Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved is a first person adventure/crafting/survival game where you awake naked, hungry and freeing on a mysterious island. You must use your wit and cunning to build a shelter, gather food, grow crops and tame Dinosaurs in order to ensure your survival on Ark.

There is no greater feeling than saying "Yeah, I just made that Dinosaur my bitch.". With Ark: Survival Evolved you won't be saying it much within your first few hours playing. You have to unlock Narcotics which are made from Narco Berries which will take forever to gather enough to make the amount of Narcotics required to tame a Dinosaur. Unless you're trying to tame the DoDo Bird.

I have put in about 250 hours playing Ark: Survival Evolved and I will be putting in way more hours. The one thing you're going to see a lot of no matter what server you join is lag. The lag is a fucking killer. You will get a lag spike every now and then that will just turn you off. Don't fret, there's enough to do in the game to make the lag worth playing!

Your first 5 to 6 hours playing are going to be spent grinding for resources and leveling your character up so you can unlock the necessary things. The grinding is such a pain in the balls. You build your thatch house, all while trying to make sure you have a campfire and enough food to survive. The rate your damn hunger goes do is so bad. You'll need to eat every like 5 minutes.

If you don't die from hunger and thirst, the Dinosaurs will surely eat your face. You're going to die a lot before you actually spawn in a safe-ish area to start building. God help you if you spawn in the snow biome. Along with hunger and thirst, the cold will kill you pretty easily. If you spawn in a place you don't want to be, you could always go punch the nearest Dinosaur and have it kill you to choose a new spawn area.

If you're playing PVP, don't. Player killing is retarded in this game. You don't even get a chance to talk before some asshole sticks a spear up your ass and turns you into a human Kebab. With any PVP game you will meet the nice player here and there that will help you out and throw you some food and let you build near them. People are very territorial.

Everyone is going to have bigger and better shit than you. Build too close to a big base and some dick on a T-Rex will show up and eat your time thatch or wood house. I have had that happen to me numerous times. Most times they won't kill you, they'll just destroy your house so you have to start over in a new location.

I prefer PVE in this game because there's no player killing and people are a lot more likely to be friendly and let you build near them. Pick your server wisely because most Server Owners are huge dicks and don't care what you have to say when something happens. I've dealt with the worst Server Owners and Moderators that it's unbelievable how stupid they can be.

If a server says no cursing and you say "ass", it's on. I've spent countless hours telling owners to go fuck themselves and getting myself banned. As if you want to play on a server like that. Right? Cursing is a corner stone of American culture!

Other than all that, The game is really fun. The time spent dying from the elements, hunger and thirst are outweighed by how fun it gets once you start to level up your character and actually get a decent base going. The screenshots don't lie. This is a beautiful looking game. It costs $29.99(USD) on Steam!