The game series includes an original 2017 game called Survival Evolved about surviving in a world of dinosaurs and a re-release of the same game in 2023 called Survival Ascended. The theme with dinosaurs was a few games raised, but about survival - there are many worthy games. I will tell you about the best representatives of ARK-like games.

17 Games Like Ark For PC (Steam, EGS, GOG)

17. The Front


The Front is an open-world survival combat simulator. Transport yourself back in time to rewrite the course of history and prevent the dawn of a brutal Empire. Explore the world, build bases, create technology - enslave all who stand in your way and accomplish your mission!

The Front screenshot

16. Far Cry (series)

similar games to Far Cry

Enter the adrenaline-fueled world of the modern revolutionary resistance: picturesque landscapes, heated firefights, and a host of unique gameplay features. It's time to join the fight!

Far Cry screenshot

15. Second Extinction

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Early Access
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Large Map. Huge dinosaurs. Large cannons. Combat an ever-growing threat with your friends in the online shooter Second Extinction.

Second Extinction screenshot

14. 7 Days to Die

similar games to 7 Days to Die
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

7 Days to Die is a one-of-a-kind open-world game that combines elements of a first-person shooter, survival horror, castle defense, and role-playing game. Get the genre-changing zombie survival RPG sandbox that set the tone for other similar games. Nevezgan is waiting for you!

7 Days to Die screenshot

13. DinoSystem

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

DinoSystem is a 2D ecosystem and survival simulation that allows players to manage the ecology of an evolving island and survive in it as a human, dealing with realistic survival mechanics and a deep character progression system.

DinoSystem screenshot

12. Green Hell

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

11. ICARUS

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

ICARUS is a session-based PvE survival game for up to eight players. Explore the harsh expanse of an alien planet where a failed terraforming attempt was once made. Your task is to mine exotics and return to orbit to develop more advanced equipment.

ICARUS screenshot

10. No Man’s Sky

similar games to No Man’s Sky
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 61
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 90 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

No Man's Sky is a sci-fi game about exploration and survival in an infinite, procedurally generated universe.

No Man’s Sky screenshot

9. The Isle

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Dinosaurs
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

The Isle screenshot

8. Conan Exiles

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Network multiplayer game in the universe of “Conan the Barbarian” with warriors and dark sorcery. Survive in a huge open world sandbox by building a house and then a kingdom. Crush your enemies in single or multiplayer modes.

Conan Exiles screenshot

7. Raft

similar games to Raft
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Raft screenshot

6. Smalland: Survive the Wilds

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

A big adventure on a tiny scale! Finding yourself at the bottom of the food chain, you need to prepare for everything. Build weapons and armor, saddle unseen beasts, build bases, and explore bizarre lands.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds screenshot

5. The Forest

similar games to The Forest
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

The Forest screenshot

4. Valheim

similar games to Valheim
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 60 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A survival game in which you will explore a vast fantasy world steeped in Scandinavian mythology and Viking culture.

Valheim screenshot

3. Rust

similar games to Rust
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 69
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 80 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Rust screenshot

2. Grounded

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Grounded screenshot

1. ORION: Prelude

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Dinosaurs
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube

Work together to survive the devastating Dinosaur horde in huge, endless environments.

ORION: Prelude screenshot

5 Games Like Ark On PlayStation 5

5. Far Cry (series)

similar games to Far Cry
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2004 - 2021
  • Game play time: 60 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Enter the adrenaline-fueled world of the modern revolutionary resistance: picturesque landscapes, heated firefights, and a host of unique gameplay features. It's time to join the fight!

Far Cry screenshot

4. 7 Days to Die

similar games to 7 Days to Die
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

7 Days to Die is a one-of-a-kind open-world game that combines elements of a first-person shooter, survival horror, castle defense, and role-playing game. Get the genre-changing zombie survival RPG sandbox that set the tone for other similar games. Nevezgan is waiting for you!

7 Days to Die screenshot

3. Green Hell

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

2. Conan Exiles

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Network multiplayer game in the universe of “Conan the Barbarian” with warriors and dark sorcery. Survive in a huge open world sandbox by building a house and then a kingdom. Crush your enemies in single or multiplayer modes.

Conan Exiles screenshot

1. The Forest

similar games to The Forest
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

The Forest screenshot

4 Games Like Ark On Xbox Series X|S

4. Far Cry (series)

similar games to Far Cry
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2004 - 2021
  • Game play time: 60 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Enter the adrenaline-fueled world of the modern revolutionary resistance: picturesque landscapes, heated firefights, and a host of unique gameplay features. It's time to join the fight!

Far Cry screenshot

3. No Man’s Sky

similar games to No Man’s Sky
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 61
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 90 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

No Man's Sky is a sci-fi game about exploration and survival in an infinite, procedurally generated universe.

No Man’s Sky screenshot

2. Valheim

similar games to Valheim
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 60 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A survival game in which you will explore a vast fantasy world steeped in Scandinavian mythology and Viking culture.

Valheim screenshot

1. Grounded

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Grounded screenshot

2 Games Like Ark For Switch

2. Green Hell

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

1. No Man’s Sky

similar games to No Man’s Sky
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 61
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 90 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

No Man's Sky is a sci-fi game about exploration and survival in an infinite, procedurally generated universe.

No Man’s Sky screenshot