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ARC Raiders is a 2025 multiplayer third-person extraction shooter developed and published by Embark Studios for the platforms PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S, built on the game engine Unreal Engine 5. It can be played solo, or in teams of two or three. The game has received generally favorable reviews from critics, and it was awarded Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2025 and Online Game of the Year at the 29th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards.
ARC Raiders is an extraction shooter played from third-person. Players leave the underground base and search for items on the planet's surface for 30 minutes. During the raid they will encounter hostile NPC robots (known as "ARC"), along with other human players. When a player is killed, they will lose any equipment and materials they have collected, except loot stored in a safe pocket, and return to base. Players can escape via extraction elevators, metro stations and air shafts or alternatively use raider hatches (Safer extraction points that require keys to be opened) to return to base when they are done collecting loot.
After returning to the underground base, players can sell items, upgrade their character perks and skills, buy items, or craft weapons and items such as gadgets and armor to prepare for the next raid. Players can also engage in quests with the game's various vendors; these usually entail seeking out special items or visiting locations while on the surface.
When entering a match alone, the matchmaking system generally adjusts to place the player against other solo players, making fair and balanced possible player-versus-player (PvP) encounters common, yet not guaranteed. On November 12, 2025, a similar update was deployed for players playing in groups of two. On January 27, 2026, an update was deployed to add a matchmaking option for solo players, allowing them to join the queue for groups of three in return for higher rewards.
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