ARK: Survival Ascended

Item: ARK: Survival Ascended
Rating: 43
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-02

Summary

Stunning visuals and graphics
Vast content and exploration
Significant improvements over ASE
Severe performance issues and crashes
Persistent game bugs
Overpriced with aggressive monetization

Emotions

Frustration31%Disappointment20%Satisfaction16%Anger8%Excitement4%

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 69%
Unhelpful reviews: 18%
Protest reviews: 13%

43%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
57%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 2464
Negative points: 4647
Gameplay points: 1203
Perf. points: 508
Rec. points: 920
Misc points: 566

Point	Description	Importance
Overall Enjoyable Gameplay Description Players consistently describe the game as highly enjoyable, fun, and addictive, whether playing solo or with friends. The gameplay is often noted for being comfortable, easy to understand, and offering significant replayability, keeping players engaged for extended periods. Importance 40%	Players consistently describe the game as highly enjoyable, fun, and addictive, whether playing solo or with friends. The gameplay is often noted for being comfortable, easy to understand, and offering significant replayability, keeping players engaged for extended periods.	40%
Significant Improvements Over ASE Description Many reviewers consider the game a significant upgrade from Ark: Survival Evolved (ASE), noting it as a full remake rather than just a remaster. Key improvements include better optimization, numerous quality-of-life features, a smoother building system, and fewer bugs compared to its predecessor. Importance 28%	Many reviewers consider the game a significant upgrade from Ark: Survival Evolved (ASE), noting it as a full remake rather than just a remaster. Key improvements include better optimization, numerous quality-of-life features, a smoother building system, and fewer bugs compared to its predecessor.	28%
Vast Content & Exploration Description The game offers an immense amount of content, including diverse maps, biomes, and ongoing updates with new DLCs. Players appreciate the vast open world, the sense of discovery during exploration, and the variety of playstyles available, from single-player to engaging multiplayer experiences. Importance 23%	The game offers an immense amount of content, including diverse maps, biomes, and ongoing updates with new DLCs. Players appreciate the vast open world, the sense of discovery during exploration, and the variety of playstyles available, from single-player to engaging multiplayer experiences.	23%
Unique ARK Experience Description Reviewers emphasize that Ark: Survival Ascended provides a unique and unparalleled gaming experience, unlike any other survival game. It evokes nostalgia for long-time fans while offering a deep, immersive, and challenging world filled with prehistoric creatures and engaging PvP/PvE content. Importance 22%	Reviewers emphasize that Ark: Survival Ascended provides a unique and unparalleled gaming experience, unlike any other survival game. It evokes nostalgia for long-time fans while offering a deep, immersive, and challenging world filled with prehistoric creatures and engaging PvP/PvE content.	22%
Stunning Visuals & Graphics Description The game's graphics are frequently praised as beautiful, stunning, and visually impressive, even on lower settings. Reviewers highlight improved lighting, water effects, detailed environments, and realistic weather, contributing to a highly immersive visual experience. Importance 20%	The game's graphics are frequently praised as beautiful, stunning, and visually impressive, even on lower settings. Reviewers highlight improved lighting, water effects, detailed environments, and realistic weather, contributing to a highly immersive visual experience.	20%
Enhanced Dino AI & Taming Description The game features noticeable improvements in dinosaur AI, making creatures smarter and their behaviors more lifelike. The taming system has been refined, offering more meaningful bonds, and new dinosaurs, along with updated models and animations, enhance the primeval world experience. Importance 8%	The game features noticeable improvements in dinosaur AI, making creatures smarter and their behaviors more lifelike. The taming system has been refined, offering more meaningful bonds, and new dinosaurs, along with updated models and animations, enhance the primeval world experience.	8%
Robust Mod Support Description The game offers robust and accessible mod support, with mods downloadable directly in-game via a dedicated menu. This feature provides significant variety, enhances replayability, and allows for extensive customization, including for console players. Importance 7%	The game offers robust and accessible mod support, with mods downloadable directly in-game via a dedicated menu. This feature provides significant variety, enhances replayability, and allows for extensive customization, including for console players.	7%
Improved Base Building Description The base building system is highlighted as a favorite feature, offering creative freedom and an improved, easier experience compared to the original. Players enjoy constructing intricate bases, often enhanced by various mods that introduce new building styles and functionalities. Importance 7%	The base building system is highlighted as a favorite feature, offering creative freedom and an improved, easier experience compared to the original. Players enjoy constructing intricate bases, often enhanced by various mods that introduce new building styles and functionalities.	7%