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Create a customizable adventurer in an open-world MMORPG, chaining action-combat skills, improving gear, and pursuing life skills.
Released 24 May 2017
Chain Combat Combos
Customize Your Character
Fish and Cook
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!
Developed by Pearl Abyss · Published by Pearl Abyss
Black Desert is an open-world action MMORPG where you create a character and explore a large fantasy world. Character creation offers extensive options for adjusting your character’s appearance.
Combat uses direct control rather than target selection, with class-specific skills and combos. Fighting monsters and earning resources supports character and equipment progression.
Beyond combat, you can take on activities such as fishing, cooking, trading, crafting, sailing, and horse training. Guilds can also take part in large-scale node and siege wars.
Players who enjoy Black Desert often praise its fast, combo-based combat, detailed character customization, and attractive open world. Reviews also value the range of activities beyond fighting, including fishing, crafting, and other life skills. These positives are frequently tempered by complaints about the time required for progression and the complexity of its systems.
Black Desert is a game that tests the limitations of MMORPG
by implementing remastered graphics and audio. Enjoy exciting combat and siege,
exploration, trading, fishing, training, alchemy, cooking, gathering, hunting, and more in the vast open world.
Black Desert - A true MMORPG
OPEN WORLD
An expansive, breathtaking open world MMORPG made with Pearl Abyss' proprietary game engine.
CUSTOMIZING
Become Your True Self
Experience insane levels of customization.
From height, torso, face, and skin texture, to micro-level details, your imagination is the limit!
Create your own unique characters, just like you've always desired, in Black Desert.
COMBAT
Non-Target & Fast-Paced Combat
Experience an innovative combat system unlike any other MMORPG.
The need for quick reactions and precise control will keep you enthralled throughout your entire experience.
Exciting commands/combos will always keep you on your toes.
NODE & SIEGE WAR
Large-Scale PvP Wars
Guilds, prepare for battle! Victory is near!
Join formidable guilds as they fight head-to-head on the battlefield.
Be victorious, become lords, and seize control of taxes, resources, and more!
GRAPHICS
Remastered Cutting-Edge Graphics
Enter a world with spectacular sceneries, realistic environments, and sophisticated details created with state-of-the-art graphics and prepare for unforgettable adventures.
LIFE SKILLS
Multitudes of In-Game Activities
Combat not your style?
Relax and enjoy a variety of pleasant life skill activities!
With a variety of choices including farming, trading, fishing, sailing, cooking, horse training, alchemy, and more, the professions are endless. Try your hand at any or all of them!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | Black Desert is an MMO with online PvP and online co-op elements in a shared open world. The provided text describes guild-based large-scale PvP such as node and siege wars, world bosses, group dungeons, guild bosses, party grinding, and social play with friends and guilds. Reviews also state the main story is effectively single-player-focused and that dedicated co-op content is limited. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support is mentioned in the provided information. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 80/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
