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Pearl Abyss's 2017 MMORPG, Black Desert, offers action-oriented combat within a large open world. This title, developed and published by Pearl Abyss, has garnered 62,178 Steam reviews with a 74% positive rating. Its features include deep character customization and RPG elements.
Overview
Black Desert is a 2017 Action game developed by Pearl Abyss and published by Pearl Abyss. On Steam it has gathered 62,224 player reviews, 74% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Pearl Abyss with publisher Pearl Abyss is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.8 million to 6.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Black Desert can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
62,224
Positive
74%
Steam appid
582660
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.02.8M to 6.5M
units (median: 4.7M)
≈ $16.0M to $37.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_74% | 0 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Black Desert at roughly 2.8 million to 6.5 million copies, with a median around 4.7 million, derived from its 62,224 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $26.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $5.03Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.03 to $9.99, averaging $9.34 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.03 on 2026-04-01.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Black Desert sold?
- indielist estimates Black Desert has sold between 2,800,080 and 6,533,520 units (median 4,666,800), derived from its 62,224 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Black Desert?
- Black Desert was developed by Pearl Abyss and published by Pearl Abyss.
- When was Black Desert released?
- Black Desert was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Black Desert have on Steam?
- Black Desert has 62,224 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Black Desert within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Pearl Abyss's other releases and Pearl Abyss's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Black Desert sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Black Desert page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.