2017 · Action · Adventure · Massively Multiplayer
Black Desert
by Pearl Abyss
Hours played
How long do people play Black Desert?
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 40 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 7 hours and 395 hours.
First 2 h
32% recommend
2–5 h
64% recommend
5–10 h
74% recommend
10–20 h
80% recommend
20–50 h
83% recommend
50–100 h
84% recommend
100–200 h
84% recommend
200–500 h
83% recommend
500 h and up
78% recommend
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Amber recommends it, red does not. Counted from about 94,900 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
Does Black Desert hold up?
It is recommended most by players at 100–200 hours: 84% of them. Among players past 500 hours that falls to 78%.
The refund window
Do the first two hours of Black Desert tell you?
11% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 32% of those recommend it. After the window, 78% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 72% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 9.5 hours in.
Out of every 20 thumbs-down, 6 came while a refund was still possible and 14 after the window had closed.
Everyone's copy
52 of 89 copies here were never launched
In 89 libraries here. 52 never launched it; the typical player who did put in 5 h.
Name 100
How well it's remembered
Named in 1.7% of Name 100 runs, about 1 in 58: people remember it when asked to name 100 games from memory.