Most creatures tame most effectively - and quickest - with a food called Kibble, which is an item crafted using eggs from another creature. Once knocked out, the player must feed the creature food their prefer food, such as berries for herbivores or raw meat for carnivores, with different foods taming at different speeds. Most creatures are "violent" tames, meaning the players must knock the creature out using tranquilizing projectiles like tranq dart or by using blunt weapons, such as a club. The taming method varies creature by creature. The majority of creatures can be tamed by the player, though some, such as Meganeura or Titanomyrma, cannot. One of the primary game mechanics of the game is taming creatures. As expansions were released, completely original creatures, such as the Karkinos and the Velonasaur also made their way into the game as well as original robotic creatures such as the Enforcer and Scout. In the early versions of the game, nearly all creatures were real dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, however, as the storyline progressed, mythical creatures such as the wyvern, manticore, and phoenix were added. There are currently 176 creatures that populate the world of Ark. The game's world, known as the "Ark", is approximately 48 km2 (19 sq mi) in size: there is approximately 36 km2 (14 sq mi) of land with 12 km2 (4.6 sq mi) of ocean. To survive, players must establish a base, with a fire and weapons additional activities, such as taming and feeding dinosaurs, require more resources. Ark: Survival Evolved received generally mixed reviews, with criticism for its "punishing" difficulty and reliance on grinding.Īrk: Survival Evolved is an action-adventure survival game set in an open world environment with a dynamic day-night cycle and played either from a third-person or first-person perspective. Two spin-off games developed by Snail Games were released in March 2018: Ark Park, a virtual reality game, and PixArk, a sandbox survival game. Several expansions to the game have also been released as downloadable content: The Center, Primitive Plus, Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Aberration and Extinction.
One of the game modes, Survival of the Fittest, was also released as a standalone game on PC the same month. Egypt-based developer Instinct Games was hired to facilitate the game's development.Ī companion app, titled Dododex, was released for mobile devices in August 2017.
The development team conducted research into the physical appearance of the animals, but took creative license for gameplay purposes. There is a PVE mode where players cannot fight each other.ĭevelopment began in October 2014, where it was first released on PC as an early access title in the middle of 2015. In this mode all tamed dinosaurs and building structures are usually shared between the members. The max number of tribe mates varies from each server. Multiplayer allows the option to form tribes of members in a server.
The game has both single-player and multiplayer options. Players can use firearms and improvised weapons to defend against hostile humans and creatures, with the ability to build bases as defense on the ground and on some creatures. The game is played from either a third-person or first-person perspective and its open world is navigated on foot or by riding a prehistoric animal. In the game, players must survive being stranded on an island filled with roaming dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players. It was released in August 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux, with versions for Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch in 2018.
Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ΛRK) is an action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard, in collaboration with Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, and Virtual Basement.