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You've got the ARC Raiders itch and nothing else is scratching it. We know the feeling. Creeping through a dead map, hearing a Rocketeer howl above you, then getting talked out of a firefight by a stranger on proximity chat is a very specific drug.
Embark's shooter landed on October 30, 2025 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series at 40 bucks, and it passed 16 million copies by July 2026. The catch: Embark switched to two big updates a year instead of a monthly drip. Frozen Trails hits on October 8, 2026 with a snowy map at the edge of the Rust Belt. That's a long wait if you play every night.
So here are 10 games we'd actually install if ARC Raiders vanished tomorrow. Every pick is here for a reason. Updated August 15, 2026.
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1. Escape from Tarkov
If ARC Raiders is the friendly way into extraction shooters, Escape from Tarkov is what you graduate to once you decide you deserve suffering. It hit 1.0 in November 2025 after years in beta, and in 2026 Battlestate dropped the everybody-resets-at-once wipe for a split setup: one permanent character, one seasonal one that resets twice a year. Ammo types matter. Armor plates matter. Losing a kitted rig genuinely stings.
2. Hunt: Showdown 1896
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the pick if what you love about ARC Raiders is the listening. Crytek built the whole thing around sound: crows, chains, a horse that sells you out from 80 meters. You track a monster, you banish it, and then every hunter on the map knows exactly where you are. The Road to Hell event in June 2026 added new guns. Solo runs are terrifying.
Release: 27 Aug 2019
3. Marathon
Bungie finally shipped Marathon on March 5, 2026 for 40 dollars, and whatever you thought of the pre-launch drama, the gunfeel is Bungie gunfeel. You play a bio-cybernetic Runner dropping onto the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV in teams of three, dodging security drones and rival crews. The population is smaller than Sony hoped, but the shooting and the art hold up.
4. The Forever Winter
Here's the odd one: The Forever Winter flips the power fantasy and makes you the rat, not the soldier, looting corpses under war machines that could squash you by accident. In early access since September 2024, and the February 2026 patch rebuilt the economy and added over 30 crafting recipes. Squads of up to four. The atmosphere is properly nasty.
Release: 24 Sept 2024
5. THE FINALS
THE FINALS comes from the same studio, so the guns, the movement and the physics all feel like home. It's free, and the Cashout loop is extraction logic with a scoreboard: crack a vault, haul the money, survive the deposit while three squads try to take it. Season 11 Galaxy Masters arrived on July 9, 2026 with the Galaxy Estates arena and rebuilt melee.
6. Gray Zone Warfare
Gray Zone Warfare is where you go when ARC Raiders starts feeling too quick. MADFINGER's take is a PvE-first milsim on the open island of Lamang, where walking to a task can eat twenty minutes and you'll be glad of every one. The 0.4 Spearhead update added faction territory control, new biomes and deeper weapon modding. Still early access, no 1.0 date yet.
Release: 30 Apr 2024
7. Delta Force
Delta Force is free, big and more generous than it needs to be. There's a Battlefield-style Warfare mode plus Operations, a three-player PvPvE extraction mode with raids running 15 to 30 minutes. Monetisation is cosmetics and a battle pass, nothing that shoots straighter. Seasonal wipes are opt-in on a 90 day cycle, so you pick between exclusive rewards and keeping your stash.
8. Arena Breakout: Infinite
Arena Breakout: Infinite is basically Tarkov's systems with the entry fee removed. Five maps, weather that swings from sun to storm, over 75 weapons and a modding screen you can lose an evening inside. Season 6 White Nights in June 2026 added Hostile Sector, a permanent PvE mode for anyone who wants loot runs without a sniper ending them at minute three.
9. Tom Clancy's The Division 2
Long before extraction shooters were a genre, Tom Clancy's The Division 2 was doing it in the Dark Zone. You still call in a chopper, hook contaminated loot to a rope and stand there while everyone nearby decides whether you deserve it. The 2026 season rotates the Dark Zone weekly through classic, balanced and toxic variants. It's also on sale constantly.
10. HELLDIVERS 2
HELLDIVERS 2 has no PvP and no gear loss, but the last two minutes of every mission are pure extraction panic: samples in hand, timer running, Pelican inbound, the whole planet sprinting at your back. This is the one for nights when you'd rather laugh than sweat. Update 7.0.0 and the Warhammer 40,000 Castellan's Creed warbond on August 12, 2026 pushed peaks back over 110,000 players.
That's our shortlist, and we stand by the order. If you want the rest of the picks, we keep the full list of games similar to ARC Raiders updated on the site.
Which one did we get wrong? Drop it in the comments and make your case, we read them.
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