Steam Makes Open-World Survival Game Completely Free For 72 Hours

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Published Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT

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First released back in 2019 but now available to download for free for a limited time courtesy of Steam, this open-world survival game will see you work alone or with others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases in order to survive.

Developed by Snail Games USA, PixARK is a world full of mystery, danger, and most importantly, ancient dinosaurs and other mythical beasts.

Welcome to PixARK, a vast, wild world filled with vicious dinosaurs, magical creatures and endless adventure! To survive in this mysterious land, you must tame creatures both ferocious and cuddly, craft high tech and magical tools, and build your own base… out of cubes!

Reminiscent of Minecraft, but with dinosaurs, PixARK is set across an infinite number of voxel-based maps and tasks players with undertaking procedurally generated quests. As such, no two playthroughs of PixARK will be the same, as you team up with friends to form your own tribe, or go it alone.

Whether you are building towering fortresses, exploring sprawling caverns, flying on the back of dragons or smiting your enemies with powerful magic, you and your mighty T-rex will do whatever it takes to survive, even if it means blasting foes with rocket launchers and engaging in hardcore PvE and PvP combat.

By upgrading the skill tree and unlocking new and exciting abilities, you will be able to adapt your playstyle to fit your needs in PixARK. However, with over 100 creatures to tame, train, and ride, fans of ARK: Survival Evolved will find a home in this open-world survival game. In order to achieve your survival, you will have to make your animal army strong enough.

PixARK maps are procedurally generated and can be customizable based on your needs. If you don't like the world you live in, create a new "seed" and start again! Quests are also procedurally generated to create a variety of gameplay for each user!

As mentioned, PixARK was first released back in 2019, and it has enough time for players to make up their own minds about this Minecraft/ARK Survival mix-up. As such, recent reviews put this open-world survival game at a 'Mostly Positive' rating on Steam.

Now, for the next 72 hours, PixARK is available to download at absolutely no cost, with the offer ending at 6pm on 31 August. So, if you want an excuse to dive into a large procedurally generated world, tame some dinosaurs and take to the skies on a dragon, look no further than PixARK.