ARK: Survival Evolved (PC)

Release Date: August 29, 2017

Also On: iPhone/iPad, PlayStation 4, Switch, Xbox One

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Developer: Studio Wildcard

Publisher: Studio Wildcard

Game Details: Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill ...View More Details

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.

Developer: Studio Wildcard

Publisher: Studio Wildcard

Genre(s): Action Adventure Survival Sandbox

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(20)

Metascore Mixed or average reviews

7 Positive Ratings 38%

11 Mixed Ratings 61%

0 Negative Ratings 0%

Games Master UK

Oct 6, 2017

"It'll delight you, it'll make you despair, but ultimately Ark will leave you with a real sense of satisfaction. [Nov 2017, p.76]"

PCGamesN

Aug 29, 2017

"Ark’s ambition pulls it in the right direction with more force than its clunkiness tugs it the other way. It’s always more enjoyable to spend time with a game that tries something new and exciting, stumbling along the way, than a game that tries to tick focus group-inspired boxes. If that game also happens to simulate an entire prehistoric ecosystem, and produces bewildering emergent scenarios like clockwork, all the better." ... Read full review

Sep 1, 2017

"When I’m having a good time in ARK, I’m having a really good time. The problem is that those moments are usually one part to every nine parts menial grinding and crafting - especially at the later tech tiers. Having to repeat so much work after failing an attempt at a boss feels far too punishing, and some really dumb dinosaurs can take a lot of the challenge and sense of danger out of the many primal locations. Even with all of those quirks, however, I’m still hungry to play more after the 60 hours I’ve spent so far." ... Read full review

Sep 3, 2017

"In its best moments, Ark is the dream game of every Dino fan. But bugs and the grind-based game-mechanics often spoil the fun." ... Read full review

DarkStation

Oct 9, 2017

"Like so many survival/crafting games, from Minecraft to Subnautica, ARK presupposes a player with a lot of time to dedicate to the experience, a high tolerance for repetition, and a fondness for chaos and the unexpected. With its sci-fi inflected single player campaign, ARK at least offers a solo player the chance to get the gist of the game without the threat of anti-social humans ruining whatever progress has been made. For the past two years, ARK has been helping to shape the genre and now that it's finished, it feels like the genre is due for the next stage of evolution." ... Read full review

The Games Machine

Sep 8, 2017

"ARK is an ambitious project that, at the moment, lacks in optimisation: bugs, glitches and crashes happen too often and affect the gamer experience. The potential is enormous, but the devs should concentrate their work to solve all the issues and to fix what is already done, instead to produce new contents. Beware: the PvP servers are full of awful people, that's why you should buy the game if you are oriented to a PvE experience only." ... Read full review

USgamer

Sep 1, 2017

"Ark: Survival Evolved is a game full of rough edges. It's also a game full of some amazing moments over my total playtime. It's the kind of experience that has a lot of boredom and tedium, and a great deal of looking the other way in the face of bugs, but also some clear water cooler moments. There's something very cool buried in here, though I can't tell if that's because of some developer decisions or in spite of them. " ... Read full review

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5.7

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154 Positive Ratings 44%

63 Mixed Ratings 18%

128 Negative Ratings 37%

theirrelephants

Oct 24, 2017

While it has its problems, I can't justify giving this game anything less than a 10. I have over a thousand hours in it. A THOUSAND HOURS.While it has its problems, I can't justify giving this game anything less than a 10. I have over a thousand hours in it. A THOUSAND HOURS. That's ~41 days of nothing but playing this game.

It's fun, but incredibly un-optimized. Even if you have a good card, be prepared to turn those settings down to medium or low to get playable fps.

A lot of the bugs people have mentioned have been fixed since well before EA, I'm not sure what they're going on about. Yeah the game's support is genuinely terrible, but I only had to use it twice, once when I got a dinosaur stuck underneath the terrain (back in early access - and this only happened once) and second when I messed up with tranferring tribe ownership. Couldn't get any help with the first one because I couldn't remember the dino's name and it had been a few days (it was dead, jim), but the second one got resolved speedily.… Expand

Mateus1999

Sep 8, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. melhor jogo que existe nao tem micro transaçao tra otima experiencia diferente do jogos da EA que manipula jogadores a gastar ninheioro em micro transaçoes.MELHOR JOGO QUE JA JOGUEI.
ta bem otimizado otimo suporte.aconteceu um crash no meu jogo uma ves na mesma hora conversei com o suporte e enviaram um pedido de amizade na steam e ajudou a concertar.
ta otimizado nao precisa se um pece bom para jogar.um pc +- ja serve............APROVADO… Expand

IrongamerX

Sep 21, 2020

Such a beautiful game, if you want to have 3x fun, just play with your friends! It's a bit laggy, you should have a good PC to run atSuch a beautiful game, if you want to have 3x fun, just play with your friends! It's a bit laggy, you should have a good PC to run at Low/Medium settings, and it have a lot of bugs, but the amount of content you have on this game, is unbelievable, 8+ maps to play (half is DLC, but worth the money) and, if that's not enough, you can also play on servers, which are a bit stressful for some people, if you don't like the servers, there's mods too, hundreds of mods and some extra maps made from the community. Its a fantastic game, with good graphics, a lot of content and things to do, and some bugs.… Expand

VoltronGuy

Apr 10, 2020

ARK: Survival Evolved is not something to say it's good. It starts off like it's going to be a fun game, but as you progress, it gets quiteARK: Survival Evolved is not something to say it's good. It starts off like it's going to be a fun game, but as you progress, it gets quite boring. 50/50 game that is not worth paying for.… Expand

Kayla45

Sep 8, 2017

Ark Survival Evolved:
I have finally decided to review this game after 8400+ hours of gameplay in early access mode.
Positives: The gameArk Survival Evolved:
I have finally decided to review this game after 8400+ hours of gameplay in early access mode.

Positives:
The game is a great idea. The way the game begins is tough… I mean really tough. It is a challenge to get started and anyone without any patience is going to struggle but I do have patience and to me the hard difficulty of this game was a real refreshing eye opener… but be warned it is not for the feint hearted. The best part of the game is the idea that you can breed your dinosaurs. This has been implemented in a really interesting way, where you can pool your breeding into achievable goals and breed out your favourite dinosaurs to have the stats that you have always wanted… but all this comes after you have set up a kibble base, and tamed great level versions of your favourite dinosaurs. I personally play on PVE and as you can see, for over 8K hours I have had a great deal of fun and I have met some fantastic friends in the community… This ought to be a great game, but there is another side to it that I have to address…

Negatives:
I am so sad to say this, because I have put so much effort into playing this game legitimately and have done my best to help create a wonderful community and support network on a great PVE server… however, the developers of the game have treated us long serving players with utter contempt. We have been completely mistreated, taken for granted, unrewarded, lied to, mis-sold to… under a cloak of awful communication and absolutely brutal and dire decisions that have kicked the games player base in the teeth. The scenario now is that the devs were going to cull the lowest 10% of ghost servers… and instead have decided to wipe over 33% of servers with medium traffic to consolidate their server lists and re-use these to plonk new servers on that do not have the same issues that the old servers had, and then to cap it all, any support for the old servers and the long serving players who play on those servers is to be canned so that we are on our own if we lose a character or experience any technical issues… This is a huge let down of the Ark gaming community, and sadly it is pretty irrelevant, because any support I have needed in my 8K+ hours has been utterly non-existent anyway. I reported a serious harassment case and followed every single instruction to the letter, and no action was taken against the wrong-doers. This was a shameful let down and completely spoiled my enjoyment of the game… The devs carried on doing little tiny favours for a select few gamers whilst most tickets were left completely unattended. I have colleagues who lost their level 100 character in transit and not a single effort to answer the ticket was made, that was over 2 months ago now. The sad truth is, that this team of developers and community managers, is sadly the most useless and incompetent and uncaring team that I have ever experienced in a game… so if you have any issues playing this game… do not even bother to report it… nothing will be done… this Dev team do not care. They care that they receive your money… they will go on to look after the new servers and make things look as though they are prepared to provide support there… but it is as many things are in ark… it is lies and false promises.

Conclusion:
This game had SO much going for it… it was a fantastic idea but the execution of the game and the choices made by the developers has left a bruised gaming community feeling ripped off and mistreated, un-respected and un-supported… and sadly their actions and incompetence in how they run their business has led to this review being a vote of no confidence. The way the legacy servers are setup now means that over-time the old servers will lose players and get wiped, so either old players stick around on current servers and wait for the server to die, or we start afresh on a new server and wait to be lied to and sit having no confidence that one day these new servers wont be wiped themselves… and that is the finding of this review… that ultimately, there is no point in playing this game, because it provides 10% fun, 80% grief and trolling and a final 10% of crying into your coffee as you hope your dino baby survives over the next ridiculously badly timed update that takes away something else that used to be a good idea.

Do not buy this game… do not play this game… go and play something similar where the developers actually deserve your money.… Expand

Basilol

Jun 18, 2020

A unplayable game free on epic game... Free cuz it just suck, I can't play since all maps are dlc or an other version of mine. The onlyA unplayable game free on epic game... Free cuz it just suck, I can't play since all maps are dlc or an other version of mine. The only dedicated serv I can join were full of opti toxic kido who just kill on sight.
Bugs and other are just a the icing on the cake.… Expand

Tuco_Ramires

Sep 4, 2017

The constant threatening on legacy servers has end up sickening ppl.
Many have lost everything at release in the servers cut and the restThe constant threatening on legacy servers has end up sickening ppl.
Many have lost everything at release in the servers cut and the rest don't trust WC anymore.
Also announced end of support for these servers,what ppl are supposed to think?… Expand

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