Games like ARK: Survival Evolved

The closest matches to ARK: Survival Evolved: Rust, Valheim, Subnautica, Terraria, and Palworld. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If ARK: Survival Evolved is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rust, Valheim and Subnautica — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and epic, and single out its base building and defense and character and creature progression. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

ARK: Survival Evolved is a massively multiplayer open-world survival RPG developed by Studio Wildcard with contributions from Instinct Games and Efecto Studios, released in 2017 at a price of $14.99. The game centers on procedural map exploration, dinosaur taming and breeding, and character and creature progression, with players engaging in base-building and defense, mass PvP with mounted creatures, and cross-server loot transfer. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, immersive, and epic, highlighting that boss raids feel rewarding, dinosaur taming matters strategically, and base defense requires creative engineering. An active modding community extends the game's longevity considerably. Verified for Steam Deck, ARK holds an 81% positive rating from over 253,000 Steam reviews.

About ARK: Survival Evolved: Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!