The 15 best PC games to play right now
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A few months into 2024 and we’ve got some stonking new games out already, all the better to add to our list of the best PC games to play right now. The trends right now are towards bombastic action adventures and puzzle games, but as we look to the future of 2024 we can see some roguelikes, deckbuilders and more strategy on the horizon. Still, whatever you’re looking forwards to, you’ll find something to enjoy on this list of the top of the top, the best of the best PC games out now..
If you’re looking for a best games of all time list then you should head to our RPS 100 for that, where you’ll find the greatest games of all time (as decided by us). This here list runs down the best games that have come out in the recent months, although there are a couple of genre heavy hitters that haven’t been beaten since their release here too. So what are you waiting for? Read on for our low down on the best PC games you should be playing now - and check back in a while to see what’s been updated!
The best PC games to play right now
- Against The Storm
- Helldivers 2
- Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
- Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Jusant
- Balatro
- Apex Legends
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- System Shock Remake
- The Talos Principle 2
- World Of Horror
- Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden
- ΔV: Rings Of Saturn
- Forza Horizon 5
- Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Against The Storm
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Against The Storm has been a firm favourite around these parts ever since it launched into early access on Steam in 2021, but now it’s out in full 1.0, and the time has never been better to jump into this citybuilder with a roguelite twist. You might not think that the two genres go together naturally, but trust us, it’s a match made in you’ll-spend-hours-playing-this heaven.
As the Queen’s Viceroy, your job is to build a succession of villages in an endless forest - no easy task, because the forst itself is fraught with dangers, and that’s before we get to the world-ending Blightstorm that destroyed the rest of the world. It’s here that Against The Storm stands out in the crowd, as, rather than building and strengthening one city, your job is to push through the forest and build multiple settlements one at a time, gathering as many resources as possible through your chain of homes before the storm returns to wipe everything out again. Which is where the roguelite bit comes in, you see?
You can only move on to your next town if you’ve completed your tasks, kept the settlers happy (a mix of humans and cool animals, who provide and desire specific things from and for your economy) and, crucially, staved off the Queen’s impatience. But around that, the forest itself is an endless story generator, as each plot you get to build a town will have randomised elements. Sometimes you’ll spawn with plentiful food resources, sometimes with nothing. Sometimes the forest glades will contain bandits or restless spirits. You never know what you’re going to get, which keeps Against The Storm endlessly entertaining.
Where can I buy it: Steam , GOG , Epic Games Store
Helldivers 2
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Helldivers 2 is the co-op shooter du jour, and for extremely good reasons. Equal parts comedy and action, you team up with some pals to take on swarms of giant insects and robots that are threatening earth. You do this with very big guns. As will be familiar to co-op shooter pals, you can customise your gear and special abilities - called Stratagems, which can include rocket launchers, massive orbital strikes, or a robot with lasers, each arriving in a drop ship to add some flair to the proceedings.
The missions - simple loops of get in, kill baddies, get out, with some optional objectives - are all chosen from your spaceship’s galactic map, and they’re timed, which keeps everything zipping along nicely. The rewards are less “keeping Earth safe” and more “getting a really cool new shotgun that feels great”, as you struggle on the knife edge of horde management. Your chances of success are often governed by the Stratagems you’ve all picked, as something like napalm is more suited to immolating bugs, but they also result in some wonderful unintentionaly yuks, as your friend could unintentionally napalm all of you instead.
As a nice touch, everyone on your squad is working from a shared pool of lives, and combined with the timer it makes every mish feel like a famous last stand - but one that you have to keep doing. Helldivers 2 is extremely popular, and it’s a riot.
Where can I buy it: Steam , Humble
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
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Mimimi Games have given us one hell of a swansong before bowing out. From the Studio who brought you Shadow Tactics and the Desperados series comes a pirate-themed tactical RPG that’ll shiver your timbers, alright. Rather than a linear series of set piece missions, In Shadow Gambit you and your pirate crew of miscreants have a bunch of islands to visit in almost any order you want (though you do end up reivisiting them during the course of the game). You’ll be off stealing pearls, rescuing pirates, and solving strange riddles to find treasure, in a race against time and the Inqiusition - classic bad guy name, that - via Mimimi’s signature turn-based stealth tactics.
Your missions take place across intricate and beautiful maps that are larger than in Desperados 3 , but with a lot of variety in enemy placement and mission. The real change-maker is in Shadow Gambit’s cast, who are distinct characters in their own right, but with different abilities and approaches to combat. Gaelle, for example, carries a cannon on her back and can shoot huge distances across the map, while aristocrat Pinkus can possess and impersonate enemies which, as you can imagine, is useful in a pinch. The many ways the missions can change in Shadow Gambit make it much more than a rinse and repeat cycle of stealth, and, combined with a surprising and touching story about memory, this is a really solid pick for a tactics fan.
Where can I buy it: Steam , GOG , Epic Games Store
Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown
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Not just a new entry in a beloved franchise, but an action-adventure platformer, with some Metroidvania-y elements, which our review thinks is good enough to elbow Hollow Knight out of the way. Yes, Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown should be a go-to for anyone looking for some leaping-to-avoid-traps action. As Sargon, a warrior out to restore the crown by rescuing the kidnapped prince, you’ll fling yourself around to avoid spinning blades, spike pits, and bosses attempting to ascend to godhood. All in a days work, right?
The story involves heroics and time travel, always a favourite, but it’s Sargo’s athleticism, and special abilities like insta-dashing and custom checkpointing, that make it a joy just to move around the city that forms your playground. It’s fun just to run around figuring out the right combiation of wall jumps and spins that will complete a traversal puzzle. The massive boss fights are almost secondary, but Sargon is a dab-hand with his double swords too, don’t worry.
Where can I buy it: Epic Games Store Ubisoft
Jusant
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Jusant is a lovely and meditative adventure about climbing to an impossible height. You - an unnamed protagonist accompanied by a small blue blob, a magic shell horn, and a length of rope - emerge out of a seemingly-limitless desert and begin climbing a huge spire, which was once home to different civilisations. Using button presses to manually grab and release hand holds on the rock, you carefully make you way upwards.
The controls create a real link with the climbing itself, so you work a bit tentatively at first, and then climb with more speed and confidence as you go. This is necessary, because it’s a long way to the top, but also because you have an amount of stamina that runs down as you engage in a climb. You can pause to rest your hands, and hammer in pitons so that if you fall you’re still part way up the cliff, but as the climbs grow more complicated, with multiple stages and moving handholds, you start looking up and planning your route before you start. Almost like real climbing.
The higher up the spire you go, the more perilous the weather becomes, as you encouter rain and wind. But you also find remnants of the people who used to live there. There are sounds stored in shells, fragments of letters, and buildings you can look at to understand their purpose, though they’re now abandoned. It’s a beautiful game telling a quiet story, without any dialogue.
Where can I buy it: Steam , Humble
Balatro
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“A poker roguelike? It can’t be done!”, they said. Well it can, and has been, in the form of Balatro. This stylish little game uses traditional poker hands - two pair, flush, straight, etc. - so some familiarity with them is useful, but it’s not mandatory, because Balatro is a lot about cheating. Cheating is mandatory, in fact.
Though not every level is a boss in Balatro, you have to defeat eight of them to win a run of Balatro, and each of the bosses has a little sting in the tail, be that debuffing certain suits, or putting some suits out of action entirely. So while understanding poker might help, really what Balatro is about is collecting a strong deck of the 150-odd Joker cards. Some jokers buff your multiplier, which are juicy cards to play to win a hand, but may only do this if you first play the right cards to trigger them. Others let you pull more cards to your hand, or eliminate cards on the board, or generate extra cash, which keeps you in the game longer.
Balatro then, is about realising the rules are to bend and break the rules. You can then go forward into the new, rules-less paradigm, jokers in hand, to break them in the most synergistic way possible to win. What a treat
Where can I buy it: Steam , Humble
Apex Legends
Apex Legends is thebest battle royale gamearound.
The initial pitch didn’t sound particularly enticing: a first-person shooter set in the Titanfall universe, but minus that series’ defining mechs and in their place a free-to-play game chasing the battle royale bandwagon. To our surprise and delight, it used grappling hooks to board that bandwagon and wrest control of it. Years on from release, Apex Legends is still the best battle royale game in town.
It’s the last game standing for us for the smart ways in polishes up the genre’s core tenets. You can designate a leader to control the descent of everyone in your party during the initial drop, ensuring you stick together. The ping system is a masterclass in easy contextual communication with teammates. Survivors can bring their fallen teammates back to life if they’re bold or sneaky enough. Also, yes, there’s a robot with a grappling hook that’s more fun to play than almost any other character in any other character-based online shooter.
Matt wrote in his review that Apelegs was “the best battle royale game we’re going to see for a long, long time,” and after years of new characters, maps and modes, that’s still true.
Where can I buy it: Steam , Origin
Baldur’s Gate 3
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You probably already know about Baldur’s Gate 3, and if you haven’t heard of it already then it can only be assumed that you’ve been living under a rock for about three years. After a lengthy and well-recieved stint in early access, the D&D-based RPG launched last year to near-universal acclaim, and won basically every award going. You and a squad of weirdo thieves, warriors and wizards pick your way through a dense and beautiful fantasy world. You’re all infected with mindflayer tadpoles, and are close to becoming ontologically evil bipedal psychic octopuses, so your goal is to, you know, stop that happening. This eventually becomes saving the world, as is wont to happen.
The journey you take around the heartlands of Faerûn is winding, full of intrigue, danger, and dodgy dice rolls. Combat in Baldur’s Gate is based on the D20 system - i.e. you roll dice do to things. It’s fiddling and complicated, and turns a lot of the people off the game. On the other hand, if you can get to grips with it, then you’ll have a grand old time. Key to success is making a balanced party of four, taking up strategic positions (using higher ground, cover and half cover, and so on) and using traps and environmental hazards to your advantages. You can sneak your rogue around to the side to shove an enemy archer off a cliff, or send your ranger up to the beams of the ceiling so they can set oil barrels on fire from above.
The other half of the game is the story, which is full of twists and turns and threads that branch away only to come back into the weave again. You can rescue a child from a hag. You can get turned into cheese. You can sneak into a vampire lair, try to steal a hammer from a demon, and, obviously, have weird video game sex with members of your squad. One of whom can turn into a bear. RPGs, baby!
Where can I buy it: Steam , GOG
System Shock Remake
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It’s been a good old time for remakes of classics the past few years, but for anyone with even a passing interest in immersive sims, the recent System Shock remake is a must get. The Shock game that inspired Ken Levine’s BioShock series, this is also one of the most famous “trapped in space with a rogue AI” games, so as you can imagine, 1994’s System Shock had a far reaching impact on video games. Initially planned as a reboot, this is instead a faithful remake that preserves the good parts of the original.
In BioShock you play a hacker caught doing naughty hacking, and given the task of hacking SHODAN, an AI controlling a space station. In the process you remove SHODAN’s ethical constraints - an excellent idea - and, upon waking from a months-long coma, discover that SHODAN has taken over the whole station, killed most of the crew, mutated others, and turned yet others into cyborgs. Avoding these enemies as well as some extremely aggressive robots, you sneak around the station and figure out what happened and how to stop SHODAN. This is an immersive sim with a capital immerse, so don’t expect to get big glowing ‘quest objective here’ arrows or step by step instructions on how to do things in your mission log. You’re going to have to read signs to find your way around, carefully remember instructions you read, and also shoot big guns as you run away from a hideous mutant.
Where can I buy it: Steam , GOG , Humble , Epic Games Store
The Talos Principle 2
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Do you like puzzle games? Do you like thinking about what it is to be a person? Do you also like robots? Then you should get The Talos Principle 2! Nearly ten years after Croteam’s much loved puzzle-adventure-meets-existential-pondering game, The Talos Principle 2 also sees you take on a series of puzzles in first person, with the goal of each being to get to a button and press it. This is harder than it sounds, because the button will obviously be behind a bunch of obstacles - pressure plates, fences, big fans, boxes to move around, lasers, and exclusion fields that stop you bring useful objects with you. Unlike the first game, there aren’t any gun turrets or patrol drones, which is surely a relief, but the puzzles are still fiendishly difficult and inventive all the same.
Like the first game, though, is the fact that you’re an artificial intelligence. Years after the events of The Talos Principle, you awake as a new android (the one thousandth created, in fact) and brought to a marvellous android city, where surprising happenings result in you being taken to the puzzle gauntlet in the first place. The Talos Principle’s themes, about what a ‘person’ is and who has the right to exist, and what kind of existence is worth having, are what make this series stand out from other puzzle games, and for any puzzle fan it’s a must play.
Where can I buy it: Steam , Humble , Epic Games Store
World Of Horror
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World Of Horror is a complicated and clicky puzzle game that’s quite difficult to actually win. Playing as a lcoal teen in a Japanese seaside town, you discover that a terrifying god is trying to force it’s way into our world via your town’s lighthouse, and to get to the top you have to collect five keys by solving five cases around town. It’s sort of Junji-Ito-meets-Round-The-Twist, as you figure out who has been kidnapping the school swim team, or why you suddenly can’t leave your own flat, or visit a strange cult in a camp outside town.
The five cases are drawn from a large pool, and will be randomised each time, but each time you play through World Of Horror you learn a little bit more about what you should do in each situation with the tools that you have. You also learn how consequences can stack up - if you kick over a lamp when you find the janitor turning girls into mermaids, it can burn down part of the school, locking off the playground for the rest of your playthrough. It’s a game about iterating horror, almost. Luckily runs through the game can be fairly short, as you might encounter afflictions that make your task more difficult (like losing your face) or easier (like making friends to go with you at school, or growing weird teeth so you can bite enemies). The strange turn-based combat in encounters with ghosts and demons, the arresting art style all rendered in MSPaint, and the deliberately obscure nature of playing, really make World Of Horror a unique scary game experience.
Where can I buy it: Steam , GOG , Humble
Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden
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Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden is one of the most engaging action adventure games you can play right now. Set in the late 1600s, you play as Red and Antea, a pair of Banishers whose job it is to get rid of ghosts and ghouls who, in this alternate version of our world, hang around causing mischief after death. When the pair head to New England to investigate a particularly powerful haunting, Antea is killed but - as could be predicted - she comes back as a ghost. The rest of the game is an emotional journey to reclaim her body and set her free, or bring her back to life.
Which you choose is key, as though you’ll have to end hauntings around New Eden either way, if you want to resurrect Antea it requires you kill a bunch of living humans to harvest their life force. The haunting stories you encounter are diverse and imaginative, and change the world of New Eden over time depending on your choices. Around this is a fast-moving combat system where you switch between Antea and Red, using different abilities to attack different enemies. Banishers is a really strong single-player adventure with a great hook and a genuinely compelling story. A definite boost if you have live-service fatigue.
Where can I buy it: Steam , Humble , Epic Games Store
ΔV: Rings Of Saturn
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If, on the other hand, you’re looking for a deeper simulation game then look no further than Rings Of Saturn. This is a mining sim that leans on physics and realism to add flavour to your task. As you dive deep into the titular rings things get more risky, as friendly fellow miners fall away an are replaced by outlaws and radicals. Buy tools for your ship to mine asteroids, a robot arm to grab or, or drones to hoover it up. This is the sort of game where lasers are invisible unless you fire them through a medium, that’s the sort of physics simulation we’re talking about here.
You can choose to mine, to get satisfaction out of doing your job with the tools that work the best for you, or you can explore derelict ships and chase down slim side stories. Though it’s a game about simulated space labour in exchange for money, it’s not grindy. It’s about experimenting! It’s about exploration via the mundane! It’s a super sim game.
Where can I buy it: Steam , GOG , Epic Games Store
Forza Horizon 5
Forza Horizon 5 has a staggering open world to explore
We couldn’t escape from this list without leaving a racing game in our tracks, now could we? And if you’re looking for the best racing game out there right now, well that honour definitely goes to Forza Horizon 5. A spin-off series that has now arguably outstripped its maker, the latest Forza Horizon is an open-world carstravaganza on a humongous scale. The racing festival framing might be getting a little tired now, but Forza Horizon 5 dishes up some show-stopping setpieces in Mexico (an active volcano! Huge dust storms! Actual changing seasons!) all set to a soundtrack of licensed tracks that you can really bop to.
The difficulty is pretty flexible, encouraging you to relax and explore the ludicrous, polished world in all its realistic mud-splattered glory, clearing many a map marker as you go. But there are also deep customisation options for cars - including all the marquee brands like Porsche and Ferarri - and drivatars, and community challenges and player-made events to keep you coming back for new hashtag car content.
Where can I buy it: Steam
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
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Yakuza: Like A Dragon kicked the series into a slightly new direction, and Infinite Wealth has now run in that direction with joyful abandon. This JRPG is bigger and badder, strapping a bunch of new features onto the Like A Dragon you knew and loved. Career criminal and cool guy Ichiban has gone straight and left the life of crime behind, but is dragged back into it - and to Hawaii - for some more adventures. It’s colourful, chaotic, and has made tweaks to the class systems and turn-based combat to make fights more rewarding, keeping the sense of chaos the series is known for, but within the confines of a turn-based RPG system.
Perhaps most significantly, there’s now both a sort of Pokémon system and a Like A Dragon take on Animal Crossing, though both are optional. Really, you’re going to find the same warren of Yakuza-y side-quests and weirdo NPCs that you always have with these games, now infused with a bit of Hawaiin culture. As Ed’s review says: “I sort of laugh-cried at an old man trying to fulfil his wife’s final wish to see snow. His way of going about it? Chucking shaved ice into the air. But it does the Yakuza thing! It goes so much deeper than shaved ice in the most unexpected of ways.”
Where can I buy it: Steam , Humble
That’s our list of the best PC games to play as of… right now. But remember that this is a living list, and we’re going to be updating it again. Maybe you think we’ve missed an obvious one, but check back regularly to find out what new games have been added - and what we’ve removed - so you can be surprised and delighted all over again.
Apex Legends
PS4 , Xbox One , PC , Nintendo Switch
Betrayal At Club Low
PC , Mac
Cult of the Lamb
Video Game
Elden Ring
PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X/S , PC
Forza Horizon 5
Xbox One , Xbox Series X/S , PC
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
PC
Neon White
PC , Nintendo Switch
Norco
PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X/S , PC
Overwatch (2026)
PS4 , Xbox One , PC , Nintendo Switch
Return to Monkey Island
Video Game
Saturnalia
Video Game
Slay the Spire
PS4 , PC , Nintendo Switch
Strange Horticulture
Video Game
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them
These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints
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Looking for more Arc Raiders Blueprints? It’s a special day when you find a Blueprint, as they’re among the most valuable items in Arc Raiders. If you find a Blueprint that you haven’t already found, then you must make sure you hold onto it at all costs, because Blueprints are the key to one of the most important and powerful systems of meta-progression in the game.
This guide aims to be the very best guide on Blueprints you can find, starting with a primer on what exactly they are and how they work in Arc Raiders, before delving into exactly where to get Blueprints and the very best farming spots for you to take in your search.
We’ll also go over how to get Blueprints from other unlikely activities, such as destroying Surveyors and completing specific quests. And you’ll also find the full list of all 75 Blueprints in Arc Raiders on this page (including the newest Blueprints added with the Cold Snap update , such as the Deadline Blueprint and Firework Box Blueprint), giving you all the information you need to expand your own crafting repertoire.
In this guide:
- What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
- Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
- Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders Blueprints obtained from quests Blueprints obtained from Trials Best Blueprint farming locations
What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
Blueprints in Arc Raiders are special items which, if you manage to extract with them, you can expend to permanently unlock a new crafting recipe in your Workshop. If you manage to extract from a raid with an Anvil Blueprint, for example, you can unlock the ability to craft your very own Anvil Pistol, as many times as you like (as long as you have the crafting materials).
To use a Blueprint, simply open your Inventory while in the lobby, then right-click on the Blueprint and click “Learn And Consume” . This will permanently unlock the recipe for that item in your Workshop. As of the Stella Montis update, there are allegedly 75 different Blueprints to unlock - although only 68 are confirmed to be in the game so far. You can see all the Blueprints you’ve found and unlocked by going to the Workshop menu, and hitting “R” to bring up the Blueprint screen.
It’s possible to find duplicates of past Blueprints you’ve already unlocked. If you find these, then you can either sell them, or - if you like to play with friends - you can take it into a match and gift it to your friend so they can unlock that recipe for themselves. Another option is to keep hold of them until the time comes to donate them to the Expedition.
Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
Below is the full list of all the Blueprints that are currently available to find in Arc Raiders, and the crafting recipe required for each item:
| Blueprint | Type | Recipe | Crafted At |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bettina | Weapon | 3x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Heavy Gun Parts 3x Canister | Gunsmith 3 |
| Blue Light Stick | Quick Use | 3x Chemicals | Utility Station 1 |
| Aphelion | Weapon | 3x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Complex Gun Parts 1x Matriarch Reactor | Gunsmith 3 |
| Combat Mk. 3 (Flanking) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Combat Mk. 3 (Aggressive) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Complex Gun Parts | Material | 2x Light Gun Parts 2x Medium Gun Parts 2x Heavy Gun Parts | Refiner 3 |
| Fireworks Box | Quick Use | 1x Explosive Compound 3x Pop Trigger | Explosives Station 2 |
| Gas Mine | Mine | 4x Chemicals 2x Rubber Parts | Explosives Station 1 |
| Green Light Stick | Quick Use | 3x Chemicals | Utility Station 1 |
| Pulse Mine | Mine | 1x Crude Explosives 1x Wires | Explosives Station 1 |
| Seeker Grenade | Grenade | 1x Crude Explosives 2x ARC Alloy | Explosives Station 1 |
| Looting Mk. 3 (Survivor) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Angled Grip II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 2 |
| Angled Grip III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Hullcracker | Weapon | 1x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Heavy Gun Parts 1x Exodus Modules | Gunsmith 3 |
| Launcher Ammo | Ammo | 5x Metal Parts 1x Crude Explosives | Workbench 1 |
| Anvil | Weapon | 5x Mechanical Components 5x Simple Gun Parts | Gunsmith 2 |
| Anvil Splitter | Mod | 2x Mod Components 3x Processor | Gunsmith 3 |
| ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? |
| Barricade Kit | Quick Use | 1x Mechanical Components | Utility Station 2 |
| Blaze Grenade | Grenade | 1x Explosive Compound 2x Oil | Explosives Station 3 |
| Bobcat | Weapon | 3x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Light Gun Parts | Gunsmith 3 |
| Osprey | Weapon | 2x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Medium Gun Parts 7x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Burletta | Weapon | 3x Mechanical Components 3x Simple Gun Parts | Gunsmith 1 |
| Compensator II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 4x Wires | Gunsmith 2 |
| Compensator III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Defibrillator | Quick Use | 9x Plastic Parts 1x Moss | Medical Lab 2 |
| ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? |
| Equalizer | Weapon | 3x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Complex Gun Parts 1x Queen Reactor | Gunsmith 3 |
| Extended Barrel | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Extended Light Mag II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 2 |
| Extended Light Mag III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 3 |
| Extended Medium Mag II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 2 |
| Extended Medium Mag III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 3 |
| Extended Shotgun Mag II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 2 |
| Extended Shotgun Mag III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 3 |
| Remote Raider Flare | Quick Use | 2x Chemicals 4x Rubber Parts | Utility Station 1 |
| Heavy Gun Parts | Material | 4x Simple Gun Parts | Refiner 2 |
| Venator | Weapon | 2x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Medium Gun Parts 5x Magnet | Gunsmith 3 |
| Il Toro | Weapon | 5x Mechanical Components 6x Simple Gun Parts | Gunsmith 1 |
| Jolt Mine | Mine | 1x Electrical Components 1x Battery | Explosives Station 2 |
| Explosive Mine | Mine | 1x Explosive Compound 1x Sensors | Explosives Station 3 |
| Jupiter | Weapon | 3x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Complex Gun Parts 1x Queen Reactor | Gunsmith 3 |
| Light Gun Parts | Material | 4x Simple Gun Parts | Refiner 2 |
| Lightweight Stock | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Lure Grenade | Grenade | 1x Speaker Component 1x Electrical Components | Utility Station 2 |
| Medium Gun Parts | Material | 4x Simple Gun Parts | Refiner 2 |
| Torrente | Weapon | 2x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Medium Gun Parts 6x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 3 |
| Muzzle Brake II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 4x Wires | Gunsmith 2 |
| Muzzle Brake III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Padded Stock | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Shotgun Choke II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 4x Wires | Gunsmith 2 |
| Shotgun Choke III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Shotgun Silencer | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Showstopper | Grenade | 1x Advanced Electrical Components 1x Voltage Converter | Explosives Station 3 |
| Silencer I | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 4x Wires | Gunsmith 2 |
| Silencer II | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Snap Hook | Quick Use | 2x Power Rod 3x Rope 1x Exodus Modules | Utility Station 3 |
| Stable Stock II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 2 |
| Stable Stock III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Tagging Grenade | Grenade | 1x Electrical Components 1x Sensors | Utility Station 3 |
| Tempest | Weapon | 3x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Medium Gun Parts 3x Canister | Gunsmith 3 |
| Trigger Nade | Grenade | 2x Crude Explosives 1x Processor | Explosives Station 2 |
| Vertical Grip II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 2 |
| Vertical Grip III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Vita Shot | Quick Use | 2x Antiseptic 1x Syringe | Medical Lab 3 |
| Vita Spray | Quick Use | 3x Antiseptic 1x Canister | Medical Lab 3 |
| Vulcano | Weapon | 1x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Heavy Gun Parts 1x Exodus Modules | Gunsmith 3 |
| Wolfpack | Grenade | 2x Explosive Compound 2x Sensors | Explosives Station 3 |
| Red Light Stick | Quick Use | 3x Chemicals | Utility Station 1 |
| Smoke Grenade | Grenade | 14x Chemicals 1x Canister | Utility Station 2 |
| Deadline | Mine | 3x Explosive Compound 2x ARC Circuitry | Explosives Station 3 |
| Trailblazer | Grenade | 1x Explosive Compound 1x Synthesized Fuel | Explosives Station 3 |
| Tactical Mk. 3 (Defensive) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Tactical Mk. 3 (Healing) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Yellow Light Stick | Quick Use | 3x Chemicals | Utility Station 1 |
Note: The missing Blueprints in this list likely have not actually been added to the game at the time of writing, because none of the playerbase has managed to find any of them. As they are added to the game, I will update this page with the most relevant information so you know exactly how to get all 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints.
Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders
Below is a list of all containers, modifiers, and events which maximise your chances of finding Blueprints:
- Certain quests reward you with specific Blueprints .
- Completing Trials has a high chance of offering Blueprints as rewards.
- Surveyors have a decent chance of dropping Blueprints on death.
- High loot value areas tend to have a greater chance of spawning Blueprints.
- Night Raids and Storms may increase rare Blueprint spawn chances in containers.
- Containers with higher numbers of items may have a higher tendency to spawn Blueprints. As a result, Blue Gate (which has many “large” containers containing multiple items) may give you a higher chance of spawning Blueprints.
- Raider containers (Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, Medical Bags, Grenade Tubes) have increased Blueprint drop rates. As a result, the Uncovered Caches event gives you a high chance of finding Blueprints.
- Security Lockers have a higher than average chance of containing Blueprints.
- Certain Blueprints only seem to spawn under specific circumstances: Tempest Blueprint only spawns during Night Raid events. Vulcano Blueprint only spawns during Hidden Bunker events. Jupiter and Equaliser Blueprints only spawn during Harvester events.
Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, and other raider-oriented container types have a good chance of offering Blueprints. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios
Blueprints have a very low chance of spawning in any container in Arc Raiders, around 1-2% on average. However, there is a higher chance of finding Blueprints in particular container types. Specifically, you can find more Blueprints in Raider containers and security lockers.
Beyond this, if you’re looking for Blueprints you should focus on regions of the map which are marked as having particularly high-value loot. Areas such as the Control Tower in Dam Battlegrounds, the Arrival and Departure Buildings in Spaceport, and Pilgrim’s Peak in Blue Gate all have a better-than-average chance of spawning Blueprints somewhere amongst all their containers. Night Raids and Electromagnetic Storm events also increase the drop chances of certain Blueprints .
In addition to these containers, you can often loot Blueprints from destroyed Surveyors - the largest of the rolling ball ARC. Surveyors are more commonly found on the later maps - Spaceport and Blue Gate - and if one spawns in your match, you’ll likely see it by the blue laser beam that it casts into the sky while “surveying”.
Surveyors are quite well-armoured and will very speedily run away from you once it notices you, but if you can take one down then make sure you loot all its parts for a chance of obtaining certain unusual Blueprints.
Blueprints obtained from quests
One way in which you can get Blueprints is by completing certain quests for the vendors in Speranza. Some quests will reward you with a specific item Blueprint upon completion, so as long as you work through all the quests in Arc Raiders, you are guaranteed those Blueprints.
Here is the full list of all Blueprints you can get from quest rewards:
- Trigger Nade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Sparks Fly”.
- Lure Grenade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Greasing Her Palms”.
- Burletta Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Industrial Espionage”.
- Hullcracker Blueprint (and Launcher Ammo Blueprint): Rewarded after completing “The Major’s Footlocker”.
Alas, that’s only 4 Blueprints out of a total of 75 to unlock, so for the vast majority you will need to find them yourself during a raid. If you’re intent on farming Blueprints, then it’s best to equip yourself with cheap gear in case you lose it, but don’t use a free loadout because then you won’t get a safe pocket to stash any new Blueprint you find. No pain in Arc Raiders is sharper than failing to extract with a new Blueprint you’ve been after for a dozen hours already.
One of the best ways to get Blueprints is by hitting three stars on all five Trials every week. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios
Blueprints obtained from Trials
One of the very best ways to get Blueprints is as rewards for completing Trials in Arc Raiders. Trials are unlocked from Level 15 onwards, and allow you to earn rewards by focusing on certain tasks over the course of several raids. For example, one Trial might task you with dealing damage to Hornets, while another might challenge you to loot Supply Drops.
Trials refresh on a weekly basis, with a new week bringing five new Trials. Each Trial can offer up to three rewards after passing certain score milestones, and it’s possible to receive very high level loot from these reward crates - including Blueprints. So if you want to unlock as many Blueprints as possible, you should make a point of completing as many Trials as possible each week.
Best Blueprint farming locations
The very best way to get Blueprints is to frequent specific areas of the maps which combine high-tier loot pools with the right types of containers to search. Here are my recommendations for where to find Blueprints on every map, so you can always keep the search going for new crafting recipes to unlock.
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Dam Battlegrounds
The best places to farm Blueprints on Dam Battlegrounds are the Control Tower, Power Generation Complex, Ruby Residence, and Pale Apartments . The first two regions, despite only being marked on the map as mid-tier loot, contain a phenomenal number of containers to loot. The Control Tower can also contain a couple of high-tier Security Lockers - though of course, you’ll need to have unlocked the Security Breach skill at the end of the Survival tree.
There’s also a lot of reporting amongst the playerbase that the Residential areas in the top-left of the map - Pale Apartments and Ruby Residence - give you a comparatively strong chance of finding Blueprints. Considering their size, there’s a high density of containers to loot in both locations, and they also have the benefit of being fairly out of the way. So you’re more likely to have all the containers to yourself.
Buried City
The best Blueprint farming locations on Buried City are the Santa Maria Houses, Grandioso Apartments, Town Hall, and the various buildings of the New District . Grandioso Apartments has a lower number of containers than the rest, but a high chance of spawning weapon cases - which have good Blueprint drop rates. The others are high-tier loot areas, with plenty of lootable containers - including Security Lockers.
Spaceport
The best places to find Blueprints on Spaceport are the Arrival and Departure Buildings, as well as Control Tower A6 and the Launch Towers . All these areas are labelled as high-value loot regions, and many of them are also very handily connected to one another by the Spaceport wall, which you can use to quickly run from one area to the next. At the tops of most of these buildings you’ll find at least one Security Locker, so this is an excellent farming route for players looking to find Blueprints.
The downside to looting Blueprints on Spaceport is that all these areas are hotly contested, particularly in Duos and Squads. You’ll need to be very focused and fast in order to complete the full farming route.
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Blue Gate
Blue Gate tends to have a good chance of dropping Blueprints, potentially because it generally has a high number of containers which can hold lots of items; so there’s a higher chance of a Blueprint spawning in each container. In my experience, the best Blueprint farming spots on Blue Gate are Pilgrim’s Peak, Raider’s Refuge, the Ancient Fort, and the Underground Complex beneath the Warehouse .
All of these areas contain a wealth of containers to loot. Raider’s Refuge has less to loot, but the majority of the containers in and around the Refuge are raider containers, which have a high chance of containing Blueprints - particularly during major events.
Stella Montis
On the whole, Stella Montis seems to have a very low drop rate for Blueprints (though a high chance of dropping other high-tier loot). If you do want to try farming Blueprints on this map, the best places to find Blueprints in Stella Montis are Medical Research, Assembly Workshop, and the Business Center . These areas have the highest density of containers to loot on the map.
In addition to this, the Western Tunnel has a few different Security Lockers to loot, so while there’s very little to loot elsewhere in this area of the map, it’s worth hitting those Security Lockers if you spawn there at the start of a match.
That wraps up this primer on how to get all the Blueprints in Arc Raiders as quickly as possible. With the Expedition system constantly resetting a large number of players’ Blueprints, it’s more important than ever to have the most up-to-date information on where to find all these Blueprints.
While you’re here, be sure to check out our Arc Raiders best guns tier list , as well as our primers on the best skills to unlock and all the different Field Depot locations on every map.
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