Is it normal for games like Ark survival evolved to use over 100GB of storage?

I have a laptop with just 226 gb of storage, so my question is: is it normal that games like Ark survival evolved need over 100 gb of storage? If so, are there ways to work around this, for example with clouds?

Yes is normal and you can easily get around it by buying a larger hard drive. They hardly cost anything anymore.

Definitely.

The more graphically complex and complex the games become, the more storage space they need. With a cloud, you can avoid it if you use streaming services like Google Stadia or GeforceNow.