How many people are playing ARK: Survival Evolved right now?

ARK: Survival Evolved has 17,727 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 20,405 and an all-time peak of 247,292 on Jun 2022.

What is the all-time peak player count of ARK: Survival Evolved?

247,292 concurrent players on Jun 2022.

ARK: Survival Evolved was released on Steam on 29 Aug 2017.

ARK: Survival Evolved Reviews · SteamPeaks

Buckets that broke from the game’s own habit, on unusual volume

Judged against the median month, not the average

When	Kind	Reviews	Positive	Against habit	What followed
Sept 2016	negative wave	8,254 · 2.3×	45.2%	−41 pts	Sentiment had not recovered by the next bucket
Jul 2017	negative wave	6,272 · 1.7×	53.7%	−32 pts	Sentiment had not recovered by the next bucket
Apr 2023	negative wave	6,089 · 1.7×	61.2%	−25 pts	Sentiment had not recovered by the next bucket

30 h

Median before a positive review

17.7 h

Median before a negative review

84%

Bought the game on Steam

9% arrived with a free key

Played mostly on Steam Deck

Hours played	Positive	Negative	Positive share
Under 1 h	6	9	40%
1–5 h	47	15	76%
5–20 h	114	25	82%
20–50 h	77	14	85%
50–100 h	37	8	82%
Over 100 h	126	22	85%

Steam’s own totals per language

Against the lifetime share

Language	Reviews	Positive	Against overall
English	332,556	80.0%	−3.4 pts
Chinese, simplified	95,518	82.5%	−0.8 pts
Russian	60,252	84.4%	+1.0 pts
Spanish	56,162	89.2%	+5.9 pts
Portuguese, Brazil	37,083	89.7%	+6.4 pts
Turkish	20,362	85.0%	+1.7 pts

Counted from the review histogram

Days from the first reviewed month

Milestone	Reached	Days taken
1,000 reviews	Jun 2015	—	Reached in the first month on sale
10,000 reviews	Jun 2015	—	Reached in the first month on sale
100,000 reviews	Jun 2017	731
500,000 reviews	Jul 2023	2,952

Month	Reviews	Positive	Negative	Positive share
Sept 2026	612	501	111	81.9%
Aug 2026	2,571	2,169	402	84.4%
Jul 2026	3,270	2,782	488	85.1%
Jun 2026	2,604	2,217	387	85.1%
May 2026	2,578	2,177	401	84.4%
Apr 2026	2,679	2,251	428	84.0%
Mar 2026	2,694	2,258	436	83.8%
Feb 2026	2,572	2,159	413	83.9%
Jan 2026	3,005	2,494	511	83.0%
Dec 2025	2,839	2,319	520	81.7%
Nov 2025	2,407	1,993	414	82.8%
Oct 2025	2,839	2,281	558	80.3%
Sept 2025	1,970	1,527	443	77.5%
Aug 2025	3,073	2,123	950	69.1%
Jul 2025	5,536	3,425	2,111	61.9%
Jun 2025	5,328	4,744	584	89.0%
May 2025	2,772	2,518	254	90.8%
Apr 2025	2,562	2,329	233	90.9%
Mar 2025	3,305	2,993	312	90.6%
Feb 2025	3,090	2,785	305	90.1%
Jan 2025	3,659	3,336	323	91.2%
Dec 2024	3,263	2,965	298	90.9%
Nov 2024	2,775	2,560	215	92.3%
Oct 2024	2,635	2,396	239	90.9%
Sept 2024	2,542	2,337	205	91.9%
Aug 2024	3,103	2,818	285	90.8%
Jul 2024	3,114	2,812	302	90.3%
Jun 2024	2,979	2,728	251	91.6%
May 2024	2,614	2,344	270	89.7%
Apr 2024	2,760	2,499	261	90.5%
Mar 2024	2,952	2,680	272	90.8%
Feb 2024	2,826	2,491	335	88.1%
Jan 2024	3,217	2,897	320	90.1%
Dec 2023	2,897	2,595	302	89.6%
Nov 2023	4,178	3,836	342	91.8%
Oct 2023	4,532	4,037	495	89.1%