Day One Diaries returns with an ARK twist! Each short entry covers the first chaotic 24 hours on every map in ARK: Survival Evolved for the Nintendo Switch. Chaos, dinos, and bad decisions await.
So, People Have Been Clicking the ARK Map Page…
…and that’s either a promising sign or a harbinger of incoming disaster.
Either way, welcome to a brand-new side series here on Survivor Incognito:
> 🎮 Day One Diaries: ARK Edition
A bite-sized, chaos-fueled survival journal where I explore the first 24 hours on every ARK map available on the Nintendo Switch.
This series is coming soon and will drop on one of the blog’s quieter days—Mondays, Saturdays, and Sundays—to fill in the gaps with some portable prehistoric panic.
🗺️ What to Expect
Each post will document:
• Where I spawned
• What I crafted (poorly)
• What inevitably killed me
And whether I learned anything (spoiler: probably not)
These aren’t full playthroughs—they’re glorified diary entries of my first day of disaster, all tied together with maps, Switch gameplay quirks, and whatever half-baked strategy I manage to invent before something eats me.
✅ Already Posted
I’ve already covered the following maps in earlier posts:
The Island
Scorched Earth
So I won’t be redoing those. Instead, I’ll link back to those entries when their time comes in the lineup.
🌋 What’s Next?
From here, it’s on to the rest of the maps available on the Nintendo Switch:
• Aberration
• Extinction
• Genesis Part 1
• Genesis Part 2
• Ragnarok (DLC)
Each time I publish a new Day One Diary, I’ll also update the ARK Map Hub with:
• The region map
• Survival notes
• Links to the interactive resource map
• Possibly a eulogy
🧪 A Preview of What You’re In For…
To set the mood, here’s a flawlessly accurate preview of what I expect my time in Aberration to look like—courtesy of Neebs Gaming:
> 🎥 Simon vs. Snake – Neebs Gaming in Aberration
Simon’s alone. Eating peanuts. There’s a snake. Panic ensues.
It’s everything ARK represents: snack time, followed by betrayal and screaming.
🎬 Chaos You Can Count On
If something truly unhinged happens during one of these Day One sessions—and let’s be honest, it will—it’ll earn its own spotlight as a Survivor’s Shorts post.
Because some moments of portable disaster deserve a dedicated write-up… especially the ones where I genuinely thought I was safe and then immediately wasn’t.
📅 First Entry Drops Soon
Check back next Saturday for Day One in The Island—the first stop on this tour of Switch-based suffering. Followed by Scorched Earth the next week, and then finally, Aberration.
Expect bioluminescent fungus, regret, and gravity issues. See you there.
Survivor Incognito 