10 TERRIBLE Video Games (You Should Play Anyway)

The survival genre is at its best when it gets it can get its hooks into you and 100 hours fly by without you realising it. Who amongst us hasn’t suddenly had the “oh, it’s 3am” moment when we played Minecraft?

Ark: Survival Evolved takes the relatively calming and straight-forward nature of Minecraft and throws it out to sea. Its realistic demands and deep mechanics require gamers to play carefully and plan ahead as they attempt to survive a world that is currently populated by over 150 different largely dangerous and often prehistoric creatures.

Ark is not an easy game to get into. It doesn’t embrace new players, from a gameplay perspective nor the fact that the game is absolutely busted. All the classics are here: unreliable AI pathfinding, awful collision detection and horrendous lag. At this stage, the bugs are so deeply embedded into the game that most of them are never coming out.

The reason you should play it? Well, Ark is a damn fine co-operative experience whether you’re fighting against the dinosaurs or the game itself. After all, misery breeds company, and whilst some of the bugs are frustrating, many weird occurrences offer unique gameplay experiences.

“Remember that time I climbed a sabre tooth tiger into the sky?” is not something you can say about many games.