ARC Raiders Launches Forgotten Relics Event With New Rewards, Community Objectives, and a Fresh Reason to Venture Topside

Embark Studios has kicked off the new Forgotten Relics event in ARC Raiders, introducing a limited-time activity that encourages players to explore the dangerous surface world, recover valuable artifacts, and assist wandering nomads across the wastelands. Running from June 16 through July 27, the event offers exclusive rewards including the new Saltwalker Outfit and contributes toward a broader community-driven project known as Converging Paths.

The event arrives as Embark continues expanding ARC Raiders' live-service ecosystem following the game's launch. While the core extraction-survival experience remains unchanged, Forgotten Relics introduces additional objectives that encourage players to engage with the game's world and factions in new ways, while reinforcing the themes of cooperation, survival, and trust that sit at the heart of ARC Raiders' setting.

Forgotten Relics sends players back into the wasteland in search of valuable discoveries

According to Embark's official event description, players are tasked with heading Topside to recover supplies and forgotten relics for groups of nomads attempting to survive beyond the safety of underground settlements.

These expeditions are not simply scavenging runs. Participants are also expected to secure travel routes, protect vulnerable caravans, and establish connections with travelers who possess knowledge about the world outside. The event narrative emphasizes trust and cooperation, suggesting that building relationships with these nomadic groups will unlock additional opportunities and rewards.

This focus aligns closely with ARC Raiders' broader world-building. Since the game's release, Embark has portrayed the surface as a hostile but resource-rich environment where survival often depends on difficult choices regarding risk, cooperation, and resource management.

The Forgotten Relics event builds upon these themes by encouraging players to venture deeper into dangerous territories while pursuing objectives that go beyond simple extraction efficiency.

The event's title itself reflects one of the central mysteries of ARC Raiders' setting: the remnants of civilization scattered across a world transformed by the ARC threat. Recovering relics becomes both a gameplay objective and a narrative device for exploring the history of the game's universe.

Converging Paths expands the event beyond individual progression

One of the most interesting elements of Forgotten Relics is its connection to Converging Paths, a larger project that runs alongside the event.

Embark has positioned Converging Paths as a long-term initiative tied to player participation and world progression. While the developer has been careful not to reveal every detail immediately, official information suggests that player actions throughout the event period will contribute toward broader objectives connected to the evolving state of the game world. (arcraiders.com)

This approach reflects a growing trend among live-service games, where seasonal events increasingly serve as mechanisms for advancing world narratives rather than existing solely as isolated reward tracks.

For ARC Raiders, this structure feels particularly appropriate. The game's setting is built around fragmented communities attempting to survive in a hostile environment, making collaborative objectives a natural extension of its themes.

By linking Forgotten Relics to Converging Paths, Embark appears to be experimenting with ways of making player activity feel more connected to the wider world rather than limiting progression to individual accounts.

The initiative could also provide clues regarding future content updates, as community-driven projects often serve as narrative bridges toward larger seasonal developments.

The event reinforces ARC Raiders' evolving live-service strategy

Forgotten Relics arrives during an important period for ARC Raiders.

Following years of anticipation and several shifts in development direction, Embark's extraction-survival shooter has been steadily building its post-launch content cadence. Events such as Forgotten Relics are an important part of that strategy, offering players new objectives while keeping the world active between larger updates.

Unlike many live-service events that focus exclusively on combat or cosmetics, Forgotten Relics places considerable emphasis on exploration and environmental storytelling. The event encourages players to interact with the world itself rather than simply completing combat-focused checklists.

This distinction is significant because world-building has emerged as one of ARC Raiders' strongest differentiators within the increasingly crowded extraction genre. While many competitors emphasize military realism or pure PvP tension, ARC Raiders often places equal weight on atmosphere, environmental mystery, and survival storytelling.

The event's focus on nomadic communities and forgotten artifacts reinforces that identity while providing additional reasons for players to revisit locations they may already know well.

What this means for players

For active players, Forgotten Relics offers a clear set of incentives to return to the wasteland throughout the event period.

The headline reward is the Saltwalker Outfit, an exclusive cosmetic tied directly to event participation. Limited-time cosmetics have historically been among the most sought-after rewards in live-service games, particularly when they reflect the themes and aesthetic of a specific event.

Beyond cosmetics, participation in Converging Paths gives players an opportunity to contribute toward broader community objectives. This adds an additional layer of motivation beyond individual progression and encourages sustained engagement throughout the event's six-week duration.

The event may also appeal to players who are particularly interested in ARC Raiders' lore. The focus on relic recovery, nomadic travelers, and forgotten knowledge suggests that the event could contain additional narrative details about the state of the world and the history of the ARC invasion.

Most importantly, Forgotten Relics provides meaningful activity between major content drops, helping maintain momentum while Embark continues developing future updates.

The wasteland still holds secrets worth uncovering

With Forgotten Relics, Embark Studios is demonstrating that ARC Raiders' world remains far from fully explored.

The event combines exploration, community participation, and exclusive rewards in a package that feels closely connected to the game's core identity. Rather than introducing a disconnected seasonal activity, Embark has created an event that reinforces the themes of survival, discovery, and cooperation that define the ARC Raiders experience.

As players venture Topside in search of lost artifacts and help shape the outcome of Converging Paths, they may discover that the greatest rewards are not only the cosmetics waiting at the end of the journey, but the new pieces of the world's story revealed along the way.

With the event running until July 27, the race to uncover forgotten relics has only just begun.