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Black Desert (PC Digital Download)

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  • Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!

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    • Free to keep when you get it before July 10, 2025 at 1pm ET
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Steam has Black Desert (PC Digital Download) for Free.
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Thanks to Deal Editor slickdewmaster for sharing this deal.

About the Game:
  • Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!

Editor's Notes

Written by ValPal2011 | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
    • Free to keep when you get it before July 10, 2025 at 1pm ET
  • About the Store:
    • Steam is the world's largest digital distribution platform for computer games and is owned/operated by Valve Corporation (the developers behind several classic video games including Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2 & more).

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EzC4765
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This is a Korean MMO. For those who don't know gaming, stating that it is a Korean MMO allows the average gamer to know that it is going to be super grindy with tons of RNG near the end game. If you are into skins for characters, they have lots of various maid outfits and sexy whatever outfits for those who play female characters. I haven't played in several years but even then they had allowed some AFK (away from keyboard for console types) grinding, so maybe they improved it more.
killerkow
23 Posts
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The game uses gear for progression to get stronger, and it has a punishing luck-based refinement system. The higher that you refine a piece, the greater chance that refinement will fail. If the refinement fails, the piece of gear degrades (loses refinement), and you need to buy items in the shop to restore it and start over. The higher level gear makes a large difference which is p2w, especially in pvp. Also, classes are very imbalanced.

However the game is free, and you can honestly have fun for at least a few dozen hours in the early game, just exploring and fighting in the open world before any of this is a problem. If you like grindy games, you might really like this casually.
Marthisdil
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BDO has been free to play forever....not a SD

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ilovecanada
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Anyone played this?
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Jinxc
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Quote from ilovecanada :
Anyone played this?
nope. but another backlog!
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Lanmanna
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Quote from Jinxc :
nope. but another backlog!
Since it's an MMO, have fun trying to "beat" it.
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EzC4765
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank EzC4765

This is a Korean MMO. For those who don't know gaming, stating that it is a Korean MMO allows the average gamer to know that it is going to be super grindy with tons of RNG near the end game. If you are into skins for characters, they have lots of various maid outfits and sexy whatever outfits for those who play female characters. I haven't played in several years but even then they had allowed some AFK (away from keyboard for console types) grinding, so maybe they improved it more.
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adam empire
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Quote from EzC4765 :
This is a Korean MMO. For those who don't know gaming, stating that it is a Korean MMO allows the average gamer to know that it is going to be super grindy with tons of RNG near the end game. If you are into skins for characters, they have lots of various maid outfits and sexy whatever outfits for those who play female characters. I haven't played in several years but even then they had allowed some AFK (away from keyboard for console types) grinding, so maybe they improved it more.

Thanks. Will pass on it.
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killerkow
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank killerkow

The game uses gear for progression to get stronger, and it has a punishing luck-based refinement system. The higher that you refine a piece, the greater chance that refinement will fail. If the refinement fails, the piece of gear degrades (loses refinement), and you need to buy items in the shop to restore it and start over. The higher level gear makes a large difference which is p2w, especially in pvp. Also, classes are very imbalanced.

However the game is free, and you can honestly have fun for at least a few dozen hours in the early game, just exploring and fighting in the open world before any of this is a problem. If you like grindy games, you might really like this casually.
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Marthisdil
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BDO has been free to play forever....not a SD
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imalwayscold
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its been free to play for a while same with the mobile version
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slackerrudie
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Quote from EzC4765 :
This is a Korean MMO. For those who don't know gaming, stating that it is a Korean MMO allows the average gamer to
know that it is going to be super grindy with tons of RNG near the end game. If you are into skins for characters, they have lots of various maid outfits and sexy whatever outfits for those who play female characters. I haven't played in several years but even then they had allowed some AFK (away from keyboard for console types) grinding, so maybe they improved it more.
Korean MMOs were the shit back in 2007/2008 era. NCSoft etc.. So many free to play games were coming out. Even China took notice and started cranking out their own. Met so many people from Asia on group chat back then teaming up and playing games.

This game is fun, just wish there was fast travel. The map is massive, like really massive even by MMO standards. It's got all the typical issues these games have. But the combat is so farking slick. It's action RPG style with lots of flash and pop to keep you entertained.
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BarnabyBarnabus
Jul 5, 2025
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Looks like a mobile-device remake of the old Dynasty Warriors 2 game on PS2. If they're anything alike, entertainment factor will putter out pretty quickly if you're over 20 years old and can recognize the underlying mechanics..
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dud
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No thank you ...
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ibuythingshere
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yea isn't this a free to play game
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trickkynickk
Jul 5, 2025
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game is a full time job, players i knew from the few months i played spent hundreds a month to keep up (i was never able to do pvp and whatnot not enough gear)
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ats
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Quote from ibuythingshere :
yea isn't this a free to play game

which means it is very expensive in reality. Free to play games like this one can cost a lot if not careful.

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Grindy Korean MMO but there is a ton of content. Most of which can be played without spending a dime in real world money. It has AFK mechanics so there's numerous things you can do while at work and it minimizes to the tray to not use up any resources.

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