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ARK: Survival Evolved
ActionAdventureIndieMassively Multiplayer≤70 playersmoddablenative Linuxsingle-thread
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Host it here
≈ $17/mo
playing ~12 h/week on the metered plan, billed only while the server is actually up. Always-on is $59.98–$89.97/mo · about $14.99 each split between 4 players, 2–3 cores dedicated, never shared.
SteamCMD appid 376030; lighter than Ascended but still RAM-hungry; mods via Steam Workshop IDs; clusters multiply RAM per map.
Get the game
You buy ARK: Survival Evolved once from Steam. It is $9.89 there, a one-off purchase. NecroHost rents you the server it runs on, which is the monthly figure above.