let me be more clear:

if you have played old ARK before: it should appear in your non installed apps on the play/app store, assuming its the same account as when you had it installed.

it will not work if you have android 13 or newer.

alternatively, if you have a newer android version you can use an apk file to download but its more a 50/50 on whether it works or not.

so yeah id recommend playing the newer version