The studio is moving back one project so it can get another out the door
Embark Studios recently confirmed it was pushing back one of its titles,ARC Raiders. Alongside the reasoning it gave, the company also shed some light on its future production plans, including a game that it plans to have out ahead ofARC Raiders.
In ablog post, Embark CEO and founder Patrick Söderlund discussed theARC Raidersdelay. As the studio confirmed, the co-op shooterwon’t be launching until next year.
For transparency, Söderlund confirms Embark has several projects in development. AlongsideARC Raiders, the studio is working on a team-based first-person shooter codenamedProject Discovery. It wasteased in a tweet, in November of last year.
Embark is celebrating 3 years! So what have we accomplished? We’ve grown to more than 250 game makers, we’ve got big plans for the future, and a few projects we are just itching to share. To celebrate, we thought we’d share a glimpse of another unannounced game in the works. 🎂pic.twitter.com/TdeZQcuvDs
— Embark Studios (@EmbarkStudios)August 08, 2025
Project Discoveryhas advanced, and faster than expected. Söderlund writes that the game is coming along fast enough that Embark was looking at the prospect of simultaneously launching two games. But launching two games in rapid succession might strain Embark’s resources.
“As such, we decided to letProject Discoverybe our studio’s first game to market, pushingARC Raidersto a 2023 release,” said Söderlund. “It’s a decision that will also allow us to expand and refine theARC Raidersexperience.”
A new discovery
WithProject Discoveryadvancing,ARC Raidersis going to take a little more time to cook in the oven. And that may not be all for the sci-fi world either.
Söderlund writes that over the course of this spring, Embark started to concept and prototype a PvP-focused game mode in theARC Raidersuniverse that the studio wants to spend more time on.
The founder says the team will announce more details aboutARC Raiderswhen it’s ready. Meanwhile, without going into more detail, there is more news due aboutProject Discovery“very soon,” according to the blog. So while one Embark game is a ways away, another may not be so far off after all.
