Games like ARK: Survival Evolved
If ARK: Survival Evolved is your kind of game, the closest matches are ARK: Survival Ascended, ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest and Rust — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and epic. 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.
Get personalized picks →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!
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ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Top pick for ARK: Survival Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Second-strongest match for ARK: Survival Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Third-strongest match for ARK: Survival Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Out of Reach
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Ranked #4 for ARK: Survival Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Rend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Ranked #5 for ARK: Survival Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Epic fantasy adventure meets competitive survival in Rend. Inspired by the fabled universe of Nordic myth, choose to play solo in Classic and Exploration modes to build your stronghold, tame brutal creatures, and conquer enemy players or play among three rival factions in Faction War mode.
Boundless
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Ranked #6 for ARK: Survival Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Ranked #7 for ARK: Survival Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ARK: Survival Evolved fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ARK: Survival Evolved.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
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ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Reviewers of ARK: Survival Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Reviewers of ARK: Survival Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with ARK: Survival Evolved.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Aquatico
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Reviewers of ARK: Survival Evolved cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ARK: Survival Evolved at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Action with ARK: Survival Evolved.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Action with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ARK: Survival Evolved.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ARK: Survival Evolved.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARK: Survival Evolved.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about ARK: Survival Evolved
- Is ARK: Survival Evolved verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — ARK: Survival Evolved is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does ARK: Survival Evolved cost?
- ARK: Survival Evolved is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ARK: Survival Evolved have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ARK: Survival Evolved supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to ARK: Survival Evolved?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ARK: Survival Evolved are ARK: Survival Ascended, ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest, Rust.
- Who developed ARK: Survival Evolved?
- ARK: Survival Evolved was developed by Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios and published by Studio Wildcard, Snail Games USA.
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