{"id":732702,"date":"2025-11-22T04:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x4RsXH3fWALFhLq3Fbs5R4"},"modified":"2025-11-22T04:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:39:51","slug":"palworld-vs-ark-survival-evolved-shows-just-how-much-survival-games-have-changed-in-9-years-even-when-they-seem-so-similar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/palworld-vs-ark-survival-evolved-shows-just-how-much-survival-games-have-changed-in-9-years-even-when-they-seem-so-similar\/","title":{"rendered":"Palworld vs. Ark: Survival Evolved shows just how much survival games have changed in 9 years, even when they seem so similar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palworld is an undeniably huge hit, despite debate still raging as to whether its Pok\u00e9mon-like creature designs are overly similar, plagiarized or even stolen<\/em>. Beyond those creatures, Palworld isn\u2019t very Pok\u00e9mon-like at all\u2014but it is<\/em> quite a bit like another survival crafting sandbox: Ark: Survival Evolved. You know, the one with the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

Why have 19 million players and counting<\/a> people rush to play a smaller, less feature-rich take on an existing hit game from 2015? Well, the Pals, obviously. But there are a surprising number of reasons beyond the Pok\u00e9mon-esque creatures if you stack the two games against each other. Let\u2019s break down some key similarities between Ark (the original Survival Evolved version, rather than the recent and still-expanding remaster) and Palworld.\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. Install size<\/span><\/h2>\n

Before you even download either game, there\u2019s one stark difference between the two: just how much of your hard drive you\u2019ll have to sacrifice for it.<\/p>\n

Fully installed, Palworld currently weighs in at a relatively svelte 19.2gb. Small, compared to most triple-A games. Part of this is because there\u2019s just less content here overall (it did only just make its early access debut) but it\u2019s not a huge commitment to download or install.<\/p>\n

Unlike its dinosauric rival.<\/p>\n

Ark (again, the original Survival Evolved version) weighs in at a staggering 128gb just for<\/em> the base game<\/em> with only the first map playable. With all six of the main story expansion maps installed, it's a behemoth 223gb. And if you install every official map (remember, this is without<\/em> mods) it swells into a hard-drive-demolishing half-terabyte of game. One of the biggest games in existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2. Performance<\/span><\/h2>\n
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