As effectively as a load of old Samurai Shodown games for free, the Epic Games Store is that this week gifting away Ark: Survival Evolved for keepsies. That’s the one with the dinosaurs. The survival sandbox continues to be one of many most-played games on Steam, 5 years after first launching in early entry, so perhaps you’re curious to see what it’s all about?
You have till June 18th to seize Ark: Survival Evolved from the Epic Games Store by June 18th and it’ll be yours for keepsies. That’s simply the bottom game, not one of the paid expansions – although you’ll be able to seize the flamboyant player-made maps that Studio Wildcard have made official.
Speaking of, one other modmap immediately grew to become official. Polished up slightly, Crystal Isles is now up on the Steam and Epic shops.
Crystal Isles arrives as a part of Ark’s fifth birthday festivities, which additionally embrace massive bonuses to XP, breeding pace, taming, and harvesting. That’ll assist with Ark’s interminable grind, for those who don’t already play on one of many servers boosted to the sky.
“While Ark can be a lot of fun – grabbing another player off of a raptor with an Argentavis feels bloody brilliant – it’s rarely worth the hours of tedium,” Ark: Survival Evolved review stated after it left early entry in 2017. Our Nate additionally had good issues to say concerning the authentic game in his Ark: Genesis review (although he didn’t have a lot good to say concerning the enlargement):
“It really was a Survival game with a capital S, where the most basic existence was a struggle, and the greatest joy was in attempting treks through a vast and constantly surprising landscape, wondering how far you’d get before something pants-shittingly big burst roaring from a nearby treeline and guzzled you like a tin of meat-flavoured lager.”
Which, yeah, that does curiosity me. The final time I attempted Ark on a Steam free trial weekend, efficiency was so unhealthy that I rapidly gave up. Maybe it’ll be a bit higher now. Maybe?
