Revealed out of the blue, Aquatica is Ark Survival Evolved's first DLC in ages

March 18 at 8:50am PDT Snail Games has now confirmed that Ark Aquatica is a new DLC for Ark Survival Evolved. The headline and body of this article has been updated to reflect the new information.
Studio Wildcard and Snail Games have just thrown a big old party for the Ark franchise's tenth birthday. While Ark 2 is sadly absent, it has fully revealed the new expansion for Ark Survival Evolved and dropped a preview of the next season of Ark: The Animated Series. Oh, and out of the blue, it also announced a mysterious new project called Ark Aquatica. Initially sounding like an all new game that could be a seafaring survival adventure like Subnautica, it's in fact a new DLC for Ark Survival Evolved - the first expansion for the first Ark game in some time.
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