Summary
The free-to-play mobile game,ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition, has crossed three million downloads within three weeks of launch. Released on June 22, 2025, the survival game is a spin-off set in the same universe as 2017’sARK: Survival Evolved.
Despite getting a mixed critical reception at launch,ARK: Survival Evolvedsold reasonably well, crossing the one million mark even before it officially came out. Credit to its popularity, the original was eventually remastered and released in early access in 2023 asARK: Survival Ascended, with a major graphical overhaul. Apart from mainline games, the Studio Wildcard-owned IP has also spawned a few different spin-off titles. The latest among these entries isARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition, developed by Grove Street Games, which is currently available on iOS and Android. It is a free-to-play survival game that lets players collect resources, craft various weapons, build settlements, tame dinosaurs, and more, similar to theARKgames on consoles.
On June 05, 2025, Snail Games. the publisher behindARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition,announced that the mobile game had been downloaded more than three million times in its first three weeks. As shared by the source, this launch performance overshadowed the 2018 launch ofARK: Survival Evolved’s mobile port, owing to a 100% increase in player downloads. The game publisher further revealed that Grove Street Games was concurrently working on adding more content toARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition’s dinosaur-infested worldin the future, with new maps such as Ragnarok, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, and Genesis Part 2 in development.
ARK Mobile Game Sees Promising Launch Stats, Marks Another Strong Release by the Developer
While the downloads on the App Store and the Play Store show strong promise,ARK: Ultimate Mobile Editionsimultaneously continues to climb up the stores' popularity rankings. At the time of writing, the game sits at the 24th spot on the list of adventure games on iOS and ranks 9th among the top-grossing adventure games on Android. On one hand, it is currently rated 3.9 out of 5 based on 412 ratings on the App Store, whereas its Play Store rating is 3.6 out of 5 based on over 52.5K user scores. Interestingly, this marks another noteworthy launch in theARKfranchise by Grove Street Games, which previously also led the development ofARK: Survival Evolved’s improved Nintendo Switch portin 2022.
After hitting the first-party mobile storefronts last month,ARK: Ultimate Mobile Editionis next set to be available via the Epic Games Store in 2025, giving players more control over which platform they download it from. Recently, Studio Wildcard shared an updatedroadmap forARK: Survival Ascended’s future, giving a glimpse at the content planned to ship out throughout the next several months. Next, fans may expect the American developer to reveal the status ofARK 2, which worryingly missed its expected release window of late 2024.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHERE TO PLAY
As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements. Use your cunning and resources to kill or tame & breed the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land, and team up with or prey on hundreds of other players to survive, dominate… and escape!You must eat and drink to survive, with different kinds of plants & meat having different nutritional properties, including human meat. Ensuring a supply of fresh water to your home and inventory is a pressing concern. All physical actions come at a cost of food and water, long-distance travel is fraught with subsistence peril! Inventory weight makes you move slower, and the day/night cycle along with randomized weather patterns add another layer of challenge by altering the temperature of the environment, causing you to hunger or thirst more quickly. Build a fire or shelter, and craft a large variety of customizable clothing & armors, to help protect yourself against locational damage & extreme temperatures using the dynamic indoor/outdoor insulation calculation system!
