Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, and Virtual Basement were hired to facilitate the game's development. The development team conducted research into the physical appearance of the animals, but took creative license for gameplay purposes. There is a PvE mode where players cannot fight each other.ĭevelopment began in October 2014, where it was first released on PC as an early access title in the middle of 2015. In this mode all tamed dinosaurs and building structures are usually shared between the members. The max number of tribe mates varies from each server. Multiplayer allows the option to form tribes of members in a server. The game has both single-player and multiplayer options. Players can use firearms and improvised weapons to defend against hostile humans and creatures, with the ability to build bases as defense on the ground and on some creatures. The game is played from either a third-person or first-person perspective and its open world is navigated on foot or by riding a prehistoric animal. In the game, players must survive being stranded on an island filled with roaming dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players. Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ΛRK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard.
