Arc Raiders isn’t actually a PvP game, and that fact is what fuels the incredible social dynamics that are thriving within it. You see, Arc Raiders is actually a PvE game with PvP elements. Don’t believe me? Let’s run it down.
I guess I should start with this. Is Gloomhaven 2e an improvement over the original? Yes, oh my yes. It’s such an improvement that it makes the original Gloomhaven look like complete trash by comparison. Cephlaofair took the improvements from Frosthaven, as well as everything they learned about designing it, and then rebuilt Gloomhaven with it.
Lord of Loot is a Co-op Adventure game for 1 to 5 players about gathering up loot and using that loot to complete quests and slay monsters. Lord of Loot aims to take the concept of a grand fantasy adventure game and compress it into something shorter and faster to set up. In that regard, it wholeheartedly succeeds. Lord of Loot is very fast to set up and extremely easy to learn.
Arc Raiders isn’t merely an extraction shooter. It’s an extraction shooter that is so perfectly well-made that it offers some of the most emergent gameplay moments and organic storytelling that I’ve ever seen. I’ve always said that the best stories a game can tell are the ones that are organically told through gameplay, and every day that I play Arc Raiders, I have stories to tell.