ARK: Survival Evolved
Game · 2015 · Notable
ARK: Survival Evolved sold more than 400,000 copies in its first week of Early Access.
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- All-time peak concurrent players on Steam (June 2022)
- 248.4K
- As of Jun 19, 2022 · SteamDB
- Peak date
- Jun 2015
- Jun 2 ’15 to Jun 2015
- Platforms
- 4
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Gaming
Mechanics
How it spread
Trace the originStudio Wildcard announced ARK with a YouTube trailer on May 11, 2015, and opened Steam Early Access on June 2. It sold over 400,000 copies in the first week and one million in under a month, and debuted fifth on Twitch's June ranking.
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Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
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- Score 46 → 53 · Fact-check passed (35 claims)
- Added: 17 events, 14 sources · Score 46
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