How many copies has ARK: Survival Evolved sold?

indielist estimates ARK: Survival Evolved has sold between 27,987,888 and 65,305,072 units (median 46,646,480), derived from its 583,081 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed ARK: Survival Evolved?

ARK: Survival Evolved was developed by Studio Wildcard and published by Studio Wildcard.

Who published ARK: Survival Evolved?

ARK: Survival Evolved was published by Studio Wildcard, developed by Studio Wildcard. See Studio Wildcard's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was ARK: Survival Evolved released?

ARK: Survival Evolved was released in 2017.

How many reviews does ARK: Survival Evolved have on Steam?

ARK: Survival Evolved has 583,081 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.

Is ARK: Survival Evolved worth playing?

Steam players rate ARK: Survival Evolved 83% positive across 583,081 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

ARK: Survival Evolved

Aug 27, 2017 Action $14.99

Developer Studio Wildcard Publisher Studio Wildcard

Profile updated May 2026

This action-adventure RPG features massively multiplayer elements. Released in 2017, ARK: Survival Evolved has garnered over 577,748 Steam reviews.

ARK: Survival Evolved is a 2017 Action game developed by Studio Wildcard and published by Studio Wildcard. On Steam it has gathered 583,081 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Studio Wildcard with publisher Studio Wildcard is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 28.0 million to 65.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, ARK: Survival Evolved can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

583,081

Positive

83%

Steam appid

346110

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

23,104

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 13:05 UTC · 24h peak 25,830

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.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for ARK: Survival Evolved at roughly 28.0 million to 65.3 million copies, with a median around 46.6 million, derived from its 583,081 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $399.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $14.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has ARK: Survival Evolved sold?: indielist estimates ARK: Survival Evolved has sold between 27,987,888 and 65,305,072 units (median 46,646,480), derived from its 583,081 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed ARK: Survival Evolved?: ARK: Survival Evolved was developed by Studio Wildcard and published by Studio Wildcard.
Who published ARK: Survival Evolved?: ARK: Survival Evolved was published by Studio Wildcard, developed by Studio Wildcard. See Studio Wildcard's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was ARK: Survival Evolved released?: ARK: Survival Evolved was released in 2017.
How many reviews does ARK: Survival Evolved have on Steam?: ARK: Survival Evolved has 583,081 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
Is ARK: Survival Evolved worth playing?: Steam players rate ARK: Survival Evolved 83% positive across 583,081 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like ARK: Survival Evolved can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as ARK: Survival Ascended, Voidtrain, Raft, Valheim, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Studio Wildcard's other releases and Studio Wildcard's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where ARK: Survival Evolved sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same ARK: Survival Evolved page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.