ARC Raiders Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-24
- Positive overall reception
- PvE mode highly praised
- Excellent sound design
- Broken unfair matchmaking
- Rampant cheating problem
- Ineffective anti-cheat system
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 8-11GB VRAMmixedWindows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 429,818
- Positive
- 350,91581.6%
- Negative
- 78,90318.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 29,965,260
- Estimated revenue
- $1,198,310,747
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3,4840.81%
- Estimated copies lost
- 242,891
- Estimated revenue lost
- $9,713,211
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3,5090.8% Avg playtime 1.1h | 1,0130.2% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 75,34317.5% Avg playtime 255.8h | 349,79781.4% Avg playtime 231.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1,196.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 460.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 127,289.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 359.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
429,662 total
Organic purchasers305,57371.1%
Voted up: 82%
Key activations124,08928.9%
Voted up: 80%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
429,662 total
First impression0-2h9,5492.22%
Voted up: 49%
Mid game2-10h68,66816.0%
Voted up: 88%
Late game10-20h58,76413.7%
Voted up: 90%
Endgame20h+292,68168.1%
Voted up: 80%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
80.0%
Global baseline 81.6%
1,388 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 429,818 total.