Black Desert is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) developed by Pearl Abyss. While currently published by Kakao Games, Pearl Abyss has acquired publishing rights and will consolidate publishing and development starting February 24, 2021.
For the Location, see Black Desert.
Games[]
Black Desert has so far been released as two different games.
- The PC version, later also adapted to Xbox One
- The Mobile version: Black Desert Mobile
DLCs[]
- Black Desert - FREE Gift Pack
- "Traveler to Explorer" Pack
- "Explorer to Conqueror" Pack
- "Traveler to Conqueror" Pack
→ Please see pricing in the Steam Store.
Expansions[]
- Mountain of Eternal Winter (Expansion) - release planned for April 2022[3]
Official links[]
Development[]
Work in progress.
Updates[]
For NA & EU:
- Mediah expansion; 30 March 2016
- Musa & Maehwa classes; 20 April 2016
- Mediah Part 2 (Hasrah Ancient Ruins, Helm underground caves and Kuit Islands); 4 May 2016
- Valencia expansion; 29 June 2016
- Kunoichi & Ninja classes; 20 July 2016
- Valencia Part 2 (Muiquun, Arehaza Town and Mount Gavinya); 31 August 2016
- Margoria expansion; 25 January 2017
- Dark Knight class; 1 March 2017
- Striker class; 24 May 2017
- Kamasylvia expansion; 27 September 2017
- Kamasylvia Part 2; 15 November 2017
- Mystic class; 13 December 2017
- Lahn class; 23 May 2018
- Drieghan expansion; 14 November 2018
Availability[]
The game has been released for PC in the following regions:
- Korea; July 2015
- Russia; October 2015
- Japan; 2015
- North America & Europe; March 2016
- Taiwan; January 2017
- South America; July 2017
- Middle East & North Africa; December 2017
- Southeast Asia; January 2018
Black Desert Mobile has been released in the following regions:
- Korea; February 2018
- Taiwan; August 2018
Black Desert for the Xbox, often abbreviated as BDX, has a late 2018 planned release for NA & EU. The open beta for NA began on November 8, 2018 and ended on November 12.
Publishers[]
The PC game is published by the following companies:
- Kakao Games for Korea and NA & EU
- Pearl Abyss to assume NA & EU publishing starting February 24, 2021
- GameOn for Japan
- RedFox Games for South America
- Pearl Abyss itself publishes it for Taiwan, MENA, SEA and, as of October 2018, Russia
The game was published for Russia by GameNet until their contract expired on October 12, 2018.
Black Desert Mobile is published by Pearl Abyss.
Black Desert for the Xbox is also published by Pearl Abyss.
Languages[]
The game can be found in the following languages:
- Korea; Korean
- North America & Europe; English, German, French and Spanish (Kakao translation)
- Russia; Russian
- Japan; Japanese
- Taiwan; Mandarin Chinese
- South America; Portuguese and Spanish (RedFox translation)
- Middle East & North Africa; Turkish and English
- Southeast Asia; English, Thai and Indonesian
Soundtrack[]
Available via Soundcloud
Players can listen to the following albums: I. Balenos, II. Serendia and III. Calpheon.
References[]
- ↑ Wikipedia:Black Desert Online
- ↑ ESRB site
- ↑ [https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/black-desert-online-expansion-coming-in-april Techraptor article about Mountain of Eternal Winter Expansion.