ARK: Survival Evolved Season Pass is downloadable Xbox One DLC that bundles access to three expansion packs, including Scorched Earth. It suits players who own the base game and want additional worlds, creatures, items, and gameplay content; the base game is required.
Recommended For
- ARK: Survival Evolved owners who have played the base game and want three additional story maps—Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction—to continue exploring beyond the original map.
- Players who want a different survival challenge from the base map: Scorched Earth centers on desert survival, where heat and water management affect exploration and settling in.
- Experienced players looking for more demanding map exploration, especially those interested in Aberration’s distinctive cave-based setting and the added challenge community players associate with it.
- ARK players who expect to spend substantial time gathering, crafting, taming, and progressing, and want more environments and content for an ongoing playthrough.
Real-World Use Scenarios
- When you want more than the original ARK map, use the pass to continue exploring across Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction; each expansion introduces a different setting and survival challenges.
- When you want a harsher survival start, head to Scorched Earth: its desert setting makes preparing for environmental conditions and planning exploration part of the experience.
- When familiar open-map travel feels routine, explore Aberration’s underground world; navigating its vertical terrain and environmental hazards calls for more preparation and careful route-finding.
- When you want a late-game challenge centered on large-scale threats, explore Extinction, where the ruined-Earth setting includes encounters with titanic monsters.
- When you want to change up your creature-taming and collection goals, visit the expansion maps to encounter creatures and items associated with their distinct environments.