United Kingdom, Nov. 17 -- Arc Raiders continues to defy expectations on Steam, breaking its own concurrent-player record for the third weekend in a row.

According to Steam Charts, Embark Studios' free-to-play extraction shooter surged past 481,000 concurrent players on Valvue's platform this weekend, marking a new all-time high and cementing its status as one of the most successful extraction shooters ever launched on Steam.

That milestone comes just days after the game smashed its previous peak of 462,488 players, and only two weeks after topping 264,000 - an unusually rapid climb that suggests momentum is still building rather than cooling.

Arc Raiders' rise is even more impressive considering Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launched on N...