Live Steam player count comparison, updated every 10 minutes. Both are Action / Adventure games.
Black Desert is currently the more played game: 8,808 concurrent players on Steam right now vs 8,579 for Hollow Knight — a similar number of players. Hollow Knight counters with better Steam reviews: 97% positive vs 74%. Across all tracked metrics, Black Desert leads 5 of 8.
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Tracked by Coilr since April 2026 · Steam polled every 10 minutes · methodology
Black Desert has had the higher daily player count for the last 48 days — every day since Coilr began tracking both games.
Days tracked
48
Current streak
48 days
Black Desert
Lead changes
0
Closest gap
15%
Jul 3, 2026
How this works: each game's daily average concurrent players (from Coilr's 10-minute Steam polls), compared on the 48 days where both games have data — whichever averages higher leads that day. methodology
| Metric | Black Desert | Hollow Knight |
|---|---|---|
| Players right now | 8,808 | 8,579 |
| 24-hour peak | 19,560 | 11,526 |
| 7-day average | 17,370 | 9,570 |
| 30-day average | 16,274 | 8,480 |
| 30-day trend | −2% | — |
| Peak (tracked) | 21,184 | 14,456 |
| Steam reviews | 74% positive | 97% positive |
| Recent reviews (3 mo) | 56% positive | 94% positive |
| Total reviews | 93,474 | 551,398 |
| Owners (SteamSpy est.) | ~5,000,000 | ~5,000,000 |
| Release date | May 23, 2017 | Feb 23, 2017 |
| Price | $9.99 | $14.99 |
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| Month | Black Desert | Hollow Knight | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg | Peak | Avg | Peak | |
| Apr 2026 | 18,367 | 19,554 | 4,723 | 4,785 |
| May 2026 | 17,962 | 20,753 | 5,053 | 6,514 |
| Jun 2026 | 16,324 | 20,478 | 6,951 | 13,164 |
| Jul 2026 (so far) | 16,278 | 21,184 | 9,648 | 14,456 |
Monthly average and peak concurrent players on Steam, from Coilr's own tracking (10-minute polls, hourly beyond 30 days).
Black Desert currently has more players: 8,808 concurrent players on Steam vs 8,579 for Hollow Knight — a similar number of players.
Over the last 30 days Black Desert averaged 16,274 concurrent players and Hollow Knight averaged 8,480. By that measure Black Desert is currently the bigger game.
Not in Coilr's head-to-head tracking: Black Desert has had the higher daily average concurrent player count on Steam on every one of the 48 days both games have been tracked.
By Steam review score, Hollow Knight rates higher: 97% positive across 551,398 reviews vs 74% across 93,474 for Black Desert. Black Desert has the larger player base right now (8,808 vs 8,579 concurrent). Player counts, ratings, price and trend are compared side by side above.
Black Desert averaged 16,274 concurrent players over the last 30 days, roughly flat vs the previous 30 days. Its highest tracked player count is 21,184.