ARK: Survival Evolved

 PlayStation 4
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5.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 365 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 158 out of 365
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  1. Traumvita
    Sep 6, 2023
    0
    Dog trash game. Game runs trash. Game looks trash. Game plays trash. You’d think co op would be fun but nope. Can’t freely explore without loop holes. Resolution is horrid. Oh wow, you start to have fun. Then a stupid high level T. rex comes just destroys everything and kills you. Nearly impossible to get back to your based because you’ll just get trampled. Hogwash trash that needs to beDog trash game. Game runs trash. Game looks trash. Game plays trash. You’d think co op would be fun but nope. Can’t freely explore without loop holes. Resolution is horrid. Oh wow, you start to have fun. Then a stupid high level T. rex comes just destroys everything and kills you. Nearly impossible to get back to your based because you’ll just get trampled. Hogwash trash that needs to be taken outback and get its brains blown out.… Expand
  2. Joselix7
    Aug 27, 2023
    0
    Basura, completa basura, no hay realismo, gráficos de cartón, controles que le han hecho un copia y pega de PC a pley y son nefastos, un juego falso de cojones. Recomendación si tienes entre 8-11 años y tus padres te pegan juega a ark te divertira esta mierda que esta a tu nivel
  3. Kingblade
    Jul 30, 2023
    0
    One of the biggest corruption scandals in gaming, 90+ of the Island Boys Tribe were banned for no reason after raiding the alleged publisher supported tribe, Tea Tribe.
    It’s been months and they are still banned by Snail Games, whom still have not commented on the matter. Snail games sold them their game, then banned them from it for doing nothing wrong!
  4. SkySmartyNL
    Apr 7, 2023
    0
    FINAL UPDATE: Due to the recently announced roadmap this game is not worth buying anymore, even if it's on deep sale. If you are still curious what you've missed get just the cheapest version since there's no way you can enjoy all the extra's from all additional before the servers are shut down in August 2023.
    And Sony: Please state in your shop that support for this game is limitted for    FINAL UPDATE: Due to the recently announced roadmap this game is not worth buying anymore, even if it's on deep sale. If you are still curious what you've missed get just the cheapest version since there's no way you can enjoy all the extra's from all additional before the servers are shut down in August 2023.
    And Sony: Please state in your shop that support for this game is limitted for just the next 5 months!

    A construction game with monsters and couch co-op, that was what sold us the game...
    Seriously considered asking a refund, this game is very poorly ported from PC to console:
    - User interface is not optimized for controler, no customisation.
    - Automatic language selection seems to use Google translate, hilarious but useless and annoying!
    - On a 4K screen the PS4 Pro is barely up to it's task when you got a few tame creatures around you in a solo game.
    - Building could have been great if you only had a bit more control how pieces are placed.
    - Creatures get stuck very easy in surroundings.
    - Walls don't protect you against attacks from outside, they only hinder attackers to come close to you.
    - Split screen... Is lituraly 2 half screens on top of each other with vital parts outside the frame! Host is getting ghost images from the guest, If one of the players enters inventory the other suffers huge framedrops and lag, both players at the same time in inventory is a dissaster, guest has to stay very close to the host, host gets no warning if he goes too far away from guest, and a few more things...

    But still, we keep playing. Concept is interesting, creatures look pretty good, day/night and weather is done decent. If only the UI would have been more optimised to consoles, if only the splitscreen was done better... If only players were not interupting other players actions in the inventory...

    We wanted a couch co-op but got a lazy, buggy PC port on console. And if those issues are there from start it is unlikely Wildcard even cares about solving the issues. Not worth full price, barely wort the 60% we got it for.
    (But we keep on playing for some strange reason)

    Update: We started playing online.
    Encountering more and more issues that are never fixed or getting re-introduced at the next patch. Servers not up to the task and a customer support that is understaffed at least.
    All in all I lowered my rating from the initial 6 to 5 and most likely going lower if the issues are getting worse by enforcing PS5 graphix on the PS4 servers. But hey, at least we have detailed doorhandles in 0.2fps on thatchdoors you only use the first days after starting a new character...

    Update 2:
    Lowered rating from 5 to 3 for the increasing ammount of glitches. On the brink of the launch of Genesis 2 the issues seem to get only worse. And CS is not able to deal with PS as a platform, demanding the use of non-platform hardware for sending "proof" of bugs while still not being able to restore lost items and/or characters in time.

    Initialy I was about to get it refunded but gave it a try, the state it is in now it should be delisted from PS4.

    WILDCARD, FIX YOUR ****

    ARK II? Prove you learned from the errors first.    … Expand
  5. Jdotdeedot
    Jun 23, 2022
    3
    I'd rather play minecraft than this ark, and that's insanely disrespectful to minecraft. Ark is such a boring game. The game looks bad it looks like it came out in 2010 rather than 2017. The UI is also just clunky to look at and is just bad. I don't recommend this game at all. Just play minecraft.
  6. stupidopinion
    Jun 22, 2022
    4
    This game is quite poorly optimized. Despite its age my computer (which is decently powerful and can run Ori will of the wisps fine) heavily lags even at the lowest settings. The game itself is decently fun, though it is also unintuitive and I feel like I need a guide for anything I want to do. Dinosaurs are cool though and a game that lets you ride them is almost always going to haveThis game is quite poorly optimized. Despite its age my computer (which is decently powerful and can run Ori will of the wisps fine) heavily lags even at the lowest settings. The game itself is decently fun, though it is also unintuitive and I feel like I need a guide for anything I want to do. Dinosaurs are cool though and a game that lets you ride them is almost always going to have value in my book. Oh yeah and the character creator is a total joke, it was a waste to invest resources in that.… Expand
  7. Kp20
    May 16, 2022
    0
    DO NOT BUY Ark Survival Evolved. This game is very broken. Don't take my word for it; look at their website: https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/articles/227266608-High-Ticket-Volume Their website constant displays the banner "High Ticket Volume." "We are currently experiencing a high volume of tickets. Due to this, you may be experiencing longer than normal wait times." They have aDO NOT BUY Ark Survival Evolved. This game is very broken. Don't take my word for it; look at their website: https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/articles/227266608-High-Ticket-Volume Their website constant displays the banner "High Ticket Volume." "We are currently experiencing a high volume of tickets. Due to this, you may be experiencing longer than normal wait times." They have a high volume of tickets because Ark Survival Evolved has many problems. The developers are playing god in the game; they break game code, causing bugs. The lag/glitches in the are terrible. The game developers play in the mega tribes on the severs, use cheats, and are above Ark's code of conduct. Wildcard has no oversight over the developers. They create an imbalance of power. The developers allow teaming when it's in their favor. The developers are the code of conduct enforcers, which is a conflict of interest.… Expand
  8. PCGamer99
    May 7, 2022
    1
    The game would be great if it worked well, but it doesn't. Game servers crash daily. You lose your inventory, progress, tames, etc... when they do. You can lose your Ark Data (the space the company provides that cannot be raided by other players) and they will do nothing to restore it. Support is somewhere between terrible and non-existent. Do not waste your money, and moreThe game would be great if it worked well, but it doesn't. Game servers crash daily. You lose your inventory, progress, tames, etc... when they do. You can lose your Ark Data (the space the company provides that cannot be raided by other players) and they will do nothing to restore it. Support is somewhere between terrible and non-existent. Do not waste your money, and more importantly, your time with this company or any of its products.… Expand
  9. iafanasyev
    Apr 26, 2022
    3
    Great game, but its absolutely unplayable. PvE servers are overloaded with users buildings, and it lags every second. PvP servers better, but there is one tribe on every server who have a lot of dinos and resources, they will not let you build a base and tame dinos, you will be destroyed when you offline.
    Only one way to play this game is play alone in single player.
  10. fallenazael
    Mar 27, 2022
    1
    UI is terrible. Controls are a nightmare and you can clearly tell this is a pc game which has been forced into consoles. Buggy as hell. Things won't work. Items can't be picked up or used. A total nightmare. Even as a free game I feel I've been conned
  11. Fukkayuu
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    This is probably the worst survival game made. Kayd Hendricks for real should be placed in a facility for the criminally mental and never be allowed to see daylight again. This game is has such trash mechanics it makes stranded deep look good. Play it if you get it for free. Otherwise if you pay for it your a moron. You will literally be spawned in the middle of a viscous pack over andThis is probably the worst survival game made. Kayd Hendricks for real should be placed in a facility for the criminally mental and never be allowed to see daylight again. This game is has such trash mechanics it makes stranded deep look good. Play it if you get it for free. Otherwise if you pay for it your a moron. You will literally be spawned in the middle of a viscous pack over and over and over and over and over and over making the game unplayable. Great idea worst execution possible. Avoid this game and play the Forest or something created by someone with talent. Not this **** This is the Justin Bieber version of a survival game.… Expand
  12. angelrubio
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    How do I refund a psplus game?
    Graphically unplayable on ps4 pro (horrible in all categories: resolution, stuttering fps, texture quality, ambient occlusion), no tutorial, no intuitive interactions, I’m freezing when touching water and burning from the sun in seconds. Sorry for the work they may (or may not) have put in this version. This is not a game, it is gigabytes of rubbish.
  13. Brolith
    Jan 5, 2022
    3
    I have over 2,000 hours on PC and Over 6,000 on ps4, a Youtube channel that use to be dedicated to ark and a collaboration. So when i say i am a little bit of a expert here, I can say so with confidence. But this is the first time i reviewed it on steam and it saddens me very very deeply that I can not recommend ark to any person or any game ever made by Wildcard.
    To be very honest the    I have over 2,000 hours on PC and Over 6,000 on ps4, a Youtube channel that use to be dedicated to ark and a collaboration. So when i say i am a little bit of a expert here, I can say so with confidence. But this is the first time i reviewed it on steam and it saddens me very very deeply that I can not recommend ark to any person or any game ever made by Wildcard.
    To be very honest the companies greed and lack of descent customer service is by far and away the worst I have seen. I have played mmorpgs since the late 90's so when I started to play ark i chalked it all up to they are new just getting their footing. This excuse no longer holds water for them. They have in fact proven time and again they care far more about expansions and money than good game quality. They have lived by wringing the last dollars out of their fan base rather then improving their game. To add insult to injury they employ some of the worse programmers and implement things like anti-mesh very poorly, they will do things that will accidentally wipe out hundreds of hours of your hard work at no fault of yours. Then when you contact them they will simply tell you that it is your problem and if you don't like it you can just stop playing because they won't set right what they themselves did and YES most other Mmorpgs will investigate and compensate.
    But they are all to happy to allow large groups of cheaters who openly cheat, to take up residence on their servers, and do nothing about it. They have no professionalism or desire for improvement. It is 2021 and their log in system and player management would not look good in even 2001. They do things in the cheapest laziest way they possible can and get mad when called out on it. We have seen GMs come on servers and taunt players. The fact they use a first person GM system at all speaks of how bad they have done.
    The game itself is an amazing concept but I have never in my life seen one executed so horribly that a mass refund should be required of them and to think they are ready to create a squeal is mind boggling. None of this is to say Ark can't be a great game, it can be, you can lose yourself for hours on end in this game. Only to be snapped out of it by a game breaking bug that has been here since alpha.
    There is nothing wrong with a game where you can lose everything due to pvp that is part of the fun. Nothing wrong with a game you can lose everything from your own carelessness. But to sell and not fix a game where your biggest obstacle is poor coding is not OK. There is nothing worse than spending hundreds of hours only to be defeated by bad coding, it leaves you frustrated and disillusioned and to receive a aggressive response from the companies CS after just leaves you angry.
    But to be honest I think the thing I find most frustrating is that Ark could have been so much more, it could have been something truly special that endured and grew for years to come for the fans of the genre, if only it and been handled by almost anyone else. This is just a honest review.    … Expand
  14. CorruptionIMC
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    I keep coming back to this game because I really want to like it. There are aspects of it that are so good, and there was so much potential with this game, but it's so beyond wasted. Ark is a game that never left beta in reality, the developers just kept adding new content they could sell instead of fixing the wide range of issues with the foundation of the game ranging from aggravatingI keep coming back to this game because I really want to like it. There are aspects of it that are so good, and there was so much potential with this game, but it's so beyond wasted. Ark is a game that never left beta in reality, the developers just kept adding new content they could sell instead of fixing the wide range of issues with the foundation of the game ranging from aggravating annoyance to almost completely game breaking.

    For starts, official servers are not worth touching if you don't have days of your life to dedicate to it, only to log back in the next day and everything you spent days on has been destroyed. Really, it's not worth touching if you want a life outside of Ark in general. Private servers with friends are your best bet, but then there's the process of figuring out who's going to buy an extra console to host it, or paying a service to host it.

    Personally, I preferred solo play. It takes quite a while to dial in the server settings to a reasonable point, where you don't spend hundreds of hours grinding resources to accomplish basic tasks, breeding doesn't take several real life days to hatch a single egg (only to have the baby die fifteen minutes later because you didn't sit there for several more hours straight just hounding meat down its throat). Thankfully some good people have posted up fairly reasonable setting baselines to choose from if you don't want to trial and error out your own preferences.

    The meat of the issue for many is the constant bugs and glitches which have existed since this game was in an early access state. I can't count how many I've encountered, but it's generally every five or ten minutes. They've literally been there for several years, and the developers have done nothing about them.

    Thing is, I can tolerate most of the bugs. The thing that officially ruined the game for me, however, is the building, which is pretty integral to the game. This game has the single worst building mechanics of any game I've ever played, ever, no contest. It makes Fallout 4 look like a beacon of how to do building. It is horrific, absolutely painful and enraging, and the developers promised on multiple occasions that they were going to fix it while it was still considered by them to be in beta. They never did.

    If you want to build a fair sized base, you have a few options:

    A) You can spend several hours searching for the best place to build, although you will have to wait a long time until you can actually survive making it to that area (and settle for a crapshack until then), which is severely limiting. Even then, your planned build will likely have to be compromised on, and then some more sacrifices made, and then some more. By the time you're done, you'll have something maybe slightly resembling what you had in mind, because you couldn't build in half of the places it seemed like you could. Turns out, this 2x1 section right in the middle of where you planned to build is 3cm taller, so it absolutely won't let you build there.

    B) You can learn how to glitchbuild. This is arduous as hell. You will spend hours building pillars, destroying pillars, building pillars, placing your foundation.. Ope, it's uneven, time to build and destroy pillars some more until I can get it right. You also lose materials every time you destroy something, so you will either cheat or spend a ridiculous amount of time re-collecting resources you lost because the system won't just let you build there. Not a fun process at all. Those builds you see videos of online with incredible structures? They spent hundreds of hours getting good enough at circumventing the limitations this way in order to build it, and almost always cheated their resources back. Personally, if you have to work this hard and even cheat just to circumvent the mechanics and build a home base, your building mechanics are garbage and need to be completely redone.

    C) Mods. They don't completely fix it but rather make it a bit more tolerable, and they aren't available on my preferred platform (PS4), but they at least help.

    I can't recommend this game to anybody. It's a complete cash grab at this point, constantly releasing expensive new DLC on top of an utterly broken beta of a game. There are things I've really enjoyed about it, but ultimately, it's not worth the massive headache it takes to participate in 3/4 of the content this game has to offer. I also can't recommend anybody with more than five brain cells buy Ark 2 until well after release, because this developer will undoubtedly leave it broken as long as people are willing to pay for a broken game.    … Expand
  15. girin87
    Sep 13, 2021
    0
    on official servers they block for no reason
    wrote REQUEST # 2039266 in support, closed without an answer, why do they take money?
  16. NoobnGrelou
    Aug 21, 2021
    3
    hmm what can i say about this game is that's just a piece of s*** that's all.
  17. Kisylya
    Aug 9, 2021
    3
    Пожалуйста, перед покупкой этой игры, обратите внимание на еë цену. Это важно. Это игра в жанре выживание с кучей других людей. Игра которая вышла на пс4 в 2017 обосралась с графикой, физикой, ИИ, кастомизацией персонажа. Главное в этой игре по моему мнению - динозавры ведь если тебе это не интересно иди в раст. Динозавры здесь тупые, при спаривании ты хочешь отвести динозавров в одноПожалуйста, перед покупкой этой игры, обратите внимание на еë цену. Это важно. Это игра в жанре выживание с кучей других людей. Игра которая вышла на пс4 в 2017 обосралась с графикой, физикой, ИИ, кастомизацией персонажа. Главное в этой игре по моему мнению - динозавры ведь если тебе это не интересно иди в раст. Динозавры здесь тупые, при спаривании ты хочешь отвести динозавров в одно место - они тупят. Шрифт убогий. И с плохой графикой - 30 фпс. Хочешь 60 фпс смотри в текстуры камня. Хотя если ты это сделешь ты умрëшь. И цена в 2000 рублей… Expand
  18. TicketStubs
    Jul 3, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I may be a bit biased because of my distaste for survival games, but I really did not enjoy playing Ark. Pros: you get to catch and ride cool looking dinosaurs. Cons: you have to spend hours of real-life time to tame most of the bigger dinosaurs. Building in this game is a nightmare. Your food will spoil when you aren’t in game and your dinosaurs could die as well. It’s a lot of maintenance to keep your possessions once you have obtained them.
    Not a big fan    … Expand
  19. AaronAC
    Feb 24, 2021
    4
    The game is quite buggy and the graphics are quite good at their best i find the game play quite boring and repetitive. This game is for a very specific type of player that does not suit everyone i recommend watching some game play videos before buying this to make sure this is for you.
  20. yertre
    Feb 8, 2021
    3
    This game really could have been good.

    The game is so poorly optimised that it's pretty much unplayable in its current state. You really can't play this game.
  21. TyrIX
    Jan 24, 2021
    0
    Too scifi for something supposed to be prehistoric(ish), also, the random spawn enemy idea is absolute trash, why you would code it to spawn t-rex in the beginning spawn areas is beyond me..
  22. Mathilda94
    Dec 28, 2020
    3
    I had high expectations for this game & I was massively disappointed. The quality on ps4 is extremely bad, the controls are awful as well as the UI & the lack of a real mini map or even a map of the island are ruining the experience. I can’t for the life of me understand how the developers were thinking.
  23. Mtdeath
    Dec 7, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is just dog **** It crashes every five seconds. And when you can play the severs are so lagy. The game desperately needs to be optimized. Do not buy… Expand
  24. ZXstargazerxz
    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
  25. Exodus998
    Oct 1, 2020
    1
    Are you looking for a game that crashes every ten seconds? How about a game that deletes all your progress because of bugs? No? How about a game that kicks you from the entire game so it can update in the middle of a raid, Well if that's what you want this is the game for you! Omegatrash
  26. SORRIZORAQUEL
    Sep 26, 2020
    0
    Eu fiz a viola com pau de candeia, seu cu joga bosta meu pau cabeceia. Nois vai disputa no Campo da Sereia, meu pau que endurece seu cu que bambeia
  27. ickymettle
    Sep 3, 2020
    1
    I made the mistake of buying this without looking up metacritic scores. The concept of this game is fine, and I think the graphics look nice, but it is simply an awful experience to play. I started playing offline. The default gameplay settings are ridiculous, and even if you experiment enough to work out some more reasonable settings it is an enormously frustrating experience. I likeI made the mistake of buying this without looking up metacritic scores. The concept of this game is fine, and I think the graphics look nice, but it is simply an awful experience to play. I started playing offline. The default gameplay settings are ridiculous, and even if you experiment enough to work out some more reasonable settings it is an enormously frustrating experience. I like challenging games but I just don't see how much of the gameplay is fun. Wandering around in complete darkness after you die, whereupon you get instalkilled by anything you encounter, dying repeatedly trying to reclaim gear on your original corpse etc. Massively overlevelled monsters everywhere. Many of the materials required to tame dinosaurs were nowhere to be found in my starting area etc.. A tiny proportion of people will like the grind, but at no point did I feel "this is fun!".… Expand
  28. Daniel0809
    Aug 15, 2020
    2
    Minecraft with better graphics
  29. MaxV
    Aug 2, 2020
    0
    Unplayable. No way to save progress, no tutorials, nothing is self evident. Its like they designed the world and said "men, good enough- figure it out, dummy." And there is nothing on their website to make sense of it all- not even how to save your progress! How is this even a game? Avoid this title like the plague
  30. Tobyvenom
    Jul 15, 2020
    0
    i have more friends than this game has frames per seconds. and i have like 4 friends
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

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  1. Digitally Downloaded
    Oct 25, 2017
    70
    Like a lot of of titles in this genre, Ark: Survival Evolved has a steep learning curve and requires quite the time - and possibly financial - investment. But once you get into the rhythm of it, the endless need to survive, set against the simple satisfaction of slowly building up your capacity to do so, makes this a game that could well turn into a hobby for you, all in itself.
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  2. Meristation
    Sep 27, 2017
    70
    ARK: Survival Evolved is a complete survival experience. It could be a little frustrating at the beginning, but once you learn the mechanics and get used to the gameplay, the player has multiple options to develop their characters and enjoy the beautiful but dangerous open world created by Studio Wildcard. However, the console interface isn't intuitive enough, and the performance isn't perfect, with some framerate issues. Even so, it´s very enjoyable to interact with the wild creatures living in this prehistoric island.
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  3. GamingTrend
    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.
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