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ARK: Survival Ascended
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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
26 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Unironically loving this game, which is strange considering the absolute storm of hate it recieves daily. I never played ARK EVOLVED, but I saw a lot of gameplay of it when I was younger. At first I couldn't get over…”
“There is a lot of jank and bugs in this game. There's no getting around that. I've often said that the only reason this game is still in existence is that there isn't a proper competitor offering the scale and…”
“The first thing and most essential to know about this game is DODODEX!!! use it in browser or download it on your smartphone, it's a lifechanger...now onto the game itself... Basically Ark Evolved but with Rtx On and…”
17 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“The first thing and most essential to know about this game is DODODEX!!! use it in browser or download it on your smartphone, it's a lifechanger...now onto the game itself... Basically Ark Evolved but with Rtx On and…”
“Ark Survival Ascended is just Ark survival evolved with better graphics, Game runs worse then Evolved as well. You'd think Wildcard would change the game up and add a new crafting system and a bunch of new things. No…”
“Best game for PVE. ASE is better for PVP though. I love it because i like dinosaurs. My 3060 handled this great with tweaks and commands. Stunning game Dino”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Good game. Has its quirks. Always comes back. Dino's are cool”
“~1,200 PvE hours later and I can confidently say this game is the reason I now own a PC. Started because my sister dragged me into it. Stayed because apparently I enjoy emotional damage. Jokes aside, I genuinely love…”
“[h1]“6200+ hours… and I’m still here. That should tell you everything.”[/h1] [b]Mixed[/b] 6204 hrs on record [hr] [h2]🦖 First Things First[/h2] I’ve got over 6,200 hours in ARK. I play on official PVE servers, mainly…”
8 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Unironically loving this game, which is strange considering the absolute storm of hate it recieves daily. I never played ARK EVOLVED, but I saw a lot of gameplay of it when I was younger. At first I couldn't get over…”
“Best game for PVE. ASE is better for PVP though. I love it because i like dinosaurs. My 3060 handled this great with tweaks and commands. Stunning game Dino”
“Having a lot of fun playing Ark with my daughter. The game runs good and looks good.”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Best game for PVE. ASE is better for PVP though. I love it because i like dinosaurs. My 3060 handled this great with tweaks and commands. Stunning game Dino”
“Not worth the original sale price. Get this game at its biggest discounts (ie: $10.00 USD) its full of bugs, fairly unoptimized, and the companies ran by some greedy schmucks. Nonetheless there's positives: Its fun with…”
“[h1]“6200+ hours… and I’m still here. That should tell you everything.”[/h1] [b]Mixed[/b] 6204 hrs on record [hr] [h2]🦖 First Things First[/h2] I’ve got over 6,200 hours in ARK. I play on official PVE servers, mainly…”
32 of the 104 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“Snail games has completely ruined the original vision for ark, and it really shows with this game. Constant p2w updates and broken content makes the pvp feel unbalanced and boring. They shut down the official ASE…”
“A disclaimer: I am one of the few people who is willing to play this game despite the fact that this game is simply not worth investment, if you think you want this game please be aware of the following: Visuals are…”
“Ark Survival Ascended is just Ark survival evolved with better graphics, Game runs worse then Evolved as well. You'd think Wildcard would change the game up and add a new crafting system and a bunch of new things. No…”
30 of the 104 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Snail games has completely ruined the original vision for ark, and it really shows with this game. Constant p2w updates and broken content makes the pvp feel unbalanced and boring. They shut down the official ASE…”
“A disclaimer: I am one of the few people who is willing to play this game despite the fact that this game is simply not worth investment, if you think you want this game please be aware of the following: Visuals are…”
“There is a lot of jank and bugs in this game. There's no getting around that. I've often said that the only reason this game is still in existence is that there isn't a proper competitor offering the scale and…”
16 of the 104 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Snail games has completely ruined the original vision for ark, and it really shows with this game. Constant p2w updates and broken content makes the pvp feel unbalanced and boring. They shut down the official ASE…”
“Now, I normally don’t make posts like this about games because most of the time I just don’t care enough to say anything. But ASA has honestly destroyed a lot of the love I had for modding. The biggest issue is the paid…”
“You need a NASA computer to run this at full performance.. official servers get ruined by people covering spawn areas full of fobs ao your FPS is shot off the bat, pay to win dinos, ASE had its issue, but this feels…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Snail games has completely ruined the original vision for ark, and it really shows with this game. Constant p2w updates and broken content makes the pvp feel unbalanced and boring. They shut down the official ASE…”
“I genuinely can't believe I'm stupid enough to think these developers would have fixed any of the glaring issues in ASA. Nope, they ported the game to a new engine and included as many of their old bugs and bafflingly…”
“Do not buy this game unless you have an entire 500GB+ SSD dedicated solely to it. The update system is completely broken. Even for a tiny 500MB patch, the game demands over 150GB of free space to "verify" and "re-pack"…”
11 of the 104 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Snail games has completely ruined the original vision for ark, and it really shows with this game. Constant p2w updates and broken content makes the pvp feel unbalanced and boring. They shut down the official ASE…”
“The first thing and most essential to know about this game is DODODEX!!! use it in browser or download it on your smartphone, it's a lifechanger...now onto the game itself... Basically Ark Evolved but with Rtx On and…”
“You need a NASA computer to run this at full performance.. official servers get ruined by people covering spawn areas full of fobs ao your FPS is shot off the bat, pay to win dinos, ASE had its issue, but this feels…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 59.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“If you love Ark Survival Evolved, you'll likely love Ark Survival Ascended. once the bugs have been ironed out and the performance is better optimized. If you can get past the two glaring gameplay issues, Ark Survival Ascended will eventually become a great remaster of an…”
— a player, Steam review · 787 hrs played“Good Game, but the devs need to optimize their storage, this game should not be 300gigs”
— a player, Steam review · 62 hrs played“the devs for this game should consider new careers. How is it that this game can look like absolute dogsh*t on its lowest settings, and somehow still run worse than every other game on the same engine? LOWEST POSSIBLE SETTINGS AND IT STILL LAGS AND DROPS FRAMES RANDOMLY!…”
— a player, Steam review · 52 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Survival · Open World · Multiplayer · Dinosaurs · Building · Adventure · Base-Building · Crafting · Action · Sandbox · Character Customization (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 32 |
| Official site | http://www.playark.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10/11 with updates Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 1080 DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 180 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD Required