You can build your homes and bases on beaches, in forests, high the trees, or under the game's oceans. You can kill them for resources, or tame them to access various abilities. There are over 100 creatures in the game - mostly dinosaurs - that fight, feed on each other, and generally go about their lives. Since then the developers have added a ton to the game.

It's a bit of sandbox, a bit of survival simulation, and a bit of PVP action, if that's your jam.ДЄrk has been on Steam Early Access since June 2, 2015. It's a game where you're thrust into a hostile world with nothing and you have to punch, mine, and gather your way to bigger and better things. It occupies the same space as Minecraft, Rust, H1Z1 Just Survive, Dayz, and more. My first moments in Ark.ДЄrk: Survival Evolved is a survival game, as it says in its title. That's the kind of game this is at times. A dinosaur far above my level summarily attacked and killed me. My first death was in the first five minutes of play, when I had little understanding of the game's point or its mechanics. It's not my first death in Ark: Survival Evolved. I burn it twice before my torch breaks and the raptor kills me in the darkness. As I wander towards the next point, I'm attacked by a raptor in the forest. I find the source of the glowing point in the sky, a storage cache that doesn't have much for me, given that I've already crafted clothes for myself. Others have locked their temporary homes, preventing anyone else from entering their shelter from this hostile environment. Some have left campfires and other useful tools behind. I pass numerous wooden and thatch huts left by players who have long moved on. They seem as lost as I am, stopping a bit before sprinting back out into the darkness, no torch, no clothes, no anything. Is it a dinosaur? Is the creature neutral or hostile? Earlier I was attacked by a poisonous wasp that I lit on fire with my torch before running. There's a light in the sky and I'm moving towards it, but occasionally it disappears from view in the forest. I'm wandering through the darkness with no clear destination.

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