How To Play Ark: Survival Evolved With Your Friends On PC (Steam)

If you're looking for a fun, social game to play with your friends, Ark is the perfect game for you! In this video, I'll show you how to set up a local co-op game on PC (Steam) and get started playing with your friends right away!

Text based instructions:
Player 1 - Click on HOST/LOCAL
Player 1 - Click on Host a NON-DEDICATED server
Player 1 - Name the session with NO spaces & accept
Player 1 - When the session loads, hold SHIFT + TAB
Player 1 - Invite Player 2 with the "Invite to Lobby" on the Friend Tab (not in the center, but a drop menu)

Player 2 - Holds SHIFT + TAB while in game & clicks "Play Game" on the message from Player 1

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[hugojames]

bro your the only one who says how to do it lol thank you so much

[bored]

Thanks this helped a lot, my husband forgot to invite me before leaving to work 😅

[AbdallaAlansari]

Whenever my friend clicks play game nothing happens, it just goes back to normal menu, we tried from the join ark menu and it says connection timeout when he joins, we both have the same mods installed and we both play steam, any fix for this

[redstredst]

nice, thank you! I have 1 question: can my friend join the non-dedicated server all the time, or do i have to be online as well?

[Ashkarian]

last time i tried that there was a distance limit we could be from each other how do you change thath? like he couldn't run more than 500m of me

[midji]

How u got option invite to lobby i dont have it ):

[fatman]

Thanks bro me and my mate been have so much issue with this

[Ksiwery]

best video but its only minute long lol

[clee]

when i do this, as soon as my friend joins my screen turns black and I can not play anymore. please help

[lacikakulcsar]

I invited my friend he logs but it puts him back on the menu do you know what that is

[Not_an_apple_]

We did that with a friend on windows version, and for whatever reasons random people are joining, do you know a way of making it invite only server?

[Acentist]

It wont work for me and it says invite to game

[ameen]

why is there no button to click invite to lobby

[mxtze]

does it work like that for ascended too?

[alshamsialnaboodah]

is there any method so my friend join me wit mods but the thing is he plays On epic and i play on steam

[valerianpermanasukma]

Why is it that every time I join the server there is always a statement failed request time out

[Pro-syqw]

is there any way to play it in the cracked version ?

[Yousuf]

Can u see how u got the mod menu I got ase from Microsoft store for free and I want to try other mods

[mijatglusac]

Does anybody know how to play with friends on epicgames?

[hxzrsx]

I'm playing from steam and my friend from epic games, can he join my server?