ARK: Survival Ascended vs ARK: Survival Evolved

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ARK: Survival Ascended

2023 · Action

Studio Wildcard · Studio Wildcard

Reviews: 102,965
Positive: 60%
Launch price: $44.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 5.7M
Net rev: $145.5M

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ARK: Survival Evolved

2017 · Action

Studio Wildcard · Studio Wildcard

Reviews: 583,081
Positive: 83%
Launch price: $14.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 46.6M
Net rev: $399.4M

Tag overlap

75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on ARK: Survival Ascended, 5 only on ARK: Survival Evolved.

Only ARK: Survival Ascended

Character Customization PvE PvP Inventory Management Fantasy

Shared

Early AccessSurvival Open WorldMultiplayerDinosaurs Building Adventure Base-Building Crafting Action SandboxSingleplayerMassively MultiplayerRPG Sci-fi

Only ARK: Survival Evolved

Open World Survival CraftCo-opFirst-Person DragonsIndie

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

Sales estimate

v1.0

3.4M to 7.9M

units (median: 5.7M)

≈ $87.3M to $203.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

3.4M median 7.9M

+ How is this calculated?

102,965 reviews × NB(55) = 5,663,075 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$45	+15
positive_60%	-10
final NB	55

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

Sales estimate

v1.0

28.0M to 65.3M

units (median: 46.6M)

≈ $239.6M to $559.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

28.0M median 65.3M

+ How is this calculated?

583,081 reviews × NB(80) = 46,646,480 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$15	0
positive_83%	0
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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