On the Steam platform, the survival sandbox game ARK: Survival Evolved has long occupied the top of the online list of people and has become the hegemon of similar games. On the day of the recent release of the DLC "Ark: Genesis Season 2", the number of online users of the game soared, approaching the historical online peak of 15W people.
In the six years since its release, ARK: Survival Evolution has also won several awards, such as the "Most Popular Client Online Game in China" award in 2017, and the Steam Best Sales Award in 2019. Up to now, the "ARK: Survival Evolution" game body plus various DLC has sold tens of millions of sets, and the number of players on all platforms has exceeded 3500W. The game's rich and free gameplay and rigorous and complex biological system not only continue to attract new players to join, but also become a moat that makes the game difficult to be surpassed.
Enrich the gameplay and create a free and open world
ARK: Survival Evolved is an open-world game setting with delicate graphics and a grand sci-fi worldview that is even more fascinating. From ancient times to cosmic space, players can access a wealth of gameplay such as technology, construction, combat, decryption, etc., according to the preference for different gameplay, players can choose PVE or PVP mode independently to get different game experiences.
In the PVE mode, the game focuses more on the interaction between the player and environmental elements, such as taming various creatures, growing and harvesting crops, building houses, and relying on themselves. Players need to work hard to survive in this world, and develop a technology tree to grow, have enough strength to compete with the major bosses, complete various tasks and challenges, and promote the development of the story.
In the PVP mode, players will not only be able to experience the full gameplay in the PVE mode, but will also face new challenges and opportunities - interaction with players from all over the world. ARK: Survival Evolved players come from all over the world, and in the PVP mode, you can achieve intimate cooperation or tense confrontation, and even betrayals, sneak attacks, wars, etc. occur from time to time. If you want to dominate in PVP mode, you also need to develop technology to create powerful equipment such as Tektronix suits and Tektronix mechs. In addition, the domestication and breeding of creatures are also indispensable parts of the game.
Whether in PVE or PVP mode, mobs are always the player's most important companion. If you can domesticate powerful creatures, or mutate powerful new creatures through breeding, then whether you face powerful bosses in the game or other players, you can have a strong base.
Sophisticated creature gameplay
ARK: Survival Evolved is a vast and complex biological system that often amazes new players. According to relevant media reports, the development team has introduced a total of nearly 400 kinds of creatures, including ordinary animals that people are familiar with in real life, legendary creatures modeled based on myths and legends, and prehistoric creatures that have been lost in the torrent of history.
ARK: Survival Evolved is not only rich in genres, but each creature also has its own favorite environment, unique habits, and unique skills. Most of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved are tamed, and after taming, players can also multiply and breed creatures to obtain better quality offspring.
In ARK: Survival Evolved, there are almost no useless creatures, each creature has been given its specific functions by the development team, even a small shell lang can provide fertilizer for the player's crops, the ubiquitous otter can actually improve the resistance of the character and carry artifacts, and the uniquely shaped light bulb dog can light up the player's way forward and help better explore the ruins or mines with dim vision.
There are also some large prehistoric creatures, such as the Aeolian Pterodactyl, which can build a small base on the back of the huge back and become a mobile fortress; the climbing magic of the rock dragon takes the player to the cornice to walk the wall and travel freely through the complex terrain; the tail of the star-tailed beast meteor hammer helps to efficiently mine ore, etc. A series of creatures can be applied to all aspects of the player's game process, greatly improving the efficiency of exploration.
Moats built by biological systems
The vast ecosystem and complex biological chains built by ARK: Survival Evolution have long been emulated by other games of its kind, but to this day few games can match it. The development team of ARK: Survival Evolved spends a lot of time and effort modeling and logically building each creature, so that it has its own biogram and specific behavior patterns, bringing players a rich and diverse game experience.
In addition, the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolution have produced different evolutions based on the Ark worldview setting, such as the space creatures in the Genesis spacecraft can travel in the floating air, and the creatures in the harsh environment such as distortion and extinction are often more powerful and brutal, these changes make each DLC full of new ideas and bring new challenges.
Each creature in ARK: Survival Evolution is closely related to the game world, and the complete and detailed worldview construction and rigorous ecosystem together constitute the moat of the game of ARK: Survival Evolution, and to this day, biological gameplay is still an area that players enjoy and explore.
Some players wrote in the comments section: "Mecha + dragon = double happiness" "A game that has allowed me to play for more than 4,000 hours ~~~" Some players with big brains said: "When I take all the domesticated creatures as the names of my roommates and ride on them, this game becomes interesting."
All in all, as a survival sandbox game, ARK: Survival Evolution has designed nearly 400 creatures in the game, which greatly enriches the game world view, and gives players a high-quality game experience in the delicate and realistic picture quality. At the same time, each creature has unique characteristics and functions, which further enhances the playability of the game, and the biological system that is deeply compatible with the game's worldview makes ARK: Survival Evolution an object that is difficult to easily imitate in similar games. At present, the paid DLC of "ARK: Survival Evolution" has come to an end, before the sequel "ARK 2" debuts, the free DLC "Island of the Lost" will meet with players soon, I believe that the new creatures that appear in this DLC will bring more surprises and fun, let's look forward to it together!