Ready to take the full ARK: Survival Evolved experience on the road? Studio Wildcard certainly hopes so, with the announcement that their flagship title is now available for the Nintendo Switch.
Featuring the same open world gameplay experience that’s already enjoyed by millions of players, ARK: Survival Evolved for the Nintendo Switch features over eighty dinosaurs to tame. There’s a rich landscape to explore, and a multitude of players to befriend, fight, or just ignore.
This handheld version of ARK: Survival Evolved was developed with help from Abstraction Games, and includes the complete content and features of the original ARK game. The Switch version supports up to sixty-four players per online server, or can be played offline in solo mode when players just want to indulge their inner Owen Grady without anyone else to get in the way.
Key features of the Nintendo Switch version of ARK: Survival Evolved
- Free Exploration: Explore the entire ARK Island!
- Capture, Tame, Breed, and Ride Beasts: Over 80+ prehistoric and fantasy-inspired creatures and dinosaurs such as the T-Rex, Giganotosaurus, Direwolf, and Yeti.
- Harvest, Hunt, and Build: Cut down trees, hunt for meat and scavenge for plants, or start your own garden. Quickly develop these survival skills, as hunger, thirst, basic safety, and protecting yourself from the elements are all part of the game. Build small villages or huge towns using a variety of materials, from wood, stone, metal, or more. Learn new technologies to expand your outposts from primitive huts all the way through futuristic electrically-powered cities.
- Customization: The extensive ARK crafting system allows players to mix and match materials scavenged from around the island, while also modifying the colors, textures, shapes and styles.
- Intense First or Third Person Action: Engage in visceral melee and ranged combat using a massive variety of weaponry, from slingshots, bows, and spears all the way through modern rifles and pistols, to powerful sci-fi energy weapons and jetpacks!
- Mystery of The ARK: Solve the mystery of The ARK as you wander around the massive island, discovering explorers’ notebooks and clues everywhere to piece together the ARK mystery!
Players looking for more information about any version of ARK should check out the community forums, Twitter feed, and official website.
