Head to head

Asheron's Call vs Black Desert

Asheron's Call

Dead

Black Desert

Live

58k – 210k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

DEAD

ACTIVE

Released

November 1999 · 27 years ago

December 2014 · 12 years ago

Daily players

No population data

58k – 210k

Estimated players

8040.2%

90.4k3.6%

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Asheron's CallBlack Desert

Asheron's Call

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~803	Up 0.6%
August 2026	~798	Up 0.4%
July 2026	~795	—

Black Desert

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~90.3k	Down 1.6%
August 2026	~91.7k	Up 2.9%
July 2026	~89.1k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Reddit members

Asheron's Call: 8kUp 0.9%
Black Desert: 268.7kUp 0.5%

Black Desert currently has about 33× as many subreddit members as Asheron's Call — 268,735 vs 8,038.

Steam concurrent players

Asheron's Call: —
Black Desert: 23.3kDown 9.0%

Black Desert currently has 23,342 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Asheron's Call.

Discord members

Asheron's Call: —
Black Desert: 96.8kUp 0.4%

Black Desert currently has 96,814 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Asheron's Call.

Twitch viewers

Asheron's Call: —
Black Desert: 5.8kDown 71%

Black Desert currently has 5,814 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Asheron's Call.

YouTube subscribers

Asheron's Call: —
Black Desert: 80.9kUp 0.4%

Black Desert currently has 80,900 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Asheron's Call.

How these estimates are made

Asheron's Call

Asheron's Call is estimated to have 29 – 14k players a day. Around 17k – 2m accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.

Black Desert

Black Desert is estimated to have 58k – 210k players a day. Around 1m – 3m accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.