Ark: Survival Evolved Indie Hit
Ark: Survival Evolved is an open-world action-adventure survival game where players awaken stranded on a mysterious island populated by dinosaurs, prehistoric creatures, and mythical beasts. Gameplay revolves around gathering resources, crafting tools and structures, and taming creatures that can be ridden or used for combat and transportation. The game supports both single-player and multiplayer modes, with multiplayer servers allowing players to form tribes and compete or cooperate. Several expansion packs add new maps and storylines, and the game spawned an animated series, a remaster in Unreal Engine 5 titled Ark: Survival Ascended, and a planned sequel.
Shown at Nintendo Event 2023.02.08 and Xbox E3 2019 Briefing.
- Game modes
- Perspective
- Themes
- Tags
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- Open World Survival Craft
- Survival
- Multiplayer
- Open World
- Dinosaurs
- Crafting
- Building
- Adventure
- Base Building
- Co-op
- Action Adventure
- Online
- Prehistoric
- Pax West 2017
- Pre Release Public Testing
- Xbox Play Anywhere
- Xbox One X Enhanced
- Pax East 2016
- Pax West 2016
- Pax Prime 2015
- Valve Anti Cheat
- Dinosaur Riding
- Previously On Stadia Pro
Storyline
Players awaken on a mysterious island called the Ark with no memory of how they arrived. Surrounded by dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, they must survive while uncovering the island's secrets through scattered explorer notes left by previous inhabitants. As survivors progress through increasingly difficult boss encounters, they begin to piece together the truth about the Ark and the technology sustaining it. The deeper story, revealed through expansion packs, follows survivors as they travel from the island to an underground alien world, a corrupted future Earth, and eventually aboard a massive colony ship traveling through deep space in search of a new home for humanity.
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Trailers
ARK: Summer Bash 2019!
ARK: Survival Evolved on Nintendo Switch, Coming 30 November 2018!
ARK: Survival Evolved on Nintendo Switch, Coming November 30, 2018!
ARK: Survival Evolved - Gamescom 2015 Trailer (Official)
ARK: Survival Evolved - Reveal Trailer (Official)
Shown at events
Add-ons
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Expansion
19 December 2025
Ark: Lost Colony
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Expansion
8 August 2019
Ark: Genesis
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Expansion
6 November 2018
Ark: Extinction
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Expansion
12 December 2017
Ark: Aberration
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Expansion
17 June 2017
Ark: Ragnarok
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Expansion
1 September 2016
Ark: Scorched Earth
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DLC
17 May 2016
Ark: The Center