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Ark: Survival Evolved

2017 68 / 100 Adventure Indie Role-playing (RPG)

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.

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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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Developer: Studio Wildcard
Publisher: Studio Wildcard, Snail Games, Snail Games USA
Franchise: Standalone

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Modi: Battle Royale, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer, Single player, Split screen
Perspective: First person, Third person, Virtual Reality
Themes: Action, Open world, Sandbox, Survival

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Android Jun 14, 2018
Google Stadia Sep 01, 2021
Xbox Series X|S Oct 28, 2020
Xbox One Aug 31, 2017
PC (Microsoft Windows) Aug 27, 2017
PlayStation 4 Aug 29, 2017
PlayStation 4 Jan 26, 2018
Linux Jul 01, 2015
Nintendo Switch Feb 24, 2023
PlayStation 4 Aug 31, 2017
Xbox One Feb 21, 2018
iOS Jun 14, 2018
Linux Aug 27, 2017
Mac Aug 27, 2017
Nintendo Switch Nov 30, 2018
Nintendo Switch Nov 20, 2018
PC (Microsoft Windows) Jun 02, 2015
PlayStation 4 Dec 06, 2016
Xbox One Aug 29, 2017
Mac Jun 28, 2015

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