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. Miojo_queimadu
    Nov 3, 2019
    1
    O jogo é bom, mas a I.A do jogo consegue estragar tudo, nunca vi uma inteligência artificial tão nojenta, tanto na parte dos dinos domados quanto na parte dos não domados, eu não sei nem mexer no World direito, mas aposto que consigo fazer uma I.A melhor que esses caras ai.
  2. AlexandrePursui
    Sep 16, 2019
    1
    Wildcard go to hell! This game makes Bethesda software look like NASA if compared. A sh*thole game where: you glitch in the ground, through the trees, walls, rocks, and your Dino aswell. Dinos disappear for no reason after night, wild dinos can compenetrate so hard to the wall that they can get inside your home and kill your pet dinos. If you travel to other servers you remain stucked andWildcard go to hell! This game makes Bethesda software look like NASA if compared. A sh*thole game where: you glitch in the ground, through the trees, walls, rocks, and your Dino aswell. Dinos disappear for no reason after night, wild dinos can compenetrate so hard to the wall that they can get inside your home and kill your pet dinos. If you travel to other servers you remain stucked and you loose your dinos if an allied tribe don't feed em, I mean, 70 euros for this piece of fecies? It's annoying and triggering how badly designed and poorly realize this game is.… Expand
  3. Rogue_Reaver
    Mar 2, 2020
    1
    Iv played since beta but refuse to give these scammers another cent or minute of my life! They are just gonna keep producing half polished turds and neglecting them soon as the money comes in to start making the next turd of a game iv been wiped by the devs more times than other players!( and i mean due to bugged updates not because i was cheating.. cheating is gross)
  4. TriskelQc
    Mar 20, 2020
    1
    J’ai vraiment essayé d’aimer ça! Mais on s’entend, tout bug/lag/crash. À chaque moment de jeux des choses arrive qui font que ça donne envie de détruire le jeux (même une version dans le cloud). Je ne recommande à personne de l’acheter ou même de penser l’acheter. Perte de temps x1000. Le seul point fort c’est que je l’ai eu gratuitement alors j’ai épargné de l’argent et en supprimant leJ’ai vraiment essayé d’aimer ça! Mais on s’entend, tout bug/lag/crash. À chaque moment de jeux des choses arrive qui font que ça donne envie de détruire le jeux (même une version dans le cloud). Je ne recommande à personne de l’acheter ou même de penser l’acheter. Perte de temps x1000. Le seul point fort c’est que je l’ai eu gratuitement alors j’ai épargné de l’argent et en supprimant le jeux j’ai pu récupérer tout cette espace de storage dans ma ps4 pour download des jeux qui valent la peine!… Expand
  5. Lennox19
    Apr 17, 2020
    1
    Vom Prinzip und von der Idee her ein gutes Spiel, aber auf der Ps4 unmöglich mit einem Freund Online ohne Probleme zu spielen. Auch kein Tutorial und sehr veraltete Grafik, dazu ist das Overlay einfach hässlich.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. Xelluse
    Jan 10, 2018
    0
    Can say just one thing: This so called Game is just a scam! Stay away from it!
  14. Bitrip
    Jun 10, 2019
    0
    Wow, this game is bad. The interface is terrible and nothing is intuitive. The controls scheme is a nightmare, the game is buggy, and there is a ton of lag (produced from poor optimization). I cannot recommend this game.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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 ****
  21. 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
  22. GlacierPlayZ
    Jun 1, 2020
    0
    I gag, rage, and hit my desk every time I play this game. It's pacing is too slow for its presentation. I spent hours not going anywhere, even with people who "knew" what they were doing. It's only saving grace was the price I bought it for ($15). This game should be free with the amount of DLC that there is to purchase, maps that give you an advantage and that make it easier to play. ToI gag, rage, and hit my desk every time I play this game. It's pacing is too slow for its presentation. I spent hours not going anywhere, even with people who "knew" what they were doing. It's only saving grace was the price I bought it for ($15). This game should be free with the amount of DLC that there is to purchase, maps that give you an advantage and that make it easier to play. To help it repetitive and horrific base gameplay, the game controls terribly with frame drops every time that I leave a menu, missing a step launches you off the mountain face, hunger breaks you legs, dehydration breaks your legs, diseases where you have to be a certain level to cure, dragons that allow you to traverse the landscape and destroy bases and dinosaurs within minutes without any effort, you can only carry so much before you can't even walk, every dinosaur can kill you because all dinosaurs are overpowered, you can barely do any damage to the dinos, dinosaurs spawn everywhere with levels that can one-shot a new character or too many to handle, grinding is so boring because you need to set up a base in every location with a few bed because if you die too often you'll have to wait 5 minutes to respawn, the only goal it to get a dragon in order to be an **** to everyone on the server.

    The only saving grace are the birds, the poop sound effect, and the graphics. That's about it.

    I detest this game and the price of $60 USD is filed by corporate greed and the $5-$20 DLC just for a reskin of a map that was randomly generated and then released to the public or a literal reskin of items in the game are just signs of bad game design. Do not buy this game, nor even think about buying it.    … Expand
  23. 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!
  24. willywonkachoco
    Apr 11, 2019
    0
    waste of $$$, game for ps4 is a nigthmare, disc problems and crash ps4, show some errors and etc, all pics are fake , dont show actual game, but this like nice looking box with rubbish inside
  25. InGenGamer
    Jul 20, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Die Community kriegt bessere Sachen hin als Die Entwickler selber .........… Expand
  26. Tobyvenom
    Jul 15, 2020
    0
    i have more friends than this game has frames per seconds. and i have like 4 friends
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. arkisajoke
    Feb 25, 2020
    0
    Even after 5 years it's been released this game is an extremely bad quality game countless bugs, online unstability, corrupted saves because of mods, terrible graphic optimization with a not so pretty game, the ONLY official mod doesn't even work LUL and after years the developing team didn't even bother to fix it, now let's talk how Unable the dev team is to meet the deadlines forEven after 5 years it's been released this game is an extremely bad quality game countless bugs, online unstability, corrupted saves because of mods, terrible graphic optimization with a not so pretty game, the ONLY official mod doesn't even work LUL and after years the developing team didn't even bother to fix it, now let's talk how Unable the dev team is to meet the deadlines for releasing the new extension, 3 months late that is and they keep delaying it again and again for reasons that ONLY them are responsible of, that showing what an incompetent team ARK has behind it, so for those interested in buying this game at this date trust me on this, paying 55 € for such a low quality game developed by an incompetent developing team don't waste money and any more time go find another game :)… Expand
  30. MagicManVBCA
    Feb 29, 2020
    0
    Got it for $10 and still feel like I was robbed. No exaggeration the lag alone makes this game literally unplayable not to mention a million other problems. Do not buy
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 15
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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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