Recent reviews by Cryonic

No, I would not recommend anyone to place this game. It feels exactly the same as it's previous version, including all of it's crash issues. The graphics are nice, until you realize the longer you play they start to look a little worse, like the game itself is dragging your GPU. I have a custom built $2,000 PC that has played many other games at max graphics without issue. This game however, pegged my CPU into the red, like it was TOTALLY maxed out. Fatal crash errors 3 times in the short time I played it, like 1 hour maybe just over.

So, I would wait until the game has been worked on and improved before trying it. I mean it's Ark, so obviously it will be good.But, right now, in it's current state. I advise waiting.

"Subscribe to the game you already paid for years ago that wasn't a subscription game and we canceled and brought back and want more money now"

Pffft, no. I mean, this isn't worth $14.99 a month.
Aside from that, if I could refund this based on the current release coming with a subscription that it didn't have previously. Which by the way, I NEVER would have bought it back then if it had a subscription. I am now stuck with a game I paid for which didn't have a subscription fee, that has now been altered to a subscription based game that I can't return despite it's change of service that deviates from what I paid for.
So, I don't recommend it because there's no telling if or when they might shut it down again or pull this again and raise it even more.

I have no idea how this game has very positive reviews, the only thing I can think is that they must be paid for reviews. Because, this game has crashed every single time I load it up and I'm on a custom-built PC, that has run every single game I've ever thrown at it, flawlessly. This is unfortunately unplayable trash, it looks good from the pics and videos, but does not even play. Every time I go to place a settlement, the game crashes. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I'd give this -1000 out of 10.

its decent

All you need to know, is you need to play it.

If this game was food, I wouldn't even feed it to someone else's dog.
0/10

Should really be called "Way of the Scammerai" Because you'll feel like you're back end has been penetrated by a scammers fleshy sword if you buy this.

I'd give it 6.25 out of 10

too short

Pros:
The game overall is designed well and looks decent, it works as it should. On that front, it's solid.

Cons:
There is essentially zero originality in the decks of players you will duel. It's copy paste decks as far as the eyes can see here.

The problem is the player base. Everyone you duel against uses one of like 3 maybe 4 decks, the decks they choose to use are the meta obviously and 90% of the people you play against WILL be using one of these decks that essentially play the game for them and allow them to drop monsters in the 4-5k atk range in their first turn. So, unless you enjoy playing essentially the exact same deck that your opponent is playing or losing 90% of the time, then I would say this is not the game you want to be playing. Which, is rather unfortunate really because it's a good game, minus players who all play the meta deck.

So, if you don't enjoy using the same deck and strat or lack of strat since these decks play themselves basically. Or if you don't enjoy losing all the time, then you're going to find this game mind numbingly boring unfortunately.