''ARC Raiders'' is an upcoming third-person extraction shooter being developed and published by

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. The gameplay is PvPvE (player versus player versus environment) and can be played in teams of three, two, or played solo.

Setting

''ARC Raiders'' takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where mysterious and deadly "ARC" robots have taken over the surface of the Earth, forcing humanity to live underground. Some residents of the underground city, known as "raiders", choose to go aboveground to collect resources to sell.

Gameplay

''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 along with other human players. When a player is killed, they will lose any equipment and materials they have collected and return to base. Players can escape via evacuation elevators or hatches to return to base when they are done collecting items. After returning to the underground base, players can sell items or craft weapons and items to prepare for the next raid.

Development and release

''ARC Raiders'' is currently being developed by Embark Studios, the company behind ''

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"cooperative third-person shooter". It was revealed in 2023 that the genre of the game had been changed to a PvPvE extraction shooter. The game resurfaced in 2024, with Embark announcing that it will drop its free-to-play model. The game is set to be released in 2025 for

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References

External links

* {{official website, https://arcraiders.com/ Upcoming video games scheduled for 2025 Third-person shooters Extraction shooters Windows games PlayStation 5 games Xbox Series X and Series S games Video games developed in Sweden Retrofuturistic video games Post-apocalyptic video games Embark Studios games