I'm more forgiving than most people when it comes to early access games, so you can believe me when I say that this game is not ready, even for early access.

Performance is obviously poor, though I can't say I am that surprised, as it is ARK. On my Desktop with a R9 5950X and an RTX 3090, I get ~35 - 40 FPS average on medium settings at 4K with DLSS on, resolution scale at 100. at 1440p, it's about ~70 FPS average. On my laptop (R9 7940HS, RTX 4090 mobile) it performs much better, with my average FPS being ~140 at 1600p, and I suspect this is mostly due to DLSS 3.

Performance isn't the biggest issue though. as of writing this review, I have played the game for 82 minutes and it has already crashed 6 times. No specific cause that I can tell either, seems to be completely random. This alone makes the game completely unplayable. I could live with the performance for the time being, but that doesn't even matter if I can't actually play the game.

I'm more forgiving than most people when it comes to early access games, so you can believe me when I say that this game is not ready, even for early access. Performance is obviously poor, though I can't say I am that surprised, as it is ARK. On my Desktop with a R9 5950X and an RTX 3090, I get ~35 - 40 FPS average on medium settings at 4K with DLSS on, resolution scale at 100. at 1440p, it's about ~70 FPS average. On my laptop (R9 7940HS, RTX 4090 mobile) it performs much better, with my average FPS being ~140 at 1600p, and I suspect this is mostly due to DLSS 3. Performance isn't the biggest issue though. as of writing this review, I have played the game for 82 minutes and it has already crashed 6 times. No specific cause that I can tell either, seems to be completely random. This alone makes the game completely unplayable. I could live with the performance for the time being, but that doesn't even matter if I can't actually play the game.