ActionAdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerRPGEarly AccessSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerDinosaursBase Building
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!
Developer
Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games
“concept is amazing, 5k hours played shows engagement”
How it holds up
−50+5
Gameplay
-0.23
Progression-0.91
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Story & World
-0.07
Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.
World+1.26
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Content Volume
+1.28
Volume+1.09
“new creatures and mods add fresh content” (10)
tenho 30k d horas no ark survival acumuladas no xbox, foi meu primeiro jogo que baixei no meu primeiro console quando eu era adolescente sempre quis conseguir jogar o jogo com mods e tals e depois que mudei para o pc pela primeira vez fiquei mt ansioso para jogar o ark ascended, comprei uma 5060 ti depois d um tempo juntando dinheiro e finalmente comprei o ark ascended, foi frustante vendo meu jogo com uma otimização horrivel, adorei que deixaram os mods para todas as plataformas mais o fato do jogo ser tão mal otimizado é pessimo paguei 3000 mil reais numa placa de video para so jogar o jogo
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Visuals & Sound
+0.88
Visuals+1.25
“visuals remade with quality leap in lighting, water, and models” (44)
“incredibly fun with friends, amazing memories” (12)
🔒 1 more indicators
Fairness
-3.54
Monetization-3.74
“predatory paywall system requiring $60+ for DLC content on top of base game” (70)
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Tech & Ops
-3.70
Performance-3.64
“most poorly optimized game ever, terrible performance” (148)
🔒 3 more indicators
Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.
Steam review activity
% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
Oct 2023Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,207 reviews, peak 141/day
Aug 19Sep 16
per month · 9,406 reviews, peak 5,112/month
Jun 2026Aug 2026
per month · 18,594 reviews, peak 5,112/month
Mar 2026Aug 2026
per month · 30,679 reviews, peak 5,112/month
Sep 2025Aug 2026
Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.
Review languages
Languages of the 396 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.
English29%
Spanish13%
Chinese12%
Russian9%
German9%
Portuguese8%
Other20%
🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.
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