Step into a new dinosaur survival experience beyond your wildest dreams, as ARK: Survival Ascended reimagines the original game using next-generation video game technology powered by Unreal Engine 5! You awaken on a mysterious island, your senses overwhelmed by dazzling sunlight and vibrant colors bouncing off every surface around you. The azure waters of the island lap at your bare feet as the deep roar echoes from the misty jungles, drawing you into the action. You rise—curious rather than afraid. Are you ready to form a tribe, tame and breed hundreds of dinosaur species and other prehistoric creatures, explore, craft, build, and rise to the top of the food chain? Your new world awaits… step through the glass and join it!

FEATURES

ARK: Survival Ascended has completely recreated and revamped the artwork and worlds of ARK to leverage the latest advancements in video game technology, utilizing Unreal Engine 5 with high-quality graphical features like fully dynamic global illumination (“lumen”), ensuring realistic light bounces off surfaces and provides lifelike reflections. It also incorporates advanced meshes (“nanite”) with hundreds of millions of triangles for extraordinary detail.

Enhanced new physics systems, such as dynamic water, create waves, ripples, splashes, and bubbles as creatures move through fluids. The game features fully interactive foliage, where every blade of grass, bush, and tree reacts to characters, explosions, projectiles, and physical objects. Chop down a tree and watch as it collides with others and disrupts the surrounding foliage, crashing to the ground! Enemies stealthily moving through the grass can be detected as it shifts and sways in response to their presence. Destroy buildings and observe how parts realistically break apart, interacting with grass and water as they fall.

ARK: Survival Ascended includes access to all ARK worlds, such as Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, ARK Genesis Part 1, ARK Genesis Part 2, and more. The base game is released now, with future expansion worlds added at no additional cost on a regular basis.

The ultimate survival experience returns better than ever: design your survivor, form a tribe, and tame, train, breed, and ride dinosaurs within a living ecosystem. Manage your food, water, temperature, and weather conditions. Gradually expand as you gather resources, build structures, cultivate crops, customize your visual designs, and continue to explore to uncover the true nature of the island and the worlds beyond.

Every aspect has been meticulously refined: revamped user interfaces, dynamic navigation for intelligent creature pathfinding, wild children, photo mode, new camera systems, a new map system, tracking system, new structures and items, new creatures, and much more.

Cross-platform modding allows you to download and play new user-generated content, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes through the new mod-browser directly in the game! Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community are fully unleashed for the first time on gaming platforms!

Cross-platform multiplayer enables you to form your online tribe across different gaming platforms as you work together to survive and thrive on the Ark!

Supports public online multiplayer for up to 70 players, private multiplayer networks for 8 players, and local split-screen for 2 players.