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About the Game
A dinosaur-filled open-world survival game where you gather, craft, build, and tame creatures alone or with others.
ARK: Survival Evolved is a multiplayer survival game that mixes action, adventure, and role-playing with a massively multiplayer online setting. You wake up alone on a shoreline on a mysterious island called ARK, with nothing but your hands and a need to stay alive. The store description frames the experience around hunting, gathering, crafting, planting crops, building shelters, and developing technology, all while keeping your food and water up.
The core loop is a steady cycle of gathering and progression. You chop trees, mine rock, and collect materials to craft tools, weapons, and clothing, moving up from thatch and wood to stone and steel. Blueprints guide most crafting, and the richest resources sit in harder places, from the highest mountains to the darkest caves and the deepest oceans. Your character levels up through your actions, and you can learn new memory engrams to craft certain items without blueprints.
Taming and riding are the signature hooks. The game offers more than 50 kinds of primitive creatures to tame, which means knocking them out and then caring for them until they recover. Tamed creatures can carry supplies, follow your orders, and be bred, and you can fly on a pteranodon over snowy peaks or ride a Tyrannosaurus through hostile jungles. Dynamic weather and temperature swings keep the pressure on, and they make hunger and thirst arrive faster.
Other players are a constant factor. The world is persistent, so your belongings stay put when you log off, but anything left unguarded can be taken, and death is permanent. Tribes let friends pool their tamed creatures and share resources, while hostile players can knock out and capture rivals. The store page also describes Unreal Engine 4 visuals, a day-night cycle, and a clear ending that you work toward by confronting the creator of this world.
Feature Highlights
- Over 50 kinds of primitive creatures can be tamed, trained, and bred, and tamed dinosaurs can be ridden and given orders.
- A tribe system lets you team up with friends so that tamed creatures and resources can be shared with allies.
- Bases can be built from thatch, wood, stone, or steel, and structures and gear can be painted to customize their look.
- Dynamic weather, day-night cycles, and temperature changes affect hunger, thirst, and how you prepare your clothing and shelter.
- Steam Workshop mod support and a level editor let players create custom content on top of the base game.
- Full controller support and Steam Remote Play on tablets give you flexible ways to play the game.
Who It Is (and Is Not) For
Recommended For
This suits players who enjoy long-haul survival, crafting, and base building, especially those who see taming and riding dinosaurs as a central goal. It also fits people who want a shared, persistent world with friends, since tribes, shared tamed creatures, and cooperative survival are built into the design.
Not Recommended For
Players who want a short, low-pressure experience should look elsewhere, since the store description stresses permanent death, constant hunger and thirst, and the risk of losing belongings to other players. It also won't suit anyone who dislikes competitive player-versus-player encounters, because other players can attack, steal, and capture you.
What the Steam Reviews Say
ARK: Survival Evolved carries a Steam review label of Very Positive, with 83% of reviews positive. That is a strong signal that most players who reviewed it on Steam feel good about the game overall. The review volume is in the hundreds of thousands of reviews, so the percentage carries a lot of weight.
Steam labels are based on the share of positive reviews and the total number of reviews, so a range like this usually means a broadly well-received game with a large, established player base. Very large review counts tend to be more stable than the score for a newer or smaller game, where a handful of reviews can swing the percentage. Reading recent reviews on the Steam page is a good way to see how the game feels today.
Price History & Historical Low
We started recording this game's Taiwan-store price on 2026-07-10 and have 31 day(s) of data so far.
Latest recorded price: NT$176 (regular NT$268)
A price chart appears here once we have recorded at least a week of prices with some variation.
All prices here are Taiwan Steam store prices in NT$. The game is currently NT$ 176, which is 34% off its regular NT$ 268 price. It is not free to keep right now, and we have not recorded any free-to-keep promotion for it.
Our lowest recorded price is NT$ 176, logged on July 10, 2026, and it is also the latest price we have on file. Discounts appear often in our record, and the deepest discount we have seen is the current 34%. Because the current price matches our recorded low, the timing looks favorable for buyers who want the game now.
Our price record is still short, so treat this verdict as tentative. The record simply does not yet show a wide range of prices to compare against, so keep an eye on the price trend here before you commit.
Analysis written 10/27/2026 from our recorded prices; the chart above is live. Taiwan-region Steam prices.
How to Buy
- Sign in to Steam on the website or in the desktop client, then open the ARK: Survival Evolved store page.
- Check that the Taiwan store price shows NT$ 176, which is the current discounted price from a regular NT$ 268.
- Click Add to Cart and complete checkout if you want to buy it now.
- If you would rather wait, click Add to Wishlist instead.
- Turn on Steam's wishlist sale notifications so you hear about future discounts without checking manually.
- Check back here for the price trend before you decide to buy.
Things to Know
Traditional Chinese and English are both supported, and the store marks each language as having full audio support. Prices are Taiwan-region Steam prices in NT$ and may differ in other regions or on other storefronts. Free and discount promotions can end at any time, so check the official Steam page for the current price before you buy.
