The action-adventure survival game Ark: Survival Evolved is played in first or third person and takes place in an open world with a dynamic day-night cycle. Players must build a base and a fire in order to survive; further tasks, including taming and feeding dinosaurs, demand more resources. The game's universe, is roughly 48 km in size, 12 km of water and 36 km of land make up the area.

Taming The Creatures: Taming creatures is one of the main game elements in the game. While some creatures, like Meganeura and Titanomyrma, cannot be tamed, most creatures can be tamed. The process of taming differs according on the species. The majority of creatures are "knock out" tamed, which means that in order to tame them, the player must use blunt weapons like clubs or tranquillizer shots.

Players' Stats: Various metres, such as health, stamina, oxygen, hunger, thirst, and "weight," (how much they can carry), must be monitored by the players. If players have eaten enough food or have crafted items that increase health metre regeneration, their health metre will periodically refill if they receive damage. If not, the player's health metre will refill gradually over time.

Dinosaurs and their abilities: As most species can be ridden using a saddle, the player may take advantage of their skills, such as flying or easy underwater mobility. Players may still be able to use weapons while mounted on some creatures. Players may give them offensive and defensive commands, such as ordering a group of Triceratops to attack an enemy's bases or commanding a group of rexes to to guard the base. They can also be used to transport goods. A construction platform can be placed on the back of some of the bigger creatures, such Brontosauruses or Mosasauruses, providing players with a moving little base.

Players' survival: Players must construct defences against hostile dinosaurs in order to survive on this massive dinosaur island. Players must gather building materials from all across the island to construct structures including ceilings, walls, and foundations in order to construct a base.

Caves and Artifacts: There are also various caves across the island. these caves contains a rare artifacts at its very deep end. these artifacts can be tributed at a obelisks to be rewared with weapon blueprints and soothing balms. There are also various threats inside the caves which make it hard to take the artifacts, these threats includes cave creatures like Araneo, Pulmunoscorpious, Titanoboas and Arthropleuras.