ARK: Survival Evolved

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  1. 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
  2. YuriRys
    Jan 3, 2021
    10
    Легендарная и не побоюсь этого слова лучшая выживалка, которую превзойти сможет лишь ARK 2)
  3. 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!
  4. 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
  5. p0s
    Dec 17, 2020
    7
    Note: This review covers single-player only and is based on the version in the Epic Games Store.

    I love the idea and sandbox style that this game employs but absolutely HATE the bugs and design flaws that greatly impact the potential this game has. This game plays good when you are exploring on the surface; I really hate when a dinosaur ambushes and kills you, especially if they stun    Note: This review covers single-player only and is based on the version in the Epic Games Store.

    I love the idea and sandbox style that this game employs but absolutely HATE the bugs and design flaws that greatly impact the potential this game has. This game plays good when you are exploring on the surface; I really hate when a dinosaur ambushes and kills you, especially if they stun you for more than a second or tranquilize you so they can eat you. In addition, the cold environments require you to acquire a ridiculous amount of materials that are seldom found in the warm or temperate side in order to craft warm gear, or greatly restrict your movement by crafting a line of torches so you can keep yourself cold instead of freezing. However, these problems can be worked around not just by getting good, but also using the settings provided before starting a game to make a challenge more reasonable.

    Where I lose my mind are the caves: All too often, you will enter a cave, only to have a TON of monsters/bugs spawn and kill you without warning. There are way too many monsters in the games, and in the hard caves, they are insanely powerful to the point of god-like status. In addition, they will respawn very quickly the moment you leave the cave, so if you go into the cave, you better do everything you intend to do before you leave or you might as well have never entered. The one thing I REALLY hate about the caves is that monsters can show up out of nowhere through the walls; apparently the developers thought it would be a clever idea to have them spawn behind the walls, but that backfires as both a bad game design and a bug as a few (but not enough) monsters can get stuck behind the walls. It gets even worse as if there is water in the caves, and you jump in, monsters will quickly spawn in front of you and eat you alive by the time you see them and attempt to swim away from them. With the exception of at least one cave, the caves also get ridiculously cold, even if you are in the middle of the jungle; I expect them to be a bit chilly as you go deeper but I find it absurd that you can go from being 80-90 degrees in the jungle to 20 degrees the moment you step into the cave. If you have not adjusted the gameplay settings before the game, you absolutely will need to as the base settings are not playable.

    The bosses are absolutely undefeatable on base settings. I will explain later, but if you adjusted the base settings to try and provide some kind of reasonable challenge you will need to adjust them further. The main problem is the bosses not only have insanely high HP, but they also have a hidden timer, and if the timer runs out, its death for everyone against the boss. You may think that's no big deal, but if you die, you lose EVERYTHING and cannot retrieve a single thing. Even the artifacts you used to open the portal are gone and cannot be reused on defeat. There is a feature in-game that allows you to 'save' your character and items by uploading it to the arc, but I cannot get it to work in Single-Player. It would be nice if it worked as it would save me from having to quit the game, make a backup of my character data, then start the game again and hope I don't get killed by the boss. I really wish I could retrieve my items or that the save feature worked properly. For what its worth though, the bosses are definitely more enjoyable than the caves, though not perhaps as much as exploring.

    When the duct tape (AKA sandbox settings and console commands) holds, this game is somewhat enjoyable, and is probably way I have so many hours playing it. When it falls apart, its when I hate this game because its such a mess. I think I would enjoy this game a LOT more if I could utilize mods, but for some reason, Epic Games does not have mod support enabled for this game. If you can get this game for $10 or less on steam when it goes on sale, DO IT. Unless you can acquire it cheaper and with mod support from another digital distribution service, I would recommend buying it from Steam for no more than $10. If it is free on another digital distribution service, you can try it without mod support, but it will leave quite a bit to be desired.    … Expand
  6. Brodmaar
    Dec 17, 2020
    7
    Gamers: You should optimize your game!
    Ark Devs: xd
    Gamers: Or fix physics and collisions?
    Ark Devs: lol, nope

    But I had fun ;)
  7. 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.
  8. 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!
  9. zeckgelander
    Sep 29, 2020
    9
    Currently no games can make the same play-mode of ARK. Even this game was released at 2017, but this still is my favourite game in 2020. You can build, craft, raid and it support so many mods that allows you create mother-ship or even npc human.
  10. IrongamerX
    Sep 21, 2020
    9
    Such a beautiful game, if you want to have 3x fun, just play with your friends! It's a bit laggy, you should have a good PC to run at Low/Medium settings, and it have a lot of bugs, but the amount of content you have on this game, is unbelievable, 8+ maps to play (half is DLC, but worth the money) and, if that's not enough, you can also play on servers, which are a bit stressful for someSuch a beautiful game, if you want to have 3x fun, just play with your friends! It's a bit laggy, you should have a good PC to run at Low/Medium settings, and it have a lot of bugs, but the amount of content you have on this game, is unbelievable, 8+ maps to play (half is DLC, but worth the money) and, if that's not enough, you can also play on servers, which are a bit stressful for some people, if you don't like the servers, there's mods too, hundreds of mods and some extra maps made from the community. Its a fantastic game, with good graphics, a lot of content and things to do, and some bugs.… Expand
  11. storygamer
    Sep 15, 2020
    6
    Ark: Survival Evolved has tons of great ideas. The graphics are beautiful and the gameplay is real fun if you like survival games. But you need a lot of time for crafting and dinosaur education. And if you´re willing to spend this time, it will satisfy you in many moments. The only problem is, that it always stays repetitive. Also, Ark has some serious technical problems. I got it free onArk: Survival Evolved has tons of great ideas. The graphics are beautiful and the gameplay is real fun if you like survival games. But you need a lot of time for crafting and dinosaur education. And if you´re willing to spend this time, it will satisfy you in many moments. The only problem is, that it always stays repetitive. Also, Ark has some serious technical problems. I got it free on Epic, but as a full prized title it´s too mediocre.… Expand
  12. Mateus1999
    Sep 8, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. melhor jogo que existe nao tem micro transaçao tra otima experiencia diferente do jogos da EA que manipula jogadores a gastar ninheioro em micro transaçoes.MELHOR JOGO QUE JA JOGUEI.
    ta bem otimizado otimo suporte.aconteceu um crash no meu jogo uma ves na mesma hora conversei com o suporte e enviaram um pedido de amizade na steam e ajudou a concertar.
    ta otimizado nao precisa se um pece bom para jogar.um pc +- ja serve............APROVADO    … Expand
  13. havrillal
    Aug 18, 2020
    2
    Túlértékelt, túlbonyolitott, érektelen, bugos, irritáló szenvedés az egész játék. Mellesleg mi ez az ár? Ennyiért nagyon nem éri meg
  14. Drakman
    Aug 12, 2020
    8
    I love this game, and have put a LOT of hours into it. The devs have some frustrating ideas of what makes the game fun, but with proper mods it's bloody fantastic.

    The modding community made this game really shine, without them it wouldn't be half the game it is.
  15. Mehrad9
    Aug 3, 2020
    10
    truly a must have experience! any1 should feel the moments that you are naked on a beach , running away from a dino :)
  16. 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
  17. EmeraldKnight
    Jul 23, 2020
    7
    It is not a great game but it is a good game. Very enjoyable if frustrating at times.
  18. Delementalz
    Jul 18, 2020
    0
    Lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao
  19. Sezo8Gamer
    Jul 11, 2020
    10
    Its amazing.
    Me and my friend play this all the time, although we are not quite there yet.
    120+ Creatures to tame or kill
    Definitely Recommend Buying
    Many DLCs too
  20. Dinoslasher
    Jul 1, 2020
    8
    Ótimo jogo mais a sua evolução e difícil e demorado e isso pode não agradar a todos
  21. 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
  22. poks
    Jun 22, 2020
    9
    Не многие игры живут игры по 5 лет и постоянно обновляются и там нет лутбоксов
  23. 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
  24. chiwire
    Jun 20, 2020
    10
    el juego es demasiado buenocomo para tener que ser tratado con los demas, aquellos que le han dado votos bajos seguro se metieron en pvps y basaron su mala reseña en la mala experiencia, sin darle una mejor oportunidad al juego de demostrar que es el mejor jamas creado y que NUNCA habra uno mejor
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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
  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. 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.
  30. 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
  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. pettywee
    May 1, 2020
    10
    The bugs metioned here by some guys giving 0/10 are mostly fixed in 2020. The game is awesome and probably the guys who gave 0/10 can't play it as well. The game has many things that have to be done in stages to defeat bosses or find artifacts. It has many different maps that can be found in Steam workshop (PC version), and additional items that also can be added from this workshop. JustThe bugs metioned here by some guys giving 0/10 are mostly fixed in 2020. The game is awesome and probably the guys who gave 0/10 can't play it as well. The game has many things that have to be done in stages to defeat bosses or find artifacts. It has many different maps that can be found in Steam workshop (PC version), and additional items that also can be added from this workshop. Just be careful as some of the workshop addons are outdated and cause the bugs (as they do not match the current game version)!. I played on hosted server once and have not experience any violence from players however it is possible that some of the servers have a lot of rude people and you can get easily attacked or offended. Therefore try to find friendly servers! Like everywhere in multiplayer community you have idiots playing games that want only to destroy other people fun (and or do not want to cooperate). For me graphic is on the highest level, music is great but quite repetitive and I can play this game for hours and not get easily bored (otherwise I have to feed all of my 200 dinos!). I recommend it for people in age between 10-50 years old. The game is fun and you can have even more of that playing with friends. With variety of maps (that each is completely different from another) you must know what to build first or where to go to complete the stage or simply finish the game map. For me this game is 9,5 on 10 (but i am giving 10 to close the mouth of those who gave 0/10 - you don't have a clue or your console / PC is too weak to play it and therefore you attack this game. If you don't like it play some stupid shooters or platform games to satissfy yourself!… Expand
  33. VoltronGuy
    Apr 10, 2020
    5
    ARK: Survival Evolved is not something to say it's good. It starts off like it's going to be a fun game, but as you progress, it gets quite boring. 50/50 game that is not worth paying for.
  34. Dinoh
    Mar 20, 2020
    6
    Well it is not the most polished game, or the most accurate scientifically...but Ark, does something that no other can: make survive in a island more fun than anybody can spect, than anybody can, due to that i cannot wait to play again...one of the most interesting games i have played, and i have played games since the 2000...there is a great amount of **** survivals outside, and at leastWell it is not the most polished game, or the most accurate scientifically...but Ark, does something that no other can: make survive in a island more fun than anybody can spect, than anybody can, due to that i cannot wait to play again...one of the most interesting games i have played, and i have played games since the 2000...there is a great amount of **** survivals outside, and at least this covers some of the main fails those have. Of course it cannot fight with Subnautica or others, but remember they are different knid of survival.

    BUT if you have serious doubts to play it i want to tell that despite my first positive opinion, it has really a big amount of bugs, and it is not friendly with the optimization, for that, i reccomend to you to see you specs and test different gameplays online (Beware, there are a lot biased!!) after go for it. Sadly it also has a lot of tier-bully clans, that would abuse you online, making competitive PVE a pain in the ass.

    Is Bad? No Is Good? Decent. I can reccommend it 100%? No. What i reccomend is to serach for the late updates & work of the Devs on the game, also the lattest non Biased opinions of the community.

    The last thing towarn about it that the Devs are really retarded for a lot of things, but specially customers treathment, so ignore their **** I understand people that left the game due to them.    … Expand
  35. snickers190704
    Mar 14, 2020
    10
    It’s the definition of a game. You’ll have hours of fun if you play with friends. It has free dlc maps which only get better
  36. 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
  37. 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.
  38. SPectre_
    Feb 27, 2020
    0
    Компания издатель серии АРК украла сотни тысяч долларов у дистрибьюторов компьютерных игр в СНГ
  39. erdogfu96
    Feb 9, 2020
    7
    I am playing this game from beta. Where to start. I won't speak about my experiences on beta. It is much more optimised now. You can give this game a chance. But there is problems and pros of the game.

    First of all the games graphics are very good. Atmosphere and textures are well on ultra settings and better than all games in the steam store. It is not only realistic, but it is also    I am playing this game from beta. Where to start. I won't speak about my experiences on beta. It is much more optimised now. You can give this game a chance. But there is problems and pros of the game.

    First of all the games graphics are very good. Atmosphere and textures are well on ultra settings and better than all games in the steam store. It is not only realistic, but it is also beautiful. It is very different type of game and gameplay is very good for that.

    Problems are about server system. There is servers with PVP or PVE settings. PVP servers are unplayable. You can transfer your character to another server easily but server need to be played for 30 days and it makes pvp servers unplayable for new players. Old players ruining every server by going there and dominating with robotic guns in everywhere. And you can challange with them. Also there is trolls and it is ruining the topic. The forgotten topic is "survival game".

    PVE is well and enjoying but becoming pointless after playing for 50 hours. It is turning into building simulator but not survival game.

    There is hardcore servers that makes it survival game and if your character dies in there you lost all. It is good for survival game but also boring in this game. Because ark is so buggy and servers are tresh so you cannot play in hardcore servers without free deaths.

    You can create server by money and play with your friends in there with LAG

    You can create server in your own computer. But it is... burning your own computer also.

    Another problem is character skeleton, it is unrealistic.

    Another problem is character types. You can't customise it so it makes this worse than stereotypes of this game like "Conan"

    Graphics 8/10
    Sounds 9/10
    Gameplay: 6/10
    Stability: 3/10    … Expand
  40. WillVert
    Jan 31, 2020
    9
    Muito bom o Jogo, o é excelente para quem gosta do estilo Survival, você começa pelado, aprende a fabricar ferramentas para você poder evoluir e sobreviver em arca cheia de Dinossauros e animais místicos, e você pode domesticar para te ajudar a sobreviver
  41. 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.
  42. 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
  43. Wrong_Wizzli
    Nov 18, 2019
    8
    If you have unlimited time and you are prepared for the possible bugs, then this game will definitely absorb you. If Wildcard manage to fix the bugs instead of making a lot of DLCs, ARK will be one of the best games of its genre.
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. Wishmaster87
    Sep 5, 2019
    9
    I downloaded this game during a sale. Played for 30 minutes and got bored fast. About a year later I was bored and played again. Gave it one hour. Eh. Got bored again. A few months after I decided to give it another chance knowing what I knew after 1.5 hours of gameplay. Decided to at least make it as far as building a home in solo.
    This is either a mistake or the best decision I’ve ever    I downloaded this game during a sale. Played for 30 minutes and got bored fast. About a year later I was bored and played again. Gave it one hour. Eh. Got bored again. A few months after I decided to give it another chance knowing what I knew after 1.5 hours of gameplay. Decided to at least make it as far as building a home in solo.
    This is either a mistake or the best decision I’ve ever made. This is hands down the most incredible game I’ve ever played in my life. What have I got myself into?
    The mystery. The journey. The excitement. The building. The crafting. I can’t even describe.    … Expand
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. 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.
  50. WD_Hyden
    Jul 23, 2019
    10
    Bonjour a ceux qui diront que ce jeu ne leur plait pas (trop simple , trop dure , pas assez de contenue) penseront-ils mais ce jeu a une bonne qualité visuel et une très grande communauté capable de répondre a n'importe quel de vos besoins vous pouvez tout changer : les paramètres , les mods ect...
    ceux qui diront que le jeu ne leurs plait pas n'ont pas eu le temps de jouer , ils ont    Bonjour a ceux qui diront que ce jeu ne leur plait pas (trop simple , trop dure , pas assez de contenue) penseront-ils mais ce jeu a une bonne qualité visuel et une très grande communauté capable de répondre a n'importe quel de vos besoins vous pouvez tout changer : les paramètres , les mods ect...
    ceux qui diront que le jeu ne leurs plait pas n'ont pas eu le temps de jouer , ils ont juste commencer une partie sans prendre le temps d'adapter les paramètres a leurs besoins donc je demande a tout les personnes qui ont mit une mauvaise critique de tester le jeu avec objectivité et adapter le jeu comme ils le veulent . ce messages est adressé aux personne aux personne qui font des critique subjective , arrêtez de pourrir ce que vous appelez "jeu a moitié cuit" qu'est ARK si ce jeu n'est pas finie c'est tout simplement a la communauté de choisir la suite de ce jeu modulable . Bref ce jeu est pour tout les joueur : fort , nul juste réglez le jeu a votre sauce    … Expand
  51. 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
  52. ElementGamez14
    Jun 13, 2019
    10
    This game is by far one of the most beautiful games i have ever played. the game is really recommended for people who like to fight, breed and build up armies, and especially if you love dinosaurs.

    the game is really well put together and has a wide range of maps to play on. if you were into PvP there are servers for that, if your into PvE there are servers for that as well. but if you    This game is by far one of the most beautiful games i have ever played. the game is really recommended for people who like to fight, breed and build up armies, and especially if you love dinosaurs.

    the game is really well put together and has a wide range of maps to play on. if you were into PvP there are servers for that, if your into PvE there are servers for that as well. but if you like the quiet life farming, grinding taming and breeding then there is single player that you can play by yourself or with a friend.

    This game has amazing graphics and i really enjoy the game although there is a couple flaws. i think the game is a tad bit expensive but is still really great. there is a section were your just grinding for materials.

    my overall review for the game is definitely a 9-10 as the game play is great until you get to late game play such as tek tier when the game becomes a bit repetitive

    my review is 10/10    … Expand
  53. CapedBat
    May 16, 2019
    5
    Not recommending on grounds of strange business practices and awful balance. If you love survival games you'll enjoy it, but there are better, more optimized games out there.
  54. DanielvdP
    Mar 8, 2019
    10
    A true survival game, stranded on an empty island full of deadly dino's. Build your safe heaven, learn and discover the many ways to finally become a master.

    If you have time, are looking for a game with easy a 100+ hours, this is the way to go. Without patience, and grit, don't even try
  55. 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.
  56. 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
  57. Darkmath
    Jan 2, 2019
    10
    I'm playing ARK since 2015, at start it was very hard to play without a furious computer configuration.
    During the 3 years, the game has evolved a lot, and performance improving.
    Know, it's my favourite game, very complete and addictive.
  58. 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
  59. Amoskane
    Dec 12, 2018
    8
    This game in a totally awesome game, for real. Its pros totally overflow its cons.
    This games will provides you an enormous amount of hours to be fulfill, even without DLC.
    ARK literally makes you going through every imaginable emotions. You will get an unimaginable satisfaction when you will take down the first alphas or bosses. And then, you will be stressed as **** when you will meet    This game in a totally awesome game, for real. Its pros totally overflow its cons.
    This games will provides you an enormous amount of hours to be fulfill, even without DLC.
    ARK literally makes you going through every imaginable emotions. You will get an unimaginable satisfaction when you will take down the first alphas or bosses. And then, you will be stressed as **** when you will meet your first gigas etc...

    Still, this game have its cons. It requires a good computers to be runnable correctly, you will really feel a gigantic frustration many time in the game, and mostly, you will feel totally powerless really often. Also, this game can't be play through alone. Or it is really really hard and long.

    Still, if you want an hardcore survival experience, buy it, really.    … Expand
  60. VendonJura
    Dec 7, 2018
    10
    Ark Survival is a huge game. It has its issues with bugs ans stuff but it is also the best Survival/Building/Crafting game I ever played. With so many mods this game feels like a whole new experience everytime you play it. I've been playing over 2.000 hour and it still did not stop me enjoying it. The only thing which bothers me is the fact that you have to rent a server to fully enjoyArk Survival is a huge game. It has its issues with bugs ans stuff but it is also the best Survival/Building/Crafting game I ever played. With so many mods this game feels like a whole new experience everytime you play it. I've been playing over 2.000 hour and it still did not stop me enjoying it. The only thing which bothers me is the fact that you have to rent a server to fully enjoy playing it with your friends. Renting a server is redicolously expensive but still this game makes more fun then every other survival game I ever played.… Expand
  61. toto1511
    Dec 5, 2018
    10
    ARK is a pure masterpiece! While it is not comparable to the AAA classics that we have today but we must not forget that ARK is an independent game developed by a small studio!

    Let's not start the positives: The content of the game is just huge! There are more than a hundred dinosaurs and creatures of all kinds, and it is possible that I am wrong and there are even more! The graphics    ARK is a pure masterpiece! While it is not comparable to the AAA classics that we have today but we must not forget that ARK is an independent game developed by a small studio!

    Let's not start the positives: The content of the game is just huge! There are more than a hundred dinosaurs and creatures of all kinds, and it is possible that I am wrong and there are even more! The graphics and art direction of this game are just sublime, immersive environments and especially life is present everywhere, you can watch the dinosaurs move and attack others or attack them yourself or tame them! The music (soundtrack) of this game is just fantastic and absolutely fabulous, Gareth Coker did a monster job! It is, I think, one of the games with the best OST in the independent domain! Not to mention the DLC which are certainly paying, but still add tens or hundreds of hours of games to the basic game that is already very long! And do not say that the game is flat and contains no story, just see the number of notes arranged throughout the map and especially the cinematic end to understand that the game hides a big story behind.

    But, as in all excellent games, there are negative points: Unfortunately the game is not very very well optimized, although there is still a huge difference between the advance access version and the final version, the game in Ultra is almost unplayable for those who do not have a GTX 1070 or 1080 and again ... But hey, I personally play high with a GTX 1080 and the game runs very well! Unofficial servers (which are purchased on hosting sites such as Nitroserv or OMGSERV) are not stable at all! There are many lags, automatic disconnections and crashes.

    But luckily the game remains fun to play for those who want to have fun with friends! For those interested in history, there are many secrets to discover and mysteries to solve! And the support of mod via the workshop extends enormously the game! Whether mods that add maps, creatures, gameplay, armor / weapons / tools and etc! In short, ARK is one of the best independent games in history!    … Expand
  62. 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
  63. Taylord99
    Aug 12, 2018
    6
    I would be lying if I told you I don't have an absolute blast while playing Ark. The game's mechanics and progression system are very well done and almost everything you do gives you a great sense of accomplishment. However, at times, it feels like there is little to do in Ark. At times I ask myself, "what now?" After getting far in the game, there isn't nearly as much to do as there is inI would be lying if I told you I don't have an absolute blast while playing Ark. The game's mechanics and progression system are very well done and almost everything you do gives you a great sense of accomplishment. However, at times, it feels like there is little to do in Ark. At times I ask myself, "what now?" After getting far in the game, there isn't nearly as much to do as there is in the beginning and at times I feel quite bored. Plus, the game is very poorly optimized on PC and even with a GTX 1070, I need to play on medium settings at 4K to even hope to get a stable 60 FPS. To add insult to injury, the game crashes at random, sometimes at the most inopportune times possible, often resulting in death. Overall, this game is incredibly fun at short bursts with incredibly diverse and gigantic worlds with interesting dinosaurs, but it is also a buggy and poorly optimized mess that can also be boring at times.… Expand
  64. 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.
  65. Zedben
    Jul 7, 2018
    10
    Great game - just avoid official servers. Set up your own server with ASM and invite friends.
  66. hugozilla
    Jun 23, 2018
    9
    Intense [walking in the dark and hearing 20 ton footstep approaching - run!], satisfaction [the home you created the way you wanted to make it]. There are many different ways to play the game [PVP, PVE or grades in between; solo or public servers]. There is a variety of 'official' servers for different game styles as well as unofficial servers set up by other gamers. I would adviseIntense [walking in the dark and hearing 20 ton footstep approaching - run!], satisfaction [the home you created the way you wanted to make it]. There are many different ways to play the game [PVP, PVE or grades in between; solo or public servers]. There is a variety of 'official' servers for different game styles as well as unofficial servers set up by other gamers. I would advise trying different types [the official game has some optional task which require excessive time dedication]. Generally not for a casual gamer unless playing a solo saved game. It can be a hobby in itself. Some of the most beautiful environments of any game. Looking a activity to get invested into, this could be it. My favorite game of all time.… Expand
  67. 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
  68. 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.
  69. GReviews
    May 2, 2018
    8
    I would definitely recommend ARK to anyone and I personally think Studio Wildcard has done a fantastic job over the years. It’s got everything you need to keep you gaming for a long time and mainly it has dinosaurs for you to tame and ride about on. What’s not to love about that? Nothing.
  70. MadRhex
    Mar 31, 2018
    10
    One of the best games i have ever played. Of course it has its problems here and there but what game doesn't? I mostly play singleplayer and have fun with console commands and world settings, so i don't know much about multiplayer. But if you want a game that you can have fun with for quite a long time (And you have "very decent" pc) and you don't care much about multiplayer, then thisOne of the best games i have ever played. Of course it has its problems here and there but what game doesn't? I mostly play singleplayer and have fun with console commands and world settings, so i don't know much about multiplayer. But if you want a game that you can have fun with for quite a long time (And you have "very decent" pc) and you don't care much about multiplayer, then this game is for you!… Expand
  71. 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
  72. aguselgamer14
    Feb 22, 2018
    9
    lo único malo es el precio de sus dlc y la optimizacion .
    en resumen un muy buen juego de survival con dinosaurios
  73. Xelluse
    Jan 10, 2018
    0
    Can say just one thing: This so called Game is just a scam! Stay away from it!
  74. WellWellWell45
    Dec 15, 2017
    10
    A truly immersive and amazing game. I have often spent what i thought was a couple hours but turned out to be a full day on this game. There are always updates and new dlc coming, and there is plenty of content and loads of things for you to do. The community on pve servers is also one of the best communities out there, and when you have lots of high tech resources you can transfer to aA truly immersive and amazing game. I have often spent what i thought was a couple hours but turned out to be a full day on this game. There are always updates and new dlc coming, and there is plenty of content and loads of things for you to do. The community on pve servers is also one of the best communities out there, and when you have lots of high tech resources you can transfer to a pvp world to give yourself an extra edge.

    I played the game from Alpha release and back then there was a number of bugs and not a lot of content. I remember how exited i was when they introduced Argentinians into the game, and then T-Rex. Since then the game has significantly improved since a couple of years ago, and i would definitely recommend this game to others.

    The graphics are extremely good in my opinion and it runs very well on a good gaming pc.

    Wildcard also has a very good attention to detail, like for instance if you look at the dinos in the eye they blink and look around. It works very well on dinos like the Kracken.

    On the side of dinos there is plenty of dinos to make the game interesting (over 200) and they are adding more and more.    … Expand
  75. Reeeee
    Nov 22, 2017
    5
    No no. This is not how to develop a good game. The gameplay is slow and boring. Sure there are dinosaurs but i dont like them. I dont even know why i bought this game. Lol
  76. 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
  77. Alzz
    Nov 13, 2017
    6
    Let me start with this: This game really is great. It's definitely worth giving a shot. But of course it's not perfect. I can't describe what it is, but something feels clunky. When you first join, you really have to learn for yourself, which is sometimes good, but most of the time can be annoying. The community is better than a lot of survival games, but still isn't perfect. But of courseLet me start with this: This game really is great. It's definitely worth giving a shot. But of course it's not perfect. I can't describe what it is, but something feels clunky. When you first join, you really have to learn for yourself, which is sometimes good, but most of the time can be annoying. The community is better than a lot of survival games, but still isn't perfect. But of course no community can be perfect. ARK has a wide variety of things to craft, and so many things to discover. There's so much fun to be had with all the unique types of dinosaurs scattered across the large world. One big flaw I have with this game is what the devs have done to it. So many changes have been made, and causes it to be unbalanced at times. If the devs could go back to the older style of the game, I think this game would be a much bigger success than it is right now. Again, this game isn't perfect, but is definitely worth a shot.… Expand
  78. 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
  79. MokaAkay
    Nov 7, 2017
    10
    This game is great and most people who give it a bad score are people who have gotten their money's worth out of it ie playing like 600 hours and then something happens to them and they rage quit and come and write a negative review on the game.
  80. theirrelephants
    Oct 24, 2017
    10
    While it has its problems, I can't justify giving this game anything less than a 10. I have over a thousand hours in it. A THOUSAND HOURS. That's ~41 days of nothing but playing this game.

    It's fun, but incredibly un-optimized. Even if you have a good card, be prepared to turn those settings down to medium or low to get playable fps. A lot of the bugs people have mentioned have    While it has its problems, I can't justify giving this game anything less than a 10. I have over a thousand hours in it. A THOUSAND HOURS. That's ~41 days of nothing but playing this game.

    It's fun, but incredibly un-optimized. Even if you have a good card, be prepared to turn those settings down to medium or low to get playable fps.

    A lot of the bugs people have mentioned have been fixed since well before EA, I'm not sure what they're going on about. Yeah the game's support is genuinely terrible, but I only had to use it twice, once when I got a dinosaur stuck underneath the terrain (back in early access - and this only happened once) and second when I messed up with tranferring tribe ownership. Couldn't get any help with the first one because I couldn't remember the dino's name and it had been a few days (it was dead, jim), but the second one got resolved speedily.    … Expand
  81. 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
  82. Johnfiskari
    Oct 3, 2017
    7
    Nice survival game. It is little hard and it will take a lot of time to achive something i really mean a lot of time. There is lot's of opportunies what to do. If you like games what takes a lot of time this is good game to you. But you must have a good computer to run ARK. Ark is also really big game it will take a lot of memory. Sometimes it is too realistic. The gameplay is amazing andNice survival game. It is little hard and it will take a lot of time to achive something i really mean a lot of time. There is lot's of opportunies what to do. If you like games what takes a lot of time this is good game to you. But you must have a good computer to run ARK. Ark is also really big game it will take a lot of memory. Sometimes it is too realistic. The gameplay is amazing and i just love that reaserch panel where you reaserch new items. And of course there is a lot of dinos. :)… Expand
  83. Altairwolf
    Sep 27, 2017
    9
    Looking over the reviews and they look a lot like the Steam reviews. People who are hurt they don't get their way on things.
    Is the game perfect, in no way is it perfect. You'll see one person on here gave it a 0 rating but has 8000 HOURS of play time. Weigh that amount of play time with the rating. I'm sorry, if I hate a game that much... I would not spend 10 hours on it... much    Looking over the reviews and they look a lot like the Steam reviews. People who are hurt they don't get their way on things.
    Is the game perfect, in no way is it perfect. You'll see one person on here gave it a 0 rating but has 8000 HOURS of play time. Weigh that amount of play time with the rating. I'm sorry, if I hate a game that much... I would not spend 10 hours on it... much less thousands.

    You have Official Servers and Unofficial servers. Official servers seem to have a lot of toxic players on them. But those exist on unofficial also.
    There are thousands of mods available for your local play or to have on an unofficial server. The game has been in the top 10 most played games on Steam for TWO YEARS. Typically has 60,000+ people playing in the US prime time and on weekends.

    The PVP... claims are that PVP isn't balanced. I don't play PVP, but most of the complaints are about other PLAYERS. The people who make the game can't fix players being mean. Yet the developers are the ones that get blamed.

    I've got over 2500 in the game, still enjoy it.

    The game does require a good machine, but the way it plays on machines varies greatly.
    The game is LARGE, with all the DLC maps downloaded it can go over 100 GIGS of space.    … Expand
  84. 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
  85. 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
  86. stanislaw
    Sep 7, 2017
    8
    I enjoy this game a lot. Been playing it since early access, so it's countless hours already. Yeah it demands quite a high spec PC/laptop (esp VGA and RAM), but it all pays off with the excitement I have every single day: building stuffs (THE SIMS), exploring the world (FAR CRY), taming dinos (POKEMON) etc. Nothing's perfect, but the devs always give game updates. Bring your friends alongI enjoy this game a lot. Been playing it since early access, so it's countless hours already. Yeah it demands quite a high spec PC/laptop (esp VGA and RAM), but it all pays off with the excitement I have every single day: building stuffs (THE SIMS), exploring the world (FAR CRY), taming dinos (POKEMON) etc. Nothing's perfect, but the devs always give game updates. Bring your friends along to conquer this game, or if you play single, there's always cheat codes to help you get through things.… Expand
  87. 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?
  88. 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
  89. 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.
  90. 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
  91. 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.
  92. SuperkenGaming
    Aug 31, 2017
    6
    ARK Survival Evolved
    Theres something here, but its half baked
    ARK Survival Evolved is out of BETA, but unfortunately it doesn’t quite feel like it.. Fair Warning im awful at survival games and they don’t keep my attention for long…so if youre looking for an in depth review on all the survival stuff, youre not going to get it here, As a casual survival game fan, Ark survival is    ARK Survival Evolved
    Theres something here, but its half baked
    ARK Survival Evolved is out of BETA, but unfortunately it doesn’t quite feel like it..
    Fair Warning im awful at survival games and they don’t keep my attention for long…so if youre looking for an in depth review on all the survival stuff, youre not going to get it here,
    As a casual survival game fan, Ark survival is probably the most half baked one ive played..
    The hardest part of this game is actually getting into a server…
    the server numbers don’t make sense as there are some with numbers way over the limit and others that say they are under the limit until you try to join it..
    but once you do find a server, this server is basically your home unless you want a fresh start..
    There are 2 modes you can play in… one having modern technology and one focusing on just primitive technology, but you choose an area to spawn in at ..all with different difficulties with your fresh character and you get to surviving…
    |Knowing how to survive is one thing..
    knowing how the game works is another because this post beta game has no proper tutorial to teach you the game. I had to go to youtube to learn how to pick up stones, im not even joking…
    I found myself doing this a lot when I ran into questions like how to tame a dinosaur..
    oh did I forget to mention dinosaurs..
    theres dinosaurs…
    This game is full of them but theyre not as cool as I thought they would be..
    Theyre essentially jerks that try to kill you while you collect sticks rocks and berries… .
    the game is a pretty steady evolution of equipment which is cool..
    youll level up as you craft, collect, and hunt.. and you can dump skill points into stats but you can also learn how to craft new items like fires to cook raw meat.. btw another youtube trip.. how do you start a fire…
    the higher level you are the better items you can craft and the better dinosaurs you can tame, ill save you the trip.;. you beat them until theyre unconscious and throw a saddle on them,...
    But as a survival game you have to manage your health, hydration, hunger, and body temperature…
    This is done by collecting berries, building shelter, hunting animals with the weapons you craft, or going for a swim..
    this was the coolest part is how easy not dying of thirst is here…
    finaly a survival game gets it.. let me just drown myself until im not thirsty anymore..
    it works in this game as it should…
    but there are pvp and pve servers.. there are other people running around, theyl lbuild huts and fires too, these items cant be destroyed as youre able to lock them, but you can squad up and join tribes.. or be a lone wolf like me cause youre awesome at surviving and you don’t need a tribe…
    theres no real task here… its just dumb fun of running around a map and try to build the coolest stuff you can, sort of like minecraft with none of the fun stuff but with dinosaurs…
    which again are here to kill you…
    when you die you have all of your blueprints and levels… and youre able to rush to your dead body fr your gear if you can remember where you died at.. but other players can pick your gear too so good luck…
    I see the good in this game, I can understand why people love it and how they can have fun within its world…
    of creating your own survival goals and setting out to accomplish them..
    but it’s a half baked game that still feels as though its in beta…
    I cant argue that this game isn’t fun.. but I can argue that there are plenty of better more polished survival games out there on console
    I give ARK Survival Evolved
    a 6/10    … Expand
  93. thedesertwolf
    Aug 29, 2017
    6
    The good: There is a lot going on for ark survival evolved, ranging from desperate early game attempts to avoid the worst of the small game such as raptors and trodons to the gradual progression towards building massive bases made of high tech materials at end game. There is a ton to do, from the survival notes hidden throughout the islands giving a glimpse at a much larger story to a tonThe good: There is a lot going on for ark survival evolved, ranging from desperate early game attempts to avoid the worst of the small game such as raptors and trodons to the gradual progression towards building massive bases made of high tech materials at end game. There is a ton to do, from the survival notes hidden throughout the islands giving a glimpse at a much larger story to a ton of interesting and neat dinosaur specific features. Wall climbers, gliders, and gryphon's oh my!

    The bad: That said, those that know the grind, and it is exactly that, a grind, get a massive advantage over others. With the full release, a slew of unfinished or unoptimized performance issues still remain from it's open development such as horrid hitbox detection, under the map exploits, and many of the dinosaurs do not serve a long term purpose in the game. It's a race to 4-5 dinosaurs for the pvp end with there being significant overlap into the pve side.

    The Ugly: Studio Wildcard has left in numerous unfinished or outright broken features. There are still clipping issues with structures that were not addressed in the beta, the incorporation of cluster servers means that every server will either be a fiefdom of a mega-tribe or will be merrily wiped for amusements sake whenever boredom strikes, the grind and timesink factor is still Korean MMO level of bad, and opening the servers for free access to the Asian marketplace is going to go over as it always does, poorly, as the cultural differences between what is acceptable gaming behavior between west and east is not compatible.

    It has potential, but Ark survival evolved shoots itself in the foot over and over again in favor of grind over engaging gameplay and puts a heavy prioritization on shoot first, ask questions never on their official servers.    … Expand
  94. Nueshak
    Jun 3, 2015
    9
    GIVE THIS GAME A SHOT! Great "next/current" gen survival game! Has a lot of great promise but a rather steep learning curve if playing alone (similar to Don't Starve), but has a ton of potential for being the next great survival game. Lots of solo and community driven gameplay elements and a pretty immersive world to be in. Not the most "realistic" survival game in existence but it doesGIVE THIS GAME A SHOT! Great "next/current" gen survival game! Has a lot of great promise but a rather steep learning curve if playing alone (similar to Don't Starve), but has a ton of potential for being the next great survival game. Lots of solo and community driven gameplay elements and a pretty immersive world to be in. Not the most "realistic" survival game in existence but it does take a more grounded approach to movement and fatigue (i.e. If you are swimming to long and you run out of stamina you may actually drown just like in real life).

    Biggest issues are that it does take a pretty meaty rig to take full advantage of the graphics (seems like a modified Crytek engine) on the highest settings. This game is JUST in early access so I expect to see some of the animations, bugs, and slight clipping issues get resolved over time. I only have about 8ish hours with this game so my review is based on initial impression and overall potential the game has.    … Expand
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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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