ARK: Survival Evolved

ev erytime I open this game my pc catches on fucking fire and turns into a jet engine

very nice game and cool graphicsssssss

---{ 07 / 10 }---
This is another game that would deserve a much higher score, if there weren't that many bugs and performance issues. It is one of the best survival craft games and my childhood dream of riding and fighting with dinosaurs was finally fulfilled.

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is (For its time, performance is another question)
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☑ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

Woke up on a beach, completely naked and punching trees like it’s my full-time job.
Spent the first 20 minutes dying of dehydration, then the next 30 running from a dinosaur that looked at me funny.
Finally built a tiny house. A dodo walked in. I let him stay. Named him Steve. We were a family.
Tamed a raptor. Felt unstoppable. Raptor died to a random jellyfish in two seconds.
Steve watched. Steve judged.
Got revenge by punching a fish. Fish won.
300 hours in and I still don’t know what I’m doing.
10/10

Favorite game so far. The Soundtrack give me tears and chillsof nostalgia. They should have kept this one and fixed it, instead of releasing a new "remastered version". Sucker move

I am quiet annoyed at the lies this game claims on the store page.. 60gb space.. installed and it wanted 140gb.. eh fine can clear the space.. then comes dlc.. now at 400GB FFS.. all for a game that is dead online and singleplayer only if in Australia as the servers at best get 10 people..They removed official servers to attempt to force you into their trash money grab remake in the god aweful UE5 that runs terrible and literally just recooked the exact same DLC that is in this and think they can charge all over.. i will get the new one... but they can be damn sure I WILL NOT BE PAYING :')

Honestly this game is amazing i just ruined it for myself tho by downloading too many mods, don`t do that. But anyways i recommend this game just as long as there`s not so many mods that it takes an hour to load. Remember don`t download too many.

Graphics are great. Played many years ago, and when I started playing again, it was a whole new feeling. Online is competitive so I play solo and enjoy building many things

It's a great game. Full of bugs, but it's perfect if you love survival games. It's just sad seeing its slow decline bc of snail games and wildcards, and now similarly with ASA. So many amazing memories though.

With 2500 hours on Xbox, and another 2700 hours on PC, This game will challenge the hek out of you. Still better than Ascended in 2025.

this game is fun as hell but it's pretty hard and hard to understand
the character is ugly but funny
such a good game

ONLY BUY IF ON SALE

You have no friends and are single?
You seek motivation in life?
You hate yourself?

Then it's time to play ARK!

Ark is the beautiful game of survial - not against dinos but people with no life!
You builded your base and no one raided you while online? Then don't go off! They only raid at 6 am ;)

But jokes aside, I used to play it all day when I was still on PS4 at least having 2-3k hours in the game. This game host one of my best memories in life and the soundtracks are fire. You can play this game PVE but lets be real the game is the most fun in PVP since every situation can me unique and when you raid people it feels like a puzzle to solve. Your actions can contribute to a whole wipe and to your downfall or sucess of your tribe. But you SHOULD KNOW how the game works for PVP. People playing this game the first time: stick to PVE for now and learn the basics. The game is kind of deep and there are many things to learn across all ARKs!

I don't have so many hours on steam but between Xbox and PC I have thousands of hours total.

Please understand: you will can have a lot of fun playing this game. It is so rewarding in all of the best ways that are missing from so many games. This game is the pinnacle of survival craft.

But it will destroy you.

The devs do not and have never cared to fix the problems with this game and will almost certainly not change their ways for Survival Ascended. The PvP loop turns itself into a second job that consumes your life. There is no balance and no guardrails.

If you play single player, you very quickly lose the core experience of the game. If you play PvE, the servers bloat to the point you can barely turn your camera without setting your PC on fire.

If you play PvP..... God help you. Large tribes is a non-starter. Imagine the map is a dry erase board and tribe BobsTheRebuilders is a pressure washer. Every hour you spent gathering resources and taming is just...gone. Nothing you can do about it. There is nowhere to hide. There is nowhere to run. It's apocalypse rules: join the evil warlord 14 year old self proclaimed king of the server or consign your efforts to the toilet.

There is a meta: you cannot access it until level 100. Plain and simple. If your tribe doesn't have a lvl 100 there is simply no point in even pretending like you can maintain a foothold.

And yet... The constant anxiety and danger, the shaping of this game and this world lends itself to a real, not role-played, apocalypse survival scenario that is a high unlike any other. Trying to keep yourself hidden from the big fish until you're ready to launch yourself into the light is a wild experience. The loss after logging in, seeing red text and a spawn map and knowing that all you've built is gone. The desire for vengeance that fuels you to do it all again, but better.

It's addictive. It's bliss. It's pain. It's unhealthy. My friends have quite seriously told me I'm not allowed to play this game anymore and I agree. I sneak in some single player every now and again to sate the urge, but I know I can't ever let myself give in and rejoin PvP. I should honestly delete it from my PC and remove it from my library.

I imagine this is what heroin is like...

How to play ark

1. Tame pt
2. Get a dumbfuck Pt that cant even listen to stop or follow.
3. Loose all sanity 2 minutes after playing with the pt
4. Continue playing for hours with no sanity

(never kill dodos)

Poorly Optimized, Poor monetization. Lots of crashing. Lots of multiplayer issues. Many bugs ruin hours of gameplay. Very difficult.
I do like the dinos, I loved the difficulty at times, but the loss of a single unit costing hours if not days of progress all of which can happen while away is stupid and annoying.
Also I have had 4 saves corrupted which was about 250 hours of my gameplay being wiped, no possibility of reclaming what I lost.
I really used to love this game, but as time went on and none of the problems I had were fixed, it ended up loosing all joy it gave me.

ARK: Survival Evolved is an open world survival game. The player can play alone or as a massive multiplayer mode. This game is by far the largest on Steam when the expansions are included. The game world is massive and the detail is great.

The game has been remastered with the Unreal 5 engine. The remastered game is all the better. I consider this game to be one of the better MMO class games.

The game needs discrete graphics. I played this on my Dell Precision 3480 with Intel Xe Arc graphics and RTX A500 graphics.

Great Game really like the survival and the dinosaurs I plan to play this a lot more.

LOVE IT, this game can have mods, and is so fun to play with friends and Dino's! animals can range from a mighty T.Rex to a cute cat, recently added. I recommend highly

This game bullied me and made me cry, and I went back for more. Every kid loves dinos so why wouldn't you want to play Ark. It's messy, often full of bugs and as big as a giga but so worth it.

Very fun game but can get scary when your being chased by a giga or carcha

Very fun to explore and spend time on with friends

i personally really enjoy ark im a pve player and ive run into glitches and bugs wich is really anoying but havent really bugged me aslong as i have my s+ and building materials i enjoy life yeah ik this rewiew is sorta all over the place but yeh if u lik dinosours 10\10

Very fun gameplay, graphics are good and is extremely exciting. 8 out of 10, can sometimes be a little boring.

I LOVE THIS GAME! Its the best when u play with someone, i deffinetly reccomend this game but playing for long, this game changed my life :D

This game is amazing but my saves keep reseting and everything is just gone

this game is fun with the prefect bit of thril, yes its a bit glichy but the glitchs can make it SO MUCH FUNNIER

very good game you can tame creatures and build base to survive in the wilds

Love this game. It has its flaws, like game crashes and you lose everything. There are work arounds on single player. Artifacts that don't spawn, but there are ways to get them. Overall the game is fun. I love building bases. I love the dinos! I am a 63 year old woman. I have lots of other games, but I can't stay away from this one!

It's really fun to play and even more fun with mods I would reccomend

great game but it hard when your taming the high level dinos so watch out hheehheeeh

Fun game but will wipe your progress whenever it feels like it. Trash

This game is one of the best i have ever played it has unlimited possibleilitys and can do anything you want it to overall this game is my faverite game ever.

Terrible, works first time around then crashes on startup for literally no reason, waste of pc storage space and my time

well i have 4 hours on the game and actually havent played the game yet w game i love modding

I like the game play farming goods to build or to grow plants for food the maps are large and has lots to explore and find

Do you like slavery, animal abuse, and grinding for an outrageous amount of materials ? Well boy do I have the game for you.....

NEW PC PLAYERS READ

It says 3 hours. That would be incorrect.
I have thousands of hours on PC as well as Console.

This is directed towards players who's journey started on console, but are unsure about the transition to PC.

I suggest buying the game, but i do not think ascended is worth it.

I bought a high powered pc back in 2008, years later I switched to console because it was cheaper, (you get it) and now have transitioned back because i have money to spend.

Hey my name's ryan and my life is pretty crazy.

I could have spent my money on oblivion remastered, but i bought the old version like three weeks ago and im way too angry about it.

Ill invest in whatever the team from skyblivion is doing just to spite bethesda.

Anyway, i suggest just buying this, its worth it, trust me.

First of all, I know it says I only have 24 hours on this game. But that is only on STEAM I have over 1000 hours on Xbox. I think this is the best game ever. No other game could get as perfect as this game. It combines survival with dinosaurs and tech. It is awesome.

for some reason saves just completely delete them self sometimes even if you have logged off multiple times and it will save. It says you have a saved game but when you go into it, it forces you to make a new character and you lose everything

so I've always loved ark and i wanted to try it on steam and so i spent like 4 hours on this world and when i loaded ark back up the world was gone it said i already had a save on it but when i looked i saw nothing so although the game is good it will make you mad too

Garbage development team cant even fix bugs from many years ago hey definitely don't deserve more money for a newer game with all the same bugs!

Honestly, ARK is such a vibe when you're playing with friends. The world is gorgeous, the dinos are adorable (even the scary ones ngl 😅), and there's always something fun to do together — whether it's building your cute little base or running from a T-Rex in your undies 😂

But heads up: the game doesn’t explain much at first, so watching a few YouTube guides helps a lot. Also, MODS. Omg the mods take the game to a whole new level — better UI, more dinos, even some ✨aesthetic✨ stuff for your base. Highly recommend!

Just be ready to invest some time and maybe scream a little when a raptor jumps you outta nowhere 🫠

Rating: 9/10
(with mods: 11/10 💅)

I'm a 63 year old retired grandmother who is totally submersed in this game! I've been playing since September 2024 and have 1286 hours total...so far lol.
This is my stress relief from the everyday mundane day to day where most just go about their merry way "existing" yet don't bother to actually take time for just themselves even if it was to just play a game or 2, or even just read a book.
I chose Ark Survival Evolved for the multiplayer PVE aspect to play with friendos who also had the game, now we're a Tribe of our own & have a blast. Dont get me wrong in this game you are going to DIE..TRUST me, at some point it will happen, but I've also learned how to do so many things such as crafting People food & drinks, dino taming kibble,clothes & structures.
I give this game a %100 thumbs up!!

the best game i have ever played nothing hits the same spots in my brain as this game its sad to see it dead.

like 8 years later and it STILL is listed as EARLY ACCESS....still had lots of glitches! If you are looking for a completed game...this ain't it

It has its issues, but it's genuinely an addicting and good game in spite of them. The creativeness of the community when it comes to the workshop is also one of its strongest points.

it's a good game, most fun with friends. has a "small" learning curve, a lot of frustration blood and tears aside, it's one of my favorite games. highly recommend it

ARK: Survival Evolved – Where the Strongest Predator is the Server Lag

Let me just start by saying: DINOSAURS.
You can ride dinosaurs. That alone should sell the game. But thankfully, ARK brings a lot more to the table than just prehistoric Uber rides.

There’s legit fun to be had here—especially with friends. Base building is satisfying, the world is beautiful (still holds up years later), and the crafting/resource gathering system actually has depth. Using specific dinos to farm certain materials instead of just your tools makes progression feel clever, not just grindy. Each map brings a new vibe, new challenges, and some terrifying world bosses that make you feel both hyped and deeply unprepared.

But oh man… the grind.

You will lose everything. Frequently. Sometimes to other players, sometimes to server crashes, and sometimes to an angry pack of raptors that decided today was the day you die screaming. The PvP community? Rough. Like “rage-quit and uninstall” levels of toxic, especially if you're on official servers. And while the jank has been cleaned up a bit over the years, the ghost of ARK bugs past still haunts the game from time to time.

The learning curve? Imagine getting slapped by a T-Rex, thrown into lava, and then being told to read a wiki to figure out why it happened. The game tells you almost nothing—especially when it comes to the late-game boss fights. You’ll 100% be Googling strategies while trying not to get eaten by a giga.

Final Thoughts:
ARK is chaotic, punishing, and sometimes infuriating. But it’s also epic, unique, and incredibly fun—if you have the patience, or a group of friends to suffer with.

Thumbs up. 8.5/10. Would die to a raptor ambush again.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☑ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☑ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☑ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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ARK: Survival Evolved – A Love-Hate Relationship

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🦖 My Experience After 53 Hours

ARK: Survival Evolved is one of those games that can give you some of the best gaming moments—and some of the most frustrating ones. I’ve spent over 50 hours in this world, and I still have mixed feelings. It’s an ambitious, immersive survival game, but it’s also riddled with issues that can make it a headache to play.

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🌎 The World and Exploration

🏝 Stunning Environments – The world of ARK is gorgeous. Whether you’re exploring lush jungles, snowy mountains, or deep caves, the sense of discovery is amazing. The game does a great job of making you feel like a true survivor.

🦖 Taming Dinosaurs – The ability to tame, breed, and ride dinosaurs is hands down the best part of the game. Nothing beats the feeling of finally taming a T-Rex after hours of effort, only to have it get killed by an alpha raptor five minutes later.

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⚒ Survival and Gameplay

🥩 Harsh Survival Mechanics – If you enjoy grinding for resources, managing hunger/thirst, and crafting everything from spears to full-on bases, you’ll have a great time. However, the grind can be excessive, especially solo.

🛠 Base Building – The building system is solid but can be frustrating. Snapping pieces together doesn’t always work as intended, and a poorly placed foundation can throw off an entire build.

⚔ Combat – Combat is clunky. Melee fights feel awkward, and hit registration can be unreliable. Gunplay improves things, but let’s be honest—most fights are just you getting mauled by a raptor when you least expect it.

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🔁 Replayability and Frustrations

🌍 Tons of Content – ARK has a ton to do. From exploring caves and fighting bosses to breeding an army of dinos, the game offers hundreds of hours of potential gameplay.

🤬 Bugs, Performance, and Grind – Here’s where things fall apart. The game is notoriously buggy, with frequent crashes, lag, and weird physics glitches. If you don’t tweak settings or play on a good server, performance can be a nightmare. Also, the grind for resources, especially on official servers, can be ridiculous.

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✅ Final Verdict

ARK: Survival Evolved is a game that demands patience. When it works, it’s an incredible experience full of adventure, danger, and unforgettable moments. But the bugs, clunky mechanics, and brutal grind can turn it into a frustrating slog. If you have friends to play with, it’s much more enjoyable. If you’re playing solo, be prepared for a tough ride.

⭐ Score: 7/10 – Fun but flawed.