ARK: Survival Evolved

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6.5

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  1. 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.
  2. lordpopo
    Jan 8, 2021
    3
    Honestly,if you do not have more than 3-5 friends to play this game with or don't have the time to find a non-toxic tribe in your server,just do not play this game.Singleplayer gets boring after some time because its way too grindy .Its not like minecraft here ypu can cure your boredom all alone without anyone to play with.
    Servers are absolute trash,people are completeley heartless.They    Honestly,if you do not have more than 3-5 friends to play this game with or don't have the time to find a non-toxic tribe in your server,just do not play this game.Singleplayer gets boring after some time because its way too grindy .Its not like minecraft here ypu can cure your boredom all alone without anyone to play with.
    Servers are absolute trash,people are completeley heartless.They won't hesitate the slightest bit to completely destroy and loot months and weeks of your progress,leaving you no choice but to start from scratch only to get looted once again.    … Expand
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. Xelluse
    Jan 10, 2018
    0
    Can say just one thing: This so called Game is just a scam! Stay away from it!
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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!
  13. Zecvi
    Jul 10, 2021
    0
    This game is unbalanced and broken. It is time consuming to a fault. It's bad for your health and the devloppers expect that you forfeit your real life to play this game. It could have been the best but it has too many issues. DON'T PLAY IT. PvE is boring and PvP was handled so badly by the devs that it ruined the whole game. So once again, Don't play this, it's bad and need fix. It alsoThis game is unbalanced and broken. It is time consuming to a fault. It's bad for your health and the devloppers expect that you forfeit your real life to play this game. It could have been the best but it has too many issues. DON'T PLAY IT. PvE is boring and PvP was handled so badly by the devs that it ruined the whole game. So once again, Don't play this, it's bad and need fix. It also have the worst community in the world and devs let 13year old with too much time on they re hand to rule this game and ruin everybody s fun. This game will make you want to murder people, don't play it. It's like a EA game where you cannot trust the devs… Expand
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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.
  20. DatDani3l
    Feb 19, 2021
    1
    The beginning is really fun but after a while you will notice, that this game has many issues, that make it unplayable for me.
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. Dan224
    Jun 26, 2021
    0
    disgusting game, on official servers players use GM accounts and block players, wrote in support, just closed the report without a response
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#22 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017
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#72 Most Shared PC Game of 2017

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

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