Just about everything in the world seems to be out to kill you, and does so with some frustrating regularity. While there’s definitely some interesting and even fun potential in patching together these two distinct gameplay styles, it’s still far from a seamless experience.įor starters, PixARK leans a little too heavily into the whole “survival” theme from ARK, especially early on.
PixARK attempts to bring both of these worlds together, mixing the survival mechanics and setting of ARK: Survival Evolved with the more family-friendly feel of games like Minecraft or Lego Worlds. Players are either given a vast array of tools to build to their hearts’ content or they’re dropped into a harsh environment and forced to gather what they can find to craft what they need to live to see the next day. PixARK tries to straddle the main gameplay objectives of many modern sandbox games: Create or Survive. While this sandbox game has a decent amount of creativity, the survival elements can overwhelm and drown out the gameplay with its complexity. Parents should also be aware that the game can be played solo or with others via online play, which could potentially open kids up to exposure to inappropriate language, content, or behavior from other players. There's some blood occasionally shown onscreen, though the pixelated art style keeps this from being to graphic or detailed.
Combat and hunting are regular occurrences, with players either fending off or hunting the various predators and monsters in the game. Players are dropped onto an island populated with a variety of prehistoric and fantasy creatures, and are challenged to survive by hunting, harvesting, crafting, and building everything they need from the island’s available resources. The game is a based largely on Studio Wildcard’s ARK: Survival Evolved game, though with the pixelated art style and basic mechanics of other sandbox games such as Minecraft or Lego Worlds. Parents need to know that PixARK is an open-world sandbox survival game available for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows-based PCs.
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