Black Desert
Skip · Multiplayer · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.11/hr
- Reviews▼
- 73% of 94,824
- Critics
- 80 players 7 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 41% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Monetization, DRM
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 61% over the last 30 days against 73% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 92.9h
- To 100%
- 2060.4h 22.2x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 65 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 October 2021
- Sale every
- 43d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 14,109 now
- Recent reviews
- 61% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 57% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 65 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, RIFT (free, scores 37) beats it on value, while it beats Runes of Magic (free, scores 23).
More about Black Desert
Players rate it 73 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 61 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 4,614 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that. The sticker price is where the spending starts.
HowLongToBeat players log 92.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 2060, 22 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game claims to be an MMO but what it actually is, is Farmville stapled to Guilty Gear. A+ What you should expect as a first-time player: * this game's two main focuses are PVP combat and lifeskilling. there's a great deal of depth in both of those areas, with a range of ways to engage in both, but PVE endgame content is mostly limited to solo mob farming and free-for-all world events. this is a game you can...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Not bad, that was a good game. My father taught me how to play it for five years. Sadly, my father passed away from cancer, but I'll always remember the games we played together.
Coming back to the game i realize how clutterd it is. Makes you want to delete account and start over...I remember why i uninstalled the last time. On top of that you reach point where progressing takes way too much time, effort and money.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970, Radeon RX 480, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Black Desert scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/582660/black-desertReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.