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ARK: Survival Evolved
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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
42 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“The greatest survival experience gaming can offer, the gameplay is brutal but the optimization is brutally ass.”
““ARK: Survival Evolved" is an engaging and fun game with a world full of dinosaurs to explore and tame. It offers great freedom in building, survival, and adventure, making every playthrough different.””
“I've played this game for years. A survival game where you can ride dinosaurs was a match made in heaven for me. I played this before it released and genuinely adored this game. However, with the cash grab that is known…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this.
““ARK: Survival Evolved" is an engaging and fun game with a world full of dinosaurs to explore and tame. It offers great freedom in building, survival, and adventure, making every playthrough different.””
“I like this game because of the dinos and how after a long time of gaming it may get boring and ill move to another game but i always come back to the game. It also has good modding capability”
“it really is just a wonderfull game with endless possabilities and even moree with the aditions of dlc's and modss to your on liking, the only downsiide might be that it uses a considerable amount of memory for the…”
9 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“It's definitely more fun to play with others. But can be just as fun to play alone depending on your play style.”
“Fun open world. Best with groups. Find a good server. If you're not having fun, switch to a better server. Tons of add-ons in use by many. This can make it hard to log in without a frustrating proccess, but many add-ons…”
“Very good game and fun with friends in singleplayer ( for now cause i have only 60h playtime ). Play it if you are looking for horror ( in funny way ), survival, building and exploring. And its beautiful too for its…”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“The greatest survival experience gaming can offer, the gameplay is brutal but the optimization is brutally ass.”
“Got turned into a dinosaur's chew toy first 4 minutes after entering the game 11/10, 6 stars out of 5, would recommend.”
“tough survival game, and better on the single player or private server due to people that just love destroying stuff...”
4 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“IMO asa is better in things to do but it requires a $2000 pc to run on low-med settings buy this if u want ark but dont got a nasa pc and should i mention this is the OG after all”
“So, to be clear, I've never played ARK SE before. I was a big ps5 guy until last year and this game just didn't really appeal to me at the time. So, I was talking with friends who enjoyed this on PC and we all thought,…”
“I'm playing on a laptop and I still love it! It's a little glitchy at times but you can adjust the graphic settings and it'll run a lot smoother as well. Definitely recommend getting!”
21 of the 104 reviews raise this · 11 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is unplayable broken garbage with zero optimizations. The load times are abysmal, and there is the occasional stutter that lasts for several seconds. I have to disable Windows Defender's real time scanning, or…”
“for some reason when i first installed the game i was able to play for half hour or so and then when i tried to go back and play again, it erased my game and now i cannot play at all, i am guessing it has something to…”
“This game is buggy and sometimes it doesn"t run right. that being said I personally like this version better than the new one. If you play with others i definetly recommend you get your own server.”
11 of the 104 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“I love this game with all my heart—I think that's pretty obvious with how many hours I have sunk into it. I've got my money's worth. That being said, I don't think I can, at least not fully, recommend it. With the…”
“Disappointing to see how the game fell. It doesn’t even work anymore after the last update not only that but basically crashes my computer. I feel bad for the people who sunk a lot more time into the franchise than me…”
“I've played this game for years. A survival game where you can ride dinosaurs was a match made in heaven for me. I played this before it released and genuinely adored this game. However, with the cash grab that is known…”
9 of the 104 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is unplayable broken garbage with zero optimizations. The load times are abysmal, and there is the occasional stutter that lasts for several seconds. I have to disable Windows Defender's real time scanning, or…”
“Game runs like ♥♥♥♥ but has the graphics of a mobile game.”
“This game is buggy and sometimes it doesn"t run right. that being said I personally like this version better than the new one. If you play with others i definetly recommend you get your own server.”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“I love this game with all my heart—I think that's pretty obvious with how many hours I have sunk into it. I've got my money's worth. That being said, I don't think I can, at least not fully, recommend it. With the…”
“This game is buggy and sometimes it doesn"t run right. that being said I personally like this version better than the new one. If you play with others i definetly recommend you get your own server.”
“Here we are... My husband raved over this game until i finally gave in and downloaded it. Then i gifted the PC version to him , and my eldest step-daughter. I actually love this game. The crafting is a bit wonky but…”
6 of the 104 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“for some reason when i first installed the game i was able to play for half hour or so and then when i tried to go back and play again, it erased my game and now i cannot play at all, i am guessing it has something to…”
“I've played this game for years. A survival game where you can ride dinosaurs was a match made in heaven for me. I played this before it released and genuinely adored this game. However, with the cash grab that is known…”
“8/10 game Only problem is I sometimes want to end my life after plying it and loosing 5 hours of progress because of a stupid bug”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 83.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“It has its pros and cons, but it is still much better than the abomination that was promised to us for free. Buy this instead of Ascended.”
— a player, Steam review · 2,547 hrs played“My buddy ate 100 narcoberries without realizing what they do it was funny.”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“the game is peak i played for 2000k hours on ps4 and i love it. just be carefull with the mods cause they can break your server”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:19 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG |
| Player tags | Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer · Open World · Dinosaurs · Crafting · Building · Adventure · Base-Building · Co-op · Action · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · MMO · Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Russian * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Simplified Chinese * , Czech * , Danish * , Dutch * , Hungarian * , Polish * , Swedish * , Thai * , Traditional Chines… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 32 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000,000 – 50,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.playark.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions) Processor: Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 60 GB available space Additional Notes: Requires broadband internet connection for multiplayer