Head to head

Black Desert Online vs Dark and Light

Black Desert Online

Released

~320k daily · 190k – 530k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Dark and Light

Released

~350 daily · 100 – 1k

Last measured Nov 9, 2026

VerdictBlack Desert Online has ~914× Dark and Light's daily players (~320k vs ~350, as of Nov 9, 2026). Dark and Light's estimate is low confidence: read the gap as an order of magnitude.

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

Released

July 2015 · 11 years ago

July 2017 · 9 years ago

Est. daily players

~320k190k – 530kMedium confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

~350100 – 1kLow confidence · Last measured Nov 9, 2026

Available on

PlayStation
Windows
Xbox

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Estimated daily players (central estimate) for both games.

Black Desert OnlineDark and Light

Monthly history: Collecting data since Nov 5, 2026. The table appears once there are two calendar months to compare.

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side. Collected since Nov 5, 2026.

Steam concurrent players

Black Desert Online: 16.5kUp 15% past week
Dark and Light: 31Up 55% past week

Black Desert Online currently has about 532× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Dark and Light — 16,485 vs 31.

Discord members

Black Desert Online: 95k
Dark and Light: —

Black Desert Online currently has 94,968 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Dark and Light.

Reddit members

Black Desert Online: 270.3k
Dark and Light: —

Black Desert Online currently has 270,336 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Dark and Light.

Twitch viewers

Black Desert Online: 8.5kUp 81% past week
Dark and Light: 4

Black Desert Online currently has about 2134× as many live Twitch viewers as Dark and Light — 8,534 vs 4.

YouTube subscribers

Black Desert Online: 44k
Dark and Light: 4.7k

Black Desert Online currently has about 9.3× as many YouTube subscribers as Dark and Light — 44,000 vs 4,720.

How these estimates are made

Black Desert Online

We estimate that about 320,000 people play Black Desert Online on a typical day (most likely between 190,000 and 530,000), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 5,000,000 accounts (between 3,300,000 and 7,600,000) have played it at some point. It is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player count, converted to daily players, so players on other launchers or consoles may not be fully counted. Confidence: medium — Steam covers part of the player base, or several community signals agree.

Dark and Light

We estimate that about 350 people play Dark and Light on a typical day (most likely between 100 and 1,000), based on data from Nov 9, 2026. Around 330,000 accounts (between 260,000 and 430,000) have played it at some point. Dark and Light is on Steam, but Steam covers only part of its players, so the estimate also draws on the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. Confidence: low — a community-size model, not a measurement.

How we estimate