ARK: Survival Evolved

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5.3

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  1. Widowmakernt
    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 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    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 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.    … Expand
  2. 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
  3. Isoburns
    Dec 28, 2016
    0
    Astonishingly poor! £40 price tag for a early release (alpha/beta build) is disgusting. Playstation have pulled another no mans sky debacle without any pre warning that it is early access, they'll refuse to refund and the only way to get it is through playstation store so once you've downloaded it they'll throw terms and conditions in your face. Utter shame because the potential for thisAstonishingly poor! £40 price tag for a early release (alpha/beta build) is disgusting. Playstation have pulled another no mans sky debacle without any pre warning that it is early access, they'll refuse to refund and the only way to get it is through playstation store so once you've downloaded it they'll throw terms and conditions in your face. Utter shame because the potential for this game is huge but should not have been released until it was refined and finished. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE WASTE OF MONEY!!!!! DONT BUY UNTIL ITS FINSIHED!!!!

    ALSO ITS WORTH MENTIONING IF YOU ARE EPILECTIC DEFINITELY DONT BUY, NO WARNING OR HEALTH SAFETY AND WILL CAUSE SEIZURES UNTIL CERTAIN BUGS ARE FIXED    … Expand
  4. TheShak
    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 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 resourceThe 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.    … Expand
  5. FrostReaper
    Mar 2, 2017
    4
    This game would be more fun if they would fix the lag in the dedicated servers before adding new content to the game. They need to also fix an issue as to building bases because people build such big bases preventing people from getting resources or preventing them from building a base to do much of there own. Adding a build barrier would help fix the issue and limiting you to building 1This game would be more fun if they would fix the lag in the dedicated servers before adding new content to the game. They need to also fix an issue as to building bases because people build such big bases preventing people from getting resources or preventing them from building a base to do much of there own. Adding a build barrier would help fix the issue and limiting you to building 1 base an 4 check points and provide a more defined map that will show your buildings so that if by chance you get lost you can use your map and find your way home. There also should not be a distance barrier in hosted server because that forces people to stop anything that they are doing so there friends can go do something. This is a good idea game but it seems not much thought from a gamers point of view because no one likes being limited to what they can do. Adding a story line wouldn't be a bad idea ether and a NPC city full of npcs selling gear supplies and services also giving you missions and allowing you to hire NPCs to work your base like farming repair work harvest supplies hunting helping to tame dino's defined your base and much more. There is so much potential for this game if they just listened to gamers and ideas people give for the game. If you make a game where you can do the things i mentioned and more you would have a top selling game Arc could be a great game.… Expand
  6. DelWolf
    Apr 20, 2017
    4
    It's an open-world survivor, you can't go wrong with that, right?
    Well, the mechanics are uncomfortable and overused, and the world feels a bit like it was copy-pasted.
    This had potential, it really, did, but it was an overpriced mess.
    There are plenty better survivors out there, don't hold your breath for masterpiece here...
    And don't even get me started on the lag...
  7. Maurisback
    Dec 6, 2017
    3
    The idea of the game itself its actually not to bad,but its worse with everything else. If you wanna play on your own it takes hours and hours to get anywhere, and yet if you play with friends its a nightmare also because to save money they used potato servers instead of proper ones. I ve bought this game when it was in alfa realise, today this game is officially released but nothingThe idea of the game itself its actually not to bad,but its worse with everything else. If you wanna play on your own it takes hours and hours to get anywhere, and yet if you play with friends its a nightmare also because to save money they used potato servers instead of proper ones. I ve bought this game when it was in alfa realise, today this game is officially released but nothing really changed since then, the servers are still lagging and take ages to load while in the game and its not only ps4 having this problems, its in all the platforms like that. Overall i could be more happy with the game if they make it a bit faster and of course the servers need extra touch as well, the last thing would be grinding.. Unless you have 5 people in your tribe its no problem but if you deicide to play on your own... well you can't and you won't, trust me. I wouldn't recommend anyone to spend your hard earned money on this game… Expand
  8. DERPmaster7
    Jan 31, 2020
    4
    This game would probably be my favorite game ever if it the optimization wasn't straight up horrible and the devs actually cared about the game. Unless you really like dinosaurs and survival games do not buy this.
  9. AbegDrall
    Mar 27, 2017
    1
    It would have been a great idea, and would be fun to play, BUT the technical online underperformance and complete lack of support resolving your issues, makes it THE MOST FRUSTRATING game I have ever played. Really sad. All your efforts like having a Wyvern level 217 can be gone in 1 second, because the upload into ark malfunctions, or a Golem level 197 simply vanishes without a trace fromIt would have been a great idea, and would be fun to play, BUT the technical online underperformance and complete lack of support resolving your issues, makes it THE MOST FRUSTRATING game I have ever played. Really sad. All your efforts like having a Wyvern level 217 can be gone in 1 second, because the upload into ark malfunctions, or a Golem level 197 simply vanishes without a trace from your base. The constant rollbacks because of server issues and lags make this game an overall very frustrating experience. It could have been amazing, the idea and gameplay could be wonderful, but the technical issues destroy everything.… Expand
  10. MrFixMX5
    Aug 8, 2018
    0
    For me, first impressions are everything. This had me quitting before I even started. I spent $60 on a game only to turn around and want to get rid of it immediately. From the starting screen I am already not knowing what to do. I have to create a server and then adjust everything before I even know what is going on? No thank you. That leads me to getting into the game and seeing myFor me, first impressions are everything. This had me quitting before I even started. I spent $60 on a game only to turn around and want to get rid of it immediately. From the starting screen I am already not knowing what to do. I have to create a server and then adjust everything before I even know what is going on? No thank you. That leads me to getting into the game and seeing my characters PS3 quality graphics, that turned me off. Then, to put a little bow on everything, you get in to not have any instructions, have no idea what to do, and not know how to access anything. That's it. I couldn't own this game for longer for 5 minutes unless i was paid to.… Expand
  11. tellefsdal
    Dec 18, 2016
    0
    This game runs like absolute trash. I cannot believe Sony QC control approved a game that runs with a frame rate dipping in the one digit territory. The gameplay is irrelevant as long as the game performs like this.
  12. kaymick
    Jan 14, 2017
    1
    This is a genuine review of the game based on around 10+ hours of gameplay on the PS4. The short story? DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME. Out of 10 people who buy this game, I can guarantee you that only 2 out of the 10 will actually enjoy the game in the long run. The majority of us? Not so much. Not only does this game have horrific performance issues (anyone who says they get noThis is a genuine review of the game based on around 10+ hours of gameplay on the PS4. The short story? DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME. Out of 10 people who buy this game, I can guarantee you that only 2 out of the 10 will actually enjoy the game in the long run. The majority of us? Not so much. Not only does this game have horrific performance issues (anyone who says they get no lags or freezes is lying), but the game itself is just...bad. The UI is buggy and tedious to manage. There is absolutely NO tutorial of any kind, the Dino's rarely work as intended, and even if you manage to learn the games ridiculous controls and get a foothold in a server, you WILL be killed and raided by one of the few "Alpha" tribes just for **** and giggles. Do not bother joining any official server considering they are all EXTREMELY unbalanced, not to mention toxic. Even unofficial servers are mostly terrible, what with the inconsistent admins, hackers, unbalanced gameplay, and constant NAT issues. (PVE will not solve all your issues, as players can still find ways to grief you.) New players, you will CONSTANTLY be **** upon, so get used to dying due to the stupidest reasons. Also, if you have sensitive eyes or epilepsy, do NOT buy this game, as the PS4 screenshots are very misleading. The game has a bizarre contrast/saturation setting that you cannot change in-game. The skies during the daytime are unrealistically blinding, as well as any sunlight reflecting off of water, which can cause great strain to anyone with eye problems. Working your way up is a tedious grind, and even once you reach the top, the game becomes boring as there is really nothing else to do except await the inevitable ass-beating you are going to receive from another tribe invading the server.

    This game is O.K on PC (it is slowly dying out though, due to the devs being incompetent), but on PS4 it is utter **** If you purchase this game you HAVE to buy it full price with the DLC, no exceptions. The game isn't even finished yet, but for some reason Sony thought it would be a good idea to release this game as a AAA title anyways. Not only that, but if you bought this game on accident thinking it would be a fun play, tough **** Sony will throw their terms and conditions in your face and let you know that there are absolutely no refunds on digital content if you already started downloading it. (Ironic how the only way to buy this game on PS4 is through DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY hmmmmm.....) This is obviously yet another bad decision on Sony's part in an effort to grab cash from suckers who think this is a good game.

    Maybe this game can be good in the future when it's actually DONE, but as of right now, Ark Survival Evolved on the PS4 is a buggy, lackluster mess that is unplayable until the devs pull their **** together.    … Expand
  13. fuzywzyboomboom
    Mar 16, 2017
    4
    Game is great when you're playing single player on a single player server. Official servers are complete trash though. If you're fine just playing by yourself and exploring what is around you then you should get this game. If you want a good pvp element don't buy this game. The lag is awful and everyone is already ten times better than you before you even start.
  14. neolip
    Jan 10, 2017
    0
    This game consists of bugs, freezes, terrible control and a complete lack of usability. I think unacceptable releasing such unfinished products on PS4.
  15. silly_monkey56
    Feb 16, 2017
    0
    Why is this game on ps4 when the PC version is still in early access? The answer is simple: greedy, thirsty developers.

    Before this port came out, they even released a full-price DLC on Steam, despite the main game being a broken, unfinished pile of garbage. Do not waste your money on this version OR the PC version.
  16. Injun
    Jan 28, 2017
    1
    Awful, continual lag will drive you mad. A plethora of other glitches and bugs listed in other reviews here. Overall the worst, un-optimized game I have played on PS4.
  17. Lydera
    Jan 23, 2017
    1
    If you suffer from vertigo, this game is not for you at this time. I was unable to play due to the number of graphical issues in the game, including black/white flashes of tearing near water, extremely bright lighting, rocks and other items flashing on the screen. After a whole 3 minutes, I had to shut it off.

    At this time, the was no indication on the PS store to indicate that this was    If you suffer from vertigo, this game is not for you at this time. I was unable to play due to the number of graphical issues in the game, including black/white flashes of tearing near water, extremely bright lighting, rocks and other items flashing on the screen. After a whole 3 minutes, I had to shut it off.

    At this time, the was no indication on the PS store to indicate that this was in development not that this was an introductory price, even though the dev team has said that the official release is this spring.    … Expand
  18. Verosho
    Dec 29, 2016
    2
    Do not buy this game until they fix it! This is a No Mans Sky mk 2 but worse.

    I couldn't stand by and let another gamer be caught out by another broken game like this one that I just had to set up this account to express my disbelief at how badly this game runs on the PS4. Yes it has potential and I wish it truely worked but the game is broken at the time of writing this and yes! this    Do not buy this game until they fix it! This is a No Mans Sky mk 2 but worse.

    I couldn't stand by and let another gamer be caught out by another broken game like this one that I just had to set up this account to express my disbelief at how badly this game runs on the PS4. Yes it has potential and I wish it truely worked but the game is broken at the time of writing this and yes! this is another no mans sky stunt, no sorry... that was more stable of a game and Sony's shadey way of keeping your money because of their self set rules of digital content is disgraceful. (Which are null and void in the UK if the content is faulty)

    You cant play on the original Ark world as server support is limited so half of the game you cant even play with other people because they are always full. So in effect you are forced to purchase the the dlc as well if you want to play online and enjoy the game in any way (thats if you can get over the various game crashes). The only problem with the dlc is that the scorched earth map is MUCH! harder to survive in and you are given zero directions on how to play the game, you cant find water in a desert and the game is impossible to survive alone, did I mention you cant invite your friends online? Fine I accept its a learning process and 'get gud' and all but this is a poor port of a game and should not be on Sony's shelf with the state it's in.

    Forget about setting a private server up and play with your friends, if the freezing of the game just by sending an invite wont stop you, the constant NAT types issues that the developers havent fixed for the last few weeks will stop you.

    All my friends who were excited to play this said it was broken and got their refunds, so am I and you should avoid it for at least a year.

    PLEASE AVOID!    … Expand
  19. sclark13
    Dec 9, 2016
    2
    This game barely runs on a high-end computer let alone on the ps4. Ignoring the performance issues, the underlying gameplay is not very fun at all, and is just a grind. I would wait for it to actually release and professional reviews to come out before purchasing the game.
  20. Vernichtung
    Sep 1, 2017
    0
    Do not buy nor support This game or dev!

    The game is buggy as hell and unplayable. The servers are completely pillared meaning you cant even build a campfire, On top of that they have removed support for legacy players. I lost two bred spino's both over level 250, due to a bug. Contacted support who sad sorry but STFU. Literally hours of work lost just to be told to go away!!!!!    Do not buy nor support This game or dev!

    The game is buggy as hell and unplayable. The servers are completely pillared meaning you cant even build a campfire,

    On top of that they have removed support for legacy players. I lost two bred spino's both over level 250, due to a bug. Contacted support who sad sorry but STFU.

    Literally hours of work lost just to be told to go away!!!!! Shame Wildcard!    … Expand
  21. Brajzah
    Nov 26, 2017
    4
    Game wants to be great but with a myriad of technical problems holding it back, it's hard to recommend. It's a glitchy, broken mess that can be awesome fun when it works. Sadly it feels like the developers needed to keep this one in the oven until it was done...
  22. Supremo182
    Mar 3, 2017
    4
    Valoración de 4 puntos... por que ? por que compre un juego a medio terminar... entras a un mapa con usuarios que te matan de 1 solo golpe, y vos venís con suerte juntando recursos... incontables las veces que morí intentando subir un poco.. y volver a comenzar todo el tiempo, para que todo se me borre después.
  23. Stormtroopers02
    Jan 28, 2018
    3
    Maximum Survivor trophy on ps4 wont unlock without dlc as they added 15 more levels but you can only get them through dlc which you have to pay for.
  24. The_Undula
    Oct 13, 2019
    3
    In a sentence: It can be a lot of fun, but if I could refund my £16, I would do so.

    Ark is a terribly broken, laggy, clunky, and badly designed game, with a fantastic masterpiece hiding inside. Gameplay (general): Ark really is the ps4 equivalent of a primark clothing garment: it looks pretty cool, but scratch beneath the surface just a tiny bit and you find the abysmal laziness of    In a sentence: It can be a lot of fun, but if I could refund my £16, I would do so.

    Ark is a terribly broken, laggy, clunky, and badly designed game, with a fantastic masterpiece hiding inside.

    Gameplay (general):
    Ark really is the ps4 equivalent of a primark clothing garment: it looks pretty cool, but scratch beneath the surface just a tiny bit and you find the abysmal laziness of the manufacturing.

    I've had brilliant moments where I rode in on a huge giganotosaurus to defend my base, slaughtering the enemy dinosaurs. Sadly these are outweighed 100 to 1 by endless tedious grinding, getting stuck in rocks and having to have a friend kill me to escape, losing dinosaurs to laughable offline hunger mechanics, and even having tamed dinosaurs bug under the map after spending hours acquiring them.

    The new player experience: When you begin this game, you're usually greeted by being immediately spawn killed by a raptor several times (why this is the caseI do not know). The solution is actually quite easy: just make a bed in a small house once you spawn somewhere safe, but the problem is there are ABSOLUTELY NO INSTRUCTIONS WHATSOEVER. Ark is a very complicated game - after over 100 hours I still feel like a noob, and for a game this complex to have literally no tutorial at all is yet another example of the extreme laziness at Wildcard.
    If you do come to love this game, it will certainly not be until you've played for 10s of hours and spent more time than that watching youtube guides - this is not an exaggeration.

    Pay-to-win: there's also the issue of apparent pay to win mechanics. You buy the game only to realise that in order to stand a chance in pvp you need to spend the same amount again to get the latest expansion, or else remain hopelessly outclassed by the new unbalanced dinosaurs only available behind a second pay-wall.

    in summary: as other reviews say (and I think this particularly applies to console), Ark is an extremely frustrating experience, as the gameplay can be really very fun, but it's ruined by all the problems caused by the laziness of the developers.

    Note: if you do buy this game - do not bother playing official servers unless you have 10s of friends to help you - you will not survive against the massive dominating tribes otherwise. I would strongly recommend playing a private server.    … Expand
  25. Eeemmi
    May 12, 2020
    3
    Arc is a game with great promise and phenomenal concepts, however it fails to execute in these ideas through poor playability
  26. DonJonson
    May 1, 2017
    0
    Don't let the nice graphics fool you. The underlying mechanics of this game is broken, which is something I realised about 100hours into gameplay. Single player / PVE is fun at first, but gets boring quickly. Official PVP is complete trash as there is no such thing as offline raid prevention, which means any progress you make during a session will be wiped by griefers when you're offline.Don't let the nice graphics fool you. The underlying mechanics of this game is broken, which is something I realised about 100hours into gameplay. Single player / PVE is fun at first, but gets boring quickly. Official PVP is complete trash as there is no such thing as offline raid prevention, which means any progress you make during a session will be wiped by griefers when you're offline. This game quickly devolves into being a chore. Had potential, but the studio doesn't have the ability execute it properly. You can polish a turd and make it as shiny as you want, but at the end of the day, it's still a turd.… Expand
  27. CHEESEGUY
    Sep 14, 2017
    0
    Broken laggy mess. Devs are the worst lazy in the industry.

    his game is a lie in a 60$ box. It is not what we have been waiting for it is not "better longer with more to do" the story is complete childish ****
  28. NopdAuron
    Nov 23, 2017
    1
    Public servers are bad! Even when the server says the ping is low there's still lag. It's even worse when players have a bunch of stuff everywhere. Speaking of players, the players in the game are so greedy. They have huge bases and on top of that, they build random stuff around so you cannot build almost anywhere. Also, this game is almost bad for new players, you can start off in anPublic servers are bad! Even when the server says the ping is low there's still lag. It's even worse when players have a bunch of stuff everywhere. Speaking of players, the players in the game are so greedy. They have huge bases and on top of that, they build random stuff around so you cannot build almost anywhere. Also, this game is almost bad for new players, you can start off in an easy area yet the dinos are above level 50! There's also these dinos who steal your stuff as well as put to you to sleep. The ones who put you to sleep are over powered as hell because once they put you to sleep they pretty much kill you. I only ever touched pve I bet pvp is even worse!. Laggy game, and bad community not worth your time.… Expand
  29. Drifter616
    Jul 10, 2019
    3
    As a new player it’s not even enjoyable. And the controls are way too complicated and it doesn’t explain anything to you. Doesn’t run great on PS4 either. And I couldn’t get console commands to work after trying forever so yeah I don’t recommend.
  30. 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.
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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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