There’s a fair bit of things on the horizon for ARK: Survival Ascended according to a new roadmap shared by Studio Wildcard, which offers a broad-strokes look at some of the content coming to the dinosaur-filled survivalbox in 2025 and even a little look at head into 2026.
The roadmap weirdly leaps ahead to this coming March first, which is projected to bring an Unreal Engine 5.5 upgrade that Wildcard promises will bring “a range of impactful performance improvements.” After that, April is bringing the Ragnarok Ascended map and two new creatures (one free and one DLC tame), June will release a new to-be-announced premium map, and August adds the Valguero Ascended map and another two creatures, one of which will be voted on by the community and the other being another DLC tame.
After all of that will be the release of ARK: Lost Colony in November, which Wildcard calls “the first canonical story expansion to ASA,” as well as a bridge between Extinction and Genesis and a lead-up to the long-dormant ARK 2. Readers will recall that the sequel was projected to release in 2024, but clearly missed that target window and Wildcard hasn’t given any new updates until that reference. That was made in a Christmas Eve tweet.
The roadmap even takes a very general look ahead into 2026: Genesis Ascended and new Bob’s True Tales content are coming in two parts in April and August, while December will add the free Fjordur Ascended map and another community creature, all with more DLC tame releases sprinkled throughout the year.
It should be noted that Wildcard is calling this a “very high-level ASA content roadmap,” so fans of the sandbox should take all of these projections with multiple grains of salt considering the studio’s delay-filled history. It still looks like the next couple of years will be busy indeed even with that asterisk in mind.
