Steam reviews

Mostly Positive

74% of 92,833 reviews

Critic scores

Metacritic

Generally favorable

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BLACK DESERT

Black Desert has 16,518 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 22,383 and its all-time peak is 29,421. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Pearl Abyss2017

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!

Strong daily player base. Matchmaking and servers will be lively.
Currently at 56% of the all-time peak of 29,421 players.
Last updated 5 months ago: [April 30th] To the Arena! Are You Ready to Climb the Ranks? Events at a Glance!.

Playing now

16,518

24h peak

22,383

24h change

▼ 3.4%

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

16.5K

24h peak

22.4K

All-time

29.4K

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

Watching now

3.91K

Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo

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