

This bundle includes ownership of both ARK: Survival Ascended AND ARK 2 and will be priced at $49.99. Xbox Series S/X and PC players will only be able to get it via an ultimate-value bundle known as the ARK Respawned Bundle. The base game will include The Island, SOTF, and all the “Non-Canon” DLC maps (which will be added to ASA over time). It will be released on Xbox Series S/X, PC (Windows/Steam), and PlayStation 5 by the end of August 2023. We havent officially announced the ARK UE5 upgrade yet ’cause there’s other major things we wanna show then as wellĪRK: Survival Ascended is a next-generation remaster of our beloved ARK: Survival Evolved, harnessing the power of Unreal Engine 5.

To clarify: the UE5 tease a couple weeks back is referring to in-the-works complete free upgrade/remaster of ARK Survival Evolved in UnrealEngine5. It also looks like Ark players will have to rebuy those expansion packs all over again.įrom a Jeremy Stieglitz tweet dated 1/22/23: Studio Wildcard is also being criticized for a couple of other reasons, including ARK 2’s delay to late 2024, as well as its plan to shut down and wipe ARK: Survival Evolved’s servers in August-something that critics say is being done to push players onto the paid remaster of the game. Many ARK fans have reacted negatively to the news, as one of the developers claimed in January that this would be a “free” update, implying it could be downloaded at no extra charge upon release. Xbox Series S/X and PC players will be able to get ARK: Survival Ascended via the ARK Respawned Bundle, an “ultimate-value” bundle that adds the Vin Diesel-starring ARK 2 for $49.99, while PS5 owners will be able to get the upgrade as a standalone game for $39.99.


Studio Wildcard has announced that ARK: Survival Ascended, a next-generation remaster of ARK: Survival Evolved (2015) that harnesses the power of Unreal Engine 5, will be released by the end of August 2023.
