Ark is the least user-friendly video game I have ever played in my entire life. This game is not just unintuitive, it is aggressively anti-user experience.

Once you've parsed the terrible menus and fumbled your way into an online game, be prepared for the most opaque gaming experience of your life. Not only is nothing explained to the player, but nothing is even remotely intuitive. Anything you think you might know how to do from years of playing video games, you're wrong. Nothing works how you would expect it to.

Straight-up, Ark is a bad video games and I'm baffled that people choose to play this. I guess it's because it has dinosaurs but even taming a dinosaur (which I had to look up online to figure out) wasn't that satisfying. The time it took to successfully tame a dinosaur was about 5x longer than the amount of time I spent enjoying having a pet dinosaur.

Only reason this game gets 2 stars instead of 1 is because my friends and I had a fun time goofing around for a couple sessions. It's a poorly-made, unintuitive mess of a video game. Do not play Ark.