ARK: Survival Evolved

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  1. Robobob
    Jun 18, 2022
    4
    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'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? OrIt'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.    … Expand
  2. Vahl
    Aug 23, 2021
    4
    How do you program a game so poorly that the goddamn console commands don't work?

    Welcome to Ark! The game that dare ask, what if Bethesda made a Pokemon game? The game that proves that you really need to hire more than one programmer to make your game actually function properly. The game that taught it's player base, don't expect that bug to get fixed. Cause nothing will ever be    How do you program a game so poorly that the goddamn console commands don't work?

    Welcome to Ark! The game that dare ask, what if Bethesda made a Pokemon game? The game that proves that you really need to hire more than one programmer to make your game actually function properly. The game that taught it's player base, don't expect that bug to get fixed. Cause nothing will ever be fixed... ever.

    In summary f*ck Wildcard Studios. I'm gonna buy Ark II because I have stockholm syndrome, pls help!    … Expand
  3. Noshar
    Sep 3, 2017
    3
    What can i say about Ark? I was a day 1 EA purchaser of this game. The game was beautiful, with a amazing concept and an ambitious dev behind it. For the first 6 months or so, this was the game to play. It was amazing. Very frequent updates, great communication from the developers, lots of community interaction.

    So what happened after that? Well, it's hard to say why, but at the start    What can i say about Ark? I was a day 1 EA purchaser of this game. The game was beautiful, with a amazing concept and an ambitious dev behind it. For the first 6 months or so, this was the game to play. It was amazing. Very frequent updates, great communication from the developers, lots of community interaction.

    So what happened after that? Well, it's hard to say why, but at the start of 2016, the Developers attitude changed for the worst. Updates drew to a month or more a part, often days or even weeks late, and nearly always with the "meat" of that update missing. It was disappointing, but, issues only got worse. Communication stopped almost completely, community interactions stopped at best and at worst became negative. A number of times, a lead member of the development staff posted on reddit calling people liars, and being a complete jerk off. As time went on, things got worse and worse, the customer support got worse, major problems with the game were outright ignored, and in fact intentionally made even worse, the developers began to lie to the community, and they even released DLC while still in EA.

    The devs still to this day refuse to even acknowledge that their game has problems which leaves very little hope for the people on Official Servers. If you say the game is too grindy, the devs will laugh at you and tell you you're wrong. If you want to re spec your stats more than once at max level, the devs will tell you to buy the game again and level an entirely new character on a entirely different copy of the game (and in fact, TheRightHand (one of the lead developers) did say this and received quite a bit of backlash for it). They do nothing but deflect criticism and dodge the issues.

    So, why did i give this game a 3? Well, it's because of the developers. They keep compounding the problems the game has, and making already bad problems flat out worse. They treat the community like dirt, they lie, they could care less about anyone's actual experience playing the game. There is a good game here, but it's so bogged down with all the **** the devs keep piling on it that it's completely buried. Dig this gem out of the pile of **** it's buried in clean it up a little and it will shine, but the devs seem to have no interest in doing that.

    In conclusion, i will say that this game is incredibly grindy, repetitive, unbalanced, and unrefined, not worthy of it's $60 asking price, and the developers, Studio Wildcard, are not worthy of your trust. Because of what Studio Wildcard has done I can not and will not recommend this game or any game they produce in the future.    … Expand
  4. Kayla45
    Sep 8, 2017
    2
    Ark Survival Evolved:
    I have finally decided to review this game after 8400+ hours of gameplay in early access mode.
    Positives: The game is a great idea. The way the game begins is tough… I mean really tough. It is a challenge to get started and anyone without any patience is going to struggle but I do have patience and to me the hard difficulty of this game was a real refreshing eye    Ark Survival Evolved:
    I have finally decided to review this game after 8400+ hours of gameplay in early access mode.

    Positives:
    The game is a great idea. The way the game begins is tough… I mean really tough. It is a challenge to get started and anyone without any patience is going to struggle but I do have patience and to me the hard difficulty of this game was a real refreshing eye opener… but be warned it is not for the feint hearted. The best part of the game is the idea that you can breed your dinosaurs. This has been implemented in a really interesting way, where you can pool your breeding into achievable goals and breed out your favourite dinosaurs to have the stats that you have always wanted… but all this comes after you have set up a kibble base, and tamed great level versions of your favourite dinosaurs. I personally play on PVE and as you can see, for over 8K hours I have had a great deal of fun and I have met some fantastic friends in the community… This ought to be a great game, but there is another side to it that I have to address…

    Negatives:
    I am so sad to say this, because I have put so much effort into playing this game legitimately and have done my best to help create a wonderful community and support network on a great PVE server… however, the developers of the game have treated us long serving players with utter contempt. We have been completely mistreated, taken for granted, unrewarded, lied to, mis-sold to… under a cloak of awful communication and absolutely brutal and dire decisions that have kicked the games player base in the teeth. The scenario now is that the devs were going to cull the lowest 10% of ghost servers… and instead have decided to wipe over 33% of servers with medium traffic to consolidate their server lists and re-use these to plonk new servers on that do not have the same issues that the old servers had, and then to cap it all, any support for the old servers and the long serving players who play on those servers is to be canned so that we are on our own if we lose a character or experience any technical issues… This is a huge let down of the Ark gaming community, and sadly it is pretty irrelevant, because any support I have needed in my 8K+ hours has been utterly non-existent anyway. I reported a serious harassment case and followed every single instruction to the letter, and no action was taken against the wrong-doers. This was a shameful let down and completely spoiled my enjoyment of the game… The devs carried on doing little tiny favours for a select few gamers whilst most tickets were left completely unattended. I have colleagues who lost their level 100 character in transit and not a single effort to answer the ticket was made, that was over 2 months ago now. The sad truth is, that this team of developers and community managers, is sadly the most useless and incompetent and uncaring team that I have ever experienced in a game… so if you have any issues playing this game… do not even bother to report it… nothing will be done… this Dev team do not care. They care that they receive your money… they will go on to look after the new servers and make things look as though they are prepared to provide support there… but it is as many things are in ark… it is lies and false promises.

    Conclusion:
    This game had SO much going for it… it was a fantastic idea but the execution of the game and the choices made by the developers has left a bruised gaming community feeling ripped off and mistreated, un-respected and un-supported… and sadly their actions and incompetence in how they run their business has led to this review being a vote of no confidence. The way the legacy servers are setup now means that over-time the old servers will lose players and get wiped, so either old players stick around on current servers and wait for the server to die, or we start afresh on a new server and wait to be lied to and sit having no confidence that one day these new servers wont be wiped themselves… and that is the finding of this review… that ultimately, there is no point in playing this game, because it provides 10% fun, 80% grief and trolling and a final 10% of crying into your coffee as you hope your dino baby survives over the next ridiculously badly timed update that takes away something else that used to be a good idea.

    Do not buy this game… do not play this game… go and play something similar where the developers actually deserve your money.    … Expand
  5. abacup
    Sep 20, 2021
    0
    Totally poorly optimized game rubbish and cockroaches kill you without giving you a chance to move around the map
  6. S3XU4LH34L1NG
    Nov 20, 2021
    4
    This game gave me janky "trashy" feel from the first time in the main menu to the first time spawning in. I gave it a reasonably fair shot (5hrs or so) but it didnt work for me despite me liking the survival genre. I know whats to come in late game (i watched some youtubers) but i guess there are other games that fare better with the technological progression thing. Optimazation is a messThis game gave me janky "trashy" feel from the first time in the main menu to the first time spawning in. I gave it a reasonably fair shot (5hrs or so) but it didnt work for me despite me liking the survival genre. I know whats to come in late game (i watched some youtubers) but i guess there are other games that fare better with the technological progression thing. Optimazation is a mess for such an old game and these kinda meh graphics.… Expand
  7. js17
    Sep 3, 2017
    2
    the worse support ever. Bunch of players can't connect to the game for a day, and no single word from support.
    lots of bugs.
    toxic community.
    at release - just a queue simulator.
  8. Tuco_Ramires
    Sep 4, 2017
    0
    The constant threatening on legacy servers has end up sickening ppl.
    Many have lost everything at release in the servers cut and the rest don't trust WC anymore.
    Also announced end of support for these servers,what ppl are supposed to think?
  9. DobbleU
    Jun 15, 2020
    2
    I played the game because it was free in Epic Store.
    I am totally stunned that this game is sold for real money over the rest of the year.
    It is full of Bugs and the biggest problem is the server performance. Laggs out of hell. On top of that it is full of people who kill you with a one shot for no reason. I played it for a few hours on different servers and it was just disgusting    I played the game because it was free in Epic Store.
    I am totally stunned that this game is sold for real money over the rest of the year.
    It is full of Bugs and the biggest problem is the server performance. Laggs out of hell.
    On top of that it is full of people who kill you with a one shot for no reason.

    I played it for a few hours on different servers and it was just disgusting

    The idea of the game seems great because of that it gets 2 points.
    But the technical Status of the Game is dreadful.
    I am angry that there are people who earn their money with this Alpha Version of a Game.

    Btw, i own a High End Gaming PC, because of that i am sure that my PC is not the problem.

    I really would like to give it a bad review on Epic Store but they don't give us the chance....    … Expand
  10. Dr4590
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    decided to play on the weekend, blocked the account
    10 ban out of 10! burn in hell
  11. Themighty
    Sep 2, 2017
    0
    - worse performance
    - clipping issues
    - grind
    - no support
    - worse graphic
    - good music
    - good setting
    - impressive amount of content
    - frequent updates
    - toxic playerbase
    - worse network performance
  12. tuy235
    Aug 5, 2021
    0
    players on official servers use GM accounts and ban players for no reason, wrote to support, did not even answer
    Report # 1787278 # 1790372
  13. girin87
    Sep 13, 2021
    0
    on official servers they block for no reason
    wrote REQUEST # 2039266 in support, closed without an answer, why do they take money?
  14. Sakisensei
    Jun 18, 2020
    0
    Do you like staring at the "connection timeout" screen for the whole afternoon? Then definitely give this game a go. Literally unplayable. I got this game for free and i still want my money back.
  15. lordpopo
    Jan 8, 2021
    3
    Honestly,if you do not have more than 3-5 friends to play this game with or don't have the time to find a non-toxic tribe in your server,just do not play this game.Singleplayer gets boring after some time because its way too grindy .Its not like minecraft here ypu can cure your boredom all alone without anyone to play with.
    Servers are absolute trash,people are completeley heartless.They    Honestly,if you do not have more than 3-5 friends to play this game with or don't have the time to find a non-toxic tribe in your server,just do not play this game.Singleplayer gets boring after some time because its way too grindy .Its not like minecraft here ypu can cure your boredom all alone without anyone to play with.
    Servers are absolute trash,people are completeley heartless.They won't hesitate the slightest bit to completely destroy and loot months and weeks of your progress,leaving you no choice but to start from scratch only to get looted once again.    … Expand
  16. budwheizzah
    Nov 10, 2017
    3
    One of the industry's most promising titles turned into the single most heinous, unplayable, gruesome piece of software in history. This pathetic game studio have over the years finely tuned a CIA torture and interrogation purgatory that would render terrorist groups speechless and in envy.

    From blatant refusal to resolve horrendously broken core game mechanics for two years straight,    One of the industry's most promising titles turned into the single most heinous, unplayable, gruesome piece of software in history. This pathetic game studio have over the years finely tuned a CIA torture and interrogation purgatory that would render terrorist groups speechless and in envy.

    From blatant refusal to resolve horrendously broken core game mechanics for two years straight, to releasing full price DLC midway through the most pathetic Early Access process I've ever seen, to stretching themselves hair-thin across editions, expansions and console versions, constantly making useless content additions while the game's functionality went down the toilet, to not being able to wait until going out of Early Access before charging full price, to not even having a finished product on their hands when getting out of EA and finally making content modifications reinforcing ARK's focus on assaulting players through exhaustion and psychopathic degrees of grind, I not only believe ARK goes down as one of the most disappointing titles in history, but also, the team behind it are a bunch of sick, deranged individuals.    … Expand
  17. Gruber
    Sep 13, 2017
    2
    Great game, so much that you can do, riding a dino, create your own base, exchange, selling or buying dino's. But with poor support, all the issue you get after every new update, they dont listen to your question, sending a ticket, but answer is that they dont tread it,where it sometimes takes hours before you can on a server where your base and dino's are, there are more issue, but theGreat game, so much that you can do, riding a dino, create your own base, exchange, selling or buying dino's. But with poor support, all the issue you get after every new update, they dont listen to your question, sending a ticket, but answer is that they dont tread it,where it sometimes takes hours before you can on a server where your base and dino's are, there are more issue, but the issues destroy the fun for this beautyfull game.… Expand
  18. negrodegambia
    Mar 1, 2020
    0
    Unoptmizied piece of garbage thats not even worth the 5€ i spent on the damn game. RTX 2070, Ryzen 3600X and this game runs like a load of crap, and this was released on 2017, one of the worst games i ever bought. Constant server issues, cant even invite my friends to join my damn server.
  19. BlueBeefalo
    Dec 27, 2018
    4
    The game is fine alone in gameplay, however, runs like it's on a potato on even high-level GPUs. Playing alone is plain annoying. The official servers are mostly thousands of days in but that's not all. Hours, even DAYS of progress can be, for all intents and purposes, deleted, because some **** is able to take a completely overpowered fantasy dinosaur from a DLC that you don't have andThe game is fine alone in gameplay, however, runs like it's on a potato on even high-level GPUs. Playing alone is plain annoying. The official servers are mostly thousands of days in but that's not all. Hours, even DAYS of progress can be, for all intents and purposes, deleted, because some **** is able to take a completely overpowered fantasy dinosaur from a DLC that you don't have and transfer it through to a server on the base game's map, the island, and go on a rampage destroying everything because they're simply a **** sociopath. All in all, unless you play on a private server with your friends or on a newer unofficial server, I don't recommend this at all. There's no stopping anyone from ruining your entire progress using a completely broken tame if you're on an official server, not even the ones that say "No ark data downloads" because that means ****… Expand
  20. zmukh
    Mar 4, 2020
    1
    When I was a little boy, I was a "dino-child", always playing with my toy Triceratops and my little toy Raptor in my sand box. Which is why this games concept was fascinating for me. The games idea is brilliant. It's sort of an adult version of Pokémon, where you capture and breed your favorite dinosaurs and let them fight against the threats of other players and the environment. For theWhen I was a little boy, I was a "dino-child", always playing with my toy Triceratops and my little toy Raptor in my sand box. Which is why this games concept was fascinating for me. The games idea is brilliant. It's sort of an adult version of Pokémon, where you capture and breed your favorite dinosaurs and let them fight against the threats of other players and the environment. For the first 10 or so hours it is tough, but really rewarding. Building controls could be better, but that's nitpicking. After a while you unlock more tools, weapons and other useful stuff for survival, build your base and start exploring. You can even unlock saddles to ride your dinosaurs. Sounds good, right?
    Well if it wasn't for the huge issues the game has. Other people already stated the poor dev support, so I'm not gonna elaborate further. What I want to talk about is the technical issues.
    My PC is by no means a beast, but it is capable of playing the newest games on mid/high settings. For example Assassins Creed Odyssey or Far Cry 5/New Dawn at 60fps.
    I own an RX580 8GB, a 4th gen i7 and 16GB of RAM. This should be enough for everything in 1080p. But ARK struggles to keep constant FPS. I tested the steam version and the version of the Windows Store (which was a disaster, no fullscreen and no mouse lock, forced to use a gamepad) and I couldn't get stable FPS, even on medium settings. On low I get my 60 FPS, but not stable. The developers said this should be fixed by now, but it's just another lie from them. Also the game in its full form is close to 200GB in size, because the developers don't seem know how to pack assets.This game reeks early access in every aspect, but the developers try to sell it to you at full price. With a season pass. Which doesn't include the newest DLC Genesis. Paired with the lies, false promises and the incompetence of the developers, you get a game which is pretty close to fraud.
    If you want another example for the developers incompetence, check reviews of their newest game Atlas. DON'T BUY AT FULL PRICE. DEEP SALE OR NO SALE.    … Expand
  21. BillyrazorG8
    Sep 2, 2017
    0
    What a piece of **** **** The graphics are PS2 level and this game has absolutely no **** reason to exist and no reason for it to be so popular. I hope this dies as soon as possible.
  22. Xelluse
    Jan 10, 2018
    0
    Can say just one thing: This so called Game is just a scam! Stay away from it!
  23. One-Eyed-Jack
    Dec 7, 2019
    0
    I used to like this game. It's a truly great idea, with horrible execution.

    I liked a lot of ideas this game had, especially with the different maps that offered you unique things to craft and new dinos. I found myself at times surprised with how large and pretty this game was, the idea of starting out as nothing at all, and making torches, spears, etc, and evolving eventually into a    I used to like this game. It's a truly great idea, with horrible execution.

    I liked a lot of ideas this game had, especially with the different maps that offered you unique things to craft and new dinos. I found myself at times surprised with how large and pretty this game was, the idea of starting out as nothing at all, and making torches, spears, etc, and evolving eventually into a tribe with advanced weapons and vehecles is interesting and as far as progression, it was executed well.

    I found myself getting killed by raptors A LOT, even when I had good armor/equipment, it ended in me getting very pissed off a lot as I lost a lot of good dinos to packs of raptors. At times I found myself having to spawn in a sword and shield below level to craft one just so I'd have a fighting chance if I encountered them.

    But none of that is what's influencing my review. I could handle most of the bugs, as a former Fallout/Bethesda fan. But what really does it for me is the poor way this half-baked game was executed. It's not ever going to get fixed, so if you're hoping it will, you might aswell give up.
    Instead of fixing it, they decided to first start pumping out paid content for it, which compounded the already existing glitches/bugs in it even worse, as an aspiring game dev, seeing what a lot of companies are doing has really taught me how not to make games. Building on already broken code with more broken code is going to result in something really bad.
    But then they took it a step further with Atlas, and the way they've handled these games is the real reason I'm giving it a 0 despite that fact that at times I loved playing this game.

    All in all, the people who oversaw this game and made the decisions, should be absolutely ashamed. Ark was a lazy cashgrab, and Atlas was even worse. I'll never buy another game from Wildcard/Grapeshot/etc, you've lost my business.    … Expand
  24. DJKrimson
    Jan 5, 2021
    3
    Played this with my friends for around 35 hours. Seemed to have potential of being fun at first but we got very sick of it after a while because we didn't know what to do, where to go, where to find the resources we needed for crafting or anything.

    It feels like it takes eternities to farm materials for upgrades and that makes it really annoying that you can't fast travel with your    Played this with my friends for around 35 hours. Seemed to have potential of being fun at first but we got very sick of it after a while because we didn't know what to do, where to go, where to find the resources we needed for crafting or anything.

    It feels like it takes eternities to farm materials for upgrades and that makes it really annoying that you can't fast travel with your inventory (at least we didn't find out how). Also you'll die pretty often which makes you lose all your stuff you collected + the gear you had so at those times you might have to start farming smaller stuff for the 100th time so you can build basic gear and weapons again.

    If you don't have a dedicated server then playing together is a mess, you can't move 100 meters away from eachother.

    A few of my steam friends have 1000+ hours in this game so it might be fun if you really know what you are doing, but I can't be bothered to find out.    … Expand
  25. Lidergelm
    Oct 12, 2020
    3
    Реализация не плохал, но есть огромное НО. Ты не можешь спокойно нормально строиться и развиваться, так как ебаные мудозвоны максимального лвла прилетают на неебических драконах и разъёбывают всё что ты сделал, просто так. Играл часов 10 и за это время мне расхреначили, на 3х разных серваках, 3 чертовых дома. Нахуй эту игру со всеми гандонами!Реализация не плохал, но есть огромное НО. Ты не можешь спокойно нормально строиться и развиваться, так как ебаные мудозвоны максимального лвла прилетают на неебических драконах и разъёбывают всё что ты сделал, просто так. Играл часов 10 и за это время мне расхреначили, на 3х разных серваках, 3 чертовых дома. Нахуй эту игру со всеми гандонами!
  26. Zecvi
    Jul 10, 2021
    0
    This game is unbalanced and broken. It is time consuming to a fault. It's bad for your health and the devloppers expect that you forfeit your real life to play this game. It could have been the best but it has too many issues. DON'T PLAY IT. PvE is boring and PvP was handled so badly by the devs that it ruined the whole game. So once again, Don't play this, it's bad and need fix. It alsoThis game is unbalanced and broken. It is time consuming to a fault. It's bad for your health and the devloppers expect that you forfeit your real life to play this game. It could have been the best but it has too many issues. DON'T PLAY IT. PvE is boring and PvP was handled so badly by the devs that it ruined the whole game. So once again, Don't play this, it's bad and need fix. It also have the worst community in the world and devs let 13year old with too much time on they re hand to rule this game and ruin everybody s fun. This game will make you want to murder people, don't play it. It's like a EA game where you cannot trust the devs… Expand
  27. imagtx1080
    May 8, 2018
    0
    Belongs in the top 5 worst games i haver ever played. Not to mention Devs who arent even Devs just in Disguise since 3 other teams are actually developing it and they cant develope either. Its running on an very old Unreal Engine 4. you read right its not an actual Engine. Thats why it runs like crap.
  28. daviddavidson
    Jun 13, 2020
    0
    Spawn in.
    Die. Spawn in again. Die again. Finally get some hide by hunting the only available creature on the island. Accidentally start a tribe. Leave it to start another tribe. No warnings that leaving your tribe makes everything you own inaccessible to you even though your player name is on it.
    Spawn in again. Quickly harvest hide for a second bed. Stop for thirty seconds to try to set    Spawn in.
    Die. Spawn in again. Die again. Finally get some hide by hunting the only available creature on the island. Accidentally start a tribe. Leave it to start another tribe. No warnings that leaving your tribe makes everything you own inaccessible to you even though your player name is on it.
    Spawn in again. Quickly harvest hide for a second bed. Stop for thirty seconds to try to set up a house in a fairly safe area. Get killed by a cockroach. Try again. Get killed by a compy (basically a midget raptor that you could stomp).
    Rinse, repeat. Peak gaming! Such fun. Much wow.
    Totally worth the 220GB that this piece of 'modern art' takes up.



    Also the soundtrack is headache inducing.    … Expand
  29. ManChile
    Jun 2, 2018
    2
    A broken time sink of a game, a grind with no payoff. Your biggest enemy in the game isn't the dinosaurs; it's the poor optimization, unreliable servers, rushed content, and the developers themselves.

    Bumping the price from $30 to $60 for the "official release" without fixing anything beforehand is criminal. Three years after initial launch, this game shouldn't be considered as anything    A broken time sink of a game, a grind with no payoff. Your biggest enemy in the game isn't the dinosaurs; it's the poor optimization, unreliable servers, rushed content, and the developers themselves.

    Bumping the price from $30 to $60 for the "official release" without fixing anything beforehand is criminal. Three years after initial launch, this game shouldn't be considered as anything more than a mess of an early access title, as it's still needing constant updates. The developers are unprofessional and have been known to ban players that raid clans that have devs as members. They ban players for playing by the rules of their own game, no glitches or cheats required. They wiped the servers of everyone who played for the first 2 years to make room for the new customers for the "official release". They released new maps before they even had skyboxes, textures, proper collisions, or working servers.

    The only redeemable thing about this chore of a game is the variety of creatures and the animations for them. Regardless if you'll play single player or multiplayer, avoid this game, and don't support it either. This is coming from a longtime player of the game.    … Expand
  30. Echang
    Nov 2, 2019
    0
    This is one of the worst survival games I have ever played in my entire life backed by a scummy irredeemable company that I can't justify supporting.
    The game has an unbelievably terrible progression system. It will take hours upon hours to level up your character and until you level up a ton you can barely do anything. The only way to level up is to join a clan on a server and attempting    This is one of the worst survival games I have ever played in my entire life backed by a scummy irredeemable company that I can't justify supporting.
    The game has an unbelievably terrible progression system. It will take hours upon hours to level up your character and until you level up a ton you can barely do anything. The only way to level up is to join a clan on a server and attempting to join a clan which isn't even worth your time because the community is toxic and the servers consist of Chinese people with incredible lag and over 1k hours in that specific server alone. And with that crappy progression system, you have no weapons or means to defend yourself. Skill or smarts doesn't matter in this game, the amount of sweat and sheer hours does. All they'll do is kill you.
    The combat system is also awful, with the combat feeling incredibly floaty with almost no feedback for you attacking stuff, your attacks have no impact and getting attacked by dinosaurs will launch you back and kill you in 1 - 2 hits.
    The game runs like garbage even on great hardware. I've got a GTX 1070ti and an I7 6770 and 16gb of ram and I get 30-40fps on medium settings at 1080p. Not to mention it doesn't look very good.
    The only thing good about this game is that it can be fun with friends because the character creator is so unbelievably bad that it's funny. Then again, anything can be fun with friends, even watching paint dry.

    I could go on and on, DON'T BUY THIS GAME. Especially at 60 dollars, if you want to see how awful this game is without spending money, play Ark Mobile, the basics are all there the only difference being that Wildcard made it Pay To Win because they're scum and they represent everything wrong with the industry today. Play a game like 7 Days to Die, It is constantly getting fresh updates with devs who listen to the community with much better balance all for 15 - 20 dollars.    … Expand
  31. ChefBess283
    Jun 6, 2020
    0
    I keep getting killed from nothing, I died when I was logged off my account some how(I was surrounded by gates and my Dino’s who were untouched and on aggressive). If you like losing everything you work hard for, for hours ,for no reason at all, this is the game for you
  32. turru
    Jun 13, 2020
    0
    Worts game ever, impossible to play whit friends. DO NO BUY IT, graphics are like you were living in 90' whit 2mb internet connection.
  33. DatDani3l
    Feb 19, 2021
    1
    The beginning is really fun but after a while you will notice, that this game has many issues, that make it unplayable for me.
  34. afroduckie
    Oct 22, 2017
    3
    This game was pretty great when it first came out, but the devs are BEYOND stupid and irrational with their balance changes. At this point, balance is unattainable, optimization is almost WORSE than when the game first came out (I have a 1080 Ti, 60FPS shouldn't require ritual sacrifice at 1440p), and why in God's name did the devs had to remove the flying dinos from multiplayer servers? IThis game was pretty great when it first came out, but the devs are BEYOND stupid and irrational with their balance changes. At this point, balance is unattainable, optimization is almost WORSE than when the game first came out (I have a 1080 Ti, 60FPS shouldn't require ritual sacrifice at 1440p), and why in God's name did the devs had to remove the flying dinos from multiplayer servers? I WANT MY FLYING FORTRESS! They could have at the very least removed them from ONLY official servers instead of ALL OF THEM! GAH. Why does it have to take several long hours to tame a dino? Just give us some hard objective to do to tame them, don't waste 5 literal hours of our time to tame some piddly little dino. So much potential wasted by amateurish devs that would rather release 3/4 paid DLCs rather than getting the fricken game to run.… Expand
  35. pedraww
    Dec 8, 2019
    0
    The only game I've ever DELETED from my steam account. It's just sh1t in form of a game.
  36. metacriticx1234
    Jul 25, 2019
    0
    1/ non-existent support. tickets are handled by cheap offshore 3rd party labor in a 3rd world country. they auto close tickets and have no access or ability to fix any issues.
    2/ the game is utterly broken. typically not even loading for months at a time until updates are released for fixes.

    Do not buy under any circumstances.
  37. ScienceAdvisor
    Sep 14, 2018
    2
    The devs are ignoring legacy issues (many, many bugs) to churn out DLC for even more money. If the DLC contained even a few fixes for the base game, it would be somewhat acceptable, however all the DLC does is introduce more bugs, increase grind time, and insult your intelligence. The official servers are toxic, as are the forums, with people who have spent thousands of hours in thisThe devs are ignoring legacy issues (many, many bugs) to churn out DLC for even more money. If the DLC contained even a few fixes for the base game, it would be somewhat acceptable, however all the DLC does is introduce more bugs, increase grind time, and insult your intelligence. The official servers are toxic, as are the forums, with people who have spent thousands of hours in this "game", and are rationalizing that it must be good for that reason alone. It could not be that they were suckered into paying $60 for something that should still be considered Early Access, and cannot afford another game. The best legacy bug is still the disappearing Dino that you spent a hundred of hours grinding for (no exaggeration), only to log in and find out it glitched so hard the server wiped it. Also be warned that this is one of "those" games where you will spend an ungodly amount of time reading a wiki to learn how to do anything. Of course if you do this you will learn all the gimmicks built into the game that defy logic and allow you to become OP, at least until the bugs catch up and smack you back to your starting point, or you try an official server and lose everything in a raid while offline when the attacker utilize one of the many glitches to bypass your defenses.

    Most of the game design seems to have be the by committee version, but then they apparently wrote all the ideas and put them in a hat. For some reason though, they only drew 80% of them back out. So nothing ever seems completely thought out, or well implemented. Tiny animals drop items 3X their size, or magic being prevalent on one map, tech on another, with no explanations to cover the gap considering this is supposedly all the same planet.

    At this point it seems that this has become a dump project, where adding random ideas to continue pushing new DLC is their only goal. For this reason this is not worth getting until they patch the major legacy bugs (clipping X 100), if ever. This also extends to their new game, which is likely going to suffer from the same issues in management and quality control. You also need to factor in the server costs, DLC costs, and that unless you want to be at a sever disadvantage, you will need at least three friends to play with. There is virtually no story, so you need to do a lot of role playing. You will also need to get used to the fact that the devs assumed you would min-max with the wiki knowledge, so they spawn a tonne of animals together that mostly only want to eat you. Immersion is not one of their goals, just making as much money as possible, in the shortest amount of time, with the least amount of work.    … Expand
  38. gamer2005
    Mar 5, 2018
    0
    Full history of Ark scandals:
    I've never heard of a game being on beta for 3-4 years, but this company has used this trick to deceive and trick players into buying this game by flagging it on steam store as early access. Apparently there is no enforced law for what constitutes as an honest Beta period, but it is defined as a phase shortly before release in order to test and fix bugs.    Full history of Ark scandals:
    I've never heard of a game being on beta for 3-4 years, but this company has used this trick to deceive and trick players into buying this game by flagging it on steam store as early access. Apparently there is no enforced law for what constitutes as an honest Beta period, but it is defined as a phase shortly before release in order to test and fix bugs.
    However this company constantly lied to their players with fake news and promises, to keep it on beta for over 4 years. What's more is during beta period there was even DLCs charged the full price of the game, which offers little content that should already be there in the first place since it is Beta.

    Evidently there was also a scandal that came to light over how this company founders broke NDA and stole content and poached employees from a previous company they left. During the lawsuit it was also revealed that this company had sold out to a Chinese company which had copied Ark into another game clone called Dark and Light with almost everything the same but minor aesthetic tweaks in order to fool players into buying something double the original price for same content.

    Last but not least, this company was using dishonest marketing ploys to create hype and trick the community. The staged contests were rigged for example the modding contests which were originally announced as vote-based were in the end overturned silently by a "judge" with no explanation why, this meant that submitted popular original mod entries that had 100k+ votes lost out to broken unworkable mods with less than 20 votes that even used copied cheap assets. The company was so ashamed of pulling this stunt that they even skipped announcing the final results in the wake of community backlash. Then it turned out the cash-prize winners were close friends of staff members and so it became a clear case of Nepotism. Then the mod liason hired on their payroll was the 'top winner' of said contest with a mod that nobody plays with the lowest votes and with the skillset of a baby gorilla and everyone knew he won unfairly, but as usual Nepotism etc.

    Just another case of scandals that outrages the community. There are many other scandals like how every patch update promised fake results like 20-30% performance increase which is ridiculously high and unbelievable since the game continues to run like a 16-bit lag-fest with no actual improvement, and patches released 2-3 times a day forcing players to quit and restart servers over minor changes. And how the staff continue to ban players for selfish reasons like for attacking their streamers and friends ingame and for posting negative reviews. But the list goes on and fair warning to anyone who feels they deserve support and attention for being horrible rich company executives laughing their way to the bank by trampling on the communities' feelings.    … Expand
  39. PogHero
    Jan 9, 2019
    0
    Oh so simple.... Watch the below video and notice how cheaters get new accounts for cheap, how WildCard deals with blanket bans, as well as, there silly claims that they never made since inception.

    https://youtu.be/GJ-gT17L_F8
  40. mgrandy1984
    Jun 21, 2020
    0
    Don't waste your time with this triple A rated game.

    bug that infests the main game which removes all of your items. You can spend countless hours in this game and all of a sudden your items that have taken you hours to collect are gone in the blink of an eye. From a previous rust owner this falls far short of rust. granted it has a single player which lets you get used to the game    Don't waste your time with this triple A rated game.

    bug that infests the main game which removes all of your items. You can spend countless hours in this game and all of a sudden your items that have taken you hours to collect are gone in the blink of an eye.

    From a previous rust owner this falls far short of rust. granted it has a single player which lets you get used to the game but this is the only benefit and is of no use when items just disappear from the face of the planet that your on.

    If this game was on fire at £44.99 I would not piss on it to put it out. IMHO graphics are better than rust, gameplay is better due to the single player mode but this is let down by a game breaking but your survival depends on items and the countless hours to obtain them for them just to disappear is unacceptable 5 years down the line its still not fixed    … Expand
  41. coatoan90
    Nov 18, 2017
    3
    Ok I am writing this review as a new player, I have not read any other reviews, this is my personal experience playing on 11/17/17-11/18/17.

    I tried 8 different NA servers 4 being PVE and 4 being PVP to make sure it wasn't just a "One time" occurrence. Firstly the game IS NOTHING LIKE ADVERTISED. NOTHING. Literally no one gives a f*** if you are a new player they will kill you and    Ok I am writing this review as a new player, I have not read any other reviews, this is my personal experience playing on 11/17/17-11/18/17.

    I tried 8 different NA servers 4 being PVE and 4 being PVP to make sure it wasn't just a "One time" occurrence.

    Firstly the game IS NOTHING LIKE ADVERTISED. NOTHING. Literally no one gives a f*** if you are a new player they will kill you and grief you on a PVP server because they can.

    Forget taming dinosuars, you will NEVER get the chance on a PVE server. Older players have made it their life mission to royally screw you over as a new player. You get to choose spawn locations from a tab, first logging in you will be surrounded by bases of other players. Why? Because they are d***s. The mechanics in the game don't allow you to build near anyone's base, so the low level area with hardly any carnivores? Ya they have them locked down to make it impossible for you to level, progress, and respawn when you die. It's also intentional. They will build small nods inbetween their bases to prevent other players from building. So you are forced to move into the higher level carnivore infested areas to do anything.

    All in all if this doesn't detour you from buying the game you've been warned. It's nothing like it's presented on youtube, by people that have been in the game since day one, with huge tribes, and private servers.

    In all honesty No Man's Sky was better than this game.    … Expand
  42. bendeliduka
    Aug 11, 2019
    0
    ARK use to be fun to play. multi-player now supports PC playing with xBox, unless you purchased through steam, then you can only play on steam servers.

    This gets compounded by the fragmented update releases where users on some platforms can have several weeks of inaccessibility due to how the developers / steam are releasing updates. nothing makes a multi-player game more useless than    ARK use to be fun to play. multi-player now supports PC playing with xBox, unless you purchased through steam, then you can only play on steam servers.

    This gets compounded by the fragmented update releases where users on some platforms can have several weeks of inaccessibility due to how the developers / steam are releasing updates. nothing makes a multi-player game more useless than being blocked out of the game for a few weeks while others can raid your stuff and the server flags your stuff as abandoned (but of course, getting no notice and having no ability to attempt to prepare for these multi-week interruptions in service/access is just a free bonus)

    Public Servers also have cross-server raids and other fun stuff.
    private/unofficial servers have fewer cross server raid issues but the service interruptions are real and make the game useless (you spend weeks building and playing to have it all ruined with no notice because "developers")    … Expand
  43. Dan224
    Jun 26, 2021
    0
    disgusting game, on official servers players use GM accounts and block players, wrote in support, just closed the report without a response
  44. Crackfarmer
    Feb 17, 2019
    0
    If you bought this Game you seriously should get your head checked.

    The only thing what's nice - is the setting. Apart from that it's garbage. You have to be a no-lifer in order to get a whole much of enjoyment out of this Game because it consumed a bunch of time to do anything.

    Do not buy, if you bought it - please refunde or atleast uninstall and never tell anyone you played it.
  45. Basilol
    Jun 18, 2020
    0
    A unplayable game free on epic game... Free cuz it just suck, I can't play since all maps are dlc or an other version of mine. The only dedicated serv I can join were full of opti toxic kido who just kill on sight.
    Bugs and other are just a the icing on the cake.
  46. Tofiacz
    Jul 25, 2020
    0
    On plus
    Dino and their breeding.
    Building bases. A large map to explore. Possibility to set up your own server not dedicated to friends. On the downside. - Community Pathology, psychopaths and a lack of any empathy. People on official servers act as if they let go of their brakes and can do anything. Someone who can spend a few hours or even several dozen in some cases just to    On plus
    Dino and their breeding.
    Building bases.
    A large map to explore.
    Possibility to set up your own server not dedicated to friends.

    On the downside.
    - Community
    Pathology, psychopaths and a lack of any empathy. People on official servers act as if they let go of their brakes and can do anything.
    Someone who can spend a few hours or even several dozen in some cases just to bully, stalk and tease someone is not a normal person.
    - It's not a game for a moment or for a solo. To play multi (smalltribes, for example) you need a full team ready to spend the lion's share of your time and it will not be enough.
    - PvE official servers.
    You need miracle and luck to find a place to build there, and even if you find a place, it may turn out that a group has blocked access to even metal. I saw whole mountains surrounded by walls so that no one came in, or empty bases where they spawned. Constant greefing and disturbing.
    - PvP official servers.
    The habitat of all pathology. Ubiquitous toxicity and hatred towards another person.
    - Bob
    One of the proofs of how toxic this community is. Being new to this game, roleplay or just wanting some simple fun, for example, growing a high-level dodo and sending it to Carno is considered streak and everyone must be pros in pvp. I can't understand why others are bothered by the fact that they want to play in their own way and how they don't stick to the set goal.
    - Character transfer
    It's a cool mechanic that you can transfer your character to another server, but if you are a beginner, you are fk ... because people with 2000 + h enter the server quickly farm late game gear and destroy everything they see - out of boredom. And to the next server because people escaped on their server long ago. Paranoia.
    Of course, as long as you manage to transfer your character, because building turrets or walls next to obelisks or drops is almost a standard.

    I also do not recommend unofficial servers because although the toxicity is a bit smaller, it is still there.    … Expand
  47. fredjesus
    Aug 3, 2019
    0
    nunca joguei um jogo tão ruim, mal feito, com bugs idiotas, com um enredo fraco que dura porque o jogo tem algorítimos para te atrapalhar em tudo. Não existe NENHUMA coerência em nada no jogo, o craft é ridículo com coisas do tipo usar casca de insetos pra fazer cimento? o level das criaturas é o mesmo na mesma região vc vê um bicho lvl 10 e outro lvl 145, que GERALMENTE brota do nada paranunca joguei um jogo tão ruim, mal feito, com bugs idiotas, com um enredo fraco que dura porque o jogo tem algorítimos para te atrapalhar em tudo. Não existe NENHUMA coerência em nada no jogo, o craft é ridículo com coisas do tipo usar casca de insetos pra fazer cimento? o level das criaturas é o mesmo na mesma região vc vê um bicho lvl 10 e outro lvl 145, que GERALMENTE brota do nada para matar o dino que vc levou 4h pra pegar...e tem que pegar pq o jogo não tem haver com sobrevivência é um pokemom dino. horrível detestei o jogo e espero que ninguém NUNCA MAIS compre essa merda… Expand
  48. SPectre_
    Feb 27, 2020
    0
    Компания издатель серии АРК украла сотни тысяч долларов у дистрибьюторов компьютерных игр в СНГ
  49. smokie
    Oct 26, 2019
    0
    DON'T BUY THIS GAME.EU and NA servers are full of Chinese that pillar the most of the servers and they will **** you up with the 1st chance that they will get. Laggy and full of crash servers leading to bad game experience. The worst base building system. Every patch is not new experience but only new problems in the game. Taking very long for support and the support is insufficient.AndDON'T BUY THIS GAME.EU and NA servers are full of Chinese that pillar the most of the servers and they will **** you up with the 1st chance that they will get. Laggy and full of crash servers leading to bad game experience. The worst base building system. Every patch is not new experience but only new problems in the game. Taking very long for support and the support is insufficient.And the worst 1 day you will lose your character from this company GOOD management of the game along with your tribes and dinosaurs.After 4 months and 1700 hours i have nothing good to say for this game if you want to buy it or return to the game i suggest think it over very careful.… Expand
  50. Vanya1528
    Jun 28, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна тупое говно тупого говна… Expand
  51. ArkisABadGame
    Feb 22, 2021
    0
    This is literally the worst game you could ever purchase.
    Developed by a greedy ass company whos developer got no idea about what they are doing.
    This game was solely made to make the most profit with the least effort.
    Like seriously a sabertooth spawns behind me kills my argentavis while taming for no reason.
    Appeared out of nowhere, this game deservs to be ranked the worst game ever.
  52. subjectshadow
    Jun 13, 2020
    2
    TLDR: This game is fundamentally flawed. It does everything to prevent you from enjoying it. It doesn’t allow you to explore, while making exploration mandatory. If you want to play this: don’t play it alone, you’ll be in for a bad time.

    So I just received this game for free on Epic Games Store like many other people and as a fan of the survival game-genre (with base building, crafting    TLDR: This game is fundamentally flawed. It does everything to prevent you from enjoying it. It doesn’t allow you to explore, while making exploration mandatory. If you want to play this: don’t play it alone, you’ll be in for a bad time.

    So I just received this game for free on Epic Games Store like many other people and as a fan of the survival game-genre (with base building, crafting and so on) I have looked at this game many times and found it interesting. But the fact that this is an MMO has always be off-putting for me because I simply don't like that genre all that much, I am more of a lone wolf when it comes to those kind of games, a coop-guy with friends at best.

    But getting this game for free I wanted to give it a shot since it CAN be played in single player as well. But as you can see with my rating: it's a horrible experience since it's fundamentally flawed. And after reading some reviews here where most of the high-rating critics wrote something like "You just have to learn how to play and git gud" I thought I'd give you my opposing impression, because those guys are blinded fanboys, nothing more.

    As I said, this game is fundamentally flawed and you start to realize that pretty early on. I only played this for 2 hours and while playing the only thing I learned from this is that the games doesn't want me to play it.

    A good game is self-explanatory or at least gives you a few guidelines, tutorials, a starting quest or whatever. All of this is absent in this title. There is a guide in the menu that tries to explain the basics but that's it. You get thrown into a world; you have this thing on your arm that seems to indicate some kind of plot but the game never tells you that there is any. You are left with exploring things on your own. And don't get me wrong: I like that. I am not criticizing the fact that this game has either no story or wants you to find it. I am in fact a huge fan of 7 Days to Die which does it in a similar way, but at least in 7 Days to Die you get an incentive: After 7 days you are overrun by Zombies. ARK has nothing of the sorts. It gives you an open space, lots of wood, stone, plants and dinos obviously and that's it. I think that's a bit lackluster but alright, I can get past that. My problem is a different one:
    So you find yourself in this vast but seemingly empty world to explore but the game PUNISHES you for exploring it. After setting up a small camp somewhere I started exploring only to be 2-shotted by the first bigger dino I encountered. That in itself wouldn't be too bad if you wouldn't lose ALL OF YOUR INVENTORY. But where most games (like Terraria or 7 Days to Die btw) offer you the option to turn this off, ARK has NONE of the sorts (there are options before starting the game, but this missing, you can however install a mod to fix this, but honestly? This shouldn’t be fixed by a mod…)! Your stuff lies around where you die so that you can pick it up but that means that you either have to run back to your corpse which is tedious or you leave your stuff behind and craft/gather everything you had anew which is also tedious! And even if you try to get your stuff back, chances are that you just die again and again and again, every time since you respawn with NOTHING and whatever killed you will probably just linger around the place where it killed you anyway. And it's not that this happened in a high-level zone. I started in the easiest zone I was offered. The enemies were level 2! But that seemingly doesn't matter in this game because they just either kill you in an instant or withing a few seconds anyway! Normally I would just avoid said area and explore somewhere else, but then again: what to do about the stuff you lost? You can easily see that this is bad design.

    And so you are left with the question: What to do in this game? And the only real answer is: Uninstall it and play something else because: You can only craft that much and crafting because boring after a while as well. So you want to start exploring but that only leads to you getting killed all the time because out of nowhere raptors jump in your face and kill you before you can even draw your weapon or turn around. And besides that: I am not sure if the game even offers you something for exploring it's world. I doubt that you can find weapons, armor or tools lying around.

    I mean: I guess it's an MMO in the first place and I am at fault here for trying to play it alone. But honestly? Why would I invest any kind of money into this game when it only offers player interaction, where non is wanted? If you want this as a single player experience: Don't waste your money, don't waste your nerves.

    And for those you write stuff like “git gud”: That’s not how a game should be designed. Also: How will you ever learn to play a game, when said game does everything in it’s power to stop you from learning it? This is bad design so stop defending it and face the truth.    … Expand
  53. Delementalz
    Jul 18, 2020
    0
    Lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao
  54. Define
    Jan 2, 2021
    0
    I have never seen a worse game than ARK. Bought it on Epic Games, I couldn't join a freaking game after trying for over 10 hours and reinstalling it several times just to get it running. Don't give idiots like the developers of Ark your money, it would have been better if i burned it. Just made me mad and frustrated, thank you guys for this great experience!
  55. Yelov
    Jul 22, 2018
    2
    One of the biggest purchase regrets. Game runs like complete **** and for me it's not fun at all. Maybe someone will find this genre interesting, but ugh.
  56. junior_mello91
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    I have about 300 hours of game time and the feeling is frustration.
    at first I really liked the idea of ​​the game, start with nothing, just naked and start looking for food, shelter, weapons, create fire, defend yourself from animals, the graphics are beautiful, I was very enchanted, but everything started to decay when I started let me know that I was spending more time on the game's    I have about 300 hours of game time and the feeling is frustration.
    at first I really liked the idea of ​​the game, start with nothing, just naked and start looking for food, shelter, weapons, create fire, defend yourself from animals, the graphics are beautiful, I was very enchanted, but everything started to decay when I started let me know that I was spending more time on the game's wiki than actually playing, the game doesn't teach you anything, it doesn't give you a hint on what to do, it doesn't give you merits for achievements, you keep asking yourself, I killed the T-Rex , and now? Nothing.
    no merit no achievement nor **** a percent completion bar for the game this **** has
    and it gets worse when you are level enough to complete the caves, bugs on all sides unreal difficulty, you clearly see the animals standing just waiting for you to get close enough to try to kill you.
    I tried to play until I got to the obelisk heads but I will give up on this game
    I bet that when I defeat the bosses, I’ll get Tek armor, and what’s next? Nothing, you’re still on the island not knowing what to do with better armor.    … Expand
  57. doproyee
    Nov 15, 2020
    3
    if you have many friends and make your own server, this game is gonna be pretty good experience. otherwise, it's not good at all.
  58. havrillal
    Aug 18, 2020
    2
    Túlértékelt, túlbonyolitott, érektelen, bugos, irritáló szenvedés az egész játék. Mellesleg mi ez az ár? Ennyiért nagyon nem éri meg
  59. SimpleBunny
    Dec 31, 2020
    3
    Simply put, this just isn't a fun game. You start off at a location (often, I spawn at the "easiest"), then began to fend for yourself immediately. You may die from a dino attacking you literally upon spawn. Or you may all of a sudden start to hallucinate, then die. You run out of storage in no time. You become dehydrated quicker than anything. I can see how others enjoy the game. ButSimply put, this just isn't a fun game. You start off at a location (often, I spawn at the "easiest"), then began to fend for yourself immediately. You may die from a dino attacking you literally upon spawn. Or you may all of a sudden start to hallucinate, then die. You run out of storage in no time. You become dehydrated quicker than anything. I can see how others enjoy the game. But unless you have multiple hours to sink into the beginning (they don't call the start a "berry-picking simulator" for nothing), and have the utmost patience, it simply isn't worth it. There is a bunch of performance issues I ran into as well, including stuttering frames and game crashes. There is no V-Sync option, either, which helps with screen tearing. Honestly, I don't think I could recommend this game to anyone except those looking for a really hardcore survival-type game based in the stone age. Not my cup of tea.… Expand
  60. eatbanana
    Apr 10, 2022
    0
    It is a buggy trashy mess. I really enjoy the game but you have to pay for everything. Not to mention that you can't play without tether on console. I didn't buy this to not be able to walk normally. I gut pushed into a ducking Vulcan bc the host was too far.
  61. Demon2017
    Jun 18, 2022
    1
    Не игра, а просто убожество самое настоящее, просто мегаговно из жопы мочи.
  62. Azurgan
    Jun 18, 2023
    0
    If you play this game and for some reason your on a server with the Guild TEA, your going to get Ban from the game if you and your guild member manage to overpower them.
    TEA is the Snail Games devs (some of them) Guild, the publisher of Ark and if you google it/youtube it you will find multiple cases of this happening and prove that this guild TEA should be disbanded and the devs helping    If you play this game and for some reason your on a server with the Guild TEA, your going to get Ban from the game if you and your guild member manage to overpower them.
    TEA is the Snail Games devs (some of them) Guild, the publisher of Ark and if you google it/youtube it you will find multiple cases of this happening and prove that this guild TEA should be disbanded and the devs helping them fired.    … Expand
  63. RockHobbit
    Jun 7, 2023
    0
    This is a great game ruined by awful developers/ publisher and a crap ton of bugs with no support. You will lose dinos, you will lose your character, you will get "Arked" and support will NOT help you. There are bugs in this game, and lots of them. The game is janky, but it's fun. But the developers are scandalous. Faking steam reviews, lying to customers, playing on the servers andThis is a great game ruined by awful developers/ publisher and a crap ton of bugs with no support. You will lose dinos, you will lose your character, you will get "Arked" and support will NOT help you. There are bugs in this game, and lots of them. The game is janky, but it's fun. But the developers are scandalous. Faking steam reviews, lying to customers, playing on the servers and banning tribes that attack them (see h.o.d). They're closing the servers in August 2023 and forcing everyone to start over and pay full price (after being advertised as a free upgrade) for their remaster if they want to continue playing and supporting this awful company. I truly loved this game but with all the times this developer has pooped on it's supporters I cannot imagine this game succeeding after servers go down. And be aware of you buy this game, only single player will be available as of August.… Expand
  64. JanuszekPLY
    Jun 19, 2022
    0
    Unfortunately i couldn't even launch game properly because of game strange internet ans server system. Me and my friend were really hypped up for that game, sadly after hour fight with PCs, we lost.
  65. TiredAlfred
    Dec 29, 2021
    3
    tranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape.
  66. Recepsamet
    Nov 22, 2021
    3
    oyunda çok fazla bug var çok fazla sayıda bağlantı sorunları oluyor bide bunla beraber optimize sıkıntılar var bide oyun çok büyük bir alan kaplıyor cidden!! 170 gb nedir cidden evt oyunu arkadaşlarınız ile oynarsanız çok iyi sarar ama cidden oyuna mod kurmadan zar zor keyif alabiliyorsunuz demem o şekilde bende keyif alabildim taki bilmediğim bir şekilde 1 yıllık save im silindiği zamanoyunda çok fazla bug var çok fazla sayıda bağlantı sorunları oluyor bide bunla beraber optimize sıkıntılar var bide oyun çok büyük bir alan kaplıyor cidden!! 170 gb nedir cidden evt oyunu arkadaşlarınız ile oynarsanız çok iyi sarar ama cidden oyuna mod kurmadan zar zor keyif alabiliyorsunuz demem o şekilde bende keyif alabildim taki bilmediğim bir şekilde 1 yıllık save im silindiği zaman evet bu oyunda nedense bazen save ler silinebiliyor bu yüzden bu oyun düşük puan vericem ve verdimde… Expand
  67. Glack
    Dec 5, 2021
    3
    Игра имеет больше минусов чем плюсов.
    Первое-это оптимизация. Про нормальный фпс в этой игре вы можете забыть. Что бы играть на максималках нужно иметь как минимум 2080. Если играть в соло на своем сервере.э, то впринципе еще кое-как играбильно. Но если вы хотите поиграть на серверах я вам соболезную.
    Пинг на серверах ужасный. Попадания(если попасть вообще возможно) регестрируются секунд    Игра имеет больше минусов чем плюсов.
    Первое-это оптимизация. Про нормальный фпс в этой игре вы можете забыть. Что бы играть на максималках нужно иметь как минимум 2080. Если играть в соло на своем сервере.э, то впринципе еще кое-как играбильно. Но если вы хотите поиграть на серверах я вам соболезную.
    Пинг на серверах ужасный. Попадания(если попасть вообще возможно) регестрируются секунд через 5 после выстрела. Осявещение часто багается. Довольно часто можно зайти в текстуры.
    Что же у нас с рейдами? А с ними все плохо. Даже если вы построите форт с защитой как у пентагона, то все равно прилетит какой-нибудь китаец на моногарме и снесет за 10 секунж и всю вашу базу, и всех ваших динозавров. Будь у вас хоть 200 слоев стен в доме и по всему периметру будут стоять турели, это вас не спасет. Даже в RUST или Unturned рейды будут и то лучше, чем в арке.
    Так что прежде чем купить игру, или хотя бы заходить на сервера, почитайте не накрученые отзывы.    … Expand
  68. Dangusse
    Sep 23, 2022
    1
    this is one of those games where it's just insulting to the userbase to release DLC, because the base game simply does not function. im convinced that upwards of 90% of people playing this game are unable to make any progress and are convinced it's due to their own failure, when in fact it's just a terrible and imbalanced title.

    this game would run at 4fps on the world's most powerful    this is one of those games where it's just insulting to the userbase to release DLC, because the base game simply does not function. im convinced that upwards of 90% of people playing this game are unable to make any progress and are convinced it's due to their own failure, when in fact it's just a terrible and imbalanced title.

    this game would run at 4fps on the world's most powerful supercomputer. this is a steaming pile of bantha poodoo where nothing works as intended and there are 10 times as many game breaking bugs as there are unit models. there are a LOT of different plants and animals, which is probably the only good part about this title, but there is simply no reason to invest your time or money in this title, since it will probably crash or kill you unexpectedly and cause you to lose all of your progress. i have received this game for free TWICE and i still won't play it.    … Expand
  69. Kp20
    May 16, 2022
    0
    DO NOT BUY Ark Survival Evolved. This game is very broken. Don't take my word for it; look at their website: https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/articles/227266608-High-Ticket-Volume Their website constant displays the banner "High Ticket Volume." "We are currently experiencing a high volume of tickets. Due to this, you may be experiencing longer than normal wait times." They have aDO NOT BUY Ark Survival Evolved. This game is very broken. Don't take my word for it; look at their website: https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/articles/227266608-High-Ticket-Volume Their website constant displays the banner "High Ticket Volume." "We are currently experiencing a high volume of tickets. Due to this, you may be experiencing longer than normal wait times." They have a high volume of tickets because Ark Survival Evolved has many problems. The developers are playing god in the game; they break game code, causing bugs. The lag/glitches in the are terrible. The game developers play in the mega tribes on the severs, use cheats, and are above Ark's code of conduct. Wildcard has no oversight over the developers. They create an imbalance of power. The developers allow teaming when it's in their favor. The developers are the code of conduct enforcers, which is a conflict of interest.… Expand
  70. ILikeBeans
    Jun 14, 2022
    1
    Bad.................................................................................................. Just bad
  71. AlexMakesToast
    Jan 1, 2023
    3
    Ark = 3/10
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  72. turanyrtsvr
    Nov 23, 2022
    1
    this game is sucks, waste of time, it would be better if you spend your free time going and masturbating
  73. LT_Gruber
    Feb 15, 2023
    4
    Boring, repetitive and pointless in my opinion.

    Ark: Survival Evolved is one of those sandbox games like The Forest, Atlas and Conan Exiles. While the concept of these games are fine and the survival element is surely present, it gets boring and repetitive really fast in my opinion. In Ark: Survival Evolved, you start as an empty character without any skills. You collect stuff, build    Boring, repetitive and pointless in my opinion.

    Ark: Survival Evolved is one of those sandbox games like The Forest, Atlas and Conan Exiles. While the concept of these games are fine and the survival element is surely present, it gets boring and repetitive really fast in my opinion.

    In Ark: Survival Evolved, you start as an empty character without any skills. You collect stuff, build stuff and kill stuff to gather XP, level up, unlock perks and new skills and overall, just to be granted the right to do more advanced things in the game like tame a certain dinosaur or build a specific plank or wooden corner. Just go out into the wild and grind your way up.

    The graphics are fair, although a little rough in my opinion. The lighting effects from the sun are great though. The animations of characters are stiff and lifeless, especially when doing things like sleeping or mounting your dinosaur pet. The music and sounds are blend and nothing special. They work and that is what matters.

    But then, you got the controls and menu’s. My God, the overlay, GUI and skill tree system is so unbelievable confusing, it drove me mad sometimes. I constantly pressed the wrong keys to open or close menu’s, did not know where to find stuff, inventory management became a real chore sometimes, and I had the feeling that I was playing some sort of SQL database many times over. I sincerely did not like anything related to the controls or GUI.

    The servers and matchmaking system in Ark: Survival Evolved are terrible. Many times, servers did not show up, games with friends were not visible and many times, the game got stuck in loading. I needed to search the deepest pits of the internet for all kinds of tweaks, fixes, startup parameters and more to finally get it working. And even then, one day it works fine, the day after one of my friends experienced the same issues out of the blue. I reinstalled the game three times over the course of a few weeks back then, because that was the only way that I could play with my friends.

    The worlds are massive, which is normal for sandbox games like this. There are many forests, flowers, wildlife and rivers, which makes the game less hollow than Atlas, but it still feels blend and empty. You walk miles and miles through empty plains and forests before something of interest happens. Sure there are many dinosaurs in the vicinity, but most of the times, they one hit kill you so you avoid them like the plague. And although this is not necessarily bad, it was just tedious to walk and walk to a certain spot, knowing that every step could be your last. Sometimes, I got attacked by something that I did not even saw coming. One step was fine, the next I was dead. It was later revealed that this were some sort of very fast, tiny dinosaurs that ram and jump you when you get close. Maybe I am blind, but I still haven’t seen any of those motherf…. anywhere in the world.

    The main reason I don’t like this game is because it is just one of the many games that follows the exact same play style and mechanics that become repetitive and boring so quickly. Make a character, collect plant fibers, build a tiny shack, level up, get more stuff, kill some dinosaurs (if they don’t kill you first), tame them, ride them and done. Although there is some kind of endgame by defeating or taming some almighty dinosaur, the game never really ends.

    You can grind away until you become max level and tame all the dinosaurs in the world, but with this game, the purpose of doing this dies after taming your first dinosaur. Things feel pointless and I had the constant feeling that I can never “complete” this game. The same goes for games like Minecraft and Atlas.

    Ark: Survival evolved can be tweaked in any way you like with mods or “legit” by server admin options, but that makes the game unstable sometimes and more importantly, it defeats even more purpose to play it. Don’t want to walk back to your corpse after dying? Just configure/tweak the game to keep all your stuff. Don’t want to walk? No problem, just activate flying. Your beloved dinosaur just died? No problem, bro; here I revived him for you. There are no clear rules, and everything can be avoided or made easier. Even when you play fair or vanilla, you constantly get the feeling that everything can be fixed or made easier later on when you encounter a difficult or tedious situation. There is no penalty and no consequence.

    It is weird, but for me, only 7 Days to Die gets this survival sandbox genre right and keeps the game interesting for long periods of time. With Ark: Survival Evolved, I got three hours of fun before being bored out of my mind and I could not force myself to play it any longer.

    Of course, this is still my own experience and opinion with the game, but personally I cannot recommend Ark: Survival Evolved.    … Expand
  74. DinduNuffinLV
    Jan 7, 2023
    2
    Tamed pets have dumb, zero intelligence with following you around, them constantly getting stuck behind trees or on spiky rocks etc, and darting around in utter chaos on follow command, is what ruins this game sucking the fun out of more chillaxing playstyle. And forcing you to get endgame flying mounts with triple walls building around your base if you dont want to get your base blown upTamed pets have dumb, zero intelligence with following you around, them constantly getting stuck behind trees or on spiky rocks etc, and darting around in utter chaos on follow command, is what ruins this game sucking the fun out of more chillaxing playstyle. And forcing you to get endgame flying mounts with triple walls building around your base if you dont want to get your base blown up on pvp servers, cuz every big level player just loves to blow up newbie bases for toxic fun. Not worth for 1h a day play on pvp, and too buggy pets to be even enjoyed on pve. Waste of purchase.… Expand
  75. realWhiteMan
    Apr 9, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  76. PinkKitten
    Aug 4, 2023
    0
    I use to love this game, then recently I heard about the cheaters of snail games, most of this is done on the official conquest servers, where you get wiped by the big bad publisher tribe " Tea Tribe" or get banned if you start to win, don't believe me ask 90+ of the Island Boys Tribe that got banned by simply raiding tea tribe fairly. well congratulations snail games and wild card playI use to love this game, then recently I heard about the cheaters of snail games, most of this is done on the official conquest servers, where you get wiped by the big bad publisher tribe " Tea Tribe" or get banned if you start to win, don't believe me ask 90+ of the Island Boys Tribe that got banned by simply raiding tea tribe fairly. well congratulations snail games and wild card play stupid games and win stupid prizes I'm putting this review everywhere I can even make a video of the same topic… Expand
  77. BoneSaw
    May 17, 2023
    1
    Its an exploitative mess.
    The game is barely functional, takes up 400GB+ of space. To top it all off they are requiring long time players to pay an exorbitant amount ($40) of what is essentially a graphics upgrade, whilst also closing down its Official servers. Those who have paid for the legacy iteration, had to pay for this iteration of the game, and now will be required to shill    Its an exploitative mess.
    The game is barely functional, takes up 400GB+ of space. To top it all off they are requiring long time players to pay an exorbitant amount ($40) of what is essentially a graphics upgrade, whilst also closing down its Official servers. Those who have paid for the legacy iteration, had to pay for this iteration of the game, and now will be required to shill another $40 for this coming iteration.

    If you are an addict of the game, just play offline... play on non-dedicated servers... don't be a patsy for the evil company that is Snail Games. Your money will be the only thing they will listen to as its clear they don't give a single care about the players who have been there to support them from the start. Fan boy and girls will be angry, and you should be, but not at me. Be mad at the people in charge who are going out of their way to strangle you for every $ they can.    … Expand
  78. Farthas
    Jun 1, 2023
    0
    I've been playing this game for about 4 years, its only getting worse and worse with their own company tribe that is playing the game called TEA , they are using every kind of cheat there is and not getting banned, while getting the best blueprints ect spawned in by their pocket dev.....
    This was the last season of conquest before ark 1,5 release, and its been the worst one in all the    I've been playing this game for about 4 years, its only getting worse and worse with their own company tribe that is playing the game called TEA , they are using every kind of cheat there is and not getting banned, while getting the best blueprints ect spawned in by their pocket dev.....
    This was the last season of conquest before ark 1,5 release, and its been the worst one in all the time i have been playing this game , this time everyone from 1x came to play on conquest servers and SO MUCH CHEATING is ruining this game so hard, and the admins that is soposed to protect the community and keep it a fair game dont really care at all about all the cheats, because NOTHING has changed in the 4 years ive been playing it only getting worse and worse every year..

    This game is a total waste of time , you spend weeks or months building a base only to loose it to hackers and cheaters within days or even hours depending on the hack they are using......
    100% unfair fight and there is really no hope of even winning the game in any way vs these mega tribes and TEA (Snail games tribe) because of all the cheat they are using.    … Expand
  79. SouperKoopa
    Jun 26, 2023
    4
    In the beginning it's fun, but it's way too grindy. Even with adjusting the settings. Also there are more bugs in ark than on earth and not to mention the optimization (which was totally forgotten). Also the graphics are meh. It's so pixely and just does not look right. Also, story aspect is neglectable.

    pros: - fun in the beginning - dinos - progression system cons: - dinos    In the beginning it's fun, but it's way too grindy. Even with adjusting the settings. Also there are more bugs in ark than on earth and not to mention the optimization (which was totally forgotten). Also the graphics are meh. It's so pixely and just does not look right. Also, story aspect is neglectable.

    pros:
    - fun in the beginning
    - dinos
    - progression system

    cons:
    - dinos always aggressive
    - contless bugs (yes, game breaking ones)
    - very punishing gamplay
    - sooooo grindy
    - horrible performance
    - Dino AI is less intelligent than a minecraft zombie
    - Dinos are most of the time just pain

    Only reason why I have so many hours is just because I was a noob and its grind factor (adjusted the settings, still items too expensive)    … Expand

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70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. PC PowerPlay
    Nov 12, 2017
    70
    Specialises in trick shots before mastering the fundamentals. Deeply flawed, but hard to ignore. [Issue#267, p.58]
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  2. DarkStation
    Oct 9, 2017
    70
    Like so many survival/crafting games, from Minecraft to Subnautica, ARK presupposes a player with a lot of time to dedicate to the experience, a high tolerance for repetition, and a fondness for chaos and the unexpected. With its sci-fi inflected single player campaign, ARK at least offers a solo player the chance to get the gist of the game without the threat of anti-social humans ruining whatever progress has been made. For the past two years, ARK has been helping to shape the genre and now that it's finished, it feels like the genre is due for the next stage of evolution.
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  3. Games Master UK
    Oct 6, 2017
    85
    It'll delight you, it'll make you despair, but ultimately Ark will leave you with a real sense of satisfaction. [Nov 2017, p.76]
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