PixARK
Skip · Multiplayer · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 0.2h
- Value
- $99.95/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 82% over the last 30 days against 73% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was August 2026. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, ARK: Survival Evolved ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats ARK: Survival Ascended ($44.99, scores 7).
Players rate it 73 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 82 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 129 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 1,151 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 0.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 8, 39 times as much.
The drop-off
43% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
165 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
pretty shocked by all the hate this game is receiving. after many years the dev team is trying to breathe new life into the game. it's never been abandoned and thru the years they have continually added new creatures/cosmetics/blocks. now with this new dlc imo..it's even better. tons and tons of new creatures/weapons/npcs/quests. having over 1,000 hrs in Ark and 750+ in minecraft and vintage story i can say this...
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it may look cool. but don't actually buy this. i was expecting like a cool combination between minecraft and ark survival evolved. instead i got an unplayable mess. turns out if you combine building mechanics from minecraft and ark. you get an unplayable mess. you have to place floors before you can place any other blocks. and then the wall blocks just kinda suck. and the ceiling block sucks cause its just the same...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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PixARK scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/593600/pixarkThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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