Arc Raiders - Is it on Xbox Game Pass? Review round-up and future roadmap

Gamers can now take over the society of Speranza, following the release of Embark Studios' much-anticipated new title Arc Raiders. The third-person extraction shooter has caught everybody's attention since it was first unveiled at The Game Awards in 2021, with fans taking a liking to the tense and brutal gameplay akin to Escape from Tarkov.

The game is available for £32.99 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, although players who just can't wait to give it a go all have the same question: is it coming to Xbox Game Pass? It's not a silly question, after all the developer recently added their free-to-play first-person shooter, The Finals, to Microsoft's popular subscription service.

Is Arc Raiders on Xbox Game Pass?

Fans of the game who were hoping to play it on Xbox Game Pass will be disappointed to learn that Arc Raiders is not available on the service.

That's not to say Embark Studios will never add it, however. As previously mentioned, the company is more than willing to make their games available on Game Pass, and I'm sure there will eventually come a time when Arc Raiders joins the catalogue.

As you can see from the roadmap below, an Xbox Game Pass release isn't on the agenda right now.

Instead, Embark Studios is working on a new map for November, as well as a Community Event, new items and quests.

This will be followed by another batch of quests in December, not to mention new map conditions, events and much more.

Arc Raiders review round-up

If you're hanging fire on buying the game, hoping to find out how well it has been received before parting with your hard-earned cash, reviews are slowly coming in for Arc Raiders.

The Metro said: " Arc Raiders is very accessible and welcoming, but compared to Fortnite or Call Of Duty, this asks a lot more of players than many will be willing to give.

"Some will become frustrated at the complex maps and aggressive enemies (there's a lot more PvE than there is PvP, in the average match), while others will appreciate that this is genuinely something different from the norm, which is what most people claim to want."

While PC Gamer's Ellie Gould described it as "an extraction shooter for the masses", saying: "I'm having way more fun with Arc Raiders than I'd expected to have, and I think its focus on being a more casual, vibey extraction shooter is a really great angle that will likely make it more palatable for a wider audience.

"My only reservation so far is whether Embark can find that sweet spot between fun and challenging, and it'll be interesting to see whether priorities change depending on what kind of playerbase it gathers."

Connor Maker from EuroGamer added: "So the game is good, but why is it special? I think it's the tone. Arc Raiders is, somewhat counterintuitively, a hopeful game.

"That may seem odd given both the setting and the survival-of-the-fittest genre it's a part of. You would think that makes Arc Raiders intrinsically lonesome, or its atmosphere dire. It really isn't. Arc Raiders feels bizarrely collaborative, even for those playing solo."

The game is also sitting on a 'Very Positive' review score over on Steam, where fans are playing by the thousands.