Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Ark: Survival Evolved takes on the survival genre with a unique blend of emergent multiplayer cooperation and competition.

In ARK: Survival Evolved, survivors wake up stranded, naked, freezing, and starving on a mysterious island where they must hunt, harvest, craft items, grow crops, and build shelters to survive in every biome. Survivors will tame, train, and ride more than 100 stunning dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts, including gargantuan creatures on a scale never before seen in video games! In every available biome -- Jungle, Snow, Swamp, Redwood, and Desert -- you’ll be able to fly an armed Pteranodon squadron over the snow-capped mountains, race through a thick jungle with your pack of trained Raptors, tromp through a fortified enemy base with a convoy of gigantic Brontosaurus, or chase down prey on the back of a raging T-Rex.

Use cunning strategy and tactics to tame and ride the many dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the dynamic, persistent ecosystems across land, sea, air, and even underground. Build your character’s strengths and gain items, skills, and pet creatures using in-depth role-playing systems. Start a tribe with hundreds of other players to survive and dominate competing tribes...and ultimately discover the ARK’s true purpose.

It’s been five years since the first survivors awoke, naked and starving on a mysterious island, encountering doddering Dodo birds and vicious velociraptors.

Today, ARK: Survival Evolved is marking this anniversary with a special in-game event, a new tameable pterosaur Tropeognathus, and the release of the fantasy-themed “Crystal Isles - ARK Expansion Map,” available now for free to all ARK owners on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store! 

The ARK party starts NOW! Today through Thursday, June 18, survivors on all platforms can celebrate the Anniversary Event with Party Dodos, interactive cake, new chibis and surprises, and dazzling unicorns frolicking on rainbows. To honor the occasion, all breeding rates will be 2x, and 4x bonuses for taming, harvesting, and XP rates until the party is over!

Haven’t yet ridden a dinosaur? For one week, the ARK: Survival Evolved base game is available for free download on the Epic Games Store and 80% off on PS4.

”Crystal Isles - ARK Expansion Map” was also added to ARK’s official servers as a free download for PC players. The brand new map contains 150 square kilometers of colorful scenery and awe-inspiring biomes teeming with life. Build your bases high in rainforest canopies and mysterious floating islands, then dive deep into undersea caverns in search of resources. Crystal Isles will be available for free on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this fall.

Additionally, ARK’s newest dinosaur Tropeognathus will be released today for players on all platforms (PC, PS4, Xbox One). Tame and saddle this flying pterosaur then take it on a dizzying jet-fuel-powered ride into combat, complete with a powerful mounted flak cannon.

On June 2, 2015, ARK: Survival Evolved launched onto Steam’s Early Access program and since that time has amassed more than 30 million players across all platforms!

The ARK: Survival Evolved Crystal Isles Expansion Map is a free downloadable update available now on Steam and the Epic Games Store, and will also be available to download on the PS4 and Xbox versions of ARK this Fall.

Key Features

• TAME, TRAIN, RIDE, and BREED DINOSAURS: Command the most amazing creatures from throughout Earth's biological history, with more than 100 dinosaurs and creatures planned for full launch. Use cunning strategy and tactics to tame and ride the many dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the dynamic, persistent ecosystems across land, sea, air, and even underground.
• CRAFT AND BUILD: Using any means necessary to survive, players will craft weapons, clothes, and items, and build shelters. Plant, harvest, build, level-up, and customize everything visually and functionally, including procedurally-generated RPG statistics for creatures, characters, resources, clothing, gear, and weapons both primitive and modern.
• DISCOVER: Explore a massive living ecosystem and find the means to survive, thrive, and possibly escape the ARK Island.
• TEAM UP TO SURVIVE: Start a tribe with dozens of other players in a large-scale multiplayer online first person environment to survive and dominate competing tribes...and to ultimately discover ARK’s true purpose.
• JOIN A TRIBE: The 'Tribe' system encourages cooperation, by supporting dynamic parties to share resources, XP, and re-spawn points. Other players are organizing rebel tribes to accumulate resources, experience, re-spawn points, and to construct sprawling villages and cities, with technology spanning the primitive stone-age to the modern electric-powered era and beyond. And they will fight to destroy anything they see as a threat.
• A LARGER UNIVERSE: Travel between Online ARKs to meet new players, face new threats, and discover new civilizations!

ARK: Survival Evolved is available for Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC (Steam).