ARC Raiders is a new extraction shooter set to release for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam, Epic Games) and aims to show that good graphics don’t require an expensive high-end PC.
This shooter is ARC Raiders: The extraction shooter from developer Embark Studios will be released on October 30, 2025 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam, Epic Games).
In ARC Raiders, you explore the surface of a world that has been destroyed by mysterious machines in the future. The last remnants of humanity have retreated underground. Occasionally, people venture above to loot vital resources – they are the raiders.
Here you see a trailer for the new extraction shooter:
ARC Raiders surprises with demands on hardware
What are the system requirements of the game? These have now been officially announced by the developers and are surprisingly low:
The minimum requirements are:
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 580 / Intel Arc A380
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K or AMD Ryzen R5 1600
- RAM: 12 GB
The recommended by the developers are:
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc B570
- Processor: Intel Core i5-9600K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- RAM: 16 GB
Players are surprised that a roughly 9-year-old GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is already sufficient to run ARC Raiders. RTX 2070 and RX 5700 XT are also already 7 and 6 years old, respectively. In the recently released Borderlands 4, the two GPUs are listed among the minimum requirements, but for ARC Raiders, they are recommended.
“Runs even on a microwave”
Fans of Borderlands 4 are dissatisfied with the performance: The hardware hunger of the loot shooter has caused dissatisfaction since release. Confrontational comments from Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford don’t help smooth things over.
The system requirements of ARC Raiders are now being used by some players as an excuse to poke fun at the new Borderlands 4.
- In a post on X, user Scrappy writes to a tweet from Pitchford, exaggeratedly stating: “Hey Randy, ARC Raiders runs on the same engine as Borderlands 4, but looks ten times better and even runs on a microwave.”
This shows that the problem is not with UE5. Pitchford just doesn’t know how to optimize a game, it is said further. The Gearbox CEO recently said that Borderlands 4 is “damn optimal”.
However, the published system requirements do not mean that the game is guaranteed a smooth launch. Additionally, it does not state what graphics settings the recommended hardware applies to, or whether upscaling techniques like DLSS are included.
How good the performance of ARC Raiders really is will be revealed at the latest upon release. Before that, however, the developers will give you one last chance to play for free. When exactly you can find out in this article: One of the most wanted games on Steam lets you play for free one last time, planning a stress test for the servers.
