Which Survival sandbox are you most likely to play?

Over the weekend, Justin wrote about the deluge of major online multiplayer survival sandboxes hitting us lately. First there was DayZ and its early zombiebox clones, then Daybreak actually made bank on H1Z1, then ARK: Survival Evolved added a dino dimension to the mix, and soon enough we’ll have Conan Exiles to play — with neither dinos nor zombies! And that’s without even mentioning Minecraft’s survival mode and the dozens of smaller survival games along the way (Die 2 Nite and even Realm of the Mad God spring to mind as just two we covered in detail years ago).

Today I’m wondering whether you play any of these. Which one is the best one for a newbie to the genre, an MMO player crossing the border, so to speak? If you’re the newbie, which one of the big survival sandboxes are you most likely to play — which one do you think has the most for an MMORPG player?

TH