Originally posted by Isaac_Clark:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

You know you can play Ark solo also, right?

Yes, but Ark uses a lot of time gating where you have to wait hours at a time for stuff to happen. You can adjust it to make things go faster, but the game is definitely more geared towards being run on a server, while Valheim is actually balanced for solo offline play.

I played Ark solo and never remember having to wait for anything. There was always something to do.