➤ Ark, the iOS and Android review 🎮

The gestation of Ark: Survival Evolved it has been as strange as it is important to the Early Access market. Released three years ago on the market and only reached its final version last year, it was for a long time the most played survival by Steam users and still maintains a very large fanbase today. After landing on consoles, it is now time for a new challenge: to be able to transport the same experience on mobile devices. We know that you will already be laughing at the thought, we too did it before launching the game, but having to change our minds when a little miracle of programming and cleaning. Ark mobile works, and it works pretty well too. You will be called to some small sacrifice, but we already know that you will not be able to believe your eyes.

The charm of the setting

There is no doubt that Ark: Survival Evolved is still one of the most fascinating titles of its kind today. The possibility of creating and nurturing your own personal Jurassic park is the gimmick that has decreed its great success already at the time of its release. In a setting full of different biomes and with more than eighty races to interact with, many players have found their favorite pastime, between hunting, building their own base and training the most disparate prehistoric creatures. The mobile version of the title of Wildcard Studio it is no exception and tries, managing quite well, to give us back the same sensations experienced with its home version. After creating the character through an extremely reduced version of the editor we already know, we are catapulted into a map in which we are asked to complete a few simple tasks. The will of the developers to create an experience that can be used by everyone, even and above all without the need to be connected to Internet, merged into a single player more complex than expected. All the elements are in place, including character growth, crafting, and learning the various recipes. Completing the tasks gives you an important amount of experience and, after a few minutes, you will already be able to create your first base. What really surprises about this mobile version of Ark is the work it has done with regards to commands. Survival is notoriously titles that require the management of a considerable number of resources and interaction with multiple elements. This is why we started the game fearing a lot from this point of view. On the contrary, we were faced with a more than manageable game, with changes made to the interface that go very well with the natura touch of the mobile version. The ability to press more than once on the screen to ensure that the actions last over time, as well as that of exploiting different areas of the device, to perform different interactions, are all very appreciable elements and denote the desire not to create a simple port. hasty on the wave of success. Certainly when things get more intense and you find yourself fighting aggressive dinosaurs, the possibility of taking one action rather than another is the order of the day. However, this does not affect the general goodness of the work done, on the contrary it highlights how it is evidently possible to make enjoyable even a title so damn far from one smartphone. Once you have completed all the required tasks and reached level twenty, you will be ready to decide whether to continue your solo adventure, or join the online fray with other players to create a tribe and conquer your own server. We have not had the opportunity to delve into this component, on which we will return later, but the effort to bring the most complete version of the game possible on the phone, is something that must certainly be praised, regardless of any prejudice.

Graphically inconceivable

Let's get our hands on right away. Ark, even in its mobile version, is a heavy title and difficult to manage from a phone with more than a couple of years on its shoulders. We played it with a iPhone X and this has allowed us to push it to the maximum and enjoy a technical work that is incredible. Let's not exaggerate by saying that thegraphic appearance of this "reduction" of Ark, it is hard to believe. Despite a necessarily decreased number of polygons and textures far from the ultra version on PC, the impact on the screen of a smartphone is jaw-splitting and the fluidity with which everything moves is so surprising as to leave you amazed. Seeing a tyrannosaurus of this quality moving around on your phone leaves you pleasantly surprised, to the point that you often find yourself looking around and going on a long safari in prehistoric times rather than thinking about your goals. The side too sonoro it is reported with a bewildering quality and the effects look good when compared to the home version. As if that weren't enough, the game features the ability to set a variety of graphic values to make everything less heavy and, in this way, to meet those who have less resources to spend.

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If what you have been eagerly waiting for was the chance to see a 1: 1 port of a home title on mobile, you are still off track and probably will be for a long, long time. On the contrary, if you thought that it was absolutely impossible to transform a survival experience into something enjoyable even on the screen of your phone, the mobile version of Ark: Survival Evolved will surprise you. Everything runs beautifully, despite some very slight but surmountable compromises in terms of controls in the most agitated situations. To conclude an excellent job, there is an absolutely non-invasive system of microtransactions, complete with gifts assigned in the game based on the completion of certain tasks. Certainly, those who spend money will have an advantage in the paraphernalia and resources, but none of this affects a very entertaining title capable of enchanting its players, touching their creative and childish vein, the one that we too often leave aside to get lost. in the problems of adulthood.