It’s no secret that Arc Raiders publisher Nexon didn’t expect the game to be as big as it currently is. While former CEO Owen Mahoney backed Embark’s extraction shooter quite heavily, the studio’s current CEO expected the game to be a minor success.

Revealed in Nexon’s latest financial presentation, Arc Raiders has been not only a major sales success, but a major hit in terms of player retention. Now with 14 million players across PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, the shock doesn’t just surround its maximum player count, but how many are still playing.

While games can sell millions upon millions of copies, that doesn’t always mean that those players are still engaging with the game. For example, Battlefield 6 was the highest-selling game in the United States throughout 2025, but the FPS’ player count has dropped significantly since launch.

In the financial report, Nexon revealed that Arc Raiders hit a peak concurrent user count across all platforms of 960,000 players across all platforms. This means that almost a million players were jumping into the game at the exact same time.

Additionally, Arc Raiders has “approximately six million weekly active users sustained to date”. Not only are six million players jumping into the game every single week since launch, but the game also isn’t dropping in weekly users, a major success for any game.

Nexon also explains that Arc Raiders has sustained “top-ranking spots on Steam’s Top Sellers list as well as PlayStation and Xbox”. Furthermore, the game is projected to continue selling into the year with major content updates from Embark including multiple new maps, new enemies, and more.

So far, at least according to Nexon, all signs point to Arc Raiders as a continued success for the publisher. In another win for developer Embark Studios, its free-to-play FPS game The Finals has also seen its best year ever with increased year-on-year revenue following its Season 9 update in December 2025.

As for what we should expect over the next year of Arc Raiders, Embark CEO Patrick Soderland has expressed a desire to expand the game’s social features with trading functionality as well as turning the hub base of Speranza into a fully functional social area where players can interact as they feel it is currently “underutilised”.