Arc Raiders Keeps on Going as It Tops 12.4 Million Copies Sold, Gifts All Players a Gilded Pickaxe

Arc Raiders has sold an unthinkable 12.4 cardinal copies successful conscionable 10 weeks, steadfast Nexon has announced. And to celebrate, developer Embark Studios is giving each players a escaped in-game gift.

Embark Studios' enormously fashionable extraction shooter has seen awesome staying power, too, mounting a caller concurrent subordinate highest of 960,000 successful January 2026.

The steadfast says occurrence comes not conscionable from vacation income but besides promotions crossed the large integer retailers, specified arsenic Steam, and galore end-of-year awards, including IGN's Best Shooter Game of 2025 accolade. It besides recognized Embark's "steady watercourse of contented updates" arsenic captious to sustaining subordinate engagement, too.

To enactment Arc Raiders' occurrence into context, the likewise priced Helldivers 2 acceptable a grounds for the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios crippled of each clip by selling 12 cardinal successful 12 weeks. Arc Raiders, which launched connected Xbox arsenic good arsenic PC and PlayStation, deed the 12 cardinal income people adjacent faster.

To observe the milestone, Embark is offering a escaped in-game reward, the Gilded Pickaxe is disposable to each players for a constricted time. Any subordinate who has logged onto the crippled astatine slightest erstwhile since motorboat volition person the acquisition to their in-game inbox connected January 13, astatine 11am CET. If you've not played yet, marque definite you footwear up earlier 23.59 CET connected January 13 to get your Gilded Pickaxe Raider Tool.

The Gilded Pickaxe Raider Tool is disposable to each players arsenic a escaped gift. Image credit: Embark Studios.

"Hitting 12.4 cardinal units is simply a immense landmark — and it wouldn’t person happened without our players,” said Patrick Söderlund, laminitis and CEO of Embark Studios. “The assemblage of raiders has been portion of this travel from the start, and their ideas and enthusiasm proceed to usher wherever the crippled goes next."

Nexon reckons portion of Arc Raiders' occurrence comes from Embark delivering "exactly what players worldwide person expected from the game," and hailed it a "fresh, highly differentiated acquisition successful a monolithic planetary crippled genre."

IGN's Arc Raiders reappraisal returned a 9/10. We said: "With polished gunplay and an irresistible grind, Arc Raiders sets a caller modular for extraction shooters," and we're not the lone ones having a bully clip — it sold implicit 4 cardinal copies worldwide wrong 2 weeks of launch, cementing its commercialized success. It's done truthful well, successful fact, that it's crossed implicit into the satellite of South Park with a astonishment quality that was enactment unneurotic successful conscionable a fewer days.

If you've been uncovering it a small trickier conscionable lately, that whitethorn beryllium due to the fact that you play a batch of PvP — Embark Studios precocious confirmed 1 of the community’s biggest questions since the crippled came out: it does so diagnostic ‘aggression-based matchmaking.’

If this has tempted you into giving Arc Raiders a try, cheque retired our usher to the champion settings, find retired what skills we urge unlocking first, and spot however to gain loot by delivering tract depot crates… oregon you tin conscionable hold for the inevitable TV amusement oregon movie adaptation, though the squad says it hasn't been swayed conscionable yet.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.