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ARC Raiders is a cooperative third-person extraction shooter developed and published by Embark Studios, released on October 30, 2025. Players are Raiders who leave the underground city of Speranza to scavenge the surface, fight the machines known as ARC and other players, and extract with their loot. Between raids you craft gear, upgrade your workshop and take on quests from the Speranza traders.

No. ARC Raiders is a paid game: the Standard Edition costs $39.99 and the Deluxe Edition $59.99 (US prices; Embark uses regional pricing, so the price differs by country). Embark occasionally runs free-play weekends.

ARC Raiders is available on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with cross-platform play between all three.

Crafting happens in the Workshop in Speranza, which has 7 stations: Workbench, Gunsmith, Gear Bench, Medical Lab, Explosives Station, Utility Station and Refiner. Each station can be upgraded to level 3, and many recipes also need a blueprint that you have to find and extract from a raid. You bring materials back from the surface and spend them at the stations.

Speranza has 6 traders: Celeste (General Store), Lance (Clinic), Apollo (Grenades & Gadgets), Tian Wen (Gun Shop), Shani (Security) and Cassio, the Nomadic Envoy, who replaced Ermal in Update 2.0. The first five run fixed shops and hand out quests. Cassio unlocks at Raider level 25 and barters instead of selling: his offers rotate every week and are paid for in ARC materials, and he also runs the Stash Expansion and Expedition Vault services.

The skill tree has 3 branches: Conditioning (combat and stamina), Mobility (speed and movement) and Survival (looting and staying alive), with 45 skills in total. You earn skill points as your Raider gains experience and levels up, up to 75 by default, and spend them freely across the branches. Completing Projects can award bonus skill points after you reset your progression.

ARC Raiders has 7 maps: Dam Battlegrounds, Buried City, Spaceport, The Blue Gate, Stella Montis, Riven Tides and Pendola Pass, plus the Practice Range. Raids are timed, and map conditions such as the weather change from round to round.