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Lost Ark

Smilegate RPG · Amazon Game Studios · 2022-02-11

Steam

ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Oct 27, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Embark on an odyssey for the Lost Ark in a vast, vibrant world: explore new lands, seek out lost treasures, and test yourself in thrilling action combat in this action-packed free-to-play RPG.

4,826
playing now
70%
positive of 203k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000,000–100,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,645
twitch viewers (latest)
81/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (123 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

4,826 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Lost Ark is an online MMO action role-playing game developed by Smilegate RPG, a South Korean video game company. It was revealed in South Korea on November 12, 2014 by Smilegate. On the first day of launch, the number of concurrent users was 250,000, and within the next week, the number of concurrent users exceeded 350,000. The game can be played in environments that support DirectX 9 or higher. The Focus Group Test (FGT) was conducted behind closed doors in August 2015, the first CBT was held on August 24, 2016, the second CBT was held on September 15, 2017, and the final CBT was held on May 23, 2018, and the open beta test was conducted on November 7, 2018, and the official release was conducted on December 4, 2019.

Trailer

Lost Ark trailer thumbnail

LOST ARK - Official Gameplay Trailer [HD]

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

Health check

Cooling
  • · 4,826 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,561 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~195/week).
  • · Review velocity down 46% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (123,751 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
87k87k20212026Week of 2021-06-01: 1,946 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 87,158 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 36,593 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 20,997 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4,702 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 6,354 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1,920 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4,082 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1,490 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2,979 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2,820 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2,192 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1,002 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,850 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 662 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1,488 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 562 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1,209 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 501 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 6,143 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2,680 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,231 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 859 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,305 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3,789 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 948 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 592 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,003 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 546 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 904 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 481 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 736 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 441 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 672 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 408 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 565 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 350 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 588 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 346 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 658 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 343 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 539 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 299 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 954 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 479 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 256 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 526 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 285 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 435 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 257 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 491 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 287 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 475 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 342 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 265 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 299 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 256 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 232 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 321 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 204 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 168 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 290 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 269 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 160 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 143 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 139 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 192 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 216 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 239 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 157 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 211 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 205 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 148 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 146 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 139 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 91 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

8.3k1802026-08-06 21:00 — 6,610 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 4,349 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 5,420 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 6,239 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 4,388 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 5,379 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 5,726 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 3,966 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 5,295 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 5,439 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 3,539 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 4,504 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 4,816 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 3,443 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 4,865 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 8,285 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 5,519 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 5,769 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 7,157 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 4,868 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 3,070 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 7,481 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 5,557 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 4,916 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 5,958 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 4,772 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 180 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 8,004 players2026-08-30 00:00 — 4,826 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Attention

391612026-05-31 — 76 pageviews2026-06-03 — 223 pageviews2026-06-06 — 250 pageviews2026-06-09 — 192 pageviews2026-06-12 — 95 pageviews2026-06-15 — 94 pageviews2026-06-18 — 73 pageviews2026-06-21 — 92 pageviews2026-06-24 — 107 pageviews2026-06-27 — 76 pageviews2026-06-30 — 78 pageviews2026-07-03 — 61 pageviews2026-07-06 — 89 pageviews2026-07-09 — 83 pageviews2026-07-12 — 80 pageviews2026-07-15 — 83 pageviews2026-07-18 — 83 pageviews2026-07-21 — 96 pageviews2026-07-24 — 104 pageviews2026-07-27 — 78 pageviews2026-07-30 — 77 pageviews2026-08-02 — 72 pageviews2026-08-05 — 90 pageviews2026-08-08 — 88 pageviews2026-08-11 — 102 pageviews2026-08-14 — 129 pageviews2026-08-17 — 111 pageviews2026-08-20 — 109 pageviews2026-08-23 — 94 pageviews2026-08-26 — 98 pageviews2026-08-28 — 96 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1.6k5752026-08-29 02:34 — 1,166 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 1,346 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 1,379 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 1,381 viewers2026-08-29 06:34 — 1,418 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 1,323 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 1,141 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 729 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 700 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 575 viewers2026-08-29 12:35 — 773 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 1,190 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 1,537 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 1,357 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 1,432 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 1,531 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 1,406 viewers2026-08-29 19:35 — 1,164 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 1,146 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 1,057 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 983 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 1,036 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 1,021 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 1,024 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 1,227 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 1,081 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 1,200 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 1,318 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 1,158 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 1,085 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 1,156 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 988 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 1,000 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 587 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 762 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 952 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 1,306 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 1,645 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
85.7%
earned "A Leading Life"
40.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsIn-App PurchasesAdjustable Text Size1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)112,8890%156

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

PvEPvPRPGActionMMORPGFantasyAdventureIsometricAction RPGMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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