ARC Raiders Steam Rating: What "Very Positive" Means

18 August 2026 · 5 min read

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ARC Raiders’ overall rating on Steam is “Very Positive”, which on the game’s page corresponds to a score of 8 on Steam’s own scale from 0 to 9.

Below is what actually sits behind that label, where the percentage comes from, and why it’s worth looking past the headline figure. If you’re not familiar with the game itself yet, there’s a separate overview: what is ARC Raiders.

What “Very Positive” means and where the 8 comes from

Steam doesn’t show a bare percentage on a game’s page — it first converts it into a word label: “Overwhelmingly Positive”, “Very Positive”, “Mixed”, “Mostly Negative”, and so on. Underneath, those labels sit on a scale of whole numbers from 0 to 9, where each range of positive-review share maps to its own mark. For ARC Raiders, as of the measurement date, that mark is “Very Positive”, and the numeric value on the scale is 8 — one step below the maximum.

It also matters what data goes into that total. Steam counts reviews across all languages and all purchase types — those are the parameters the game’s page uses when it produces the summary. That means the final figure mixes people who bought the game directly, people who got access another way, and reviews written in different languages, not just English.

How many reviews there are, and what share is positive

Here’s the full breakdown recorded on the game’s Steam page as of the measurement date:

These numbers aren’t “since launch day” in some narrow sense — they’re a running total across the whole life of the game’s store listing, counted across every language and purchase type at once. And they’ll keep shifting: players keep leaving new reviews, so by the time you’re reading this, the figures may already have moved slightly from the measurement behind this article.

Why the share matters more than the count

It’s easy to draw the wrong conclusion from a large number on its own. 72671 negative reviews is a lot in absolute terms. But that figure alone says nothing about quality: it’s large because the game’s overall audience is large, not necessarily because the share of unhappy players is high. It’s the share, not the raw count, that the “Very Positive” label actually reflects.

The label is driven by the proportion of negative reviews, not their raw count. A small game with just 19 reviews, most of them positive, can land a label close to “Overwhelmingly Positive” too — even though, in absolute numbers, that’s many times smaller than ARC Raiders’ 339643 positive reviews. Steam’s scale compares proportions, not volumes.

At the same time, the review count is what makes that share reliable. The more people who’ve voted, the less any single narrow wave of reviews — in either direction — can shift the overall share. So 82.4% out of 412314 reviews is a percentage worked out from a large sample, not a handful of votes.

Why a low rating isn’t always about quality

A Steam review is a “recommended / not recommended” button, not a write-up explaining the reason. A player might leave a negative review over price, a technical issue at launch, disagreement with a specific update change, or something unrelated to the game itself entirely. The game’s page only shows the vote total, not a breakdown of reasons by category.

That applies to ARC Raiders too: the game’s Steam page doesn’t explain why those particular 72671 reviews turned out negative. There’s no way to know the motives behind negative votes from the data available — only the final figure. If the game has been updated recently, that could also have affected how some players felt about it: check the current state of updates separately in recent ARC Raiders updates.

How to check the rating yourself

1. Open the ARC Raiders page on Steam.
2. Find the overall review block under the game’s name.
3. Hover over the label — it’ll show the exact positive and negative review counts and the percentage.
4. Check the filters above the block: all languages or just yours, all purchase types or Steam only.
5. Open the detailed statistics if you want to see how reviews break down over time.

That’s the same route we used to record the numbers in this article — and it always shows the current state, not an outdated snapshot.

What the game’s page doesn’t show

The game’s Steam page doesn’t reveal which particular waves of reviews pushed the share up or down, and it doesn’t split negative reviews by topic — balance, technical issues, price, or anything else. There’s no public history of how the rating has changed over time either: just the current total against 412314 reviews. If you’re after specifics about the game’s content rather than its reviews, separate guides cover that. For instance, if the numbers have you wanting to try the game yourself, there’s a guide to the first raid in ARC Raiders.

In short

ARC Raiders has a “Very Positive” rating (8 out of 9 on Steam’s scale), based on 412314 reviews, of which 82.4% are positive. That’s an honest summary of community voting across all languages and purchase types — not an explanation of the reasons behind it, so look elsewhere for those details.