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.
Players awaken on a mysterious island called the Ark with no memory of how they arrived. Surrounded by dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, they must survive while uncovering the island's secrets through scattered explorer notes left by previous inhabitants. As survivors progress through increasingly difficult boss encounters, they begin to piece together the truth about the Ark and the technology sustaining it. The deeper story, revealed through expansion packs, follows survivors as they travel from the island to an underground alien world, a corrupted future Earth, and eventually aboard a massive colony ship traveling through deep space in search of a new home for humanity.
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I have enjoyed Ark for 35,000 hours, one of my favorite games to play with friends and family. I ran a ASM server w/mods for years until today. NOTHING works anymore. Server doesn't match, mods don't work, and of all this is to force us to ASA. I have that game as well, and It sucks. That is why we went back to ASE and now you have managed to screw that also. You had something great. Hope you don't choke on your GREED!!! How do I get a refund!!
To the owners... Let’s not pretend anymore. You didn’t “accidentally” break everything. You didn’t “unintentionally” destroy years of work and communities. You didn’t “update” to improve anything. You knew exactly what this last update would do. You knew it would break every mod, every server, every map players spent years building. And you did it anyway, so you could herd everyone into ASA, for money, that's all you care about. We see you. We see the contempt you have for the players who made your company relevant in the first place. We see the disingenuous theater of pretending the part owner is some separate entity pulling strings behind your back. You are the same. Same boardroom. Same decisions. Same disdain for your own community. You didn’t just break some files. You tore down thousands of hours of passion and creativity. You removed entire worlds, because you have nothing lef
My wife & I enjoy this game together :) We love the co-operative clean fun & challenges :) She doesn't have a lot of mobility because of a rare disease so this is a way for us to 'get out' - Thank you
I bought two copies, one for my seven-year-old daughter, and one for myself. I host a non-dedicated session and invite her through Steam, and we spend hours tranquilizing dinosaurs, taming them, and collecting them on our island. I use the cheat codes to spawn all the items we want (using the ark wiki and double tab) and we have a great time. I recently purchased two copies of Scorched Earth, and we spawned in tons of air conditioners and wyvern eggs to hatch baby dragons, then we spawned in a bunch of wyvern milk to grow and tame them. I've never touched a multiplayer server and don't care to. My daughter is a dinosaur nut and she absolutely loves this game and the way we play it. This review probably helps no one, as kids aren't really the target demographic, but I thought I'd give it a thumbs up anyways. Pretty much our favorite game to play together. I'm just thankful she'd rather
I can't say it better than this.... Snail Games Let’s not pretend anymore. You didn’t “accidentally” break everything. You didn’t “unintentionally” destroy years of work and communities. You didn’t “update” to improve anything. You knew exactly what this last update would do. You knew it would break every mod, every server, every map players spent years building. And you did it anyway, so you could herd everyone into ASA, for money, that's all you care about. We see you. We see the contempt you have for the players who made your company relevant in the first place. We see the disingenuous theater of pretending the part owner is some separate entity pulling strings behind your back. You are the same. Same boardroom. Same decisions. Same disdain for your own community. You didn’t just break some files. You tore down thousands of hours of passion and creativity. You removed entire worl
This is a review of the offline game. This game has been one of the best games I have ever played. I have been playing games for over 25 years and haven't experienced a game this epic. I'd like to share one of my quests. I had just finished my first base on a peninsula. It had a bed and some storage containers and was starting to feel pretty safe. I hadn't seen many dangerous Dino other that dilos (the ones that killed the fat guy in Jurassic park). I had stockpiled some goods and decided I would go try to tame something worth taming. I found a raptor in a valley surrounded by rocks and decided he was gonna be my buddy. The taming process was pretty intense so it really made me want to keep my Raptor safe. I saddled him up and decided to give him a go. He was amazing, we ran around killing everything. After about 30 mins of running and killing things I decided to go home and give my
You tamed all of the domesticable creatures on the ARK!
You Ascended off the ARK, at Beta level!
You've discovered 100% of the Explorer Notes on the ARK!
You defeated the Guardians of The Center!
You've discovered 90% of the Explorer Notes on the ARK!
You've discovered 80% of the Explorer Notes on the ARK!
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