Head to head

Black Desert vs Shell Shockers

Black Desert

Live

47k – 170k daily

Shell Shockers

Live

20 – 9k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2014 · 12 years ago

September 2017 · 9 years ago

Daily players

47k – 170k

20 – 9k

Estimated players

85.7k4.2%

34.9k0.3%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Browser
Android
iOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Black DesertShell Shockers

Black Desert

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~88.4k	Down 1.1%
September 2026	~89.4k	Down 2.5%
August 2026	~91.7k	Up 2.9%
July 2026	~89.1k	—

Shell Shockers

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~35k
September 2026	~35k	Down 0.1%
August 2026	~35.1k
July 2026	~35.1k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Black Desert: 20.3kDown 2.5%
Shell Shockers: —

Black Desert currently has 20,295 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Shell Shockers.

Discord members

Black Desert: 96.3kDown 0.5%
Shell Shockers: 163.7k

Shell Shockers currently has about 1.7× as many Discord members as Black Desert — 163,705 vs 96,319.

Reddit members

Black Desert: 269.8kUp 0.3%
Shell Shockers: 576

Black Desert currently has about 468× as many subreddit members as Shell Shockers — 269,792 vs 576.

Twitch viewers

Black Desert: 13.8kUp 56%
Shell Shockers: 19Up 1800%

Black Desert currently has about 726× as many live Twitch viewers as Shell Shockers — 13,793 vs 19.

YouTube subscribers

Black Desert: 81.2kUp 0.4%
Shell Shockers: 16.5kUp 0.6%

Black Desert currently has about 4.9× as many YouTube subscribers as Shell Shockers — 81,200 vs 16,500.

How these estimates are made

Black Desert

Black Desert is estimated to have 47k – 170k 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.

Shell Shockers

Shell Shockers is estimated to have 20 – 9k players a day. Around 10k – 980k 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.