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Black Desert

Pearl Abyss · 2017-05-24

SteamMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGStrategy

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jun 26, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Jun 26, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Jun 26, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Jun 26, 2025 (Xbox One), Dec 17, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!

Black Desert is a $0.99 Action, Adventure, Massively Multiplayer, RPG game released in 2017, estimated to have between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 owners, with a Mostly Positive sentiment based on 74% of 94,344 reviews.

16,603
playing now
73%
positive of 95k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
5,000,000–10,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4,222
twitch viewers (latest)
30.8
viewers/channel (concentration)
75/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
67/100
IGDB user rating (199 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$0.99
steam price (US)

16,603 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Black Desert Online is a 2015 sandbox-oriented fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Korean video game developer Pearl Abyss and originally published for Microsoft Windows in 2015. A mobile version titled Black Desert Mobile was initially released in Asia by early 2019, and worldwide in December 2019. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions, known simply as Black Desert and referred to as Black Desert Console, were released in 2019. The game is free-to-play in some parts of the world, but follows a buy-to-play business model in other editions, including the English-language editions.

Trailer

Black Desert trailer thumbnail

Black Desert - Official Console Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 16,603 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,736 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~342/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4M–5.7M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 94,656 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2021-10-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 16 of 23 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 154 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 116 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 219 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 153 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 155 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 318 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 616 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 142 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 135 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 140 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 656 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 789 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 150 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1,122 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 137 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1,131 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 140 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1,080 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 898 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 174 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 882 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 127 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 929 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 144 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 702 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 595 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 580 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 487 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 112 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 762 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 438 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 574 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 773 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 716 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 567 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 126 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 677 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 180 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 408 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 116 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 393 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 172 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 723 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 265 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1,000 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 340 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 539 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 249 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 459 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 164 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 607 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 252 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 924 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 199 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 715 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 248 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 677 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 233 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 419 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 154 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 417 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 138 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 445 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 173 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 370 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 370 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 473 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 324 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 394 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 487 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 708 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 179 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 636 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 222 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 643 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 274 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 389 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 445 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 185 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 369 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 126 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 330 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 434 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 176 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 799 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 271 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 500 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 198 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 453 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 135 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 163 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 873 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 183 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 246 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 513 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 354 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 661 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 296 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 369 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 149 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 164 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 307 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 149 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 516 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 224 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 276 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 215 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 394 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 118 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 293 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 118 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 241 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 97 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 146 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 108 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 224 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 88 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 115 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 271 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 105 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 354 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 157 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 293 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 44 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

25k9.6k2026-09-15 11:00 — 18,100 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 20,220 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 18,110 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 20,828 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 24,781 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 18,845 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 10,661 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 22,689 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 20,259 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 19,539 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 21,617 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 19,548 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 13,203 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 19,560 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 20,171 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 16,039 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 17,744 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 17,492 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 15,678 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 18,916 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 20,734 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 16,206 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 16,603 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
27k2.6kMay 2017Aug 2026May 2017 — avg 2,608 · peak 18,894Aug 2017 — avg 14,034 · peak 18,372Nov 2017 — avg 10,103 · peak 14,936Feb 2018 — avg 16,064 · peak 22,396May 2018 — avg 13,966 · peak 18,850Aug 2018 — avg 10,880 · peak 15,640Nov 2018 — avg 10,692 · peak 14,965Feb 2019 — avg 11,840 · peak 16,077May 2019 — avg 14,932 · peak 59,917Aug 2019 — avg 13,414 · peak 17,810Nov 2019 — avg 10,272 · peak 13,514Feb 2020 — avg 15,033 · peak 34,298May 2020 — avg 19,943 · peak 25,391Aug 2020 — avg 14,502 · peak 18,551Nov 2020 — avg 13,823 · peak 19,142Feb 2021 — avg 15,496 · peak 31,685May 2021 — avg 16,872 · peak 23,223Aug 2021 — avg 19,267 · peak 24,798Nov 2021 — avg 15,049 · peak 20,060Feb 2022 — avg 14,587 · peak 19,734May 2022 — avg 14,275 · peak 20,089Aug 2022 — avg 14,409 · peak 20,502Nov 2022 — avg 14,752 · peak 20,383Feb 2023 — avg 17,249 · peak 25,637May 2023 — avg 14,180 · peak 20,404Aug 2023 — avg 20,130 · peak 28,431Nov 2023 — avg 16,949 · peak 23,915Feb 2024 — avg 17,978 · peak 24,264May 2024 — avg 15,972 · peak 21,829Aug 2024 — avg 13,177 · peak 19,015Nov 2024 — avg 12,309 · peak 17,212Feb 2025 — avg 16,491 · peak 21,825May 2025 — avg 15,079 · peak 18,936Aug 2025 — avg 20,689 · peak 27,613Nov 2025 — avg 15,785 · peak 20,839Feb 2026 — avg 20,552 · peak 27,111May 2026 — avg 19,165 · peak 24,887Aug 2026 — avg 22,442 · peak 29,271
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
31312026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 31 new positive2026-09-21: 10 new negative2026-09-22: 8 new positive2026-09-22: 9 new negative2026-09-23: 16 new positive2026-09-24: 9 new positive2026-09-24: 3 new negative2026-09-25: 7 new positive2026-09-25: 6 new negative2026-09-26: 1 new positive2026-09-26: 6 new negative2026-09-27: 12 new positive2026-09-27: 11 new negative2026-09-28: 4 new positive2026-09-28: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 4 new positive2026-09-29: 4 new negative2026-09-30: 6 new positive2026-09-30: 4 new negative2026-10-01: 5 new positive2026-10-01: 5 new negative2026-10-02: 17 new positive2026-10-02: 6 new negative2026-10-03: 5 new positive2026-10-03: 8 new negative2026-10-04: 1 new positive2026-10-04: 4 new negative2026-10-05: 5 new positive2026-10-05: 4 new negative2026-10-06: 6 new positive2026-10-06: 8 new negative2026-10-07: 6 new positive2026-10-07: 3 new negative2026-10-08: 11 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new positive2026-10-09: 7 new negative2026-10-10: 6 new positive2026-10-10: 2 new negative2026-10-11: 1 new positive2026-10-11: 6 new negative2026-10-12: 10 new positive2026-10-12: 8 new negative2026-10-13: 4 new positive2026-10-13: 10 new negative2026-10-14: 5 new positive2026-10-14: 3 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.002017-05-252026-10-142017-05-25 — best price $5.992017-10-02 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $4.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-14 — best price $4.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-05-24 — best price $4.992019-09-30 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $3.992020-03-02 — best price $9.992020-09-03 — best price $2.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-03-03 — best price $0.002021-03-22 — best price $5.992021-09-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-05-18 — best price $4.992022-09-12 — best price $0.002022-11-22 — best price $0.992023-03-24 — best price $4.992023-08-19 — best price $4.992023-10-19 — best price $2.992023-11-21 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-07-25 — best price $9.992024-11-21 — best price $0.992025-02-19 — best price $0.992025-08-21 — best price $0.992025-11-27 — best price $9.992026-03-12 — best price $9.992026-06-11 — best price $0.992026-09-02 — best price $0.002026-10-07 — best price $0.002026-10-14 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4661872026-05-29 — 315 pageviews2026-06-02 — 313 pageviews2026-06-06 — 300 pageviews2026-06-10 — 394 pageviews2026-06-14 — 417 pageviews2026-06-18 — 303 pageviews2026-06-22 — 311 pageviews2026-06-26 — 342 pageviews2026-06-30 — 466 pageviews2026-07-04 — 304 pageviews2026-07-08 — 293 pageviews2026-07-12 — 259 pageviews2026-07-16 — 218 pageviews2026-07-20 — 212 pageviews2026-07-24 — 222 pageviews2026-07-28 — 227 pageviews2026-08-01 — 257 pageviews2026-08-05 — 260 pageviews2026-08-09 — 290 pageviews2026-08-13 — 278 pageviews2026-08-17 — 303 pageviews2026-08-21 — 225 pageviews2026-08-25 — 305 pageviews2026-08-29 — 366 pageviews2026-09-02 — 308 pageviews2026-09-06 — 382 pageviews2026-09-10 — 252 pageviews2026-09-14 — 265 pageviews2026-09-18 — 258 pageviews2026-09-22 — 229 pageviews2026-09-26 — 208 pageviews2026-09-30 — 225 pageviews2026-10-04 — 212 pageviews2026-10-07 — 187 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

13k1.6k2026-09-30 21:34 — 3,943 viewers2026-10-01 09:34 — 2,766 viewers2026-10-01 19:34 — 5,170 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 3,913 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 4,988 viewers2026-10-03 07:34 — 2,891 viewers2026-10-03 17:34 — 7,904 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 3,534 viewers2026-10-04 13:34 — 10,030 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 4,542 viewers2026-10-05 12:34 — 7,103 viewers2026-10-05 23:34 — 3,654 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 4,844 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 3,750 viewers2026-10-07 10:34 — 3,959 viewers2026-10-07 22:34 — 3,126 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 4,356 viewers2026-10-08 21:34 — 5,290 viewers2026-10-09 08:34 — 5,609 viewers2026-10-09 14:34 — 11,639 viewers2026-10-10 00:34 — 5,006 viewers2026-10-10 10:12 — 3,155 viewers2026-10-10 16:12 — 3,982 viewers2026-10-11 02:34 — 4,721 viewers2026-10-11 11:34 — 8,393 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 10,988 viewers2026-10-12 06:34 — 3,652 viewers2026-10-12 16:34 — 11,691 viewers2026-10-13 04:34 — 3,224 viewers2026-10-13 14:34 — 6,786 viewers2026-10-14 02:34 — 2,741 viewers2026-10-14 14:12 — 3,105 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 4,222 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam Trading CardsIn-App PurchasesPartial Controller Support3 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2022-03-03 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)25,1661%25
PS4 (PlayStation)10,1477%20
PS4 (PlayStation)9,5757%20
PS5 (PlayStation)1,46512%15
Xbox Series (Xbox)50011%14

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DRPGMagicActionMMORPGFantasyCraftingMedievalStrategyAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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