Before the battle royale mania, there was a time when everyone wanted to have their own survival game. What began as an
ARMA II mod (also known as
DayZ) quickly became the most popular new subgenre with brand new titles like
Rust, Metal Gear: Survive, and many, many more. While most of those titles failed to capture players' imagination,
ARK: Survival Evolved has managed to gain ground.
Right now,
ARK is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, Steam, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, but it will change soon as the work on a Nintendo Switch version is coming to an end. Studio Wildcard released today a special live-action trailer revealing that
ARK: Survival Evolved's Nintendo Switch version will hit stores at the end of next month, precisely on November 30, 2018.
While the aforementioned trailer is entertaining, some players may be worried about the state of the upcoming port, as we're still waiting to see gameplay from the latest build of the Switch edition. Considering that
ARK still has huge problems with optimization on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (and it was released in August 2017 on console), the quality of the Switch version remains a big question.
As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements. Use your cunning and resources to kill or tame & breed the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land, and team up with or prey on hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
ARK: Survival Evolved is currently available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, Steam, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.