ARC Raiders Finds Its Frozen Fire

The month in numbers

Average viewers

14,308+3,152% vs September 2026

Peak viewers, all channels

80,588+903% vs September 2026

Thu, Oct 8

Channels

27+20 vs September 2026

Hours streamed

1,384+582% vs September 2026

Hours watched

10,644,894+3,262% vs September 2026

Share of watch time

2.8%+2.7 vs September 2026

#7 of 1011 games on Twitch

Day by day

Dashed line: September 2026, aligned by day of the month.

The thaw became a stampede

ARC Raiders rocketed from #77 to #7 among games on Twitch, landing 10.6M hours watched and an 81K combined peak. Frozen Trail arrived with fresh places to loot, new tools, a revamped progression chase and Twitch Drops, which is roughly the perfect recipe for a chat to demand one more run.

TheBurntPeanut became the month’s human airhorn. His biggest individual stream reached 56K viewers, while the top ten single-stream peaks all belonged to him. Drops, ambitious bench upgrades, squad rotations and repeated attempts at the Frigate gave the game a daily serial, with every episode ending somewhere between tactical brilliance and loud nonsense.

A global raid, not a one-man carry

English streams supplied 7.1M watch-hours, but Japanese creators brought 3.1M of their own. 加藤純一うん〇ちゃん turned the late month into a near-daily ARC habit, while 布団ちゃんと申します looked thoroughly hooked. The handoff between those crowds made the boom feel less like a launch-week spike and more like a game people had decided to move into.

The long-haul crew made the case too. Symfuhny and ZLaner kept the category busy for marathon stretches, and ZLaner gave ARC Raiders almost all of his streaming attention. HutchMF was the reliable squad glue, the player willing to keep queuing even when the game had very publicly won the argument.

Who carried the month

Channels with at least 3 streams and 5 hours in ARC Raiders this month. Arrows compare with the month before.

New this month

The biggest stream

TheBurntPeanut drew 56,247 viewers on Sat, Oct 10.

[DROPS] FROZEN TRAIL | w/ HUTCHMF | DAY 2 | FRICK A FAN FRIDAY | RESEARCH BENCH LVL 4 FOR SUPER WEAPONS HERE WE COME | #BUNGULATE

Clips of the month

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  ムラゲヴァロ部門がまだパートナーの正式発表をしていない件について

  加藤純一うん〇ちゃん · 14,786 views

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  play smart!

  TheBurntPeanut · 10,923 views

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  ふぉいからのLINE「純にい！ハイゲ出るときタトゥー入れたいんですけどなにがいいっすかね？」

  加藤純一うん〇ちゃん · 7,597 views

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  ヴァロ関係者早くしろ

  加藤純一うん〇ちゃん · 5,994 views

When ARC Raiders was watched

Average viewers per hour of the week, UTC. Empty cells: fewer than two observed days.

Languages of the channels

Share of channels by broadcaster language.

• English9 · 56%
• Japanese4 · 25%
• Italian2 · 13%
• French1 · 6%

Raid radio chatter

• ★TheBurntPeanut claimed, as a joke, to have spent weeks living in a viewer’s attic and eating their cheese. Extraction shooters now apparently include tenancy disputes.
• ★TheBurntPeanut suspected somebody had slipped prank bullets into his loadout. A bad magazine is one thing, but sabotage with a punchline is art.
• ★加藤純一うん〇ちゃん mistook one Mangekyō Sharingan design for Sasuke’s before realizing it was Kakashi’s. The raid briefly became an anime identification test.
• ★HutchMF declared that he was bad at the game. Chat agreed, proving that honesty remains the most dangerous weapon in ARC Raiders.
• ★布団ちゃんと申します fired off a barrage of “yoshi” during a tense moment. The tactical callout was less a word than a small engine trying to start.

Can the ice hold?

Frozen Trail gave ARC Raiders the rare update month where the new stuff, the creator squads and the viewing incentives all pointed in the same direction. October’s leap looks earned, even if repeating that kind of detonation is a rude thing to ask of any game.

The next test is whether the new maps and upgrade chase keep producing stories once the Drops glow fades. If they do, ARC Raiders has found a very loud home on Twitch.