Actually, ARK: Survival Ascended was considered the unpopular twin of ARK: Survival Evolved, but the survival game is currently experiencing a kind of renaissance. This is also due to Twitch streamers.
Which game is it about? ARK: Survival Ascended is actually the unfavored successor to ARK: Survival Evolved and has a 59% positive rating from a total of 93,592 reviews on Steam. Despite the negative reviews, which often praise the performance of the survival game, player numbers have been increasing since December.
This is partly due to the DLC Ark: Lost Colony, which was released on December 19, 2025, and is considered a link to the long-awaited sequel Ark 2, both in terms of content and story. But German streamers are also responsible for the success.
Here you can watch a trailer for ARK: Survival Ascended:
German Streamers in Dino Fever
What do German streamers have to do with the success? After the new expansion provided the occasion for a comeback to ARK: Survival Ascended, some German Twitch streamers have also gotten back into it.
German streamers Trymacs, Eliasn97, MontanaBlack, GTime, and Zarbex are currently playing the dino game together and are dominating the Twitch category according to Sullygnome.com.
In this joint project, the streamers are completing the survival game and trying to defeat a boss every night until they want to beat the final boss, the Overseer, at the end.
As is usual with streamers, there are also frequent disputes, annoyances, and trolls among them while everyone works towards the end goal together.
Only success through streamers? Even though the streamers are currently contributing greatly to the new dino hype, there are likely multiple reasons for the renewed success of ARK: Survival Ascended. The new DLC is also partly responsible for the hype.
Another reason for the recent upswing is likely the recent success of Hytale. Since its release a week ago, the survival game genre has become trendy again, fueling the dino game as well. On Sunday, January 18, the highest player count since the release was reached with over 50,000 players according to SteamDB.
Despite the rather poor reviews of ARK: Survival Ascended, the hype around the dino game is returning, and a significant factor is the big German Twitch streamers. Among the participants of the streamer project are also contributors who are not part of Sauercrowd. Recently, new participants have been admitted there because the goal keeps moving further away: Sauercrowd continuously loses players in WoW, guild leadership calls for a crisis meeting: “We will never see Molten Core”
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