Genre SurvivalReleased Aug 27, 2017
ARK: Survival Evolved
Developed by Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement LLC · Published by Studio Wildcard, Snail Games USA
$14.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$66.35M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$50.08M
After Steam's 25% cut
Units sold
8.47M
≈ 11 sales per review
Reviews
779,490
Very Positive83% positive
Playing now
12,929
9-day peak 15,499 · low 10,450
New reviews, last 9 days
+548
≈ 61 a day since Oct 7
History
Oct 7 – Oct 16
779.5K779.3K779.1K778.9K
Oct 7Oct 11Oct 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 130 most-reviewed Survival games on Steam
Outearns 82% of them — in the top quarter of the group.
Median
$23.07M
121,657 reviews
Top 10% start at
$99.78M
This game
$66.35M
95th 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
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
- Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement LLC
- Publisher
- Studio Wildcard, Snail Games USA
- Genre
- Survival
- Released
- Aug 27, 2017
- Steam app ID
- 346110
- 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.