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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) · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Lost Ark is an Action, Adventure, Massively Multiplayer, and RPG game released in 2022, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (70% of 203,185 reviews).

6,062
playing now
70%
positive of 203k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000,000–100,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
340
twitch viewers (latest)
12.1
viewers/channel (concentration)
81/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (123 ratings)
82/100
opencritic · strong · 85% recommend · from 44 critics
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

6,062 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 02:00 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
  • · 6,062 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,389 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~174/week).
  • · Review velocity down 49% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (123,751 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 27,808 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: 78 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 28 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

10k3352026-09-15 11:00 — 3,982 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 10,095 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 6,218 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 5,919 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 7,334 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 4,866 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 335 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 7,514 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 5,012 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 3,788 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 5,409 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 4,311 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 3,909 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 5,164 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 4,699 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 3,118 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 3,621 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 5,563 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 3,618 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 4,161 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 4,908 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 4,409 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 466 players2026-10-15 02:00 — 6,062 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
699k5.0kFeb 2022Aug 2026Feb 2022 — avg 699,094 · peak 1,324,761Apr 2022 — avg 354,898 · peak 569,729Jun 2022 — avg 465,789 · peak 885,379Aug 2022 — avg 168,339 · peak 350,545Oct 2022 — avg 156,386 · peak 257,779Dec 2022 — avg 269,490 · peak 346,761Feb 2023 — avg 168,211 · peak 231,166Apr 2023 — avg 72,283 · peak 104,411Jun 2023 — avg 31,496 · peak 50,884Aug 2023 — avg 26,146 · peak 47,514Oct 2023 — avg 36,074 · peak 55,815Dec 2023 — avg 43,365 · peak 76,536Feb 2024 — avg 48,473 · peak 74,167Apr 2024 — avg 52,675 · peak 80,934Jun 2024 — avg 19,318 · peak 32,179Aug 2024 — avg 19,985 · peak 29,740Oct 2024 — avg 17,974 · peak 30,987Dec 2024 — avg 22,379 · peak 34,909Feb 2025 — avg 17,244 · peak 31,282Apr 2025 — avg 14,348 · peak 37,028Jun 2025 — avg 14,069 · peak 24,506Aug 2025 — avg 15,694 · peak 29,641Oct 2025 — avg 9,339 · peak 19,209Dec 2025 — avg 8,709 · peak 17,116Feb 2026 — avg 8,121 · peak 17,735Apr 2026 — avg 6,736 · peak 13,973Jun 2026 — avg 5,933 · peak 11,748Aug 2026 — avg 5,045 · peak 9,303
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

391662026-05-31 — 76 pageviews2026-06-04 — 391 pageviews2026-06-08 — 234 pageviews2026-06-12 — 95 pageviews2026-06-16 — 114 pageviews2026-06-20 — 101 pageviews2026-06-24 — 107 pageviews2026-06-28 — 100 pageviews2026-07-02 — 72 pageviews2026-07-06 — 89 pageviews2026-07-10 — 67 pageviews2026-07-14 — 69 pageviews2026-07-18 — 83 pageviews2026-07-22 — 70 pageviews2026-07-26 — 101 pageviews2026-07-30 — 77 pageviews2026-08-03 — 108 pageviews2026-08-07 — 90 pageviews2026-08-11 — 102 pageviews2026-08-15 — 103 pageviews2026-08-19 — 66 pageviews2026-08-23 — 94 pageviews2026-08-27 — 92 pageviews2026-08-31 — 81 pageviews2026-09-04 — 76 pageviews2026-09-08 — 87 pageviews2026-09-12 — 107 pageviews2026-09-16 — 90 pageviews2026-09-20 — 111 pageviews2026-09-24 — 77 pageviews2026-09-28 — 85 pageviews2026-10-02 — 107 pageviews2026-10-06 — 170 pageviews2026-10-09 — 99 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1.1k442026-10-01 05:34 — 374 viewers2026-10-01 14:34 — 900 viewers2026-10-01 23:34 — 363 viewers2026-10-02 08:34 — 415 viewers2026-10-02 17:34 — 755 viewers2026-10-03 02:34 — 280 viewers2026-10-03 11:34 — 726 viewers2026-10-03 20:34 — 329 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 222 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 703 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 346 viewers2026-10-05 08:34 — 640 viewers2026-10-05 17:34 — 100 viewers2026-10-06 02:34 — 132 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 394 viewers2026-10-06 20:34 — 107 viewers2026-10-07 05:34 — 340 viewers2026-10-07 14:34 — 734 viewers2026-10-07 23:34 — 395 viewers2026-10-08 08:34 — 524 viewers2026-10-08 17:34 — 540 viewers2026-10-09 02:34 — 248 viewers2026-10-09 11:34 — 339 viewers2026-10-09 20:35 — 250 viewers2026-10-10 05:34 — 168 viewers2026-10-10 14:34 — 399 viewers2026-10-10 23:34 — 139 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 521 viewers2026-10-11 17:34 — 385 viewers2026-10-12 02:34 — 179 viewers2026-10-12 11:34 — 449 viewers2026-10-12 20:34 — 172 viewers2026-10-13 05:34 — 155 viewers2026-10-13 14:34 — 129 viewers2026-10-13 23:34 — 133 viewers2026-10-14 08:34 — 405 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 831 viewers2026-10-15 02:34 — 325 viewers2026-10-15 04:34 — 340 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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-02-08 (Steam store data)

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.

Recent updates

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