On December 18, 2024, Snail Games and Studio Wildcard released ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition — a mobile game set in the ARK universe. According to the companies, it reached over a million downloads in the first 24 hours.
ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition
They did not share any other indicators for the title.
According to the analytics service AppMagic, as of today, ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition has already accumulated 1.34 million downloads. The majority were generated by residents of Thailand (265.9 thousand downloads), the USA (124.7 thousand downloads), and India (117.4 thousand downloads).
The revenue from ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition is estimated by analysts to be $322.86 thousand. The most profitable markets for the game were the USA ($86.3 thousand), Japan ($36.7 thousand), and Thailand ($27.5 thousand).
Notably, this is not the first mobile game in the franchise. Even before the release of ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition, players could enjoy a mobile version of ARK: Survival Evolved on smartphones. It was launched on iOS and Android in June 2018, about a year after its release on PC and consoles. According to AppMagic, since then, it has earned $34.3 million with 49.7 million downloads.
The developers of ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition describe the new project as the most comprehensive mobile version of ARK: Survival Evolved, incorporating content from the base game along with additional content from expansions.