ARK: Survival Evolved

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Summary

ARK: Survival Evolved takes on the survival genre with a unique blend of emergent multiplayer cooperation and competition. Players awake naked and starving on the beach of a mysterious island among a herd of other confused humans. On ARK, they must then hunt, harvest, craft, research technology, and build shelters to protect against scorching days, freezing nights, volatile weather systems, dangerous wildlife, and potential enemies.

Use cunning strategy and tactics to tame and ride the many dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the dynamic, persistent ecosystems across land, sea, air, and even underground. Build your character’s strengths and gain items, skills, and pet creatures using in-depth role-playing systems. Start a tribe with hundreds of other players to survive and dominate competing tribes...and ultimately discover the ARK’s true purpose.


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ARK: Survival Evolved Reviews & Ratings

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Review by stupidopinion [user]
June 22, 2022

This game is quite poorly optimized. Despite its age my computer (which is decently powerful and can run Ori will of the wisps fine) heavilyThis game is quite poorly optimized. Despite its age my computer (which is decently powerful and can run Ori will of the wisps fine) heavily lags even at the lowest settings. The game itself is decently fun, though it is also unintuitive and I feel like I need a guide for anything I want to do. Dinosaurs are cool though and a game that lets you ride them is almost always going to have value in my book. Oh yeah and the character creator is a total joke, it was a waste to invest resources in that.

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Review by Robobob [user]
June 18, 2022

It's a game. It exists. And that's how I feel when I'm playing it. I'm just kind of existing in the world populated by dinosaurs. There'sIt's a game. It exists. And that's how I feel when I'm playing it. I'm just kind of existing in the world populated by dinosaurs. There's the foundations of something decent here: lots of species of prehistoric animals with different pros and cons, an in-depth survival system. But, did anyone ever playtest this game? Did they think it was fun to poke a dinosaur 20x until it dies? Or shoot 20 arrows at a charging animal while running from it? Even dinosaurs well below your level will take 5-10 hits and there's really no variety to the action.The mining system is designed so that you are constantly acquiring stuff you don't need to mine for one thing you DO need. Like "metal." One generic metal in the game that you acquire through RNG through mining other rock. But you seem to have a better chance if you use a pick, so you will get hundreds and hundreds of extra flint while looking for metal that I ended up throwing away. Who thought this was a good idea? Why no designated "metal" veins in the world? When flint it onyl useful for a couple crafting recipes why not make it a much rarer pick up?Taming dinosaurs might have been fun but if you tame anything below level 25 it is useless. As a mount it can't even carry you without it's movement speed dropping to a crawl.I played only the single player campaign and my character wakes up on the beach... and that's it. No story, no NPCs to tell you what to do.After building an expensive small house and training some slow mounts, I think I've done everything of interest in this game. And if there is something more interesting to do., the game wasn't good enough to steer me in the right direction. Glad I got it for free on Steam and didn't pay a cent.

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Review by fallenazael [user]
March 27, 2022

UI is terrible. Controls are a nightmare and you can clearly tell this is a pc game which has been forced into consoles. Buggy as hell. ThingsUI is terrible. Controls are a nightmare and you can clearly tell this is a pc game which has been forced into consoles. Buggy as hell. Things won't work. Items can't be picked up or used. A total nightmare. Even as a free game I feel I've been conned

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Review by Jab331 [user]
January 31, 2022

Great game, though with many requirements. If your PC can be considered the "ultimate beast" at running things then this game I epic!!!

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Review by TGious [user]
October 17, 2021

A truly terrible game. The graphics are terribly adapted for the switch, and the game fails to have a good story or gameplay. You will beA truly terrible game. The graphics are terribly adapted for the switch, and the game fails to have a good story or gameplay. You will be wandering around bored out of your mind in this game. There really is not much more to say other than do NOT buy this game.

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Game Information
Release Date June 2, 2015
Publisher Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Snail Games, Abstraction Games, Armature Studio, Snail Games USA
Content Rated T (Teen)
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Battle Royale
Player Perspectives First person, Third person, Virtual Reality
Genres Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Themes Action, Survival, Sandbox, Open world
Platforms Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia