Just under a month after its launch at the end of October, ARC Raiders — the extremely popular new PvPvE extraction shooter from The Finals developer Embark Studios — has been Steam Deck Verified, and is now officially supported on Valve's PC gaming handheld.
The Steam Deck verification has come not as a result of a patch from the game's developers, but rather because of the arrival of Proton 10, a new update for the Windows compatibility layer that allows many of Steam's Windows games to run on the Linux-based SteamOS operating system the handheld uses.
Specifically, Proton version 10.0-3 released recently, bringing support for several new titles like The Crew Motorfest as well as performance improvements for existing Steam Deck-compatible games. Though not listed in the patch notes, ARC Raiders' Steam Deck support also came with the new version of Proton.
Previously, Steam Deck users had to use a special community-made custom version of Proton called Proton GE (named after its creator, glorious eggroll) to get ARC Raiders to run properly on the gaming handheld. Now, though, it should run smoothly with the official version of the software.
Official Steam Deck support for ARC Raiders is great to see, as it stands tall as one of 2025's biggest multiplayer games and undoubtedly one of its best-selling in general. About a week and a half ago, its developers announced that over 4 million copies of the game have been sold since launch, and that over 700,000 concurrent players have been recorded in-game across Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5.
Those numbers may not top the best-selling game of 2025, Battlefield 6, but they're nevertheless incredibly impressive, and ultimately, there's no way that the extraction shooter isn't one of this year's most lucrative titles. It's been at the top of Steam's Top Sellers chart for weeks, after all, and is surely a strong performer on consoles as well (though sadly, we can't see specific metrics).
Undoubtedly, many of the game's thousands and thousands of players own a Steam Deck, or there are plenty of folks with one that have been holding out hope for verification before buying a copy of the game. Now that it's there, they can finally take the beloved shooter with them on the go (or to bed, which is where I suspect most Steam Deck users actually use the handheld.
Note that ARC Raiders is $39.99 across all of its platforms at its MSRP, though right now, it's on sale for some great deals at Loaded. Specifically, the PC version of the Standard Edition is $34.99 at Loaded. The PC variant of the $59.99 Deluxe Edition is also only $50.19 at Loaded, with the Xbox one going for $56.79 at Loaded.
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