ARK: Survival Ascended
Skip · RPG · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $11.24.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.04/hr
- Reviews▼
- 60% of 120,700
- Genre rank
- Top 92% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Early access
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 276.5h
- To 100%
- 306.1h 1.1x the story
- Achievements
- 32
Price and sales
- Sales
- 25 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $11.24 February 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20,909 now
- Recent reviews
- 62% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 6% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 25 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $11.24 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ARK: Survival Evolved ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Wild Terra Online (free, scores 7).
More about ARK: Survival Ascended
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written in October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 270 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 28 percent of the 11,263 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The rating rests on 120,700 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
TLDR; This game has more DLCs than Frames (AI helper tools excluded, since not every hardware is compatible). Paid DLCs in an unfinshed game is the best indicator for that they care about your money but not you. Side Note... the game is here ~44 bucks but in early access the DLCs are already 159 bucks. tells alot about them. Money > Customer Satisfaction Please valve do something about these scammers. I can not play...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
ASE was a childhood gem for me and my friends, countless hours playing and forgetting to go to sleep for school the next day. This game is a pile of ****. It has potential but with my specs i should not be getting 60 fps at 1080p and 45 at 4k. Fix your game and stop charging for these chinese money grab DLC packs you slant eye devs! THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!
Buggy terrible dog ahh game but its top 5 games ever also your mental health will decline severly.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 1080, 180 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ARK: Survival Ascended scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2399830/ark-survival-ascendedReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.