiders servers went offline after a weekend of testing. The sport hosted a three-day server slam occasion that included very restricted content material, and was primarily designed to push servers to their limits and check the sport’s infrastructure.

At the least when it comes to uncooked participant numbers, the occasion has been successful, attracting extra gamers than the extraction shooter has ever seen with any of its earlier exams.

After all, all earlier exams have been, to various levels, closed or invite-only, which restricted the quantity of people that might entry them. The server slam, however, was open to everybody throughout all platforms.

Contemplating the anticipation the sport has within the shooter area, particularly from gamers in search of an accessible, polished extraction shooter, it’s no shock that the check was as fashionable because it was. In accordance with SteamDB, the server slam attracted 189,668 concurrent gamers at its peak on Friday.

That is properly past what the Might tech check managed to draw, although with the apparent caveat that it was invite-only.

All that curiosity additionally helped push Arc Raiders into Steam’s international prime sellers record, the place the sport presently occupies the quantity three spot, simply behind Counter-Strike 2 and Battlefield 6. It’s additionally value noting that the sport’s customary version is the one charting so extremely, which, contemplating the record is sorted by income, is an enormous deal. In essence, attaining such a excessive spot with a $40 price ticket implies that it has bought extra copies than a $60 or $70 recreation in a comparable spot.

This all bodes very properly for the sport’s launch, which has an opportunity to beat these figures, as we’ve not too long ago seen with Battlefield 6 beating its personal beta data at launch, regardless of one being free and the opposite paid.

Not too lengthy left now. Arc Raiders arrives October 30 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X/S.