ARK: Survival Evolved

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ARK: Survival Evolved

Short description

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!

Developer
Efecto Studios, Instinct Games, Studio Wildcard, Virtual Basement LLC
Publisher
Snail Games USA, Studio Wildcard
Release
Sun, Aug 27, 2017
Price
$14.99
$9.89
34%
Reviews
588,189
Positive
84%
Followers
1,681,324
Owners (estimated)
20M – 50M
Concurrent players
22,170
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG
Features
Multi-player, MMO, Co-op, Full controller support, Steam Workshop, Valve Anti-Cheat enabled, Includes level editor, Remote Play on Tablet
Tags
Open World Survival Craft Survival Multiplayer Open World Dinosaurs Crafting Building Adventure Base-Building Co-op Action Sandbox First-Person Massively Multiplayer Singleplayer Early Access RPG Dragons Sci-fi Indie
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$390msomewhere between $295m and $694m · roughly 20M–47M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $14.75, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 2% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

79 data points since Aug 10, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$388m → ~$390m
Reviews 584,067 → 588,189
Followers 1,671,032 → 1,681,324
Concurrent players 22,170 → 22,170
Price $14.99 → $9.89
Positive reviews 83.9% → 83.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 230 further data points reach back to May 1, 2015 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $9.59 on May 29, 2017.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around ARK: Survival Evolved is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

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