ARK: Survival Evolved (PS4)

Finally got a solid base built with some friends after losing everything to a pack of dilos the first night, the building system is surprisingly deep. The crossplay between platforms makes it easy to team up with people on different consoles.

Taming my first raptor after hours of gathering resources and building a thatch hut was incredibly rewarding. The way you can team up with strangers to take down a T-Rex and then immediately get betrayed for the loot makes every session unpredictable and fun.

Spent my first few hours getting mauled by a raptor and desperately trying to build a thatch hut before nightfall—the way the game throws you in with nothing and forces you to figure out survival with other players is incredibly immersive. Taming a dinosaur for the first time felt like a real accomp