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ARK: Survival Evolved

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Tracking since Sep 15, 2026 · Steam store page ↗
Price (US)
$14.99 $9.89 −34%
Developers
Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement LLC
Publishers
Studio Wildcard, Snail Games USA
Released
Aug 27, 2017
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG
Platforms
Windows, macOS
Metacritic
70 ↗
Website
playark.com ↗
Latest
10,073 
Peak · all time
23,389Nov 1, 2026
High · 7d
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Low · 7d
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Updates
Prices
Evenings

How many people are playing ARK: Survival Evolved?

ARK: Survival Evolved had 10,073 concurrent players on Steam at the latest hourly reading, Nov 3, 2026, 04:00 UTC, down 4.7% from 10,566 a day earlier. As of Nov 3, 2026, 04:00 UTC, it ranks #97 of the 502 games tracked here, up 3 places from #100 a day earlier.

The highest count recorded here since tracking began on Sep 15, 2026 is 23,389, on Nov 1, 2026; the latest reading is 43% of that.

Over the last four weeks, ARK: Survival Evolved has been busiest during the evening in East Asia, with the busiest hour around 14:00 UTC. That's when its players play, not necessarily where they live.

Insights

What the hourly counts say about when it's played and how updates land.

When it's played
East Asia evenings
Busiest around 14:00 UTC over the last 4 weeks · click to shade on the chart

Recent ARK: Survival Evolved updates

The change in average players in the week after each update, compared with the week before.

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  1. Dec 19, 2025 Major update ARK: Lost Colony is now live! ↗ Not tracked the week before

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