- Publisher: Pearl Abyss
- Release Date: Mar 4, 2019
- Also On: PlayStation 4

- Summary: Black Desert is a living-world MMORPG. Experience fast-paced, action-packed combat, hunt monsters and huge bosses, fight with friends in a guild to siege nodes and region castles, train your life skills such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and much more.
- Developer: Pearl Abyss
- Genre(s): Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer
- # of players: Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 6
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Mixed: 3 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Mar 5, 2019Black Desert won’t be to everybody’s tastes, and does little to push the MMO genre forward. With that said, it does streamline the experience into a more familiar shell, its real-time combat and impeccable UI tweaks helping it fit onto a console with the minimal of fuss. Its quest structure is lacking in variation, and it doesn’t have the complex characters of The Witcher 3, but it’s a world that is great to explore with friends, with the promise of more to come.
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Apr 8, 2019Black Desert manages to surprise us with great features like its deep character editor and a very dynamic and varied combat system, with a rich world that's a pleasure to explore. On the other side, though, an overly complicated interface, some technical problems and a too repetitive mission structure keep it from reaching its full potential.
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Mar 13, 2019It’s cool to be the hero you were meant to become in a pretty world, but Black Desert is lacking in the meat of other classic MMOs and requires a hefty grind.
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Mar 4, 2019It is easily the best of its kind to be found on the Xbox One and thanks to the tweaking and simplification of the combat for the system, it's a game that feels right at home on consoles.
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Mar 11, 2019Black Desert is a great MMORPG, but it needs more technical polish on Xbox One. Even on Xbox One X, it's far from perfect due to its lighting and performance problems. Unfortunately, it also lacks a lot of the content found on the PC version. Pearl Abyss has promised a series of updates which will bring over new regions and features, but it's unclear how long that will take.
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Mar 19, 2019Black Desert could be an incredible MMO experience, but the lacklustre story, uninspiring quests, overly bland characters and the low difficulty of combat drag it down quite a bit. Should these drawbacks not deter you, then visiting its expansive and colourful world might be worth it.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 20
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Mixed: 2 out of 20
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Negative: 7 out of 20
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Apr 19, 2019
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Mar 19, 2019very bad game on xbox one x...because game stands very old. graphics are too bright.
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Sep 22, 2020
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Aug 1, 2022The game directions for quest suck like learning how to tame a horse. They don't put in all of the directions!
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