Wildcard does note, however, that mod support won't be available on the Epic Store until Epic gets around to implementing it.

Ark's official servers will support cross-play between Steam and Epic, and both versions will be updated in parity. Things have changed tremendously over the years and four paid expansions, however, with developer Wildcard taking a more kitchen sink approach to development, upping the sci-fi and fantasy elements, while heaping endless new tricks of an already creaky base.ĭespite its issues, though, Ark has managed to maintain a large, dedicated audience since launch, and now - until next Thursday, 18th June - those yet to experience its wobbly charms can pick it up for free on the Epic Games Store. Initially, Ark was a fairly focussed game of dinosaur taming, base building, and survival meter management, all in service of massive-scale tribal warfare (unless you joined a PvE server, in which case your worse, most terrifying foe was usually a pillar).

Yet despite its age, Ark has still rides high up Steam's list of concurrent players, all drawn to its compelling, if shamelessly time-gobbling mix of prehistorically themed homemaking and bloodthirsty PvP. Developer Wildcard's perennially popular dinosaur-themed survival game Ark: Survival Evolved is the latest freebie to grace the Epic Games Store.Īrk: Survival Evolved first reared its head in 2015 as a Steam Early Access title, eventually making its way to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch - albeit in the form of a barely functional smear in the latter case.

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