ARK: Survival Evolved

If you like Survival Games with tons of building, taming, and breeding then ARK is the perfect game for you. I spent tons of hours playing this game on my Playstation 4 and I got to say I love every second of it. And I can definitely say ARK is worth your money.

I bought this game when it was on sale on Steam for I believe $20.00, played and it's actually pretty good, the only thing is that it requires SO MUCH to run although I'd say in the end it's worth it.

The games atmosphere is just groundbreaking in many ways, if you focus solely on the premise and sound design of the game you will most likely be reeled in for a good playthrough. On PC there are also many mods you could download to add variety to your game which is in my opinion very amazing. Multi-player is slightly more fun than single player but they are still both good in many ways. I also have to give out some pros on the graphics they are very good and has amazing visuals to go along with it, they may look pretty bad on a PC with lesser requirements but on a PC with a great graphics card they should look great.

Now the game does have its problems. For one as I said before it requires a beast PC in order to perform properly, and as of 2022 there are still a couple of bugs that remain in the game which can get a little aggravating to work with.

I give this game an 8/10.

I just made this account to comment that this game is very great and simple/easy to follow along with. Has an interesting lore like many games out there and a superb soundtrack. This game is very fun especially on multiplayer but single-player is also very fun that is when you have stuff to do by yourself. It may be a little difficult and buggy but I spent hours playing this simple video game. So 10/10.

Listening to the soundtrack for this game is also very nostalgic!

I could go on for hours. I began playing it in Early Access in Aug of 2015. Many bugs, constant updates, and an oftentimes glitchy experience but a persistent open world environment and interactions with hundreds, thousands of people in the nearly four years since then has made it a love/hate relationship. I have somewhere around 12K hours. I have seen all of the developmental hell this game went through, from barely scraping by and the devs working 12-16 hours a day, six and seven days a week for little to no pay as an indie game that a little too closely resembled another, ill fated game that one of the leads dumped to create this one, to the eventual sellout to a massive unfeeling, unthinking corporation that immediately tried to make Dark and Light, a blatant ripoff of Ark, which was a ripoff of The Stomping Lands. I have watched it all, from the Flier Nerf that caused tens of thousands of players to quit in the span of a few days, to the joy and awe of the Center map being released on official servers as the first expansion in mid 2016. I saw the rage of gamers, angry at a ten dollar fee for downloading the Scorched Earth map, after they had paid twenty dollars in Early Access for the game, that's right, and gotten two whole maps with the addition of The Center, which was a free map.

This game hooks you, because you play at first to learn, and experience the wonders. Then, as you get better, and you build bigger, and collect more virtual pets to eat your neighbors with to protect your belongings, you become more invested. You fight, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you find yourself handcuffed to a toilet when you log in, making you someone else's personal fertilizer factory for their crops. And sometimes you login only to find everything you own gone, and nothing but red in your log. Because the game never pauses, while you sleep, people are still playing. And they might decide your stuff looks tasty. So you start over. There is no winning, no end to the game. And if you let it, it will run your life. As you can tell, mixed review for a great concept, but it is definitely a game worth putting a couple of hundred hours into for the experience. And the original 20$ I spent was well worth it.

The game is overall pretty good, though does have some technical problems I give it a 7.1/10.