Publisher Snail Games and developer Studio Wildcard have announced ARK: Survival Ascended expansion “ARK: Lost Colony”, the first big story expansion for the game.

ARK: Lost Colony is set to launch for all platforms sometime in November 2025 for $29.99 and preorders will launch sometime in June.

The new expansion will feature “numerous cinema-grade anime story sequences” made by the talented Japanese animation studio MAPPA (Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, Chainsaw Man), with a voice cast of stars like Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) who reprises her ARK: The Animated Series role as Mei Yin, Madeleine Madden (Wheel of Time) as Helena Walker, Auli’i Cravalho (Moana) as Meeka, and a yet-to-be-revealed, fan-favorite characters voiced and depicted for the first time in-game.

Here’s a brief blurb on the new content, plus a teaser video animated by Studio MAPPA:

Confront the demons of Arat Prime — birthplace of the ARKs — in ASA’s first massive canonical expansion pack, ARK Lost Colony! Starring Michelle Yeoh as Mei Yin in cinematic anime sequences by legendary Japanese studio MAPPA, the epic new story of ARK Lost Colony bridges the gap from ARK Extinction to ARK Genesis and into the world of ARK 2. As you follow in Mei Yin’s footsteps through an intense journey into the heart of darkness, you’ll unlock powerful “Lost” character ability trees, befriend exotic tames, craft “Cursed” tiers of gear, and master advanced new building systems!

But beware, the frozen wastes of Arat Prime are not devoid of intelligent life; on the contrary, the city has become a war-torn battleground between twisted Element-powered ‘factions’ seeking to undo what was accomplished at the end of ARK Extinction. Together with generations of heroes, you’ll unite the past and the future of ARK!

ARK : Survival Ascended has been available for Windows PC (via Steam), Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5.