Genre SurvivalReleased Oct 25, 2023

ARK: Survival Ascended

Estimated lifetime revenue
$52.10M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$38.68M
After Steam's 26% cut
Units sold
2.15M
≈ 18 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 119,490 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
119,490
Mixed60% positive
Playing now
14,327
15-day peak 29,662 · low 14,327
New reviews, last 15 days
+1,063
≈ 71 a day since Oct 1

History

Oct 1 – Oct 16

119.6K119.2K118.8K118.3K
Oct 1Oct 8Oct 16

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Survival →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Survival games on Steam

Outearns 71% of them — above the group's median.

Median
$25.21M
127,953 reviews
Top 10% start at
$103.35M
This game
$52.10M
43rd pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Developer
Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games
Publisher
Studio Wildcard, Snail Games USA
Genre
Survival
Released
Oct 25, 2023
Steam app ID
2399830
Data updated
Oct 16, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.