Genre SurvivalReleased May 24, 2017

Black Desert

Developed and published by Pearl Abyss
Estimated lifetime revenue
$8.94M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$6.26M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
1.71M
≈ 18 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 94,688 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
94,688
Mostly Positive73% positive
Playing now
20,289
11-day peak 21,177 · low 15,770
New reviews, last 11 days
+124
≈ 11 a day since Oct 6

History

Oct 6 – Oct 17

94.7K94.6K94.6K94.6K
Oct 6Oct 11Oct 17

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Survival →

Against the 130 most-reviewed Survival games on Steam

Outearns 22% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.

Median
$23.07M
121,657 reviews
Top 10% start at
$99.78M
This game
$8.94M
35th pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

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!

Developer
Pearl Abyss
Publisher
Pearl Abyss
Genre
Survival
Released
May 24, 2017
Steam app ID
582660
Data updated
Oct 17, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.