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Mystic Vale

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Tabletop Game

A curse has been placed on the Valley of Life. Hearing the spirits of nature cry out for aid, clans...

Dsk (1 KP) rated ARK Survival Evolved in Video Games

Dec 14, 2017

ARK Survival Evolved

2017 | Action/Adventure

7.0

(24 Ratings)

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The survival aspect and the lore created. (0 more)

The devolpers greed for money. (0 more)

Amazing Concept

Like many of the survival/crafting games of the genre it partially helped popularize, ARK dumps you on the beaches of a massive, foreboding island with just enough clothing to stay modest and your own two fists. From there, the challenge is to stay fed and hydrated while avoiding a huge variety of terrifyingly detailed dinosaurs and other beasts long enough to progress up the tech tree. Early in the life of a character, you might be taking out dilophosaurs with throwing spears and hoping a triceratops doesn’t come and knock your thatch hut over in the middle of the night.

From there, there’s a really nice flow of technological progression that makes advancement feel like more than just an increase in stats. Thirty hours later, you may preside from a sturdy stone castle from atop which you snipe pterasaurs out of the air with a rifle. By the endgame, it’s possible to have a massive steel fortress full of blast furnaces, complete with electric lighting and gas generators, churning out components for building rocket launchers and SCUBA gear.