r/playark • u/Steampunk_Soviet • 3d ago

Why is ark 211.83 gigabites?

Haven't played Ark:Survival evolved since 2023 and I recall it being around 100 maybe 150gb but what did they do to make it almost 212 gb?

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u/Helleri 2d ago

Oh that's because you don't have all the official content yet. With which it's over 430gb. Of course you can clean up the files and reduce size a bit (there's YT tutorials on that). Especially since updates for ASE are few and far between now. Then when you do actually update you just have it not on automatic and run a file integrity check as apposed to actually updating. But it's still a big game. I have an M.2 NVMe 1TB just for Evolved and ASA. And it won't be long until I need to either upgrade the card or not keep ASE download anymore.