ARK: Survival Ascended overview

Overview

ARK: Survival Ascended comes from Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games and is published by Studio Wildcard, Snail Games USA. It arrived on Steam on Oct 25, 2023, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, MMO, PvP, Online PvP, LAN PvP, Co-op, and Online Co-op. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

ARK: Survival Ascended's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 31,871 players at 4 October 2026 - 15:19:12 UTC, with a tracked peak near 98,047. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 60% positive across 115,415 reviews.

Language and system requirements

ARK: Survival Ascended is available in 16 languages including:

5 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

ARK: Survival Ascended has sold up to 3,555,900 units and has 107,521 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $106,301,459. On Twitch, 77 streamers are live with around 1,735 total watchers.

ARK: Survival Ascended overview details

ARK: Survival Ascended combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Respawn into a new dinosaur survival experience beyond your wildest dreams… as ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of videogame technology with Unreal Engine 5! You awake on a mysterious island, your senses overwhelmed by the blinding sunlight and brilliant colors bouncing off every surface around you, the azure waters of a verdant Island lapping at your bare feet. A deep roar echoes from the misty jungle, jolting you into action, and you stand up – not afraid, but intrigued. Are you ready to form a tribe, tame and breed hundreds of species of dinosaurs and other primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain? Your new world awaits… step through the looking-glass and join it! FEATURES ARK: Survival Ascended has completely recreated and redesigned the artwork and worlds of ARK to take advantage of the latest in videogame technology, Unreal Engine 5, using high-end graphics features such as fully dynamic Global Illumination (“Lumen”), so that light bounces realistically off of surfaces and provides realistic reflections, and advanced mesh streaming (“Nanite”) of hundreds of millions of triangles for extreme detail. Advanced new physics systems such as dynamic water so that every creature creates waves, ripples, splashes, and bubbles as they move through fluids, and fully interactive physical foliage where every blade of grass, bush, and tree reacts to characters, explosions, projectiles, and physics objects. Knock down a tree, and see it crash into other trees and disturb all the foliage on its way down…

SteamPulse editorial summary

ARK: Survival Ascended is listed as a game with $44.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, MMO, PvP, Online PvP, LAN PvP, Co-op, and Online Co-op, and is associated with Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 31,871 players at 4 October 2026 - 15:19:12 UTC, a tracked peak of 98,047, and 60% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Early AccessSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerDinosaursBuildingAdventureBase-BuildingCraftingActionSandboxCharacter CustomizationSingleplayerPvEPvP

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Support and legal notes

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