Head to head

Black Desert vs Perfect World

Black Desert

Live

55k – 200k daily

Perfect World

Live

8 – 4k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

July 2005 · 21 years ago

Daily players

55k – 200k

8 – 4k

Estimated players

86.3k1.3%

6575.2%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Black DesertPerfect World

Black Desert

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~90k	Down 1.9%
August 2026	~91.7k	Up 2.9%
July 2026	~89.1k	—

Perfect World

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~672	Up 0.3%
August 2026	~670	Up 3.1%
July 2026	~650	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Black Desert: 24.1kDown 4.9%
Perfect World: —

Black Desert currently has 24,098 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Perfect World.

Discord members

Black Desert: 96.7kUp 0.1%
Perfect World: 2.2kDown 0.7%

Black Desert currently has about 45× as many Discord members as Perfect World — 96,747 vs 2,163.

Reddit members

Black Desert: 269kUp 0.4%
Perfect World: 1.2kUp 1.8%

Black Desert currently has about 221× as many subreddit members as Perfect World — 268,968 vs 1,218.

Twitch viewers

Black Desert: 7.3kDown 58%
Perfect World: 25Up 8.7%

Black Desert currently has about 291× as many live Twitch viewers as Perfect World — 7,276 vs 25.

YouTube subscribers

Black Desert: 81kUp 0.4%
Perfect World: —

Black Desert currently has 81,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Perfect World.

How these estimates are made

Black Desert

Black Desert is estimated to have 55k – 200k 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.

Perfect World

Perfect World is estimated to have 8 – 4k players a day. Around 5k – 480k 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.