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  • Summary: Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate, and escape.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Sep 6, 2017
    75
    ARK: Survival Evolved is a videogame with tons of possibilities where we'll fall in love with its splendorous aesthetics, its content and its particularly attractive thematic. It's sad, though, that our most important enemy in a world plagued with dinosaurs may be its disastrous optimization.
  2. Sep 4, 2017
    75
    ARK is fun, for amazing moments, but it has plenty of bugs that often spoil the fun. In its best moments this survival game is a dream for every dinosaurs fan, but it can be very repetitive and boring due to grind-based game mechanics.
  3. 75
    Ark: Survival Evolved has a bunch of interesting ideas. But by attempting to be a jack-of-all-trades, it doesn’t really feel like it has mastered any particular element. This doesn’t mean there isn’t fun to be had in the ARK; if you enjoy the brutal survival mechanics on offer here, then you will likely spend many dozens, if not hundreds, of hours in the quite lengthy grind as you conquer the primitive world.
  4. Sep 8, 2017
    70
    Ark: Survival Evolved is far from being complete, what with its many bugs and a feature bloat that doesn’t always hit the nail on the head. And yet, it’s still an addictive grind that proves that life can find a way.
  5. Sep 20, 2017
    70
    If you have friends, Ark: Survival Evolved is a fun survival game, with options such as PvP or PvE servers to make every player happy. If you primarily play alone, however, this game will require a heavy set of grinding and repetition, turning off any players hoping to just get a taste of some dinosaur action.
  6. Sep 14, 2017
    70
    It's incredibly ambitious, but without spending hours upon hours building a safe haven to protect you from the brutality of PvP, the single player feels a bit redundant without anyone to play with.
  7. Aug 29, 2017
    60
    Ark: Survival Evolved is a half-baked game that still isn’t worth full price.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 141
  2. Negative: 76 out of 141
  1. Dec 17, 2016
    10
    Las primeras horas lo odiaras porque no pararas de morir y no te enteraras de nada, pero conforme vayas aprendiendo sus mecanicas, consigasLas primeras horas lo odiaras porque no pararas de morir y no te enteraras de nada, pero conforme vayas aprendiendo sus mecanicas, consigas asentarte en un buen sitio en el que ir prosperando junto a tu tribu lo empezaras a amar hasta un punto obsesivo. No hago mas que pensar en salir del trabajo para ir a ver a mi Raptor, explorar el bello mundo de Ark, contactar con otras tribus amistosas, aplastar a todo aquel que me ataque a mi, a mi tribu o a mis animales, y un sin fin de historias mas que crearan los propios jugadores porque en Ark la historia la creas tu y la gente que puebla cada servidor al mas puro estilo rolero. Infinitamente recomendable, y para ser un early acces tiene mas contenido y es mas divertido que la inmensa mayoria del catalogo actual de juegos, eso si Ark nunca te lleva de la mano, exige paciencia, tiempo, cooperacion con otros jugadores y mirar muchas guias por internet, lo que para algunos lo hara tan especial y para jugadores mas casuales tan odioso. Compradlo sin dudar. Expand
  2. Apr 16, 2023
    10
    I LOVE ARK and dinosaurs in genarol even though its extremly inacurate its still fun. the lore is way to hard to understand so i just watchedI LOVE ARK and dinosaurs in genarol even though its extremly inacurate its still fun. the lore is way to hard to understand so i just watched a yt video on it i hate that i have to pay so much for the story worlds though Expand
  3. May 1, 2017
    8
    Been a gamer all my life, but this game captures something ive been looking for, for a long long time. Its still in pre-release so expectBeen a gamer all my life, but this game captures something ive been looking for, for a long long time. Its still in pre-release so expect issues. Lag on official servers is the major downfall at the moment, But if you find a good dedicated server, those problems are not present anymore. Love how Wild Card is consistently adding updates to the game making it feel fresh after every update. This game takes #1 for me of all time. I Have been going hard for 2 months, and i dont see any end in sight. Nothing beats exploring the world for rare cool drops, taming and breeding animals, building a land and water base, and a farm and defenses. No game compares to this.

    Im sure once the full version comes out and all the wrinkles have been ironed out, I will be giving this game a solid 10 out of 10! I 100% recommend this to all survival/exploration/rpg players.

    Thank you for this Wild Card!!!
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  4. Dec 12, 2018
    4
    This game has a great setting, scope and actually offers some of the best (if not the best) experience for its genre, but also some of theThis game has a great setting, scope and actually offers some of the best (if not the best) experience for its genre, but also some of the most infuriating moments in gaming. Wildcard Devs clearly have good vision and ambition but its just never backed up a similar level of technical capability to deliver it.
    On one hand it offers an unforgiving grinding survival experience which does feel rewarding when you achieve things, and any loss or setback is felt a lot. That would normally be fine and part of the challenge/attraction of the game, but at the same time the bugs and technical issue in the game will often lead to you losing many dozens of hours worth of progress/work randomly and on multiple occasions. On PvE you may constantly lose everything whilst not even playing the game which is infuriating.

    PvP and PvE are completely different gaming experiences altogether, but both require an incredible level of continuous time investment (like having to log in daily or every couple of days and spent time just feeding the tamed animals!). You can't pick up and drop this game as you please unless you do single player, which is really not to anywhere near as interesting or rewarding. The game is really meant to be played with groups of people to get the most out of it.

    All in all the game can be a great experience and is incredibly addictive, however due to the technical shortcomings, quality controls that have never been addressed, it will always be a good, but not great game, which is a shame to see.
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  5. Dec 19, 2016
    2
    The game has soooo much potential but its essentially broken. To start off its incredibly glitchy and there is nothing worse than taming aThe game has soooo much potential but its essentially broken. To start off its incredibly glitchy and there is nothing worse than taming a Pteradon only for it to glitch into a wall or mountain and then lose it. The PvP is virtually unplayable once you reach a certain point as higher level players will constantly raid you and build huge heavily protected forts around major resource locations. This has lead to multiple servers with very few people as one tribe just patrols around and destroys any fresh bases and run people from the server. I moved to at least 5-6 servers and found the same issue. On one server we found the perfect base location (4 of us). Built a huge stone wall, Behemoth gate, defences and even a frabicator over time. We had tamed multiple dino's but in the end it meant nothing. A bunch of high levels brought there 200+ Pteradons, flew over the wall and destroyed literally everything. All the best base locations are always taken as the game has been out on PC for years so plenty of youtube videos out there. I mean I like a challenge and yes you die in PvP games but Arks PvP is essentially broken as one tribe can just take over a server and kill it dead if they root themselves in one of the better locations. Even on PvE you are not safe as people can get Carnivores to chase them to your location.

    This game has been in early access for nearly 7 years and it was released on ps4 as a full priced game.
    Sony you should be ashamed for putting a buggy, unbalanced game on the psn store and selling it at AAA price.
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  6. Nov 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I used to love the game back when I felt the devs cared about us. But now I realize they don't they let the servers get to out of hand with mega tribes and under mappers there no point of playing anymore As soon as you start you get wiped by a mega tribes and ran off every server they honestly just need to wipe every server and start fresh Expand
  7. Jul 20, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Die Community kriegt bessere Sachen hin als Die Entwickler selber ......... Expand

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