
It lets you play the game locally offline with rebalanced statistics befitting a single-player only experience, but is otherwise the same game. The developer also went on to reveal that the game will not change based on the single player experience, with only a few “balanced statistics”.

The world, the creatures, the challenges and all other aspects of ARK are designed around the idea that there are multiple ways to progress. There is not a separate single-player game “experience.” Since ARK is a goal-oriented survival game about exploration and discovery, it can be played with 1 or more players and does not actually depend on multiplayer mechanics to be fun. In an email message provided to OnlySP, the developers told us about the game’s offline mode: The game will be releasing on Steam early-access on June 2nd, with an official release on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 in 2016. Ark: Survival Evolved, a brand new title that features humans surviving against the throes of nature, dinosaurs, and humans will feature an offline mode for players who wish to experience the world alone.
