
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% | — |
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Cheapest copy: ≈ $36.58 on Steam · Ukraine (−19%). Compare 17 prices in 15 markets →
Reviews
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Reviews
I've had a lot of fun with this game with over 2k hours in it, so this kinda stings to write. The way this game is updated/maintained is garbage. Every update breaks something. The latest Gen1 update was so jank it barely functioned. I play single player, but I've heard the servers aren't even accessible for online play. Gen1 was a lazy release where the studio seemed to focus more on the paid DLC than the actual map, which seems to be the direction they are heading nowadays. Want proof? Look no further than under the ocean where the floor is just a lazily placed world border. There have been many instances where I've lost weeks of work due to the game crashing after an update and me having to reload a previous backup. At this point, I can't in good faith recommend this game as the studio seems set on pushing new paid DLC rather than fixing the broken mess that is this game.
As much as I personally enjoy this game, I can't recommend it to others. There are just so many technical issues with this game that absolutely need to be sorted out, I want this game to be as good as it can be and succeed, but it needs some serious work to get there. I hope that the studio can realize that someday and put a strong effort toward the stability of this game.
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.
Don't buy. The game developer, game engine, game design, and game programming will screw you over, and over, and over. And you will just have to take it. - Really, buying this game isn't likely to be a good decision. Play some other game. Any other. - Admittedly, it's a great concept, and some of it is acceptable. - BUT, The majority is generally, barely able to pass muster. Bad UE5 execution/game development/developer/evil publisher/server design/monetization. - If you do choose to buy the title, remember well that this is rerelease. The pricing models are nostalgia exploitation. Avoid paying full price.
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.
goated pyromane is a scam its just a shadowmane reskin
♥♥♥♥ game , ♥♥♥♥ devs , ♥♥♥♥ gm raptor , ♥♥♥♥ genesis 1 map i love ark but the developer team kill it! Everyone dupe hexa on gen 1 and devs dont care , they do 1 rollback and then stop do it because people lose chars so he forgot about people duping and destroying the game
这更新每次都要重写一遍完整游戏的问题不修,这个差评就一天不删
это не игра а ♥♥♥♥♥♥ гейский стресс тест для компа, двадцать кадров фризы просадки зато трава красивая, ♥♥♥♥♥ она мне... разрабы продали старый арк второй раз а оптимизацию не завезли ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ не покупайте эту парашу деньги на ветер
This is just hot ass, 5gb update, 2hr wait, happens every day, impossable to play sometimes and just the most unoptomized piece of ♥♥♥♥ i have ever seen.