Arc Raiders is 2025’s best shooter, so brace yourself for more extraction shooters

Let’s get one thing straight: Arc Raiders was not the first extraction shooter. Escape From Tarkov is often credited with the founding of the genre, and while that may be true in a standalone sense, the mechanics that define it have been around for a while. The Division mixed PvP and PvE elements with its Dark Zone area in 2014, as did, funnily enough, Old School Runescape’s Wilderness way back in the early 2000s. Sure, you didn’t have to extract anything per se, but you did have to get the heck outta there without dying, lest you lose all of your gear.