ARK: Survival Evolved

Studio Wildcard · Instinct GamesReleased August 27, 2017

ActionIndieAdventureRPGMassively MultiplayerBase Building Singleplayer

GameValio recommendationMaybe

Not urgent, but worth watching: it's in a reasonable spot without being an obvious must-buy.

Gaining popularity
Well received (588,163 reviews)
Could be cheaper

Why “Maybe”

The ring is the score: filled up to 61 out of 100. Each colour is what one signal added; the five bands below show where the score landed.

Skip This
Wait for Sale
Maybe
Worth It
Great Deal

Where to buy

3 stores · lowest price first

Steam Cheapest Official store · Price set 13 days ago$14.99Buy

Kinguin Key marketplace · Price set 7 months ago$17.17+$2.18Buy

GAMIVO Key marketplace · Price set 19 hours ago$37.51+$22.52Buy

Always sorted by the lowest price, marketplaces included; on a tie the partner store comes first. Marketplace: a Steam key sold by third parties, with the marketplace's buyer protection. Authorized reseller: a store licensed by the publisher.

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Behind the recommendation

How we got to this score: each signal, the factors behind it and the data that feeds it.

Value41/100

$14.99: reasonable price

Source: prices from the stores we track, compared with this game's own price history.

Price history

Now $14.99Lowest recorded $9.89

Quality78/100

84% positive (588,163 reviews): mostly positive
Metacritic 70/100: generally favorable from critics
588,163 reviews: very large sample

Source: Steam reviews and Metacritic, collected daily.

Steam review score 84% · Very PositivePositive 493kNegative 95k

Popularity51/100

Players down 19% in recent days
11,376 concurrent players: very healthy
214 new reviews: still being discovered
588,163 total reviews: among the most reviewed on Steam

Source: Steam concurrent players and review volume, collected daily.

Daily peak concurrent players

Players now 11kPeak in period 27k

Game details

Developers: Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement LLC
Publishers: Studio Wildcard, Snail Games USA
Release date: August 27, 2017
Platforms: Windows, MacOs
Achievements: 32
Steam recs: 574,949
Official website: www.playark.com
Supported languages: 21 languages, 21 with full audioSee the list
English (audio) · French (audio) · Italian (audio) · German (audio) · Spanish - Spain (audio) · Russian (audio) · Portuguese - Brazil (audio) · Simplified Chinese (audio) · Czech (audio) · Danish (audio) · Dutch (audio) · Hungarian (audio) · Polish (audio) · Swedish (audio) · Thai (audio) · Traditional Chinese (audio) · Turkish (audio) · Ukrainian (audio) · Finnish (audio) · Japanese (audio) · Korean (audio)
Categories: Single-player, Multi-player, MMO +9See the list
Single-player · Multi-player · MMO · Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Valve Anti-Cheat enabled · Includes level editor · Remote Play on Tablet · Family Sharing