
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Most likely between $64.7M and $183.3M. How we estimate →
Checked against 8 developer-reported games
| Store | Price | Score | Revenue · chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam | $44.99 | 60% | approximately $107.8M |
| PlayStation | $44.99 | 70% | — |
| Epic | $44.99 | 88% | — |
Matched by title. Prices and chart positions are each store's US storefront; Epic charts worldwide. * critic score.
Cheapest copy: ≈ $36.58 on Steam · Ukraine (−19%). Compare 17 prices in 15 markets →
Reviews
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Reviews
blurry hell
buns just buns
le jeu est bien mais tres bugge et pas optimiser
It's literally just a reskin of Survival Evolved, unless you're looking to buy a bunch of DLC.
bruh i bought and play this game but its so lag and take a lot gb to download bruh after 1 week still cant even get refund game ♥♥♥♥
Very poor optimization, although the graphics are pretty. Singleplayer is still very buggy, and has been since release. Lots of Pay to win creatures so PVP is pretty terrible unless you want to spend a lot of money. With the new "Bob's Tall Tales" and "Lost Colony" DLC's, they now taunt people who don't want to spend additional money by adding a skill tree tab, buried treasure maps, and other things that simply redirect you to a paywall when you try to interact with them. Honestly pretty shameful. Overall very disappointing that Snail Games got their paws on the franchise, maybe one day they'll be bought out by a company with better practices.
Отзыв (RU) Не рекомендую. Это не игра, это лабораторная работа первокурсников, которую зачем-то продают по полной цене. Такое ощущение, что игру придумали 1-2 реально талантливых человека, а писать код отдали студентам, которые вчера открыли учебник. QA в этой конторе, судя по всему, не существует как класс - либо он есть, но состоит из одного человека, который его тоже не проходит. Патчи ломают игру. Каждый. Раз. Обновления выходят каждые два дня, и это не преувеличение - буквально каждое что-то убивает. Ни единого исключения за всё время. После крупных патчей неофициальные сервера лежат по нескольку дней, потому что разваливаются моды. Это не разработка игры, это конвейер по производству багов с игрой в довесок. Установка патча - отдельный вид издевательства. Игра с дополнениями весит 400 ГБ. Она только что вылетела прямо во время сессии, пока я был под водой. Перезаход - качается 2 гигабайта. Казалось бы, ерунда. Экспектед тайм: 4, ♥♥♥♥, часа. Перекачать игру заново - быстрее, час. Но и часа хватит, чтобы персонаж утонул и потерял весь инвентарь, всех прирученных динозавров, всё нажитое - из-за двухгигабайтного патча, который ставится дольше, чем скачивается вся игра. Это не баг, это дизайн-решение уровня "нам плевать". Оптимизация - отдельная комедия. RTX 4080, средние настройки - 45 кадров. Выкручиваю графику в ноль - 60. На топовой видеокарте. Для сравнения: Subnautica 2 на том же движке спокойно бегает на GTX 1660 Ti, а на 4080 летает на ультра-настройках, и при этом выглядит на голову лучше. Значит, дело не в движке - дело в руках, которые к нему прикрутили эту игру. Хорошая идея, убитая исполнением. Играть в это - значит добровольно соглашаться на то, что твой прогресс в любой момент может сгореть из-за очередного кривого патча. Не покупайте, пока разработчики не научатся тестировать хотя бы то, что выпускают. Review (EN) Not recommended. This isn't a game, it's a freshman lab project someone decided to sell at full price. It feels like 1-2 genuinely talented people came up with the concept, and the actual coding got handed off to students who opened a tutorial yesterday. QA apparently doesn't exist at this studio - or if it does, it's one guy who also doesn't do his job. Every single patch breaks the game. Every one. Updates drop every two days, and this isn't an exaggeration - literally every single one kills something. Zero exceptions, ever. After major patches, unofficial servers go down for days because mods fall apart. This isn't game development, it's an assembly line for bugs with a game attached as a side effect. Installing a patch is its own form of torture. The game with DLC is 400 GB. It just crashed mid-session while I was underwater. Relaunch it, and it downloads a 2 GB patch - sounds like nothing, right? Estimated install time: 4 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hours. Just re-downloading the whole game is faster - one hour. But even an hour is enough for your character to drown and lose everything: the entire inventory, every tamed dinosaur, everything you built up - all because of a 2 GB patch that takes longer to install than the entire game takes to download. That's not a bug, that's a design decision that screams "we don't care." Optimization is a joke. RTX 4080, medium settings - 45 fps. Turn every graphics setting to zero - 60 fps. On a top-tier card. For comparison: Subnautica 2, same engine, runs fine on a GTX 1660 Ti and flies on ultra on a 4080 - and looks miles better while doing it. So it's not the engine's fault - it's whoever's hands bolted this game onto it. Good idea, murdered by execution. Playing this means voluntarily agreeing that your progress can go up in smoke at any moment because of the next broken patch. Don't buy it until the devs learn to test whatever it is they're shipping.
My review is negative because of the performance and the disk space mainly. I absolutely love the game since I play singleplayer by myself with mods, I'm also quite tolerant when it comes to playing at below 60fps so for me it isn't that horrible. What IS horrible though, is the fact that I have a 5070 ti and ryzen 7 9700X and I can't even get 60fps with dlss balanced and their medium preset in settings (I play 1440p), that in itself is mind boggling since I know not everyone has system as powerful as mine. Then there's also the fact that just by turning down the settings like that, your basically negating one of the reason to switch from ASE to ASA which is the visuals. The disk space needed is also horrible as it always has been with ark, just today I needed to update the game and it's taking hours because it's installing 230gb or at least going through that many files.
I bought Ark and all the dlcs as they cam out and sunk maybe a thousand hours into the game over years with my friends honestly. I was a little upset that I had to repurchase the base game to be able to play it at all but it was on sale so I figured what the heck. What's 12 more dollars on top of the hundreds I already spent on the series? Yeah, the whole game is just bait to pay more money now. You can't even attempt to tame certain creatures without a pop-up to buy a dlc. All the dlc worlds that I paid to play are lost too. They say they are free but when I go to download them it just launches the game instead and considering it keeps telling me to buy the season pass I wouldn't be shocked if worlds like scorched earth are locked behind that pass once again. ♥♥♥♥ ARK AND EVERYTHING ITS DEVELOPERS STAND FOR. thanks for robbing your fanbase ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
This game was better 10 years ago. I wish I never bought Ascended.