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ARK: Survival Evolved
The island rewards preparation: secure food and water, gather materials, and build shelter against weather and danger. ARK: Survival Evolved pairs that survival cycle with creature taming and solo or multiplayer modes. At 
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01About ARK: Survival Evolved
Stranded on a mysterious island, you hunt, gather resources, and craft tools and shelter to stay alive. Manage food and water, adapt to changing weather, and tame, train, or breed prehistoric creatures. Explore land, caves, and ocean, develop your character, and choose whether to face the island alone or with other players. Steam player reviews: 83% positive from 587,692 reviews. Release date: August 27, 2017.
Credits
Composer
Gareth Coker
Developer
Studio Wildcard · Instinct Games · Efecto Studios · Virtual Basement LLC
Publisher
Studio Wildcard · Snail Games USA
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$7.052026-07-30 · KinguinBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | — | Yes |
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | — | Yes |
| English | Yes | — | Yes |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| French | Yes | — | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | — | Yes |
| German | Yes | — | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | — | Yes |
| Russian | Yes | — | Yes |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | — | Yes |
| Czech | Yes | — | Yes |
| Danish | Yes | — | Yes |
| Dutch | Yes | — | Yes |
| Hungarian | Yes | — | Yes |
| Polish | Yes | — | Yes |
| Swedish | Yes | — | Yes |
| Thai | Yes | — | Yes |
| Turkish | Yes | — | Yes |
| Ukrainian | Yes | — | Yes |
| Finnish | Yes | — | Yes |
| Japanese | Yes | — | Yes |
| Korean | Yes | — | Yes |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-14
02Before you buy
Modes and controller
Steam PC supports single-player and multiplayer, including co-op. Full controller support is listed.
Languages
Steam lists interface support in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, among other languages. Full audio is listed for those languages.
03Frequently asked questions
What does survival involve?
Gather resources, craft items, build shelter, and manage food and water to survive.
Can you tame dinosaurs?
Many creatures can be tamed, trained, and bred; larger ones can be ridden.
Can I play solo?
Yes. The description lists local single-player games, multiplayer, and player-hosted servers.
Latest news about ARK: Survival Evolved
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
├Professors Review┤ Game Pros • Open World • Weapons ranging from spears, to rocket launchers, and turrets • Weather System • Multiplayer • Crafting system • Consistent updates • Day/Night Cycle • Ton of skills to master • Base building • Grouping/Spawning System • PvP/PvE • You can tame/ride dinosaurs • Steam workshop • Selfie/Orbit Cam so you can look at yourself • You can host Servers and have access to console commads • 3rd person (Can be accessed on servers that have it enabled) Game Cons • Requires a very decent PC to achieve stable FPS • Dinosaurs hover on certain terrain (Very minor) • Dinosaurs need pathfinding work • Chance of spawning on a hostile dinosaur, killing you upon spawn • WARNING: Hackers • Developers released DLC before the game was anywhere closed to finished • Terrible optomization for full priced game. Especially if you buy it knowing you have an outdated graphics card. • Developers provide little or no customer support Relateable Games • Rust • The Forest Conclusion ARK is an amazing game, But rememeber that the game is still in ALPHA STAGES. It still has a ways to go before it finished, but it is headed in the right direction. It gets your heart pumping when you have a lot to lose, and you got a giant dinosaur chasing you down through a forest. Score 65/100 (If you found this review helpful, consider giving it a thumbs up!) UPDATE: Considering there has been a swarm of kids who don't know how to use the "filter" function on steam. All further comments will be deleted on this review. It is outdated, and they think they are bringing some sort of new information to everyone by saying it. F.A.Q Complaint: "Oh my god you only have 11 hours in game?? You don't know anything!!!!! Answer: If you need more than 11 hours in a game to decide if it's good or not. You have a problem. 11 hours is more than enough time to grasp concept of any game and see the mechanics. Complaint: You got paid for this review!! Fake account!! Answer: Please email the developers if you think i should be getting paid for this review. Id love to collect my money. And by looking at my profile for 5 seconds, you can tell its not fake. Complaint: You are giving new players bad input!!! omg!!! Answer: Well than you and those new players should learn how to use the filter function on steam and quit looking at reviews from years ago. That is your fault and your fault only. Complaint: If it's such a good game why don't you play it anymore huh??? :OO Answer: Because I have a lot of good/newer games that I enjoy playing more. I don't need to continue playing a game just because it was good. I played other games and moved on.Show moreShow less
12.5 hours at review5,717 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Paid DLC for early access game is just stupid.Show moreShow less
379.9 hours at review6,993 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
You Idiots, why post a BAD review and the hurt the game company all just because you can't run it at EPIC settings? It's ALPHA EARLY ACCESS. Shame on you folks! This game is GREAT and for whoever leaves a bad review about unable to join servers etc you should stop buying early access games. Vote up if you agree.Show moreShow less
942.5 hours at review5,717 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
Dont waste your time on this game, i have almost 3000 hours and i will tell you guys why> 1- You will waste hours building and finding out that everything is above you, doesnot matter how much you grow there is tribes whit more then 100 players on diferent servers togheter that go wiping everyserver they find 2- If you keep playing the game after you get wipped by them, you will try to grow again whit more people this time, you will prob get wipped sometime untill you know how this game works. 3- then someday when you get about 2800 hours of play time, you will attack them, when you attack them, you will WIN this attack, but you will find out they had an OFFICIAL ARK DEVELOPER on theyr tribe, and your entire alliance will get globaly banned from ark official servers! THATS WHAT I GOT FOR PLAYING 2800 LEGIT HOURS OF ARK, THANKS!!Show moreShow less
2,653.2 hours at review5,562 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
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 new buddy a rest. We ran through the night and in the morning i realized how extra lost i was and got worried. I decided that the best way to find my way home was to climb a mountain and look around. After 5 mins or so of looking and referencing the map I finally figured out where we were. Just as I was about to put my map away I was ambushed by several scorpions and unfortunately they killed me. After I respawned back at my base I was in panic mode and jumped on my only other ride able Dino which was a Parasaur and hauled ass back to where my raptor was. We never made it. About halfway there we were attacked by a pack of raptors and both were killed. My next re-spawn was kinda bleak from the start. I re-spawn in a random location that I thought would be near my Dino. After what seemed like hours of carefully navigating my map back to where i though my Dino was I started to freeze and starve. I would move thirty to fifty feet and whistle then repeat. The sun went down and my hopes for recovering my dino with it. Just as I had given up hope I was surrounded by scorpions and I thought "oh well". A second later my Raptor jumped down from the rocky ledges above and killed one of the scorpions. I frantically jumped on his back and ran from the other scorpions. My health was still falling due to the cold and me starving. Once we got to relative safety I hopped off his back and checked his inventory. Somehow he had collected a full suit of armor and plenty of berries whilst we were hunting earlier. We eventually dodged meat eaters and found our way home once the sun rose. I have never felt that since of disparity and relief from a video game before. It sounds funny but it really felt like the raptor saved my life. I've never got that into a game before. That one experience was worth more than what I paid for the game.Show moreShow less
184.1 hours at review2,574 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
Started off as shining example of how to do early access. Ended up a complete disaster after the developer went off on adventures of making SOTF, console versions and paid expansion while still in early access! No wonder the game is so behind schedule.Show moreShow less
976.6 hours at review4,860 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Poop Enjoyers ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☑ You'll need a second (and possibly third) life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ☑ ARK: Survival EvolvedShow moreShow less
208 hours at review2,367 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
At the time I write this, I have put about 3500 hours into this game. I have been playing it for over a year now and have had a lot of ups and downs. I play on a PvP server and I have had everything I had taken from me and all my tames killed many times. I have worked my way back up over and over and have managed to secure my tribe as a beta tribe on a server and am in an alliance with the alpha tribe. Then Wild Card dropped Scortched Earth and the ability to transfer players and items into the server I play on. My server did everything we could to protect ourselves and it paid off. Then Wild Card made all the supply drops not effected by structures so they would still drop. So, we blocked them all off with vaults. Now Wild Card made it so the drops land on top of anything under them. We don't have any defense against that. Why are we worried? Because for the better part of the last year, many servers have been taken over completely my mega tribes. Tribes that regularly hit server cap with who plays on the server. Who farm servers of all their resources and have been unchecked because no one could farm enough resources to fight them on their own servers. Now that they can travel from server to server, they are slowly working their way through all official servers and wiping the servers of everything. For people like myself who have dumped litterally thousands of hours into this game, we are doing all we can to defend, but we can only do so much as we can't be online all day everyday. With the servers not being region locked, we have Chinese, Russian, and Australian tribes coming to our server during peak times for them, but the early morning hours for us. Meaning, we have no one on to defend what we worked hard to make. We now have to work in shifts, like it is a job, to defend what we have, all because Wild Card decided to open the arks up and have the players wipe the servers for them. When a large server falls, most of the players quit playing the game. They move onto something else. That is good for Wild Card, because then the servers become low population, so they can repurpose them or remove them and that saves them a lot of money. They already made all they will make off of the players currently playing. So, if they remove us, they can save on server costs and use that for more advertising to get more unsuspecting players into the game. Overall, Wild Card doesn't listen to their players unless those players are praising how great the game is. The players that riducule the game, are ignored or banned due to rule violations. Wild Card doesn't know what they are doing in terms of making a game that isn't completely broken nor do they know how to have a conversation with their player base that isn't just the positive things about the game. They refuse to hear or even acknowledge there is anything wrong with their game and that is a huge problem. Bottom line, only get this game if you're going to play on unofficial servers or you like logging in and finding that everything you have is gone, yet again, and you get to punch a tree and start over. ADDED February 02, 2017: I mainly talked about the PvP on Official servers in the review above, so I am adding the other ways to play the game here to hopefully give a more well rounded review. Single Player is nice as well, but nothing is persistant. So you need to increase a lot of rates in single player to make it fun. Like, at stock, if taming something takes 6 hours, you need to be logged into the game for 6 hours to tame it. If you exit, that timer pauses. Breeding anything becomes too cumbersome without increasing rates because 4 real life days that pauses when you exit the day is just not possible. Unless you want it taking 2 weeks to raise one thing. I just use single player as a "creative mode" to spawn everything in and build to see what I would need for the server I actually play on. PvE is enjoyable but frustrating in a different way. You can't build near others and as long as you close your doors, no one can take your things. People can annoy you and get in your way and just be asshats to you, and you can't do anything to them because you can't fight them. They can build walls around your base at the build limit so you can't get out or in. It's like the 12 year olds at malls that will be annoying little ♥♥♥♥♥ and and when you tell them to quit being ♥♥♥♥♥, they try to egg you on by telling you that you can't do anything because they are a minor and you can't hit them. Just really disrespectful. In some cases it's worse than PvP. The unofficial servers are nice as it's less ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and more good players. Though, then you run the risk of the admins of the servers spawning in whatever they want and wiping the server anytime without notice. So, you could log in and the whole server is wiped and you lost everything. They could change up the mods on the server without notice and just shut the server down because they didn't want to pay for it anymore. If you're playing PvP on their server and you wipe them and become alpha, they can just delete everything you have, rollback the server to before you wiped them, spawn in a level 1million titanosaur and smash everything you have, or any combination of those. My biggest gripe with the game is that it's not fun anymore. It was fun for the last year and with the last few months of updates, it's just not fun anymore. You can have a lot of fun on unofficial servers, but they are also very volatile as well. Maybe more so than PvP official servers. The way I see it, is that if you never played this game before and you join a server, you should have fun right away. You shouldn't have to join unofficial servers and add mods to the game to make it fun. To me, that says the developers failed at their job for making a fun game. Sure, int he future, you might get bored of the offical servers and mod the game to get some NEW excitement out of it, but you shouldn't have to mod a game after you bought it in order to get fun from it. If Wild Card wants to keep all transfers open the way they have it now when you can transfer creatures, players, and items from server to server, then I suggest they do a full wipe of every server so everyone has a fair start to build up. Otherwise the mega tribes that basically own official servers have so much unchecked power to just wipe servers and take all their resources and get even bigger. There isn't any hope to fight them off. But, if Wild Card just limits you transferring your character, that would be better as then you need to build up on a server. I have seen a few smaller tribes band together and wipe alphas that are just mean and ruin your day for fun. It happened on my server last year. The alpha we have now is friendly and helps the server anytime they can and uses their power to defend the server against attacks. EDIT: I haven't edited anything on this review. I just wanted to add that I replied in the comments to reply to the comments I received about this review. EDIT 2: I still haven't changed my initial review, just wanted to add two things that I know no one will read. 1. In my comments below that are back pages at this point, I made a typo regarding my family. I said they were all dead, I meant to say they were all dead to me. They are all alive, but very toxic, hateful people and I don't talk to them unless I absolutely need to. 2. Since I posted this, I keep getting friend request from people. I'm denying every single one of them because I'm just assuming you are all trolls going to harrass me or come to my server and wipe it. Though, that would speed up the process of me quitting the game as I wouldn't have anything left to go back to. EDIT 3: I added into the main review about the other game modes so people would stop commenting about them. But, none of them will actually read the review and just call me names and say I don't have a life. Which says a lot about them.Show moreShow less
3,707.7 hours at review4,703 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
I love this game. It has its frustrating moments for sure, but I've had so many amazing experiences with this game that it's completely worth the minor bugs and irritations. I was worried ARK would stay in that weird limbo state of permanent early access, but now that they're releasing I feel like I can whole-heartedly recommend this game, despite bugs and issues here and there. The most enjoyable experience I've had with this game is on a private server with friends. I've stayed away entirely from the cancerous public servers and I'd recommend people do the same. You can also launch single player and have friends connect directly to you without paying for any kind of server service, so that makes a good option. The solo SP experience can be fun too, though you're in for a rough ride for sure. I've played since EA release, and would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys survival games and likes the idea of a tropical dino theme.Show moreShow less
534.9 hours at review2,345 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
I really love the game but cannot recommend this to anyone in its current state. First—Watch the ad, read about the game put out by the company (not players) and you think—survival game with Dinos! Awesome! Second—Buy the game, find some friends and start a tribe, get ripped up by a Carno as a noob and LOL for 5 minutes, hunt some Dinos and build a house. Great! Third—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Fourth—Rebuild house, hunt some Dinos and gather materials. Awesome! We are back into it. Fifth—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Sixth—Move and rebuild house, hunt some Dinos and gather materials. Ok. We are good now but we lost a few friends because they no longer log in. They probably took advantage of the summer sale. Seventh—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Eighth—Move again and rebuild house, hunt some Dinos and gather materials. Seriously, I think we found the best hiding spot in the game. Nineth—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Tenth-- Move again and rebuild house, hunt some Dinos and gather materials. Do it mostly by yourself because none of your tribe is online anymore…you pause for a minute and notice you no longer have to wait to get on a server. Eleventh—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Twelfth—Stand there naked and with nothing to show for near 80 hours of gameplay. Log off and hope the summer sale is still going with something good. You have now completed Ark, no reason to purchase. The main problem with this game is that it is a griefer survival game, not a dino survival game. There is not even PVP, you just get killed while your offline, that is it. If you compare this to another survival game you dumber than a box of rocks because not every game has to be the same, the devs can chose to do something better and make the game better than the others. I never saw one ad or comment put out by the devs saying, “hey come play this dino game and get killed in your sleep because that is “survival”. PvPvE should be: Players in general engage in PvE however can choose to engage in mutual combat while online or engage in Tribal warfare, all gloves are off. PvE should be: 100% player versus dino with no or little ability to harm another player. Restrict building around mines and resources areas to include other player buildings to eliminate griefing. Provide moderators to kick griefers and delete their characters from the server. Hardcore PvP should be: What the game is now. If you are so dang interested in dying while you are at work, at school, eating with your family, or sleeping then this should be the option for you. The griefers and midnight murderers are too dang spineless and carebear to be a real PvPer and hit the hardcore because at the end of the day, they are just a little ----- who likes to kill new and casual players. -----Update as of 21 June 2015----- I have since moved on to an unofficial server and successfully avoided the toxic nature of the official server griefers, which I honestly believe is sad. Why? Because the official servers should be the most opening to the gaming community by default and not push people away. The “official” server is what most players will click on whether they are new to gaming or survival games or whatever. I have also found that the unofficial server I chose does not generate a large population of players who log on consistently. Simply move you say? I may, but for now I am holding out. The only other problem with a random unofficial server is the ever looming thought; “what if the admin turns the server off?!?” Then your character and all you have built is done for. Try to know your admin in my opinion. Telling the gamers who do not want griefing to simply go on a PvE server cupcake! is not effective. Have you looked at the data? Most players do not want griefing and most of the servers are in fact NOT built for PvE only. Furthermore, those who are suggesting this are assuming we never want to PvP. Wrong! I want to be online when the PvP happens and at least have some kind of story to associate the event with and tell friends about. What do I tell friends now? Go on an official server and you will log in dead--hands down. I hope you like to log in and see your characters cheeky rear because you will get familiar with it. I have also found that PvE servers lower MY FPS and I believe this is because of the hundreds of players logging in, building a hut and then never logging in again. Some of the servers are starting to look like shanty town island and not survival island. Also, there are only 70 spots available on those servers, so you better plan on never playing during prime time. There does seem to be some reading comprehension issues with some of the community who have left some fairly nasty comments. I am not sure if they even read the entire post or just TL;DR, “you mad bro!?!” Either way--ignorance is not a virtue. I have no problem with people disagreeing but at least be intelligent about it. Please keep that is mind. It is early access and the developers want to know what we think, so I gave my opinion based on my experiences.Show moreShow less
140.8 hours at review4,394 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/14/2026.