The oft-delayed Ark 2 is now being planned for a release in several years time, with the latest date simply being “2028”.
Ark 2 was announced all the way back in 2020, with a rather unexpected trailer featuring Vin Diesel of The Fast and The Furious fame. So, five years later, and we still don’t have a firmer release date beyond that newly-announced 2028 window.
A couple of years ago, developer Studio Wildcard said Ark 2 had been delayed until the “end of 2024”, having once been planned for a 2023 release. It has kept pretty quiet on any actual release date at all since then, though.
As Matt reported last month, the upcoming sequel didn’t feature in the Ark content roadmap released earlier in the year, which led many to speculate it won’t arrive until sometime after December 2026. They were right!
As well as starring in Ark 2, Diesel is also serving as the executive producer on the project, bringing his game development skills to the test. Previous reports said that Diesel has played over 1,000 hours of the original game. Also, did you know his real name is actually Mark Sinclair?!
“Survive the past. Tame the future,” reads Ark 2’s official blurb. “Suddenly awakened on a primal world filled with dinosaurs and humans struggling for dominance, you must team-up with legendary heroes to confront powerful dark forces.
“Saddle up, and join the definitive next-gen survival experience with Ark 2!”
Elsewhere in Ark-related news, back in the summer Snail Games’ Aquatica expansion for Survival Evolved came under fire after it released a trailer that was clearly made using AI. The video – which is no longer available to view on YouTube – featured footage such as a single person using three hands to hold onto a spear gun, as well as fish phasing in and out of existence, an octopus with the wrong number of tentacles and a human with flippers where there should have been feet.
Soon after this trailer for Ark: Aquatica went live, Snail Games moved to distance itself from the video, blaming its marketing team.