The game is played from either a third-person or first-person perspective and its open world is navigated on foot or by riding a prehistoric animal.
In the game, players must survive being stranded on an island filled with roaming dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players. Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ΛRK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard.