ARK: Survival Evolved
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it. Price from Oct 20.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 780,546
- Critics
- 70 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 66.8h
- To 100%
- 920.3h 13.8x the story
- Achievements
- 32
Price and sales
- Sales
- 50 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $9.59 May 2017
- Sale every
- 38d last August 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16,523 now
- Recent reviews
- 83% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
57% start to 4% 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 never been cheaper than $9.59. That was May 2017. 50 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 7 percent. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Valheim ($29.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats ARK: Survival Ascended ($11.24, scores 8).
More about ARK: Survival Evolved
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 26,325 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 66.8 hours; clearing it takes 920, which is 14 times the campaign.
780,546 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
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
You start playing this game for fun. Then you play it out of hatred. I have the number one voted review of Ark on IMDB. That comment is seven years old. Seven years ago I posted that Ark is a love/hate abusive relationship. Nothing since has changed my mind.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
was better after i added 10k more dino mods cause i didnt feel like my base was destroyed every time i left,.
if you buy this game, do not play public multiplayer. its so rampant with cheaters even the CEO cheats blatantly.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better, 60 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
ARK: Survival Evolved scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/346110/ark-survival-evolvedReviews 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 3, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.