The best shooter games like Arc Raiders are Escape from Tarkov, Hunt: Showdown 1896 and The Cycle: Frontier. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to shooter costs you.
Filtering to shooter means you want the guns to be the answer. It is the right filter when what you liked was the feedback — the sound, the recoil, the way enemies react.
What you get: Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
What made Arc Raiders worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the shooter part of that answer, and only the shooter part.
The genre's origin point, and by far the most punishing version of it.
The best-paced extraction shooter, and the tension is unmatched.
PvEvP extraction on an alien planet — the closest structural match.
If it was fighting machines with friends rather than the PvP that appealed.
Extraction raiding in space, with boarding actions.
The fantasy version, and the extraction decision is just as sharp.
Co-op extraction without the PvP, and extremely good-natured.
For the desolate world and scavenging, without the raid timer.
If the machines and the movement were the draw.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
The full list is on games like Arc Raiders — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Escape from Tarkov. The genre's origin point, and by far the most punishing version of it.
No. Arc Raiders released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
How the guns sound and how enemies react to being hit. A shooter with mediocre levels and superb weapon feedback is more fun than the reverse, every time.
Each pick says. Several of the best shooters ever made are single-player campaigns, and a few of the co-op ones are genuinely worse with bots.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Arc Raiders list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is shooter — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the shooter guide for where to start in the genre generally.