One-off purchase
ARC Raiders cost to play
How many people play ARC Raiders on Steam, what it costs on Steam UK, and its PEGI 16 rating.
ARC Raiders gameplay, images and trailer
© Embark Studios, ARC Raiders trailer “Pre-order now!” on Steam · Steam store page
The short version
- From £34.99: Cheapest standard price: ARC Raiders (Steam UK, standard price)
- One-off price: Bought once; no store currency or random items on this page
- 185k Steam peak: Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts)
- PEGI 16: Age rating
On this page
- Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts)
- 185,443
- steamcharts.com Checked 23 Oct 2026
What ARC Raiders costs to play
| Item | Price | Per |
|---|---|---|
| ARC Raiders (Steam UK, standard price) | £34.99 | game |
| ARC Raiders Deluxe Edition (Steam UK, standard price) | £51.99 | game |
Source for every row: store.steampowered.com · checked 23 Oct 2026
How ARC Raiders is rated
GamesChart Score
80.4, #660 of 3,236 rated games
#16 of 2025 · #154 of the 2020s · #180 in Shooter · #437 on Xbox
Critics
Players
Built from 319,639 ratings across 5 of 5 sources. Critics and players count 50/50. Ratings pulled 5 November 2026.
Where it sits in the ranking
- #659
Norco2022 · Geography of Robots80.4 - #660
ARC Raiders2025 · Embark Studios80.4 - #661
Mafia2002 · Illusion Softworks80.4
ARC Raiders questions
Is ARC Raiders free to play?
No. ARC Raiders costs £34.99 on Steam UK at standard price (checked 3 November 2026). Steam lists it as a paid game, not free to play.
How much does ARC Raiders cost in the UK?
ARC Raiders (Steam UK, standard price): £34.99. ARC Raiders Deluxe Edition (Steam UK, standard price): £51.99. Prices checked 23 October 2026.
What age rating is ARC Raiders?
ARC Raiders is rated PEGI 16.
How many people play ARC Raiders?
Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts): 185,443, checked 23 October 2026.
Who makes ARC Raiders?
ARC Raiders is developed by Embark Studios.
ARC Raiders is a third-person multiplayer extraction shooter from Embark Studios. Raiders leave Speranza, an underground settlement, to scavenge a surface overrun by ARC, hostile machines, and have to get their loot back out past the machines and other players. It came out on 30 October 2025 and is on Steam, the Epic Games Store, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. It is sold at a one-off price.
Players
ARC Raiders player count: the 30-day peak on Steam Charts was 185,443 concurrent players on 23 October 2026, with an average of about 59,244 over the same 30 days. About 67,976 were playing when we checked. The all-time peak on Steam is 465,097.
The last 30 days are well up on the months before: Steam Charts shows monthly averages of about 28,662 in July 2026, 23,217 in August and 21,256 in September, so the latest 30-day average is nearly three times September's. Steam Charts only counts the Steam version; Epic, PlayStation and Xbox players aren't included.
What it costs
On Steam UK, ARC Raiders costs £34.99 and the Deluxe Edition £51.99 at standard price. Steam also sells cosmetic sets as DLC. Embark's site describes Raider Tokens as "an in-game currency in ARC Raiders"; we haven't recorded their prices for this page.
Age rating
ARC Raiders is rated PEGI 16 on pegi.info because it "features strong violence", and the label carries the in-game purchases notice.
How we checked
We read the Steam UK listing, Steam Charts, pegi.info and Embark's ARC Raiders site on 23 October 2026.
Card art and page images: screenshots from Embark Studios' ARC Raiders Steam store page. © Embark Studios. All trademarks belong to their owners. GamesChart is not endorsed by or affiliated with Embark Studios.
Official links: arcraiders.com · Steam
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Sources
- Card art and page images – ARC Raiders Steam store screenshots (Embark Studios), published by store.steampowered.com
- Steam UK – ARC Raiders, published by store.steampowered.com
- PEGI rating – ARC Raiders, published by pegi.info
- Steam Charts – ARC Raiders, published by steamcharts.com
- ARC Raiders official site (platforms, Raider Tokens), published by arcraiders.com
- ARC Raiders – Steam store data (Valve): UK price and multiplayer categories, read 3 Nov 2026, published by store.steampowered.com
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