Ark: Survival Evolved takes on the survival genre with a unique blend of emergent multiplayer cooperation and competition. Players awake naked and starving on the beach of a mysterious island among a herd of other confused humans. On ARK, they must then hunt, harvest, craft, research technology… Summary: IGDB
Mind Score
MixedAge · PEGI 16
plays online with strangers: use parental settings · no ending by design: set time limits
Respect
59
Stimulation
moderate
Endless by designCan't pause
Watch out for
Endless by design
- MMO: no ending, the loop is the product
Online play with strangers
- Steam tag “Multiplayer” (9699 votes)
- Steam store: MMO
Always online
- Steam store: MMO
Pace set by others
- Steam store: MMO
What it exercises
Exploration and curiosity
- Wikipedia: built around exploration
- Steam tag “Open World” (9550 votes)
Creativity
- Steam tag “Building” (7492 votes)
- Steam store: Includes level editor
Cooperation
- Steam tag “Co-op” (5532 votes)
- Steam store: Co-op
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