Welcome to the Official Steam forums for Ark Nova!

[Dire Wolf CS]

Welcome to the official Ark Nova Steam Forums!

Ready to build the most successful zoo in Ark Nova Digital? Here’s where you can stay up to date on all the news and join the growing community:

• Website: Follow for all the Dire Wolf News.[direwolfdigital.com]
  
• Bluesky: Stay up to date on the news![bsky.app]
  
• Instagram: See what is up![www.instagram.com]
  
• Discord: Join here![discord.gg]

[qoizu]

can't wait to play! so excited 😁

[百世流芳耐捅王]

I love this game, and we need Chinese!

[Alien Gurgey]

hurrayyyy

[BLEACHFX]

Thank you so much for implementing this wonderful game into the digital format!! Ark Nova is my favourite board game of all time!! This WILL be a day 1 purchase from me.

[菊巴有点痒]

I really like this game
May I ask how to get the test qualification

[mageKnight]

I can't WAIT for this one! PLEASE make it compatible with the Steam Deck (I'm talking proper UX, especially font sizes)

[Dire Wolf CS]

Originally posted by 耐摔王中王:

I love this game, and we need Chinese!

Thank you for your feedback!

[Dire Wolf CS]

Originally posted by 菊巴有点痒:

I really like this game
May I ask how to get the test qualification

All you have to do is play and provide feedback!

[gateht]

I was excited that it was due to release today, but it looks like it's delayed?

[Dire Wolf CS]

Originally posted by gateht:

I was excited that it was due to release today, but it looks like it's delayed?

We are now live!

[bw1]

Got to say, just played my first game vs AI. This is super clean for early access, didn't see any bugs, Great Job!

[Dire Wolf CS]

Originally posted by bw1:

Got to say, just played my first game vs AI. This is super clean for early access, didn't see any bugs, Great Job!

So glad you liked it!!

[slimcharles42]

I know it's early days, but any plans to bring in the Marine Worlds expansion down the line?

[alexreichline]

Why so much clicking around? On BGA, with the same size screen I see so much more information and the maps feel bigger. Why are there 6 different things to open and close to see basic information? What purpose does this serve? Who does this benefit? Even casual players I think would want to see as much information as they can to make decisions. Half the game is spent opening and closing different things just to see what's been played, what association actions have been taken, etc. I just don't understand why anyone would make decisions like this especially with the BGA version out there laying the road map. How do you not just take that and try to improve it. Why take 4-5 steps backwards? It makes no sense. The animal sounds are cute, I guess.

[Blech]

As mentioned in the UI scaling discussion- there are major issues with zoom, ui, and scaling.
As Alex mentions above- way to many separate- hard to see-find- sections that display the board. Scythe- which is another board game with a large play area- has been done very well to allow users to zoom in and activate various sections of the board. Cascadia and Clank and Castles of Burgandy have good methods for zooming in to or select to zoom on cards, playing pieces, etc. I tried twice to play this game and literally could not see either cards in many cases because the left-ctrl option didn't work, or there didn't seem to be a zoom in or expand option at all to see the various pieces/options.

The layout on this is horrible. Ark Nova is one of my favorite board games and I own it physically along with all its expansions. I was super excited to have this in digital form on Steam- but as it currently stands- I consider it unplayable. Please please please fix the UI scaling and zoom options. Make it so we can see the entire board game- like we can in Scythe.

Being able to determine where you are on the appeal track, university track, and conservation tracks at the same time as well as being able to easily see the cards available in your hand and for pick in the snap row is critical. The current way of trying to hunt for tiny little symbols and trying to expand to a still way too tiny view once you do locate the tiny symbol for the various boards and tracks is a joke.

This needs to be redone. I own almost a 1000 games and love playing the other Direwolf games in my library, so finding this game so unplayable was quite a disappointment. Please fix it.