History VideoGame / ARKSurvivalEvolved

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist / ContinuingIsPainful: On one hand you retain all the engrams and stats you have, on the other hand you lose everything in your inventory.
* DomesticatedDinosaurs: One of the main features of the game, if not the main feature, is taming dinos as well as other prehistoric animals. They can be kept as pets and the bigger ones can be outfitted with saddles so that they can be used as mounts.
* ExperiencePoints: What you gain when you do anything. Picking up berries? Gain experience points!
* FeatheredFiend : Argentavis, a massive flying bird that thinks you'll make a yummy snack. Tameable and ridable, allowing you to pull this on others.

* {{Megalodon}}: Infests most of the games nonriver waters to an absurd extent, due to being a place holder creature for future marine monsters. Can be ridden.

* RoamingEnemy: All dinos roam around, hostile one might even roam all the way to your house.

* TheBeastmaster: The Dino master

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The game has a surprising number of obscure prehistoric animals. ''[[TurtlePower Carbonemys]]''? ''[[BatOutOfHell Onchonycteris]]''? ''[[PiranhaProblem Megapiranha]]''? Good luck finding these in media.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The game has a surprising number of obscure prehistoric animals. ''[[TurtlePower Carbonemys]]''? ''[[BatOutOfHell Onchonycteris]]''? Good luck finding these in media.
* StockDinosaurs: Both averted and played straight.

* MadeOfExplodium : Mned boulders and rocks explode spectacularly albeit harmlessly.

* Megladon : Infests most of the games nonriver waters to an absurd extent, due to being a place holder creature for future marine monsters. Can be ridden.

* StockDinosaurs: All the prehistoric creatures present.

* ThreateningShark : The aforementioned Megladon. Which you can domesticate and ride.
* TyrannosaurusRex : Present in normal and albino versions. One of the nastiest non-boss monsters.

* MinMaxing: One can literally max out the melee damage stat which will allow you to hit dinos hard. However, it has never been tested as of June 2015.

* DemonicSpider : Besides the actual giant spiders, the Megaladons which infest the oceans. Carnotaurus as well. Really, anything that lives in the caves.

* BreakableWeapons: Spears are highly breakable. Sometimes it takes only one poke on a dino to break it.

* DomesticatedDinosaurs: One of the main features of the game is taming dinos and other prehistoric animals. They can be kept as pets and the bigger ones can be outfitted with saddles so that they can be used as mounts.

You wake up naked, cold, and hungry on the shores of a strange island called ARK with some kind of strange object embedded into your left arm. Surrounded by dinosaurs and other long-extinct creatures that would like very much to have delicious human for breakfast, you must find a way to gather food and water, create items, develop new technology, and build shelters to survive, all while avoiding them. However, if you're crafty enough, you may just be able to make weapons that can kill these beasts-- or even manage to ''tame'' them so that they can protect you from danger and/or allow you to ride on their backs for quicker transportation. You're not the only one stuck here, though-- there are several other people here in the same situation as you. You can either team up with them for easier survival... or just knock them out and take their stuff. And if you look hard enough, you could potentially find the secrets behind this mysterious island...

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Many simple things have to be researched before you can craft it. Want a simple spear? Sorry you have to level up and activate the engram to be able to build it.
* TheWikiRule: Can be found [[http://ark.gamepedia.com/ here.]]

* TheWikiRule: Can be found [[http://ark-survival-evolved.wikia.com/wiki/ARK:_Survival_Evolved_Wikia here.]]

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You wake up naked, cold, and hungry on the shores of a strange island called ARK with some kind of strange object embedded into your left arm. Surrounded by dinosaurs and other long-extinct creatures that would like very much to have delicious human for breakfast, you must find a way to gather food and water, create items, develop new technology, and create a shelter to survive. However, if you're crafty enough, you may just find a way to kill these beasts-- or even ''tame'' them so that they can protect you from danger and/or allow you to ride on their backs for quicker transportation. However, you're not the only one stuck here-- there are several other people here in the same situation as you. You can either team up with them for easier survival... or just knock them out and take their stuff. And if you look hard enough, you may just find the secrets behind this mysterious island...

As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing & starving on a mysterious island, you must hunt, harvest, craft items, grow crops, & build shelters to survive. Use skill and cunning to kill or tame & ride the Dinosaurs & primeval creatures roaming the land, & team up with hundreds of players or play locally!

Basically DayZ, but with dinosaurs. This game was released on 2nd June 2015.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can force feed unconscious living beings. Force feeding an unconscious player is apparently a thing.

* MamaBear: Dinos do not like their eggs being stolen, as ''LetsPlay/Steejo'' found out in one of his episodes.

Basically DayZ, but with dinosaurs. This game was released on 2nd June 2015.