Black Desert
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Tobacco use is depicted on screen, and alcohol such as beer appears in taverns and is craftable as a consumable.
A real-money cash shop sells costumes, pets, inventory and weight expansions, and value packs that affect progression and play.
Paid value packs and costumes that can be converted into enhancement materials grant a lasting advantage, alongside rotating limited-time shop offers.
Action combat against monsters and other players shows blood effects on hits, with no dismemberment or lingering gore.
Gear enhancement is a random-chance mechanic in which in-game materials are staked and can be lost on failure.
Costume design is often minimal and revealing, with cleavage and skin-baring outfits, but no explicit exposure.
The world's backstory centers on a spreading plague, the expulsion of the sick, and a decades-long war.
Players hunt and butcher wild animals for meat and hides as an ordinary life-skill and combat activity.
Character creation and many outfits use suggestive posing and revealing framing; no sexual acts are shown.
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What it is
Black Desert is a large open-world fantasy MMORPG built around fast, action-oriented combat. Players build a character from a wide roster of classes and fight monsters and world bosses, take part in large player-versus-player siege and territory battles, and pursue non-combat 'life skills' such as fishing, trading, cooking, and crafting. Combat shows blood on hits but no gore or dismemberment. Outfits are frequently revealing, tobacco use is depicted, and alcohol appears in taverns and as a crafted item. Players share one open world with text chat, and the game is monetized through a real-money cash shop and a random-chance gear-enhancement system that can consume materials on failure.
How it's framed
The game frames combat and conquest as heroic adventure and treats its backstory of plague and war as epic history rather than dwelling on suffering. Its cash-shop monetization and random-chance gear progression are woven into ordinary play without in-game comment.
Details
- Developer
- Pearl Abyss
- Publisher
- Pearl Abyss
- Released
- May 24, 2017
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