# ARK: Survival Evolved — Survive and tame 80+ creatures

> Mobile survival game with dinosaurs, crafting, building, and multiplayer tribes. (iPhone/iPad app by Wildcard Properties LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ark-survival-evolved/id1280480538 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Wildcard Properties LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1280480537)
- Category: Games, Adventure
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.40/5 from 104,856 App Store ratings · 52 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 9.0 · 1.9 GB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2018-06-19
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ark-survival-evolved/id1280480538/reviews.md

## What is ARK?

***PLEASE NOTE: This game officially supports iPhone 7 and newer models, and iPad models from 2015 to present.***

Dive into the ultimate mobile dino-adventure with ARK: Survival Evolved! A massive game world combines with 80+ unique dinosaurs and primal creatures for you to capture and tame - making for a survival experience bar-none. Meet up with other players and friends in this Jurassic-era world, to form tribes and work together to build colonies of survivors. 

Based on the genre-defining adventure from PC and consoles, ARK: Survival Evolved challenges you to survive and thrive on a mysterious island, where you start out alone and unarmed. Gather resources and craft tools to build shelter and hunt. Expand your domain while capturing and taming dinosaurs to do your bidding. Make new friends online, form tribes, and build mighty structures to defend against man and mega-predators alike!

Features of ARK: Survival Evolved include: 

- 80+ Dinosaurs: Use cunning strategy and tactics to tame, train, ride and breed the many dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the dynamic, persistent ecosystems across land, sea, air, and even underground. 
- Discover: Explore a massive living and breathing prehistoric landscape as you find the means to survive, thrive, and escape on the Ark.
- Craft and Build: Using any means necessary to survive, craft weapons, clothes, and items, and build shelters, villages, or even large cities. 
- Survive Alone or With Others: Group up with, or prey on, hundreds of other players in a large-scale online world or choose to go it alone in single-player mode.
- Join a Tribe: The 'Tribe' system encourages cooperation, by supporting dynamic parties to share resources, XP, and re-spawn points.

The game includes an optional Primal Pass subscription available on a monthly or yearly basis. The subscription removes all ads, gives you a 2x XP boost, and provides access to both preferred servers and to preferred slots on free servers. Subscribers receive an insignia next to their name to indicate their status as Primal Pass holders and will receive special news and updates from time to time.

When you purchase the subscription, payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the rate of your selected plan above. 

Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings on the device. 

Privacy policy: http://playark.com/ark-survival-evolved-mobile-privacy-policy/
Terms of use: http://playark.com/ark-survival-evolved-terms-of-use/

Support Email: support@grovestreetgames.com

## Key features

- Tame and ride 80+ dinosaurs and creatures
- Explore a vast prehistoric world
- Craft weapons, items, and build structures
- Survive alone or with other players
- Join tribes for cooperation and resource sharing

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Primal Pass Monthly | $4.99 | per month |
| Primal Pass Yearly | $39.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 15 Ancient Amber | $0.99 | one-time |
| 50 Ancient Amber | $2.99 | one-time |
| 200 Ancient Amber | $9.99 | one-time |
| 1000 Ancient Amber | $39.99 | one-time |
| ARKetype: Cutlass | $0.99 | one-time |
| ARKetype: Eerie Turret | $4.99 | one-time |
| God Console | $3.99 | one-time |
| ARKetype: Crow Bar | $1.99 | one-time |
| ARKetype: Eerie Pistol | $0.99 | one-time |
| ARKetype: Cantilever Platform | $0.99 | one-time |
| Ascendant Creature Unlock | $4.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of ARK?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Great gameplay
- 🌟 Massive open world
- 👍 Multiplayer and PVP optional
- 👍 Clever controls
- 👍 Engaging leveling system
- 👍 Not overwhelming
- 🕹️ Variety of creatures
- 🎨 Well-made graphics

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Disappearing tamed dinosaurs
- 🐛 Laggy performance
- 🐛 Game freezes and white screen issues
- 🐛 Stuck in caves/unable to exit
- 🐛 Glitches with Primal Pass subscription
- 🐛 Teleporting/glitching when interacting with unconscious animals
- 🔒 Lack of security against hackers and cheaters in multiplayer

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes during saving or when entering caves
- Tamed dinosaurs disappearing or getting stuck in the air
- Laggy performance and freezing issues
- Primal Pass subscription not working consistently
- Getting stuck when interacting with unconscious animals

**Most requested features**

- Add more dinosaurs from the PC/console versions
- Implement more boss fights and challenging content
- Allow creating and joining private servers easily
- Add more building options beyond just squares
- Introduce cryopods and admin rifle features
- Improve the chronicle system and revive mechanics
- Optimize the game for more mobile devices

## Recent user reviews (10 of 52)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ark-survival-evolved/id1280480538/reviews.md

### 4/5 — To many Bugs

*2024-05-16*

Ok game but way ti many bugs. Same as PC or console basically however Dino’s glitch through walls and spikes while being randomly teleported on other side of walls or spikes when rendering. Dino’s targeting AI is wonky as all get out. Set to “passive” “Stop” Scaro, Dilo will glitch though walls or battlements to target Dino’s on other side. Flying away and coming back resulting in normally needing to re collect Dino’s from an 2x2 area… not problematic but makes it difficult to keep food stocked on some Dino’s. Gates and door will randomly not shut or open, Have had this problem for months no fix, Fly away door or gate stays open leading to finding Dino’s as-well witch is annoying. Door is set as locked aswell. Random save crashes, Once in an while, game auto saves, game will crash and will lose progress to last save. Game will also randomly crash when using sleeping bags. Have not had an issue with any other sleeping item besides sleeping bags however when going to sleep game will black screen then go to phones Home Screen. Some supply beacons around mountains mostly but has happened crops map, will spawn in the air and not reach the ground at all. I have these same issues both in my IPhone 7 and 8. However these are the problems I’ve noticed, literally everything else is absolutely amazing 😍😍😍😍😍😍 I love this game!! Have been playing for years on the Xbox with the bro never gets boring!!

### 5/5 — Read before YOU $

*2024-05-03*

So I’m in the military so some areas have no service for a long time or time to play when deployed. So I added it up I spent a little over 3.4k$ on this game an while I was away they shut done the server I was on (you would think they would save an account like that) but when I got home an tried to play my account an server was gone it took me days to try an figure out how to contact support since there is not links in the game itself (grove street games email-btw) I let them no what happened an they told me all I could get back on my account was the blue prints (arketypes) so all the gold chains, griffin crowns ,crafting stations, wall an armor mounts statues an thousands of amber was gone an they would not help get it back! They also said they try really hard to let players no before a server shuts down I ask how do you try hard when I never got an email they said they let players no in-game an on Facebook but yet if your not playing the game your not looking at there site.  the game itself is good for mobile game lots of happy memories (just don’t spend unless your ok with losing it) they really need to have disclaimer on the game page so people no about keeping an eye out for when they switch servers or you will be out of luck an they won’t compensate you for anything even if you have the receipt. Gl with the game have fun (I do plan to talk to app store about this)

### 5/5 — Great game be needs a detail boost

*2023-02-24, version 2.0.26*

The details for the smaller creatures are just fine along with some medium sized creatures, but for lager creatures that detail isn’t there, if you were to compare the spino from this version to the PC you can notice a decently big difference; not very smooth and lacking details.  The same can be said for the trees, weapons, structures, and saddles. The map/ground also need more details; it’s too smooth and there is no pronounced blades or grass. While this has no effect to the gameplay, it would just be a way better game for the eyes. While I do know there is a heavy restriction of detail mobile devices can handle, and the severe difference of graphics a phone can show compared to a pc, I just feel like it shouldn’t look like a game meant for the Xbox 360. Even if the graphics don’t get an upgrade I will still play. One other thing to bring up is that I feel that the default maximum tames should be more than 40, but again that is my opinion. However other that that, 10/10 would play again and again and again. To add, if at all possible, I would love to be able to play scorched earth, aberration, and any other cannon maps (I can’t remember if there are more).

### 5/5 — Hackers make this game impossible

*2022-12-21, version 2.0.26*

Ive came to the conclusion that there is little to no way possible to advance in this game without being hacked away in seconds. There is no point to play unless you like running around and grinding for hours just to have a hacker spam rocket and plant full x plants around you! This was one of my favorite games it makes me sad that its so unplayable for the average player. If i had any recommendations it would be stop worrying about other dumb stuff like where u cant and cant build and fix your hacker problem its unbearable i took a couple month break to see if the team would fix anything ,it was just even harder for regular players. Have you played your game? Or do you enjoy hacking yourself? It is very difficult to even want to spend any kind of money or time into this game especially after beating the solo game and waisting hours in multi. The only way to become advanced is to know an alpha tribe with hacks it’s honestly pretty lame considering you wont be recruited until your lvl 99 and thats if you find a cool person! Please fix this game !

### 4/5 — This is the best game I’ve ever played but get rid of hackers

*2022-10-14, version 2.0.26*

OMG I can’t even begin to describe how amazing this game is although I leave four stars it would be five if it weren’t for pvp servers and how their are so many Asian hackers going left and right. Then after they wipe the entire server with their lvl 300+ hacked tames. They make these insta kill spawn zones so nobody can respawn at all claiming the server for themselves. Their objective just to be complete dicks everything they do is just for their fun and entertainment and that’s what I hate about this game because you have done literally zero about any of this. How can you watch these servers just get stolen from players who want to enjoy the game like Jesus this game is so much fun but then 20 hackers pop on and everybody eventually bites the dust for about 2 weeks because they wipe the server and set up spawn traps so you can’t live on the server. It’s so f@$&!? annoying I swear to god if you don’t get a grip on this soon I will and it really won’t be pretty for anybody. So please all I ask is you read this and realize their are so many things going wrong in your game because people feel the need to assert dominance because they have hacks to help them do so.

### 3/5 — -2.0

*2022-09-12, version 2.0.26*

I used to enjoy playing ark mobile until it simply just got boring and then recently I discovered you can play the real version of ark with Xbox cloud gaming and realized how big of a downgrade ark mobile really is from the real thing. So in ark mobile there’s no point in getting tek armor when all you need is ascended flak armor but in the original game tek armor has advantages in tek armor and gear that revolutionizes the game. Another thing is bosses. I know that dungeons are fun and all but they’re so much easier to fight and there’s a much smaller variety in mobile while in the original game you get really cool bosses such as the titans and the overseer. Then there’s dinosaurs in general. So you do get some of the really cool bosses like the titanosaur and gryphons in ark mobile but there have to be at least 3x as many varieties of Dino’s in the original game some of the top ones being wyverns, yutyrannus, and gasbags. Maps: ark mobile has one map, the island, which is also in the original game on pc, PlayStation, and console but once again improved. There are also many more maps such as aberration, extinction, genesis, crystal isles, etc. the downgrade from the original to the mobile version cannot be counted even with the few improvements such as creature revival and soothing balm plus a few more. Ill give this one a 3  star rating in favor of the time that I once enjoyed it and because the original is so fun

### 4/5 — Answer me this

*2022-09-03, version 2.0.26*

I have well over 3,000 hours on ark For PC. Mobile, about half that I reckon. It’s fun. It engulfs you. The possibilities are endless…until. The Servers are all full! If you get bored because you can’t tame or build and take a few days off then you lose your stuff. Even if you try to keep your timers reset you will lose your stuff eventually. It’s horrible. Tame limits are maxed so you can’t tame or breed. Not fun. You can make eggs but can’t hatch them. Not fun. People max out their tribes membership and then fill the tame slots with creatures they don’t even use. People log on walk around reset the timers and log off. How can this be made better? Hey devs this is for you…Primitive Plus servers. No flyers. No big tames. Just a focus on adventure, building, clothing, agriculture and weapons. Sure tame a wolf, tame a dodo, tame small stuff that makes sense, but ride a horse! Put tribes of NPC’s everywhere that you have to defend against or maybe even win to your cause. Come on guys, take a page from the PC universe and mod this thing. Keep it alive or soon it will be dead.

Addendum: Since we are now forced into waiting 15 minutes to collect our monthly gifts, and no significant improvements have been made to the game…I surrender. My yearly subscription will not be renewed, and I am leaving all my belongings to the ethers. Thanks for the good times.

### 5/5 — Let wimps be wimps

*2022-06-12, version 2.0.25*

All people on here complain about is that the game is to hard ether you can’t catch something don’t know where to go or get killed at the start of a spawn that is the way the game is ,stop trying to make all the aspects of the game easy so you don’t have to do lazy players it’s a challenge for a reason it’s realistic in real life you are not going to catch a parasaurolophus the whole key to the game is taming that’s why they say tame your way to the top .literally everything about this app is great spot on the only thing I would of liked more is if single player you could have creative mode for free not all stuff make a way you gotta earn it but the amber is not easy to get the prices for the store is nuts cuz people pay for the game but you could make single player just like the console version to where you can use the. GCM or spawn codes make that for single player  but maybe leveled so free players,(players who play the game with what they find or earn) can play the game without having to spend 1000s of amber to get the simple things from the store make it where you can earn each part of your creative mode abilities through a pursuit but only make the mission available on offline single play . Thank you for your time and consideration great game I hope it stays popular

### 5/5 — Don’t estimate it

*2022-06-04, version 2.0.25*

Oh my God I love this game so much the only problem I have is I’m just stupid :/so there’s only that problem that’s why but I’m not gonna lie this is a very fun game it’s just that I don’t know but when I got one of the mini dinosaurs It actually spit to make you walk slow when A creature kept killing me the alligator one my creature demolished it😳 but I was so surprised just to let you know I am the bad one that always plays casual and easy and the animal that kept killing me was a lower level than my mini creature The power source is not that bad all you have to do is get a stuck on some rocks and that’s comes as a problem to why does he always get stuck on it when you call out for him to come so I’m not gonna lie it’s not that bad last time I just kept getting killed by some bugs in the other time was well… I saw one of the most strongest creatures a Rex and a spinal just to let you know there was the rock creatures that was killing the Rex but soon it became night and I guess I was in a spinal spine so the spinal kept killing me just let you know spirals are somehow fatter than the people so I got killed. So this is why I gave it a five star game.

### 5/5 — THE BEST SURVIVAL GAME

*2022-05-10, version 2.0.25*

Ok so I downloaded it thinking it was another one of those money grab mobile games where you have to either pay for everything, or watch adds every two seconds. Nope! This is a REAL game. By ‘real’ I mean not just a cheap imitation of a survival game, which I have played a lot of. Basically you survive on a island of dinos. That’s what it is to most people but to me it is a game of alliances, Skill, strategy, and maybe a little luck. Only thing is that the creatures are alittle too op even for easy and casual mode. Anyways great game but y should def not download for a stress reliever cus it so enjoyably intense 😃 New: still love it I just feel like you should have more options when creating single play worlds like on ps4. Ik u can do it on public servers but not on single. I also think u should add lost island bc it’s so balanced and I feel like it would be a better map for mobile then just the island. Also plez make kibbles better. I like the reg kibble mechanic on ps4 and pc better than the mobile one. It’s just simpler. I also like that u didn’t skimp on the graphics and UI. It’s not as good as console but it’s ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL considering it’s on the mobile platform. Thx for reading!

## Frequently asked questions about ARK

### What is ARK: Survival Evolved?

ARK: Survival Evolved is a mobile survival game set in a prehistoric world. Players must gather resources, craft items, build shelters, and tame over 80 different dinosaurs and creatures to survive and thrive. The game offers both single-player and multiplayer modes, where players can form tribes and cooperate.

### What are the key features of ARK: Survival Evolved?

Key features include taming and riding over 80 dinosaurs and primeval creatures, exploring a massive living prehistoric landscape, crafting weapons and items, building shelters and villages, and surviving alone or with hundreds of other players online. The game also features a tribe system for cooperative play.

### How much does ARK: Survival Evolved cost?

The game is free to download and play, but it does offer an optional Primal Pass subscription. This subscription removes ads, provides a 2x XP boost, and grants access to preferred servers and slots. There are also in-app purchases available.

### What devices is ARK: Survival Evolved compatible with?

The game officially supports iPhone 7 and newer models, as well as iPad models from 2015 to the present. It is designed for devices with sufficient processing power to handle its large-scale world and graphics.

### What is the main goal in ARK: Survival Evolved?

The main goal is to survive and thrive on a mysterious island. This involves mastering the environment, taming dinosaurs for assistance, crafting necessary tools and shelter, and potentially escaping the island. Players can also focus on building large colonies and defending them in multiplayer.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.26 — 2022-06-20

- Structures can no longer be placed in the Volcano Crater on Official PvE servers
- "Disable Building in Volcano Crater (PvE)" option added to Unofficial Server web interface
- Numerous bug & exploit fixes

### 2.0.25 — 2021-06-10

-Bug fixes and stability improvements

### 2.0.24 — 2021-05-04

- Expanded range of Ancient Amber obtainable from Supply Drops.
- Removed Ancient Amber that was falsely being granted from Artifact Containers & Cave Loot Crates.
- Various bug fixes & stability improvements.

### 2.0.23 — 2021-04-22

- Ads have been removed from the game
- Supply Drops have a small chance to grant Ancient Amber to the first player who reaches them
- Supply Drops added to SP & PvE servers
- Daily Pursuits grant 50% bonus Ancient Amber to Primal Pass holders
- Store has been reorganized and refreshed
- Eerie Turret & Racing Flag ARKetypes now available in SP
- Structure Prevention zones around Lava Cave entrance and Underwater Caves have been adjusted
- Various bug fixes & stability improvements

### 2.0.22 — 2020-12-28

- Fix for floating structures on Platform Saddles.
- Homing Underwater Mines disabled in PvP & PvX game modes.
- Various bug fixes & stability improvements.

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## More apps by Wildcard Properties LLC

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