Ark: Survival Evolved is an early access game available on Steam. This game is survival based with the threat of dangerous dinosaurs that you can have the chance of taming and using to make life easier.

The game could use a tutorial sequence within the game itself. While it is cool to feel like the character; waking up on a beach with no clue as to where you are or what you're doing, it can be very frustrating as you try to figure out the game.

There are so many menus that need to be explored and mechanics that need to be looked up because they are so unclear.

The game is also very "buggy". Dinosaurs get stuck walking into a small weed of a tree. The sun glare takes out any sight, even after adjusting your settings.

You have to memorize which dinosaurs are safe to approach and how to tame each one. While your character has a "book" of recipes, they can't create an almanac of the dinosaurs that they have encountered.

Despite these aspects of the game, it can still be fun. Once you and your friends (if playing on a server) get enough footing to have the fun gear and dinosaurs, it becomes a game of taking over the island. People can take on particular roles in the community.

You can experience what it is like to not be at the top of the food chain. You can go back in time, at first, to experience the rough life of hunting and gathering to survive and make it through another night.

The price for Ark recently increased as it nears its "completion" date. This price hike has received a lot of complaints from players and would-be players. The doubling of the price from thirty dollars to sixty dollars is viewed is inadequate.

It is normal for a game to increase in price as it nears completion or after it is completed and released as a full package. The game is not viewed as a sixty dollar game. Not yet, at least. There are would-be players who were holding off on purchasing the game that now will not be adding themselves to the clan of the Ark.

The developers of the game are entitled to set the price of their game to what they decide but they risk losing their player/potential-player base if they do not appease to their consumers.

Ark: Survival Evolved has the promise to be a fantastic game with some more much needed work.