ARK: Survival Ascended Standard Edition

ARK: Survival Ascended is the Unreal Engine 5 remake of Survival Evolved, and it is the same idea done properly: you wake up on an island with nothing, and there are dinosaurs. The loop is harvest, craft, build, tame. Taming is the part the series is built on — knocking a creature unconscious, feeding it the right food while keeping it under, and ending up with a mount, a pack animal or a weapon platform. Breeding adds stat inheritance and mutations for players who go deep. Bases are built piece by piece and raided by other tribes on PvP servers. The base game now includes The Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Aberration and Extinction, with further maps as paid DLC. Servers hold up to seventy players with crossplay between Steam, Xbox and PlayStation, and there is two-player split-screen locally. Mods run through an in-game browser. The Standard Edition covers the base game and the five included maps. Bob's Tall Tales and the Astraeos map are separate purchases. Keys activate on Steam, or on Xbox and the Microsoft Store through Play Anywhere.