Arc Raiders was one of the biggest games of 2025, launching to an absolutely massive peak player count of 482,000. It dominated social media, and was touted as one of the best live service games to release in recent years. It should have gone on to achieve greatness, but less than a year later, over 90 percent of those players have moved on.

Just two months ago, we reported that Arc Raider was struggling to crack the 100,000-player mark just four months after launch, and while a lot of player drop off is normal for a live service game, losing 80 percent of your players in that amount of time isn't a good sign.

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Since then, things haven't really improved. While Arc Raiders seemed to have stabilized at around the 90k player mark through most of May, mostly thanks to Riven Tides, that didn't last very long. At the time of writing, another 50 percent of the game's player base on PC seems to have upped sticks and vanished, with the game's latest 24-hour peak player count sitting at 49,877.

Arc Raiders Is Still Massively Bleeding Players

To make things even worse, it looks as though that number is still dropping too, as at the time of writing, only 31,544 players are in the game right now, so the drop is showing no signs of slowing down.

On the Arc Raiders subreddit, you can clearly see what the cause of the actual problem is, and that's simply a lack of content. Players are complaining about burning out, having no projects to do, and the event schedule being terrible as well. It's a game running on fumes for its more loyal players, and with the next big update still four months away, you have to wonder if Arc Raiders will recover at all.

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